History Main / RageQuit

** His run of the ObviousBeta fangame ''Mega Man DOS Remake'' ended after discovering to his horror that passwords do not record Wave Man's defeat (who was reduced to a ''BonusBoss'' in the remake, only unlockable by collecting the W A V E letters), and that the 8 fortress stages have the same design choice of simply filling each screen with tons of enemies.

Enter the Rage Quit: If they can't win this game, no one can! Screw going down with the ship and using the loss as a learning experience; someone is about to put the first black mark on their untarnished gaming record, truly a FateWorseThanDeath! Alternately, it need not even be an ''actual'' loss or a bad game; some players have ragequit over the most trivial of matters, such as their favorite map not being selected, or their favorite character being used by someone else. In any case, if ''they'' can't have it, then [[WeWinBecauseYouDidNot no one will!]]

Rage quitting is also common in people who simply get frustrated at the game and quit early to cool off, whether it be from several streaks of bad luck or results in a game simply not working out in their favor, despite everything they've been doing. Of course, quitting is still quitting, which greatly annoy other players who want to finish the game or earn the win.

In some very rare instances, the rage-quit may not in fact be due to the player sucking or getting frustrated. Rather, it's punishment for allies of the player who are in some way abusing game mechanics or items to make the player's experience miserable. As vengeance, the player abandons their team at the worst possible moment.

Measures to alleviate this vary, as documented at AntiRageQuitting. Some games will register a rage-quit as an automatic loss to the player who quit (possibly with an automatic win for everyone else), or even keep a separate tally for the number of "disconnects". Unfortunately, it is impossible for the network to distinguish a ragequit from ''actual'' technical problems (a power outage, for example), and there are usually still ways for players to exploit the ranking system to avoid taking the loss. Other systems use a punishment system where the player leaving a game will be unable to find/join another game for a certain amount of time in order to prevent them from pulling a rage quit multiple times in a row, although this can greatly annoy players who quit a game for a good reason.

More broadly and figuratively speaking, daily life can be considered a kind of "game" people play[[note]]Hence, committing suicide can be considered the ultimate form of ragequitting[[/note]], and its various situations a variety of mini-games. Some people, when they perceive a given situation as monstrously unfair, will do this in place of simply [[KnowWhenToFoldEm cutting their losses and refusing to play anymore]] or [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fleeing in abject terror when they're losing]]; publicly announcing the decision to quit while denouncing the "game" itself is often considered less shameful and more socially respectable than mere forfeiture or flight.

** Speaking of Buu, he performs a notable subversion. He appears to play it straight during his fight with Gohan by choosing to explode, but in reality it's a diversion to get away so he can buy some time and think of a plan to overpower him. He succeeds, by tricking Goten and Trunks into fusing back into Gotenks and then absorbing Gotenks' power.

* Taken to its most tragic, horrifying extreme in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', where [[spoiler:Envy]] straight-up ''[[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]]'' rather than live with the fact that the heroes are not only defeating them, but [[DontYouDarePityMe pity them]].

--> '''Robo World Enforcer:''' ''[skids to a halt]'' "Fuck this! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They're too fast]]."

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': [[ComicBook/WarMachine James Rhodes]], after finding out Tony Stark was BackFromTheDead, stormed into Tony's hospital room to bring back the damaged remote-control Iron Man unit Tony was using, stripped off his own armor, and told Tony he's through being Stark's "War Machine." Tony accepted the resignation from the company, but told Rhodey to keep the armor, and to use it to be better than him.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' issue #28 -properly titled "Rage Quit" and the beginning of the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' arc-, after fighting ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' Kara is convinced that everybody tries to take advantage of her, use her and betray her. And she decides she's done. She's done with people pushing her around, taking advantage of her and betraying her. So she quits being Supergirl.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' had this a few times, with even a metaphysical example of Calvin stating that his spirit was kicking the chess-board's spirit clear across the room.

--> "I accepted your battle so I could finally get some respect, but I don't see that happening, even if I win. You'll just say I 'cheated', or 'got lucky', or 'the sun was in your eyes', or some other excuse. Point is, I don't need to battle you to know that I'm stronger than you. And I'm not going to lose just so you can feel better about yourself when you don't deserve a victory with that kind of attitude. I've put up with it since Viridian City, but this is too much. You're not worth my time."

