Rage Quit: Difference between revisions

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]].

 

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* In the very beginning of ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', the young talented goalkeeper Wakabayashi, back then a [[Jerk Jock]] extraordinaire, was obsessed by the challenge he gave to [[The Hero]] Tsubasa to try and score a goal against him in the Shûtetsu vs Nankatsu match. When Tsubasa manages to do so, Wakabayashi is so mortified and disgusted he quits the match and leaves his team on his own. Fortunately, his personal coach Mikami promptly gives him a violent [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] that makes him [[My God, What Have I Done?|realize how rotten his attitude is]], and [[He's Back|he comes back]] to the match [[Character Development|matured]] and determined to win it [[The Power of Friendship|along with his teammates]].

* 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.

* 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.

 

* Briefly seen on ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', during "Gaston". Gaston, as white, plays a game of chess, and is down to just his king and two pawns. Black, who still has all of his non-pawn pieces, makes a move; Gaston realizes he's screwed, and in a fit of rage, smacks the board across the room ([[Camera Abuse|into the camera]]). Just in case you hadn't yet figured out from his [[Establishing Character Moment]] that he's an [[Anti-Intellectualism|anti-intellectual]].

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* ''[[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].

* ''Pain Train'' [http://paintraincomic.com/comic/historically-accurate/ shows] how it works (in tabletop).

 

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** 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''.

* [[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.

* [[UberHaxorNova]] has an ''entire series'' dedicated to rage quitting now, he'll keep playing notoriously hard games until he gets to the breaking point. He made it 10 episodes on [[Super Meat Boy]], 3 on I Wanna Be The Guy, 3 on Street Fighter X Tekken, 2 on The Impossible Game and 3 on Aban Hawkins and the 1000 Spikes.

** 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.

* [[Neil Cicierega]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivcJ2VdhfA What's Dylan Grillin'?]" features a player trying to ragequit the titular game, only for the game to prevent it, leaving the player with the only option of hurling insults at the game.

* In his ''[[Tokyo School Life]]'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adgid99COdA video], [[Nerd3]] rage quit early in the game when the main character [[Thanks for the Mammary|felt Karin's breasts]] after a [[Crash Into Hello]] (a common [[Anime]] trope).

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