History Main / FlawlessVictory

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is the TropeNamer. The [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 first]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII second]] games also give you "Double Flawless" if you manage to win both rounds like this.[[note]]The UsefulNotes/GameGear version of the second game took it even further by saying "Double Flawless Victory" on the second round[[/note]] From ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 MK3]]'' on, it's only Flawless Victory, even if you win both in a row.

** If one player has four wins and the other player has zero, the next round starts with a "FRAUD DETECTION WARNING". Should the winning player win this round, securing a perfect match, the game blares out "FRAUD DETECTED"--in other words, [[InvertedTrope the loser is declared a fraud]]. This is a reference to players in the UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity who are hyped up only to end up on the losing end of a CurbStompBattle, and thus are labeled as frauds.

* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'', getting a perfect Cutthroat Countdown (by sinking all the balls, then collecting the Super Jackpot) not only ''immediately'' starts another round of Cutthroat Countdown, but also increases the value of future Cutthroat Countdowns.

** Besides Michael, the only other chefs to win their seasons without being nominated even once were Heather West from Season 2, David "Dave" Levey from Season 6, Holli Ugalde from Season 7, future sous chef Christina Wilson from Season 10, La Tasha [=McCutchen=] from Season 13, Meghan1 Gill from Season 14, Kimberly-Ann Ryan from Season 16, Ariel Fox (who previously competed in Season 6) in Season 18, and Ryan O'Sullivan in Season 22.

** Besides Michael, the only other chefs to win their seasons without being nominated even once were Heather West from Season 2, David "Dave" Levey from Season 6, Holli Ugalde from Season 7, future sous chef Christina Wilson from Season 10, La Tasha McCutchen from Season 13, Meghan Gill from Season 14, Kimberly-Ann Ryan from Season 16, and Ariel Fox (who preciously competed in Season 6) in Season 18.

* Admiral [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Sun-sin Yi Sun-sin]], the [[UsefulNotes/SouthKoreansWithMarines Korean naval commander]] during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasions_of_Korea_(1592–1598) 1590s invasion by Japan]] was able to pull this off ''[[TheStrategist multiple]]'' times against the Japanese navy. The Korean navy, accustomed to dealing with pirates, were heavily armed with cannons for long-range combat, and had recently developed the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_ship turtle ship]]", a vessel that had cannons pointing in every direction and a spiked top to repel boarders. This was bad news for the Japanese navy, as their specialty lay in boarding tactics, due to their experience in the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod. This led Yi to develop the Crane Wings formation, in which he sent the turtle ships into the center of the Japanese fleet to open fire from within as his other vessels (including converted fishing ships) encircled them and opened fire from without. As a result of this, the Korean navy decimated the Japanese on the open sea, to the point that their only casualties were individual ''sailors''. Of particular note is the penultimate [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Myeongnyang Battle of Myeongnyang Strait]], in which the Korean navy - down to a paltry 13 ships due to a Japanese plot - took on roughly 330 Japanese ships, including 130 warships. Due to carefully choosing his battleground[[note]]the strait was ''locally'' notorious for having a current that switched direction every few hours - the Japanese weren't local[[/note]], Yi's forces suffered no loss of ships, 2 killed, 3 wounded, and 8 drowned. The Japanese fleet, on the other hand, lost 60 ships (30 to crashing and another 30 to the Korean navy) and ''half'' their soldiers were killed or injured. Prior to the battle, however, the Korean court initially ordered the Navy to disband entirely, prompting this response from Yi.

* Yet another Japanese quiz show example: On ''Series/PanelQuizAttack25'', all 4 players normally receive 10,000 yen per point at the end of the main game. But if a contestant pulls off the maximum possible win margin of 25 to 0 to 0 to 0, their winnings are doubled to 500,000 yen. This has only been achieved 12 times since the show debuted in 1975.

* Due to its relatively short season, in North America football teams are the only ones with any plausible chance at a perfect season (no losses/ties), but it's still very rare. For American football, at the professional level the only NFL team to pull it off in the Super Bowl era is the 17-0 1972 Miami Dolphins; there have been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undefeated_NCAA_Division_I_football_teams dozens of college teams]] to accomplish it, but their seasons are shorter (nowadays college teams schedule 12 games in a regular season plus 1[[note]]at most 2 with the introduction of the College Football Playoff in 2014[[/note]] bowl game vs. 17 NFL regular season games plus 3 or 4[[note]]Wild Card Round, Divisional Round, Conference Championship, Super Bowl; a 17-0 regular season team playing in the Wild Card round would require two 17-0 teams in the same conference who don't play each other and one losing a tiebreaker[[/note]] playoff games) and the balance of competition in college football is generally more lopsided (i.e., there tend to be more "cupcake" teams in a given college team's schedule). The CFL also has one perfect season (the 1948 Calgary Stampeders). For comparison, the NBA and NHL currently have 82-game regular seasons, and MLB has 162. No one has ever achieved an undefeated regular season in an NBA or NHL season, with the closest being the NBA's 2016 Golden State Warriors (73-9) and 1996 Chicago Bulls (72-10); the closest in the NHL were the 1930 Boston Bruins, who went 38-5-1, and the 1944 Montreal Canadiens, who went 38-5-7.[[note]]And as a cherry on top, the 2016 Warriors and the 1930 Bruins both lost in their respective league's finals that year.[[/note]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretariat_%28horse%29 Secretariat's]] performance in the 1973 Triple Crown series is widely viewed as a Flawless Victory. Three victories, three track records and capped with the largest margin of victory ever in a Grade 1 stakes race (31 lengths). Most records still stand ''over 40 years later''.