--> Frustration, bouts of cursing, angry invocations of local deities, and attempts to rage-quit are hereby contractually agreed by [[spoiler:whoever enters to be entirely the fault of the visiting pony]] and as such, no emotional damage lawsuits will be honored.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox''. When [[BigBad Bean]] is informed by [[TerribleTrio his partners]] [[CoDragons Boggis and Bunce]] that Fox and his friends have outwitted their plan to starve them by digging to each of the farmers' warehouses and stealing their foodstuffs, he undergoes a brief VillainousBreakdown by completely trashing his trailer and then heading outside to damage a few other objects, but just stops short of throwing a [[{{Foreshadowing}} wrench]] and then [[TheDeterminator comes up with another idea]] to [[TheGreatFlood get back at them]].

* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', [[spoiler:the hero provokes the FinalBoss into this to save the Earth. [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]] is so far above him (and just about everyone else in the MCU) in terms of power that Strange has no chance of winning in a straight fight and they both know it. However, since Dormammu exists in a timeless dimension, Strange uses magic to lock them both in a 15-second long GroundhogDayLoop, where all Dormammu can do is kill him over and over and over again. Since Dormammu can't escape the loop to conquer Earth (or any other worlds) and is aware of ''every'' reset in the loop, he gets so frustrated that he BEGS Strange to stop and agrees to leave Earth alone.]]

--> '''Officer:''' ''[seeing Wiley jack his patrol cycle]'' *sigh* Know what? I'm done.

* In ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' a Senator's [[LadyMacbeth manipulative, power mad wife]] asks him what he does if he has to go the bathroom during a session. He says that he gets up and leaves. She instructs him to start pounding on the desk, scream "Point of Order" and loudly announce that he will not stand for this any more. Then go to the bathroom.

* An episode of ''Series/AccordingToJim'', Andy turns off the video game before he can lose to Gracie.

** In US Season 15, 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.

** Later, Bobby is entered into a magazine sales campaign as part of a school fundraiser, and is in the lead. When he realizes he's about to win something, Bobby proudly announces this to Cindy. Big mistake, as Cindy explains -- "no you're no ... oops!" Bobby realizes what this means: Mike and Carol helped their son out. Bobby responds by employing the trope: Taking all the completed magazine subscription forms, tearing them up, walking into the den where Mike and Carol are, and then through angry tears announcing that he's withdrawing from the contest ... because, after all, he didn't win it on his own.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]], the Master's reaction to imminent defeat is to threaten to blow up the entire Earth. The Doctor's response to this is to coolly point out that the Master [[ImmortalsFearDeath would never kill himself]] and demand the control for the explosives.
* At the start of season 3 of ''Series/FaceOff'', contestants were paired and tasked to work on aliens that would fit in with the Cantina Scene from ''Film/ANewHope''. Contestant Joe Castro had forgot to put anything on his alien's feet, and was critically slammed for it by the judges. Instead of waiting for the elimination ceremony, he ran outside and drove off the show, forfeiting the competition.

* In ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}'', Pete is playing ''VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} with the kids. When his sister in law, Angela, arrives, he uses the distraction to cheat with a head start. Despite this, he still trails behind, and then suddenly turns the console off saying, "We'd better stop now, your auntie's here".

* ''Series/SeaPatrol'': A common reaction to playing poker against Two-Dads, which lands him in hot water more than once when playing against a particularly SoreLoser. On at least one occasion this ended up driving the plot of a whole episode when he got dumped in the middle of nowhere and left to walk back to the harbour by some locals in revenge for cleaning them out, only to end up witnessing something that lead the crew to uncover a smuggling ring.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': After a RobotUprising destroyed the Utopia Planitia yards — where a relief force to evacuate Romulus and the neighboring systems [[Film/StarTrek2009 before its star went supernova]] was under construction — and rendered Mars uninhabitable, Starfleet decided to abort the rescue effort for purely political reasons. In a last-ditch attempt to strong-arm them into holding to their committment, Picard threatened to resign his commission unless they agreed. When they ''still'' rejected him, he went through with it and returned to his family's vinyards in disgust. His anger and resentment over Starfleet's abandonment of its ideals are still evident over 14 years later.

