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[[File:goflip.jpg|link=Go|frame|Rage Quitting: [[Flipping the Table|Feudal Japanese edition.]]]]

 

 

A character is playing a game (usually with other people or online) and quite simply, they're losing. Maybe they [[Did Not Do the Research]] on how to effectively play the game, maybe they're off their A-game, maybe it's their teammates, or perhaps the other guy just found a way to break their supposedly impenetrable defense. Whatever the reason, their armies are dying, their [[Damage Is Fire|buildings are burning]], their avatar has been sliced into six different pieces and they are about to get this loss added to their permanent gaming record. If they had a winning streak or an undefeated season, it's about to end now.

 

 

As you can well imagine, this is obviously incredibly annoying to the opponents; players who ragequit too often tend to look weak, and it pisses off other players who often just want to get through a game without the other guy backing out on them at the last minute because they don't want to get stuck with a loss.

Measures to alleviate this vary. Some games will register a rage-quit as an automatic loss to the player who quit (possibly with an automatic win for everyone else), or even keep a separate tally for the number of "disconnects". Unfortunately, it is impossible for the network to distinguish a ragequit from ''actual'' technical problems (a power outage, for example), and there are usually still ways for players to exploit the ranking system to avoid taking the loss.

 

 

Compare [[Save Scumming]], a mostly single-player phenomenon that may not entirely be caused by RAGE at losing. Can also mix with [[Jerkass]]/[[Griefer]] where people may quit the game, in addition to losing, exclusively to piss off other people. People who quit may literally say [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]].

See also [[Fake Difficulty]], [[Nintendo Hard]], [[That One Boss]], [[That One Puzzle]], [[That One Level]], [[Flipping the Table]].

 

 

* Cell from [[Dragon Ball]] does this by [[Taking You with Me|trying to blow himself and the world up]], simply because he was losing the battle between him and the Z warriors.

** Freeza did something similar, destroying Namek's core which would [[Earthshattering Kaboom|cause it to explode within minutes]] when he realized that he may actually be defeated by Goku, who had just unlocked his [[Shonen Upgrade|Super Saiyan powers]]. Goku was quick to call him out on this. However, Freeza's race can survive in the vacuum of space, so this was a bit more reasonable than it seemed at first.

** DBZ villains in general tend to be poor losers and will try to blow up the planet if it looks like they'll lose a fight. Or in Buu's case, [[Complete Monster|out of boredom]].

* In ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'', Mega Man's duel with Shadow Man concludes with Shadow Man declaring the battle a draw, then disappearing in a smoke bomb.

* Seto Kaiba's very first card game match against Yugi in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' "Season Zero" has Kaiba on the ropes. Kaiba then plays "Goblin," which apparently forces the match to end with no declared winner. Somehow, [[Turned Up to Eleven|the table gets destroyed in the process]]. Yugi (the Pharaoh, actually), doesn't seem bothered by it, as it was his first time playing.

* In [[Ben-To]], Sen [[Rei Ayanami Expy|of all people]] does this after just about everyone beats her at [[Virtua Fighter]] 2. Rather than simply pulling the plug, however, she throws Satou's beloved dreamcast out the window.

 

* In ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason X]]'', two guys playing a holographic video game have their characters (controlled mentally) killed by Jason, so they quit in frustration. It doesn't take a genius to realize how events played out after that.

 

== Fine Art ==

* The page image depicts the [http://senseis.xmp.net/?NuclearTesuji "nuclear tesuji"], where a losing [[Go]] player opts to [[Flipping the Table|throw the board against the wall]] and uppercut the winner before storming out.

 

* In [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Out of the Dark]]'', this is how the invading Shongairi ultimately decide the end the war with humanity. The humans [[Determinator|keep fighting]] [[Humanity Is Insane|despite half their population being wiped out in orbital bombardments]], they can't beat [[Humans Are Warriors|the humans into submission on the ground]], [[Humans Are Survivors|further orbital bombardment just pisses them off]], and [[Depopulation Bomb|the bioweapon they were developing]] and [[Make It Look Like an Accident|intending to "leak" to wipe out most of the human population]] (thus making the genocide and occupation palatable to the rest of the galaxy) doesn't work because every attempt to gather human test subjects ends with their troops getting slaughtered. ''Then'' "something" starts attacking their ground bases and wiping out the garrisons, so the Shongairi commander just knocks over the whole table and pulls his troops back into orbit, intending to just destroy the entire planet and be done with it, purely out of spite.

 

* In the episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Peak Performance", Data has a rematch against an opponent who defeated him earlier at a game of Stratagema. Data decides to play for a stalling tactic, denying himself winning moves to prevent those of his opponent (as playing to win last time got him trounced). Said opponent eventually rage quits.

* On a [[Celebrity Edition]] of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' in November 1997, [[William Shatner]] got mad because he was in last place after the second round. He rage-quit and Julie Pinson came in to play the rest of the game for him.

* An episode of ''[[According to Jim]]'', Andy turns off the video game before he can lose to Gracie.

** Nick of Nick and Vicki got mad and quit in the middle of a task in Season 17. [[It Got Worse]] when the episode in question turned out to be a non-elimination, which meant that the audience had to suffer their presence for another episode.

