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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lynn Loud pretty much embodies this trope. She will find a way to turn literally any activity into a competition, much to her family's dismay. (Especially "Lynn-er Takes All"

* Rose in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' is this despite her CloudCuckooLander personality. Regardless of event, once Rose enters it, she's ''obsessed'' with winning. For example, she once enters a contest repeatedly until she wins the prize offered in it (a honeymoon trip to Paris, despite Rose not being a newlywed), not for the prize itself, but for the thrill of winning, as she claims. Then she starts describing in detail about how she beat the odds as if she was giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, which alarms Dorothy enough to make her stop Rose from further description.

* Rimmer in ''Series/RedDwarf'' can be like this, usually to his own detriment. When he was sharing quarters with a duplicate of himself in "[=Me2=]" their exercise and work regimes became horribly self-destructive, because every time one of them suggested something, the other had one-up the first by suggesting they get up earlier, work longer, exercise harder and so forth. Which in turn would lead the first, not wanting to be outdone, to escalate by suggesting an even ''more'' gruelling regime, and so on, making the whole thing a vicious cycle.

* Dave, a one-off character in the radio version of ''The Creator/LennyHenry Show'', is an office worker who treats every conversation with his co-workers like this. If they're talking about how many books they read during lockdown, he read fifty a day, then wrote one, then got it made into a Netflix series. If they made a salad, he invented a new vegetable. When one of his co-workers tells him not everything is a competition, his response is "I know that. In fact, I knew it before you did!"

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Used to parody U2's Bono, having won a ridiculous number of achievements and becoming ridiculously protective of his "Biggest Crap Award" (to the point of cheating to reclaim it from Randy). The reason for this is revealed that Bono ''is'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext the original Biggest Crap]], constantly trying to be Number One in everything, but never managing to shake off he is actually a "Number Two".

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has Damian Wayne, who constantly seeks to prove himself as better than any previous Robin to his father, especially against Tim Drake, who he constantly demeans whenever Tim slips up and Damian manages something slightly better than him. This came to a head in the storyline ''War of the Robins'' where Damian went after Tim, Jason, and Dick individually to beat them and claim a prize from each as proof he was the superior Robin in an entirely-self-imposed challenge. He beat Tim and Jason, but Dick just gave him a prize and pointed out "you're the one with the R on his chest now".

->''"One of the great things about people is that if you put them on TV, they'll do anything to win. Sometimes they're not even sure if they're on a show with prizes, or what the prize is -- they will debase themselves and taunt their own god to win. For proof, three different groups of women have competed to let Flavor Flav inside them, and he looks like something that crawls out of bogs to replace our babies with changelings."''

* Azai Kanon in ''VisualNovel/GSenjouNoMaou'' is obsessed with being the first in every figure-skating competition, she spends every waking moment thinking about skating competitions and she will not stop telling everyone that she is the best figure skater in the whole world and never loses. [[spoiler: Except it turns out her mother conditioned her to think this way, and she's actually suffering because of it.]]

* Rimmer in ''Series/RedDwarf'' can be like this, usually to his own detriment. When he was sharing quarters with a duplicate of himself in "[=Me2=]" their exercise and work regimes became horribly self-distructive, because every time one of them suggested something, the other one had to suggest they got up earlier, worked longer and exercised harder.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "Grudge Match", Raul the Brazilian tank engine becomes this [[SoreLoser after losing to Thomas]] in [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriendsTheGreatRace the Shunting Competition at the Great Railway Show]]. He challenges Thomas to two races and a strength competition to prove that he is better at them than Thomas is, but as a result of trying to win the strength competition, he breaks away from his train and nearly falls off the dock and into the water. He and Thomas become better friends after Thomas saves him, and Raul also becomes a better sport as a result.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'' portrays Brennan Lee Mulligan as this in a few skits, including one where he wants to "win" at fun (e.g. breaking out ''football pads and a barbwire bat'' for a game of Musical Chairs), and the Game Changers series revealed that it's an ActorInspiredElement, with one game designed specifically so he ''can't'' win, and another forcing the contestants to reveal deeply personal facts in order to win.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'' portrays Brennan Lee Mulligan as this in a few skits, including one where he wants to "win" at fun (e.g. breaking out ''football pads and a wired bat'' for a game of Musical Chairs), and the Game Changers series revealed that it's an ActorInspiredElement, with one game designed specifically so he ''can't'' win, and another forcing the contestants to reveal deeply personal facts in order to win.

** Kaiba's level of this gets taken to the ridiculous extremes in "Dark Side Of Dimensions". Wanting to defeat the Pharaoh once and for all, he first develops an AI based on the Pharaoh. When that turns out to be too easy to beat, he ''excavates the Pharaoh's tomb'' seeking to assemble the Millennium Puzzle and defeat him for real that way. This is one of the main parts of the movie's plot. In the end, when Yugi puts in the final two pieces of the puzzle, the Pharaoh is still not returning, because his soul is at rest. Kaiba then decides to ''travel 5000 years back in time to Ancient Egypt'', just to duel the Pharaoh. To reiterate, the guy is such a sore power that he '''''invents time travel''''' for the sole purpose of fighting his rival one more time.