** A Klingon challenges Data to [[https://youtu.be/0otnIuQiGG0 two-fisted arm wrestling]]. After getting defeated, he tries to headbutt Data, but discovers to his dismay that Data's skull is thicker than a Klingon's.

* Most modern pinball machines are equipped with one or more slam tilt sensors, typically on the coin door, on the bottom of the machine (to detect a drop) and occasionally on the playfield glass. Triggering one of these sensors by slamming the machine will result in an immediate game over.

* Seeing the {{tecnic|o}}as were going to sweep her team on the June 16th 2007 ''Wrestling/{{CMLL}} Guerreros del Ring'', Amapola intentionally got disqualified by missile drop kicking Diana La Cazadora before she could make Polly Star tap out.

* During a 2015 North American Title defense against Seth Allen in Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Midwest, Tim Storm accidentally ran into the referee, [[GlassJawReferee seemingly knocking him out]]. Rather than wait for to see if he would recover or for a new official to arrive Storm decided [[KickTheDog to intentionally assault the laid out ref to draw a no contest]].

* The NFL's Buffalo Bills held a slim 21-17 lead in the closing seconds of their November 29, 1998 game against the New England Patriots. With six seconds left and at the Bills' 26-yard line, Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe heaved a long pass (known as a "Hail Mary" due to the difficulty in completing it) for the end zone that fell incomplete as time expired, but the Bills were called for pass interference. NFL games cannot end on a defensive penalty, so the Patriots got one more untimed down from the Bills' 1-yard line which Bledsoe used to throw a touchdown pass to put themselves up 23-21. The Bills by this point had seen the replay showing that there was no interference, and were incensed when the refs tried to force them to come out and play the extra-point conversion even though it was nigh meaningless. [[note]]NFL rules at the time required the extra point to be played even if it was meaningless, because points scored/allowed are theoretically in use as a tiebreaker, though far down the list. By sheer coincidence, at the end of the year, the Bills ended up losing that tiebreaker.[[/note]] The Bills responded by storming off the field ''en masse'', allowing New England to play the final conversion completely uncontested (kicker Adam Vinateri picked up the ball and waltzed into the end zone for probably the easiest two-point conversion ever). For what it's worth, the NFL later admitted that the defensive pass interference penalty was in error; the game stands as final because such calls by referees are deemed judgement calls and are not eligible grounds for replaying a game.
** A similar, but much less contentious event, happened to the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. After the Giants took the lead with 30 seconds left to go, New England had one chance to go down the field to kick a Field Goal to tie and send the game into overtime, yet were unable to convert a first down. The Giants got a turnover-on-downs with one second on the clock, since the Patriots had used 4th down for one last (unsuccessful) "Hail Mary" attempt. Despite the game being essentially over, NFL rules dictated that a play must be run (in almost all instances, the "Victory Formation" QB kneel is run here). However, Bill Belichick had already left the field by that point, and many Patriots players were already making their way to the locker room. Belichick ''did'' jog out to congratulate his opponents when the turnover happened, but still technically left the field before the game was over.

* Kinda sports: the UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo carnival vote count in 2012 had to be interrupted once a supporter of one of the samba schools jumped the barrier, grabbed the grades from the announcer's hand and ''[[https://youtu.be/5780Xs194rA ripped them]]''.
* In a rather famous incident in the NHL, Patrick Roy - then goaltender of the Montreal Canadiens and now considered one of the greatest goaltenders ever - was left in net for nine goals against during a game against the Detroit Red Wings on December 2, 1995 [[CurbStompBattle (Montreal lost 11–1)]]. This was seen as an extremely controversial move, as star goaltenders are often pulled from games quickly if they are having an off-night. Roy, whose relationship with head coach Mario Tremblay was ''very'' strained, claimed the move was meant to humiliate him. Furious, he stormed off the ice after finally being pulled; he immediately went over and told Canadiens' president Ronald Corey, in front of Tremblay no less, "It's my last game in Montreal." A few days later, he was traded to the Colorado Avalanche, where he stayed for the rest of his career.

