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* Crashgate: A [[Formula One]] controversy involving Nelsinho Piquet deliberately crashing his car to give his teammate Fernando Alonso enough of an advantage to win the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.

* Footgate: Referring to New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's rumored foot fetish after a woman who resembles his wife, Michelle Ryan, appeared in a foot fetish video in 2010.

* Puckgate: the mystery regarding the location of the 2010 [[Stanley Cup]]-winning puck. [[Serious Business|The FBI is on the case.]]

* Spygate: The discovery that the New England Patriots used illegal videotaping of their opponents' defensive signals ''from the sidelines'' (specifically, the New York Jets) in 2007.

** And again used in 2010 when Broncos coach Jeff McDaniels was accused of videotaping the San Francisco 49ers.

* Roomgate: [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[The Room]]'' was taken down due to false copyright claims that didn't make the slightest bit of sense. The takedown notice turned out to be the [[Moral Event Horizon]] for Wiseau Films.

* WikiLeaks included the word "cablegate" in the URL to the 250,000+ diplomatic cables they leaked in November 2010, as if they were naming their own scandal that they were trying to make.

* Elevatorgate: The reaction among the Internet atheist community to Rebecca Watson complaining that a man hit on her in the elevator. Made more interesting by the fact that although such people as P.Z. Myers were on her side, [[Richard Dawkins]] was ''not''.

* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Derpygate:]] The reaction to character changes affecting a certain [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] in her debut episode led to complaints from the fan community.

** The last one is often referred to more succinctly as "Torturegate".

* Iguanagate. An Australian politician and his wife were forced to undergo anger management classes after yelling at the staff of a nightclub called Iguana Joe's.

*** Zunegate, however, tops them all. OMIGAWSH YOU GUIEZ, OBAMA UZEZ DA ZUNE OMG OMG OMG.

* Towelgate (Toallagate): In Mexico, around 2001, someone dug up public spending records of highly expensive luxuries for Vicente Fox's presidential manor, including several multi-thousand-dollar towels.

* "Babygate," which was applied to ''several'' rumors and scandals regarding the Palin women and their various pregnancies.

* "Sponsorgate" is a popular name in Canada for the Sponsorship Scandal, in which a significant amount of national taxpayers dollars disappeared. Ironically, the money was supposed to be used to promote Canadian unity.

* Iraqgate: Anneli Jäätteenmäki, then-Prime Minister of Finland, had acquired secret Foreign Ministry documents relating to the War on Terror in 2003 with the ensuing scandal eventually leading to her resignation.

* Aquagate: On January 31, 2007. Boston police officials were alerted of a suspicious object on a section of Interstate 93. Bomb Squad, and numerous other personnel were called into action. This [[Artifact of Doom|strange object]] was determined to possibly be an improvised bomb. They were determined to be [[Shocking Swerve|"hoax devices"]]. [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|Several others]] were reported elsewhere. Turns out, the were promotional pieces (similar to litebrites, featuring the Mooninites) for the ensuing ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' movie, with devices stationed in 9 other cities with no incident. Of course, this revelation came after numerous streets in Boston, were closed. The people responsible were shortly arrested and charged with "...intent to panic the public." Boston quickly became a laughing stock with people with knowledge of the devices, and the series.

* Handleygate: An Iowa man named Christopher Handley served six months for possession of seven obscene manga. This scandal shook the entire otaku community in the United States, though on the ANN bulletin's announcement of the sentencing a blacklist was compiled consisting solely of all the obscene manga Handley was found in possession of, meaning nobody except those who owned any of the titles on the blacklist had to worry after all.

* Tokyogate: The internet has used this to the otaku community outrage that lasted for several months over the passage of Bill 156 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which grants it the power to restrict games and manga with the depiction of illegal sexual acts (read: [[Lolicon]]) and "sexual depictions between close relatives who could not legally get married" if done in an "unjustifiably glorified" manner. The Tokyogate title has also been used to refer to an earlier financial semi-scandal involving the Tokyo government.

* Bigotgate: Gordon Brown (at the time Prime Minister of the UK) took questions from a woman, Gillian Duffy, while campaigning in the run-up to the General Election, which included a comment from Duffy about too many people "flocking" to Britain from Eastern Europe. As Brown was leaving, he forgot to switch off his microphone, which later recorded him referring to her as a 'bigoted woman'.

* Wheatergate: The Australian Wheat Board scandal, particularly that they paid kick-backs to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government in exchange for lucrative wheat contracts in connection to the UN's "Oil for Food" program.

* Tattoogate nearly wrecked Warner Bros. by threatening to block the release of ''[[The Hangover]] Part II'' over a character "getting some ink" in a style the same to Mike Tyson's facial tattoo, a design copyrighted by the tattoo's original designer.

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