* Rimmer in ''Series/RedDwarf'' can be like this, usually to his own detriment. When he was sharing quarters with a duplicate of himself in "Me2" their exercise and work regimes became horribly self-distructive, because every time one of them suggested something, the other one had to suggest they got up earlier, worked longer and exercised harder.

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* A number of characters in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' exhibit an extreme competitiveness, but Yami Yugi and Seto Kaiba especially, making them natural rivals. Kaiba is willing to do terrible things to get a hold of rare/powerful cards, while Yami Yugi will do almost anything to win, even if it means his opponent dies, until CharacterDevelopment kicks in that is.

* In the Chinese gaming light novel ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'' a girl named Tang Rou thinks the MMORPG Glory is boring and not at all a challenge, up until the main character repeatably wipes the floor with her in PVP. At that point she becomes obsessed with learning the game just so she can beat him.

* Monica Geller in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' often becomes extremely intense and controlling over any minor game the gang take part in.

* In ''Series/{{Wilfred}}'', the neighbor's boyfriend is shown to be uber-competitive. This was used in an episode where Ryan challenges the boyfriend to a game of table tennis, hoping that he could beat the boyfriend in front of the neighbor. However, the boyfriend ends up beating Ryan. All is well though, because the neighbor is turned off by the boyfriend's gloating.

* Karen in ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}'' is determined to beat her classmates at everything. Particular examples include making herself a "best in class" badge, and refusing to look at the non-[=WW2=] parts of the museum on HMS Belfast as it won't help her with her history project competition...whose prize is a visit to HMS Belfast.

** The most extreme example is Manfred von Karma, who took pride in being undefeated for the entirety of his 40-year-long career, but was infuriated at a tiny blemish on his perfect win record from taking a single penalty against Gregory Edgeworth in court. [[spoiler:Enough to murder Gregory, adopt his son, raise little Miles to become the antithesis of everything Gregory stood for, and then finally frame Miles for murder]].

'''Peter''': [[IResembleThatRemark Hey, I can be just as noncompetitive as anyone. In fact, I am the most noncompetitive, so I win!]]\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' - Robin becomes this in "Winner Take All" when he and a bunch of other heroes are drafted into a tournament. When Cyborg (who beat him in a card game earlier) tries to voice his suspicions about the whole thing, he assumes it's an attempt to sabotage him. After breaking Speedy's bow in order to win their match, he gets asked if it was really worth it, and seems to realize it wasn't.

* Netossa is revealed to be very competive in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower,'' going so far as to keep score of her bot kills versus Spinnerella's. [[spoiler: In Season 5 this actually becomes a huge advantage for The Rebellion: when several princesses fall under mind control, Netossa reveals that she keeps a detailed set of notes on the weaknesses of all her allies they can use to subdue the mind controlled princesses. Bow points out that it's a bit disconcerting that she's clearly spent a ''lot'' of time thinking about this, but it appears more that Netossa just sees battle as another game to win.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "Grudge Match", Raul the Brazilian tank engine becomes this [[SoreLoser after losing to Thomas]] in [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatRace the Shunting Competition at the Great Railway Show]]. He challenges Thomas to two races and a strength competition to prove that he is better at them than Thomas is, but as a result of trying to win the strength competition, he breaks away from his train and nearly falls off the dock and into the water. He and Thomas become better friends after Thomas saves him, and Raul also becomes a better sport as a result.

* Netossa is revealed to be very competive in SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower, going so far as to keep score of her bot kills versus Spinnerella's. [[spoiler: In Season 5 this actually becomes a huge advantage for The Rebellion: when several princesses fall under mind control, Netossa reveals that she keeps a detailed set of notes on the weaknesses of all her allies they can use to subdue the mind controlled princesses. Bow points out that it's a bit disconcerting that she's clearly spent a ''lot'' of time thinking about this, but it appears more that Netossa just sees battle as another game to win.]]

* Netossa is revealed to be very competive in SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerTheRebellion, going so far as to keep score of her bot kills versus Spinnerella's. [[spoiler: In Season 5 this actually becomes a huge advantage for The Rebellion: when several princesses fall under mind control, Netossa reveals that she keeps a detailed set of notes on the weaknesses of all her allies they can use to subdue the mind controlled princesses. Bow points out that it's a bit disconcerting that she's clearly spent a ''lot'' of time thinking about this, but it appears more that Netossa just sees battle as another game to win.]]
-->''['Netossa:''' Contingency plans are how you win, and I ''always'' win.

* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Devi can be "a bit of a psycho" when it comes to her rivalry with Ben Gross.

* Josee from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' is this to such an extreme that she believes placing anywhere other than first to be totally shameful. She throws tantrums when she and her partner don't take gold and [[spoiler: started smashing up Central Park when they eventually came third.]]

* Rainbow Dash in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is this trope, The Great And Powerful Trixie is AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter.

'''Stam''': ''I care!'' I know I lost, and I couldn't bear to carry that shame around for the rest of my life.