* George Brett of the Kansas City Royals baseball team was ''notorious'' for his fits of rage after poor outcomes on the field. The amount of property he destroyed or damaged during his career included a toilet in Minneapolis (clubbed to pieces with his bat), several cans of beige paint in Baltimore (Brett teed off on them like they were batting practice pitches) and water coolers in just about every park in the American League. His most infamous tantrum was during "The Pine Tar Game" in 1983. After having his game-winning home run nullified and being called out to end the game for having too much pine tar on his bat (at the time), Brett had to be physically restrained by several people from beating the crap out of home plate umpire Tim [=McClelland=].
** New York Yankee's manager Billy Martin pulled one of his own when AL president Lee [=MacPhail=] overturned the ruling, stating that the bat and not the player should have been removed (the purpose of the rule is that pine tar will stick to a batted ball, forcing the ball to be replaced. Since pine tar doesn't cause the ball to go further, that's why Lee over turned the ruling). Martin, in an attempt to have the game ended in his favor, tried to argue that Brett didn't touch all of the bases on his home run, only for umpire Dave Phillips to pull out a signed affidate from the original game's umpire's stating that Brett had touched all the bases. Martin had a meltdown and got thrown out of the game, three weeks after it had started.
* One of the more tragic examples of this trope comes from the quarter-finals of the 2004 European Cup qualifiers. England goalkeeper David Seaman, already nearing the end of his career and visibly struggling due to a combination of age and a recurring shoulder injury, fumbled what should have been an easy save from a free kick and allowed Macedonia to score a draw. The look of utter shame and distress on his face afterwards was clearly visible on-camera, and it came as little surprise when it was announced the next day that Seaman had tendered his resignation from the team within minutes of the final whistle. Two years later he would retire from playing professionally altogether.

* In 1996, Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov lost a chess match to famous ''refusenik'' and Israeli politican Natan Sharansky during a simultaneous exhibition in Israel. Kasparov promptly threw a temper tantrum and left.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' has the quest "MMORPGFPS" as part of the [[RPGEpisode "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep"]] {{DLC}}. In it, the player has to get three rival adventurers (treated exactly like MMO players) to quit fighting a boss at it's spawn point. To do this you have to enrage them by meleeing, tea-bagging and [[BoomHeadshot headshoting]] them respectively until they all rage quit.

* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarTwinBlueStarsOfJudgment'' [[https://youtu.be/U8zx9qxCSvM&feature=related gives one character a ragequit as a Super Move]]. [[MythologyGag As a reference to his death in the series]], Shin starts to limp away and tells his opponent that he won't give them the satisfaction of killing him, then throws himself into the anime SpeedStripes void. Not surprisingly, it counts as a win for Shin's opponent - although Shin will start the next round with a full Star gauge, as opposed with recovering a single Star Gauge.

--> "RAGE QUIT! RAGE QUIT!"

* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': Randal pulls one of these after [[spoiler:the prison escape]], because he has just had enough of this lunacy. [[TemptingFate He shouldn't have said that.]]

* In ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'', the player can observe a game of chess between genius scientist Set Roth and the mentally-challenged Max Hass. When Max puts Roth into checkmate, the incredulous Roth loses his temper, insults Max’s intelligence, sweeps the pieces off the board and kicks one for good measure as he storms out of the room.

* The ''computer'' can rage quit in ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'', as strange as that sounds. In the earlier games, if someone types in [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck You"]] as an answer to a Gibberish Question or other question with a typed answer, the host will make fun of you and deduct a vast amount of points from the offending player. Do it again, and the host does nothing, but makes fun of you for being unoriginal. Do it a ''third time'', and the host gets so pissed that he '''ragequits the game on you, booting you back to the desktop!'''

* ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'' once had a short arc featuring a tournament in which the contestants had to continually replay the 1st Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module ''TabletopGame/KeepOnTheBorderlands'', with the winner being the last person left after everyone else ragequit. Nelson won, but was temporarily unable to remember how to play any games other than First Edition D&D.

