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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Daredevil|Matt Murdock]]'s father was told to lose. He initially complied, only for his pride or self-respect to get the better of him, eventually winning anyway, which caused him to be killed by the Mob shortly afterwards.
* In [[JLA-Avengers]], two [[Cosmic Entity|Cosmic Entities]] are gambling on whether the JLA or the Avengers can [[Gotta Catch Them All|collect a set]] of [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] first. While most of the teams pursue the artifacts, [[Captain America (comics)]] and [[Batman]] do some digging and figure out that it's actually to the advantage of both teams if the Justice League wins. In the brawl over the final MacGuffin, the Avengers almost win so Cap has to [[Ordered to Cheat|order his team to]] [[Throwing the Fight|Throw The Fight]].
** More specifically, he grabs the last MacGuffin and gives it to Batman, the orders the Avengers to stand down and let the League win.
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* ''[[The Color of Money]]'', where Fast Eddie Felson tells Vincent to "dump" in one of his road matches, so as to prep him for a rich guy easy mark. Vincent, being the hothead egotist that he is (played by [[Tom Cruise]]), wins the match and loses the mark.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''. Vizzini orders Fezzik to kill The Man In Black with a boulder to the head while he's not looking; Fezzik, thinking it's unsportsmanlike, disobeys him and fights the Man In Black in a wrestling match instead.
* Happens in [[The Longest Yard]], when the Warden orders the head of the guards, who, while cruel, still believes in fair play, to play dirty. Specifically, he wants the guards' team to get a three touchdown lead and just kick the inmates' asses for the entire rest of the game.
** The other version of this trope occurs too. The Warden, whose team of guards is losing to Paul Crewe's team of prisoners, tells Crewe to blow the game, threatening to frame Crewe for the death of Caretaker, which would keep Crewe in prison forever, if Crewe does not comply. At first Crewe does throw the game, but when the guard team keeps piling it on more than Crewe wanted, he starts to play for real again and his team wins, and the captain tells Crewe that he'll testify for him against the Warden in the case of Caretaker's death.
* In the first ''[[The Bad News Bears]]'' movie, Buttermaker orders Rudy to lean in, get hit by the pitch, and "take one for the team". Rudy doesn't like it, but he does it.
* In the 2006 ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'' movie, the rival racer is a little ticked to find out that his sponsor installed an illegal hook on his vehicle. He ends up using it against Speed anyway. Indeed the whole plot of the movie revolves around the big corporations strictly controlling the finishing order of the races; Speed himself refuses to sign that kind of deal partway through the movie, instead choosing to stay indie and try to beat the system.
* Bruce Willis in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' was told to lose and didn't, which is why he has to run for his life.
* Played with in ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]].'' The host of the show slips Jamal the answer to a question during a bathroom break after Jamal has used his fifty-fifty lifeline. Suspicious of the host's motives, Jamal chooses the other remaining answer, guessing that the host deliberately gave him the wrong answer. Turns out Jamal is right.
* The movie ''Diggstown'' has this in spades, on both the heroes's and villain's sides each trying to outdo, outbribe, and outcon the other in the protagonist's series of ten fights with amateur boxers. Two brothers are bribed by the protagonists to take a dive, but the first one does such a poor job that the second one is forced to try to win, or his brother will die. Another boxer is forced to leave the arena before stepping into the ring, tricking the protagonists into assuming that he forfeited. Two ringers are brought in to fight, sneaking through the loophole that, as inmates in the local prison, they are legally "residents" of the area. However, the final ringer has actually been bribed the protagonists to blatantly take a dive.
* This is basically the entire premise of the movie ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]''.
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