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[[File:Never give up P1&4.jpg|thumb|alt=Panels 1 and 4 facebook image Never Give Up, which is basis of the Bronze Medal Meme. In this 2 panel edit, the top panel is an athlete getting a medal and the bottom panel is him yelling (although what words, if any, is not clear) and flipping off the crowd with both hands]]
{{quote|"Yes! We have defeated you for ''all time''! You will ''never'' rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation!" ''[[Beat]]'' "Well, that was fun."|'''Azula after a game of volleyball''', ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''}}
|'''Azula after a game of volleyball''', ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''}}
 
In short, being a big gloat when winning in a situation where it's considered just rude, and unsportsmanlike (even if it doesn't involve sports).
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Contrast [[Graceful Loser]].
 
{{Noreallife|we already know how many jerks there are in the world.}}
'''No Real Life examples, please.'''
 
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
 
== Anime and Manga ==
 
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''
** During ''Fumoffu'', there's the rugby team that Sousuke [[Training from Hell|coached]]. After their overwhelming victory, they are shown mocking the fallen team horribly. (To be fair, the losing team had belittled Sousuke's team earlier in the story... but that doesn't make it right.)
** Sousuke himself is shown to do this a lot after winning fights. He ''loves'' informing his fallen enemies exactly ''why'' they're such losers and failures. (In his defense, at least one case was due to his [[Literal-Minded|misunderstanding the enemy's lamentations of why he lost for a wholehearted request for advice]], and decided to inform him literally why he's such a loser.)
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' had a fairly recent{{when}} example of this, courtesy of everyone's favorite [[Jerkass]], Paul/Shinji. In the first of what would be his many dick moves, right after he battled Veilstone Gym Leader Maylene, [[Curb Stomp Battle|took out her team with ease]] and received his Cobble Badge, Paul [[Sarcasm Mode|gave a glowing critique on her skill as a Gym Leader]]:
{{quote|[[Kick the Dog|"You're the weakest.]] [[Break the Cutie|The weakest leader I ever fought]], [[Heroic BSOD|and this lightweight Badge is just like you."]]}}
* ''[[Iron Wok Jan]]'': At one point Jan follows a defeated opponent out to the street to taunt him some more as the fellow looked insufficiently crushed.
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* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Flare Corona mocks Lucy mercilessly after she wins their match in the magic tournament. Even worse than usual since the only reason Flare won was because one of her teammates interfered from the sidelines to depower Lucy right when she had Flare on the ropes. Flare doesn't get off completely scot-free, though — in a later chapter, one of her other teammates beats her up for being so weak.
 
== [[Film]] ==
 
* ''[[Big Fat Liar]]'' has an [[Large Ham|over-the-top]] example with Marty Wolf when he {{spoiler|''almost'' wins}}:
{{quote|Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! I STOLE JASON SHEPARD'S STORY AND TURNED IT INTO BIG FAT LIAR! Do you know who's listening? Nobody and get used to it. Because I will never-ever-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!}}
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* ''[[Cars]]'': Chick Hicks, after winning the Piston Cup by blatantly causing an accident for the car who'd been beating him for years. If the dirty race hadn't cost him the Dinoco sponsorship already, then the gloating certainly put him over the top.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
 
== Literature ==
 
* A ''[[Berenstain Bears]]'' book dealing with being a bad winner.
* ''[[Discworld]]'': Esme Weatherwax insists on not killing her opponents since it's no real victory if you can't rub it in their faces. It's a witch thing. As demonstrated by Greebo, it's also a cat thing.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
 
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'', Larry talked about how Mr. Gorply would rub the bowling trophies he won in Larry's face. Balky tells Larry to be a good sport when he finally wins, but then agrees to let Larry have one phone call about it.
* In ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', her cousin chanted "I won! I won!" whenever she won some board game or card game.
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* In the ''[[Colbert Report]]'', Stephen Colbert calls John Stewart to gloat [http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/ecu59e/stephen-s-emmy-awards] that he won Emmys, ending John's 10 year winning streak. John Stewart isn't upset in the slightest.
 