-->'''Brent''': Unlike yourself, I've been playing chess for years. Stop with the Hank [=McCoy=] routine and play.
-->''Skull takes Brent's king.''
-->'''Skull''': Checkmate.
-->''Cut to the next panel, featuring a chessboard broken over Skull's head.''
-->'''Skull''': Spaz.

* Chuchu, of ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' fame. Yes, [[NiceGirl that Chuchu]]. Claire tries to get her to grab a snack with her paw to give her some excercise but a combination of short legs and poor coordination means Chuchu keeps missing or pushing the snack in the wrong direction. Claire moves the snack closer and closer and eventually pushes the snack through the hole for her. By this point however, Chuchu has had enough and walks off in a huff.

* [[http://lparchive.org/Mega-Man-Battle-Network-4-6/ Epee Em]] in his LetsPlay of the VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork 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 [[NewGamePlus playthroughs]] to unlock all the post-game content, he used cheat codes to burst through the second and third playthroughs. This triggered the game's NoFairCheating measures, 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. Even so, he strided on. [[InvertedTrope Then the game itself responded by corrupting the save file at the end of the second playthrough.]]

--> "Okay, well this is fucking bullshit. I’m sorry, but like, I’ve spent so much of time on these fucking projects," (smashes painting against wall) "This is fucking shit and I fucking hate [inaudible] this fucking class."

* Among the most memorable of Rage Quits ever heard came from the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' during a playthrough of ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'', a game that is still regarded as one of the worst of its time. Through out the playthrough, Arin and Jon jokingly mock the game for its complicated story, long load times, strange character design, and many, ''many'' glitches. However, once they encountered one on a lava stage that sent Knuckles twirling skyward and latched him to the side of a cliff (sort of, with Knuckles "climbing" in ''midair''), [[RageBreakingPoint Arin.]] [[HilarityEnsues Just.]] Lost it.

* Creator/RoosterTeeth's Creator/AchievementHunter has ''Rage Quit'', where Creator/{{Michael|Jones}} 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 ''VideoGame/{{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 ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', he flung the Xbox out the window and smashed its remains with a ''crowbar''.

** Hilariously inverted in the ''Rage Quit'' episode on ''Uproar!'', where the game crashes on him, leaving Michael completely dumbfounded and declared that the game quit on ''him''.

* LetsPlay/SimonLane chose to quit his and LetsPlay/LewisBrindley's ''I Get This Call Every Day'' playthrough, after they were fired three times in a row, shouting "FUCK THIS GAME, I QUIT" and leaving Lewis to awkwardly finish the video. Their ''VideoGame/FableIII'' playthrough also ended due to a game-breaking glitch not being fixed after the game was ported to PC, resulting in Simon angrily leaving.

--> 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.

** During the reviews for the UsefulNotes/SegaCD games ''Make My Video'', he reaches the Kriss Kross one and comes upon a cut scene where the DJ mocks his video (y'know one of those, "try again" things). Spoony instantly ejects the game, throws the CD to ground and, to the tune ''Jump'', starts stomping on it.
---> '''Spoony''': ''There!'' I just made your video, ''dogg''.

* After opening a canned hamburger, and seeing an unexpected bun, WebVideo/StuartAshen loses his cool, drops a ClusterFBomb and leaves in frustration, grumbling, "Right, we're never going to top that, that's it, channel's over," and leaves in indignation (He comes back).

* In a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag, after Brian beat Peter at checkers, Peter took the checker board, put it in the car, drove the car off a cliff and shot at it until it exploded.