* [[GameOfNerds Baseball's]] perfect game, defined as the same pitcher going all 9 innings with 27 up-27 down (no hits, no walks, no errors charged), is a definite flawless victory. Similarly, a pitcher going all 9 without giving up a run, called a shutout, is the equivalent of a No Death Run. A no-hitter is where a pitcher does not allow any hits but can still allow baserunners either via walks or errors (all perfect games are also no-hitters by definition). It is rare (only happened once officially), but completely possible, to [[CrackDefeat throw a no-hitter and still lose.]] Formerly, it was possible for a team to lose even if their pitcher achieved a perfect game (since the game could go into extra innings even after 9 with no baserunners by the opposing team, so long as the pitcher's own team failed to score any runs in regulation), but in 1991 the definition was changed to require the pitcher to maintain "perfection" for the entire game including extra innings, no matter how many innings are played. This new definition already excludes games that are ended before 9 innings because of weather. The statistically "best" perfect game ever achieved was by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addie_Joss%27_perfect_game Addie Joss in 1908]], who did it with only 74 pitches.

* ''Series/CutthroatKitchen''. Getting the full $25,000 ($50,000 in tournament finals) requires you to not bid on any sabotages and take any sabotage that comes your way while also not committing any fouls that might come with the sabotage. One chef came close to this only to lose in the final round. Then a few weeks later, a certain Chef Kyle managed to pull this off in the show's only perfect victory.

* Another game show example: On the Japanese quiz show ''Time Shock'', a contestant who sweeps every question in a round is rewarded with a bonus prize, complete with ConfettiDrop. In early days, this was an international vacation plus cash for a total value of 1 million yen; this was later changed to a flat-out 1 million yen in cash. On the revival ''Time Shock 21'', if any member of the winning team accomplished the same feat in any of the 3 endgame rounds, the team's winnings were increased to the GameShowWinningsCap of 10 million yen and the endgame ends on the spot (i.e. they no longer need to get at least half the questions right on any remaining rounds to keep their endgame winnings).

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is the TropeNamer. The [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 first]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII second]] games also give you "Double Flawless" if you manage to win both rounds like this.[[note]]The UsefulNotes/GameGear version of the second game took it even further by saying "Double Flawless Victory" on the second round[[/note]] From ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 MK3]]'' on, it's only Flawless Victory, even if you win both in a row.

* ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' acknolwedges a Full Combo with the appropriate flashing text and S-rank combo rewards. Unfortunately, while all-Perfect runs are entirely possible, the game not only doesn't recognize them, it's perfectly possible to still get a grade lower than S if your cards' attributes aren't high enough; in fact, it's common for beginner players who came in from other rhythm games to get all Perfects and still get a C [[EarlyGameHell because their starting cards are extremely weak]].

* ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'' awards Full Combo for not getting any combo-breaking judgements. If you get Great or above, it is a Great Full Combo, and if you get all Perfects, it is a Perfect Full Combo. There are also All Tap, All Disc, and All Fader badges for hitting all notes of each respective type, which you can still get up to two of if you drop the Full Combo or use at most two of the [[GameplayAutomation auto-play]] options.

* ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'' awards Full Combo for not getting any combo-breaking judgements. If you get Great or above, it is a Great Full Combo, and if you get all Perfects, it is a Perfect Full Combo. There are also All Tap, All Disc, and All Fader badges for hitting all notes of each respective type, which you can still get up to two of if you drop the Full Combo.

* In ''VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer'', defeating a boss stage in All Zones mode without taking damage and while staying in rhythm of the stage's song by not missing a beat grants one of three chests to select from as a reward before heading to the next zone

--->'''Admiral Yi''': This humble subject [[ICanStillFight still has 12 ships]]. However small the number may be, I solemnly swear [[BadassBoast I will be able to defend the sea if I prepare myself for death to resist the enemy]].

* John Carpenter, the first contestant to win a million dollars on ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', made it to the final question without using a single lifeline. On the million dollar question, he finally used his Phone-A-Friend lifelife and called his father...not to ask for help, but to let his father know that he was about to win a million dollars. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And then he did.]]

* At the end of each stage in ''VideoGame/PointBlank'', you get a bonus equal to your shot accuracy * 1,000. If you don't miss a shot, you get an extra 1,000 points. Interestingly, you can get over 100% accuracy (as a result of shooting through a window to another target), but you only get the 1,000-point bonus if you don't miss; if your accuracy is, for instance, 150%, but you miss at all, your accuracy bonus will only be 1,500 instead of 2,500.