== [[Video Games ]]==
 
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' allows and even encourages players to use emotes such as /laugh, /pity and /hug on the bodies of their recently-deceased enemies. [[The Undead|The Forsaken]] can even ''eat'' the corpse. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Corpsecamping the opponent]] can be considered a more extreme version of this, making sure that the enemy stays down. You can also teabag dead enemies, as mentioned below.
* Many FPSvideo games, (thoughprimarily otherFPS types can have it as well)games, have this in the form of "teabagging". Someone scores a kill on you and they celebrate by going to your corpse and keeprepeatedly squatting down on your face. It isn't enough that they killed you, they also have to violate you as well. [[Hilarity Ensues]] if the teabagger gets killed while not paying attention and gets teabagged himself.
** The stupidity of this behavior was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/20/ this] ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' strip.
* ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games have the titular protagonist get up to this. For example, in ''[[Sonic Colors]]'':
* ''[[Sonic Colors]]''
{{quote|'''Sonic''': ''(gloating over a defeated boss)'' Wow, sometimes I even impress myself! For a second there I wasn't sure I was going to pull it off... Oh, who am I kidding, we ''both'' knew how this would end.
'''Tails''': Uh, are you ''talking'' to the broken robot who can't hear you?
'''Sonic''': ...Maybe. That's between me and the robot. }}
* Most [[Fighting Game]] characters - including - ''[[Street Fighter]]'', ''[[Guilty Gear]]'', and ''[[World Heroes]]'' - do this to some degree the winner of the match using their victory quote to gloat over their fallen and often visibly injured opponent.
** SinceFighting thegames with a [[Taunt Button]] was implemented in Fighting Games, most of them do not permit taunting after a round is finished to avoidavert this behavior (in-game, of course). NotableThe exceptions''Guilty includeGear'' [[Streetseries Fighter]]is 3,one andof themany [[GuiltyNotable Gear]]exceptions series. In Guilty Gear, however,- taunting the opponent when a round is over will instead give himthem a full superSuper Meter meterfor the next round.
 
== Webcomics ==
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Original Life]]'': [http://www.jaynaylor.com/originallife/archives/2009/09/034.html Here], over volleyball.
* The [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bronze-medal Bronze Medal comic and its meme derivatives] feature a guy being awarded a bronze medal, making an ass of himself of gloating and then being revealed to have gotten 3rd place.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
 
* Azula in the [[Beach Episode]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
** Sokka, Suki and Toph engage in a little gloating at the end of the [[Grand Finale]].
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Marge Simpson spoke on this subject after Bart won a soapbox car race.
** In that same episode, both Bart and Homer dabble in this after Bart won the big race, and even after Nelson was decidedly gracious in defeat.
* ''[[South Park]]'':
** Cartman embodies this trope. In fact, Kyle got him once by deciding not to be annoyed he lost, and Cartman was furious.
** That jerk ''professional'' skier who challenged Stan to a ski race in the episode "Asspen", despite being many years older than Stan and being super-experienced (whereas Stan was just learning). Stan knew he was going to lose, he acknowledged that he'd lose, and he participated only so when he lost the other guy would leave him alone after he lost. That didn't stop the other guy from rubbing it in Stan's face. Of course this was a parody of underdog sports movies.
** And in addition to that, there's also Randy Marsh during the Pinewood Derby. He pretty much gloats and mocks the rival's father, who later suicides.
** From "Scott Tenorman Must Die":
{{quote|'''Cartman:''' "Yes! Yesss!! Oh, let me taste your tears, Scott! Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet."}}
* The ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Skill Crane" had Squidward becoming obsessed with winning a prize from a crane machine. Onceto hethe getspoint one,of however[[Up to Eleven|using the deed to his house]]. However, once he startsgets gloatingone likeafter crazy.several "Ihundred dollars'm aworth of winnerquarters, seehe mybecomes prize!absolutely You'reinsufferable to everyone, even taunting a loserchild who sitshad andjust cries!"failed one attempt.
{{quote|I'm a winner, see my prize! You're a loser who sits and cries!}}
* In the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2003 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'']] cartoon, Michelangelo will often do this after beating his brothers at something.
* Mertle from ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'' just loves to do this after she wins.
* ''[[King of the Hill]]''
** Hank's old high school rivals won the state championship decades ago due to Hank breaking his ankle, and every day on the anniversary of their win, find every member of the old team (Hank especially) and gloat. To the point of barging into their home while eating dinner. Decades later. In order to put an end to it, Hank [[Putting the Band Back Together|gets the team back together]] and challenges the other team to a rematch; they end up winning, and [[Hypocritical Humor|a year later they're rubbing it in the other team's faces]].
*** In order to put an end to it, Hank [[Putting the Band Back Together|gets the team back together]] and challenges the other team to a rematch; they end up winning, and [[Hypocritical Humor|a year later they're rubbing it in the other team's faces]].
** Another episode has Bobby and Peggy betting on mundane things. What are they betting on? Bragging rights, specifically the kind that let you act like a total jerk. Later they move to reverse bragging rights, meaning you need to shower the winner with praise.
* OnIn one episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', D.W. beats her brother at checkers and starts singing and dancing about "I was checker champ, and Arthur checker chump!"—for an ''entire year''.
 
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