* ''Series/AliensInTheFamily'': When Bobut can't use a word in Scrabble because it's a proper noun, he flips over the board.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': [[Comicbook/WarMachine James Rhodes]], after finding out Tony Stark was BackFromTheDead, stormed into Tony's hospital room to bring back the damaged remote-control Iron Man unit Tony was using, stripped off his own armor, and told Tony he's through being Stark's "War Machine." Tony accepted the resignation from the company, but told Rhodey to keep the armor, and to use it to be better than him.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' issue #28 -properly titled "Rage Quit" and the beginning of the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' arc-, after fighting ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' Kara is convinced that everybody tries to take advantage of her, use her and betray her. And she decides she's done. She's done with people pushing her around, taking advantage of her and betraying her. So she quits being Supergirl.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox''. When [[BigBad Bean]] is informed by [[TerribleTrio his partners]] [[CoDragons Boggis and Bunce]] that Fox and his friends have outwitted their plan to starve them by digging to each of the farmers' warehouses and stealing their foodstuffs, he undergoes a brief VillainousBreakdown by completely trashing his trailer and then heading outside to damage a few other objects, but just stops short of throwing a [[Main/{{Foreshadowing}} wrench]] and then [[TheDeterminator comes up with another idea]] to [[TheGreatFlood get back at them]].

* In ''Literature/TheMartian'', after half a book of taking whatever [[UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} Mars]] throws at him with [[DeadpanSnarker snark]], [[ButForMeItWasTuesday relative calm]], and [[{{Determinator}} determination]], Mark Watney temporarily has this reaction to ''his own survival efforts'' after [[spoiler:the Hab -- his living space on Mars, with all of his food and supplies -- breaches]]. [[DisasterDominoes It's hard to blame him]].

* [[Film/ThorRagnarok The Grandmaster]] can be seen doing this as a result of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy The Collector]] beating him in some sort of game in a portrait that can be seen in the queue of ''Ride/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyMissionBreakout''.

* ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'''s Recursion Stat Tracker GameMod adds achievements and medals, one of which is the "Rage Quit!" medal, which is awarded when you kill someone who then ''immediately'' disconnects. If you dominate an enemy by killing them thrice in a row and they rage quit, it gets turned into a "Submission" medal.

* In Super Mario Galaxy Versus, LetsPlay/AttackingTucans triggers the [[KaizoTrap Kaizo Trap]] at the end of a level. Cue raging.

* Even MickeyMouse of all people did this once. In one of the early comics [[JerkAss Mortimer]] managed to woo Minnie and humiliate Mickey repeatedly: after Minnie purposefully and repeatedly ignored his request to go to a party, thinking he had heard of it before Mortimer even though she had already agreed to go with him and didn't want to tell Mickey until Mortimer showed up, his reply was to simply walk out [[DestinationDefenestration right through her first-floor window]] while quipping "Send me the bill."

* On January 2, 2022, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24-10 down to the New York Jets in the third quarter, Antonio Brown suddenly took off his jersey and protective equipment, threw the jersey and gloves into the crowd, and sprinted across the field to the locker rooms. In an unusual twist, the Buccaneers actually went on to win the match 28-24, while Brown, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement who was already a highly controversial figure within the NFL]], was sacked as soon as the game had ended.

* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}}:
** Kyle rage quits in the ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' video.
** Kyle also rage quits in part one of ''VideoGame/TheImpossibleGame'', he is not as angry and seems more annoyed.

* Likewise, in the first PC version of ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire''. If you don't enter a name at the screen which prompts you to do so, Regis Philbin will at first coax you, then get annoyed, and after a minute of not typing in a name, gets angry and says "Fine! You wanna be that way? I quit!" and the game shuts itself off.

* Any {{heel}} not booked as a "[[TheBrute monster heel]]" will almost certainly have done it at some point in their career, ESPECIALLY if they hold a title belt. Whether it's a blatant [[GroinAttack kick to the opponent's groin]], hitting the referee, or even just going [[UnstoppableRage berserk]] on their opponent (and ignoring the referee's request to back off), they will have done something to get themselves disqualified. At its most basic? Walking back up the ramp so that the referee counts them out. As long as you're still the champion, who cares about a non-pinfall/submission loss? This is why No DQ/Falls Count Anywhere matches were created to begin with.

** New York Yankee's manager Billy Martin pulled one of his own when AL president Lee [=MacPhail=] overturned the ruling, stating that the bat and not the player should have been removed (the purpose of the rule is that pine tar will stick to a batted ball, forcing the ball to be replaced. Since pine tar doesn't cause the ball to go further, that's why Lee over turned the ruling). Martin, in an attempt to have the game ended in his favor, tried to argue that Brett didn't touch all of the bases on his home run, only for umpire Dave Phillips to pull out a signed affidate from the original game's umpire's stating that Brett had touched all the bases. Martin had a meltdown and got thorwn out of the game, three weeks after it had started.

