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See also [[Fake Difficulty]], [[Nintendo Hard]], [[That One Boss]], [[That One Puzzle]], [[That One Level]], [[Flipping the Table]].
 
'''Note:''' This page is for [[In -Universe]] and [[Invoked]] examples ONLY. If we had examples such as "{Insert Game Here} is prone to ragequitters", you might as well add every game in existence to this list, and that would be unnecessary. For your personal experiences with Ragequitting, take it to the discussion page.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Manga example: 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 [[DragonballDragon Ball]] does this by [[Taking You Withwith 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]].
* During [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|the Pokemon anime]]'s infamous Tag Tournament, [[Jerkass|Paul]] abdicated his role in the match when [[The Woobie|Chimchar]], [[Stupid Evil|after taking levels of abuse the previous night that would make PETA's founders spin in their graves fast enough to power Unova]], froze with fear when [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Zangoose]] got up close and personal one time too many. Ash, Paul's ''partner'' in that matchup, proved himself the better trainer on the spot by [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|taking command of Chimchar, as well as his own injured Turtwig, to turn the entire fight around and score a victory.]] This is followed up by a [[You Have Failed Me|Rage Release]] by Paul, leaving Chimchar free to be taken up by Ash.
* 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.
 
 
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== Film ==
* Briefly seen on ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'', during "Gaston".
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|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.
* A bar brawl version of this happens in the first scene of ''[[Way of the Gun]]'', as pointed out by the director in the commentary. The two antiheroes square off against an angry man and a number of his friends. Heavily outnumbered, they realize that they're going to get beaten up anyway, so they throw their first punch at the guy's girlfriend, spoiling his victory.
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the episode of ''[[Star Trek: theThe 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.
* [[Your Mileage May Vary|Arguably justified]] in the US Season 15 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]''. One team was eliminated at the starting line, and they were so mad they just up and left and didn't even attend the finale. The part where people were sympathetic to them was that they didn't even get to leave the country, or even go through the first leg of the race. One fan compared it to qualifying for the olympics and being eliminated during the opening ceremony.
** 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.
* Lisi in the American ''[[Survivor]]'' [[Rage Quit]] too, but instead of just walking out and leaving, [[Suicide Byby Cop|simply asked everyone to vote her out.]]
* 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.}}
* ''[[ItsIt'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).
* In the series finale of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'', {{spoiler|Cavil blurts an expletive and kills himself when the means of immortality are taken from his grasp.}}
* 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.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A common rage quitting tactic in most games, especially RTS games, is for the loser to cut their own internet connection so that they would get disconnected rather than taking a loss, as well as spiting their opponents by forcing them wait for their connection to the server to time out. This tactic is commonly dubbed "plug pulling", and most games now count disconnects as automatic losses.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|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.
** Also, the Scout now has a voice clip that says "Yeah, I dare ya, [[Medium Awareness|Rage Quit]]! C'mon, make us both happy!" when he Dominates someone.
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* Apparently, Neopets had enormous problems with people quitting while playing against other players in the Battledome and had to implement countermeasures because of this.
* ''[[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.''}}
* Infamously dubbed the "Logoffski" in the [[Eve Online]] community. When suddenly [[Oh Crap|surprised]] by an enemy, players who quickly use the Alt+F4 command to kill the game client will initiate an automatic procedure called "Emergency Warp" designed to save players who suddenly lose internet connection. This will cause the ship to warp out of the battlezone and disappear after a couple of minutes, (hopefully) before your ship is destroyed.
** [[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.
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== Web Original ==
* [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony's]] [http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/10/30/fmv-hell-halloween-special-bloodwings-pumpkinheads-revenge/ first review] of ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' counts as an epic, [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] Rage Quit.
{{quote| I warn you now that the tale of ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' is long, cryptic, and incredibly stupid. I have never before wasted this much time on a project this pointless, and if you sit through this review, you will truly be stupider for having experienced it.}}
** 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 [[MegamanMega 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.
* Perhaps one of the most justifiable [[Rage Quit|Rage Quits]] was when [[Kikoskia]] of [[Let's Play]] fame rebooted ''[[Action 52]]'' because he was utterly ''sick'' of playing ''Storm Over The Desert''.
* [[Rooster Teeth]] has a feature on their site called ''Rage Quit'', where Michael plays through a game, which invariably becomes this trope. Sometimes it's more than justified, since he's going in with no instructions -- going into ''[[Ikaruga]]'' without ever knowing how to switch polarities (a key gameplay mechanic and required to even pass Stage 1), for example. Bonus material showed that right after filming his play of ''[[Catherine]]'', he flung the Xbox out the window and smashed its remains with a ''crowbar''.
** He also ragequit ''[[Demons Souls]]'' on the ''title screen''.
** Humorously subverted in the ''Rage Quit'' episode on ''[[Rage (Videovideo Gamegame)|Rage]]'', where Michael's incredibly mellow throughout the video.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGlVtNXLMmA ''SWISS F***ING CHEESE!'']
* [[Raocow]] is normally a cheerful person, but when he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJ7oNXS1nU plays a hard level] ... things won't get pretty. In the next episode, he mentioned it as a [[Rage Quit]].
* [[True Capitalist (Radio)|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.
* Do NOT make up you own rules while playing a game with Natalie Tran. She will [http://youtu.be/mExEUoKt3O4 flip your scrabble board].
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