* In Season 3 of ''[[Top Shot]]'', Blue Team member Jake quit after being [[Voted Off the Island|voted into an elimination challenge]], but before [[Eliminated From the Race|actually participating in said challenge]]. The other person getting the votes, Phil, didn't win the elimination challenge by default, though; instead, he had to compete against the last person eliminated (Mike Hughes). {{spoiler|Mike won, and made it all the way to the final challenge that season.}}

* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' episode "Chardee Macdennis": The game board has to be nailed down, as Mac inevitably becomes enraged over the course of the game and tries to end it by throwing the board. For extra humor, it is in fact Mac who nails the board down while explaining to newcomer Frank that he ''will'' forget about it and try to flip the board over later (he does).

* Discussed on ''[[Leverage]]'' when Hardison is running a con he designed based on video game principles. Turns out he may have made the whole thing too complicated and didn't account for this possible reaction.

 

* Name a Heel who is not a Monster Heel. They will almost certainly have done it at some point in their career, ESPECIALLY if they hold a title belt. Whether it's a blatant [[Groin Attack|kick to the opponent's groin]], hitting the referee, or even just going [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]] on their opponent(and ignoring the referee's request to back off), they will have done something to get themselves disqualified. At its most basic? Walking back up the ramp so that the referee counts them out. As long as you're still the champion, who cares about a non-pinfall/submission loss? This is why No DQ/Falls Count Anywhere matches were created to begin with.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': Actually, Valve makes fun of this with the Pyro's "BarbeQueQ" achievement, which is awarded if a player you are Dominating ends up leaving the server you are currently playing in.

** An achievement for the Spy, "Slash and Burn", is awarded if another player rage-switches to the Pyro class immediately after you kill him.

** Some servers will announce players on a losing side leaving the game as "RAGE QUIT!", with the requisite notification on your heads-up display and a [[Large Ham]] voice booming it so everyone can hear.

*** The pluggin is also common in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' (see below).

* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', vindictive players have the option of murdering everyone at the card table where they were just blasted out of the pot at poker.

* In one ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' fighting game, a character actually [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8zx9qxCSvM&feature=related has this as a Super Move]. As a reference to his death in the series, Shin starts to limp away and tells his opponent that he won't give them the satisfaction of killing him, then throws himself into the anime speed line void. Not surprisingly, it counts as a win for Shin's opponent.

* ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' includes a quits tracker, and punishes rage quitters [[Ironic Hell|by auto matching them with other rage quitters.]]

* At the end of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Justice For All'''s 2nd case, {{spoiler|[[Amoral Attorney]] Franziska von Karma is so furious at having been defeated by Phoenix that she ''angrily whips him into unconsciousness.''}}

** [[Self-Destruct Mechanism|Self-Destruct]] initiates a countdown that destroys your ship completely after a few minutes. The purpose is to deny the enemy anything salvageable from your wreckage, but also to denies them a kill mail confirmation. The latter reason is why [[Pv Pers]] [[Scrub|hate it]] so much.

* Leaving during a ''[[League of Legends]]'' match, assuming teams are more or less equal in terms of skill and progress, is almost always a guaranteed defeat for your team, meaning people on your team will get a rating loss without that being any of their fault. Thus, leaving during a match gives you a larger rating loss and no IP / Exp gain. It is also a punishable offense and, much like griefing and trashtalking, leads to eventual permaban.

* ''[[Dota 2]]'' solves this problem by flagging rage quitters for "abandonment". Flagged players are punished by taking lower priority in matchmaking and are only matched with other flagged players for a set period of time.

 

* This ''[[VG Cats]]'' [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=278 strip] provides a handy chart for playing ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''.

* ''[[Clockwork Game]]'' provides a [http://www.clockwork-comics.com/2011/10/13/what-shall-you-do-now-monsieur-turk/ historical example].

 

** A similar thing happened in his review of ''[[The Adventures of Bayou Billy]]''. After slogging through several stages of [[Nintendo Hard]] beatdowns, the final straw for him came when he encountered a bunch of enemy mooks who were ''immune to bullets''.

*** "But a bullwhip ''messes them up''!"

* [http://lparchive.org/Mega-Man-Battle-Network-4-6/ Epee Em] in his [[Let's Play]] of the [[Mega Man Battle Network]] series. The whole Lets Play for the fourth game in the series featured Epee Em raging at the game's numerous flaws (and keeping track to pass the time and to give some motivation to beat the game). Because the game requires multiple [[New Game+|playthroughs]] to unlock all the post-game content, he used cheat codes to burst through the second and third playthroughs. This caused a surprising amount of glitches such as permanently reducing the HP to a base zero, randomly deleting all of the in-game currency and completely glitching out during some minigames. [[Inverted Trope|The game itself responded by corrupting the save file at the end of the second playthrough.]]

* Leelee Scaldaferri counts herself as the first person to Ragequit [[Loading Ready Run|Feed Dump]], after discovering how much the [[Jersey Shore]] cast makes per episode.

** He also ragequit ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' on the ''title screen''.

** Humorously subverted in the ''Rage Quit'' episode on ''[[Rage (video game)|Rage]]'', where Michael's incredibly mellow throughout the video.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGlVtNXLMmA ''SWISS F***ING CHEESE!'']

* [[True Capitalist]] radio broadcasts often end in this, due to Ghost's [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]

* In ''[[The Guild]]'', Codex unknowingly complains about recent changes to The Game's creator, who gets frustrated with the constant stream of criticism and decides to sell The Game. She spends the remainder of the season trying to talk him out of rage quitting.

** On Street Fighter X Tekken, he kept receiving challenges from players online. As a result, he never got past the ''first level'' of Arcade Mode.

 

 

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