* In a rather famous incident in the NHL, Patrick Roy - then goaltender of the Montreal Canadiens and mow considered one of the greatest goaltenders ever - was left in net for nine goals against during a game against the Detroit Red Wings on December 2, 1995 [[CurbStompBattle (Montreal lost 11–1)]]. This was seen as an extremely controversial move, as star goaltenders are often pulled from games quickly if they are having an off-night. Roy, whose relationship with head coach Mario Tremblay was ''very'' strained, claimed the move was meant to humiliate him. Furious, he stormed off the ice after finally being pulled; he immediately went over and told Canadiens' president Ronald Corey, in front of Tremblay no less, "It's my last game in Montreal." A few days later, he was traded to the Colorado Avalanche, where he stayed for the rest of his career.

Can be spelled both "rage quit" or "ragequit". A common nickname is "Alt-F4", the shortcut for closing UsefulNotes/{{Windows}} programs; another is "QQ", which originated with Videogame/WarcraftII, as the shortcut Alt+Q+Q would immediately close the game.

* Seto Kaiba's very first card game match against Yugi in ''[[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries 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, [[UpToEleven the table gets destroyed in the process]]. Yugi (the Pharaoh, actually), doesn't seem bothered by it, as it was his first time playing. It's different in the manga, where Kaiba cheats instead, but his plan failed and he gets punished by Yami Yugi after losing the duel.

* This is the titular character's main justification in ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder''. [[MotiveDecay However, it does get ignored]]. In Destroy the Godmodder 1, his goal is to make the players of [=Genericraft=] ragequit, while in 2, it escalates to ''[[UpToEleven installing a virus on the computer of every single Minecraft player that forces them to play on his server, [=GodCraft=], and prevents them from ever exiting out of it, causing them to endlessly Rage Quit in an infinite loop.]]''. [[spoiler: Fortunately, the non-Descendant players were freed by [[BigGood Mojang]] at the end of Trial 5.]]

* In Creator/DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''Literature/MyEnemyMyAlly'', [=McCoy=] describes a 4D chess game between two ''Enterprise'' crew in which the one who was losing programmed the game to ''explode''.

* ''Series/AliensInTheFamily: When Bobut can't use a word in Scrabble because it's a proper noun, he flips over the board.

* Among the most memorable of Rage Quits ever heard came from the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' during a playthrough of ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'', a game that is still regarded as one of the worst of its time. Through out the playthrough, Arin and Jon jokingly mock the game for its complicated story, long load times, strange character design, and many, ''many'' glitches. However, once they encountered one on a lava stage that sent Knuckles twirling skyward and [[RantInducingSlight latched him to the side of a cliff]] (sort of, with Knuckles "climbing" in ''midair''), [[RageBreakingPoint Arin.]] [[HilarityEnsues Just.]] Lost it.

-->'''Dwarf:''' "Yeah, '''fuck''' chess!"

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':

** 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, out of boredom.

A character is playing a game (usually with other people or online), and quite simply, they're losing. Maybe they didn't read up on how to effectively play the game, maybe they're off their A-game, maybe [[TheMillstone it's their teammates]], or perhaps the other guy just found a way to break their supposedly impenetrable defense. Whatever the reason, their armies are dying, their [[DamageIsFire buildings are burning]], their avatar has been sliced into six different pieces, and they are about to get this [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking loss added to their permanent gaming record]]. If they had a winning streak or an undefeated season, it's about to end now.

** Humorously subverted in the ''Rage Quit'' episode on ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'', where Michael's incredibly mellow throughout the video.

* In ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', Mega Man's duel with Shadow Man concludes with Shadow Man declaring the battle a draw, then disappearing in a smoke bomb.

* In ''Anime/BenTo'', Sen [[ReiAyanamiExpy of all people]] does this after just about everyone beats her at ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter 2''. Rather than simply pulling the plug, however, she throws Satou's beloved [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]] out the window.
* In ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', Team Angelfish, a marine-themed team with marine Gunpla, are going up against Team Try Fighters, taking up the Tundra battlefield. Easy enough, get into the water and take out the trio. However, when they find out the water's too frozen solid, they just self-destruct instead of allowing Team Try Fighters to deliver a CurbStompBattle. Fumina and Sekai are ''not'' happy over this.
* Shin's famous death in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. Struck with the death blow that would kill him in three minutes, Shin laments the fact that Yuria was gone [[spoiler:though, not really]] and staggers towards the edge of the building they were fighting on. As the effect hits him, he declares that "[[BetterToDieThanBeKilled This looks like the end for me. But, it will not be YOUR technique that kills me!]]" [[DriventoSuicide and throws himself off the building]].
* In ''Manga/{{Aruosumente}}'', at one point during the Sage's Trial Legna becomes so frustrated with the Sage's noncommital and vague answers -- which come about because Legna himself has no idea what he's doing or has not read up on the rules -- that he rage quits the dream. Fortunately for him, that does not equal an end to the trial.
* In ''Anime/{{REDLINE}}'', near the end of the titular race, the other racers are pushing so hard to the finish that Robo World's military forces are left in the dust, and they decide to call it quits.
--> '''Robo World Enforcer:''' ''[skids to a halt]'' "Fuck this! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They're too fast]]."
* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', when Katerea Leviathan finds herself overpowered by Azazel, she decides to blow herself up and take him down with her. However, it doesn't work as Azazel ends up killing her.
* Taken to its most tragic, horrifying extreme in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', where [[spoiler:Envy]] straight-up ''[[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]]'' rather than live with the fact that the heroes are not only defeating them, but [[DontYouDarePityMe pity them]].
* Though he does it with more calm, sophistication, and pragmatism than typically seen, Schneizel of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' does this almost immediately whenever he no longer has the upper hand. If he’s not absolutely certain of victory, he’ll simply cut his losses while still holding some advantage. [[spoiler: However, his frequent use of this is also what allowed Lelouch to [[BatmanGambit successfully trap him]] by the Finale, and put him through [[LaserGuidedKarma one of the most humiliating outcomes]] in the series by permanently enslaving him with Geass.]]

* Even MickeyMouse of all people did this once. In one of the early comics [[JerkAss Mortimer]] managed to woo Minnie and humiliate Mickey repeatedly: after Minnie purposefully and repeatedly ignored his request to go to a party, thinking he had heard of it before Mortimer even though she had already agreed to go with him and didn't want to tell Mickey until Mortimer showed up, his reply was to simply walk out [[DestinationDefenestration right through her first-floor window]] while quipping "Send me the bill."
* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' issue #28 -properly titled "Rage Quit" and the beginning of the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' arc-, after fighting ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' Kara is convinced that everybody tries to take advantage of her, use her and betray her. And she decides she's done. She's done with people pushing her around, taking advantage of her and betraying her. So she quits being Supergirl.

* Brian of ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' is king of the trope. If he doesn't like B.A.'s call, if someone accuses him of cheating or reminds him that his imaginary girlfriend wasn't real, he'll flip the whole table over. Other characters have been known to storm off in anger, but never with quite the panache Brian uses.

* ''{{ComicStrip/Mafalda}}'' often has Mafalda and her friends playing chess, so [[RunningGag this has taken place several times]]. Once Mafalda shouted at Felipe [[GoshdangitToHeck "MASCALZONE!"]] and then angrily ran off, and later Susanita [[FlippingTheTable flipped the chessboard]] at [[ButtMonkey Felipe]] before walking away.
* Several ''ComicStrip/KidPaddle'' strips end with a ruined television, usually after YetAnotherStupidDeath on ''Little Barbarian''.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13887150/4/House-and-Home House and Home]]'' Draco upends the chessboard after losing to Ron several times in a row.

* During a slumber party in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Rainbow Dash and Applejack are playing a video game, with AJ handily winning. Just before AJ is about to win, Rainbow turns the game console off.

* A bar brawl version of this happens in the first scene of ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'', 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.

* ''Film/BadSanta'' has a hilarious scene where Thurman trolls Willie in a game of checkers, by choosing moves and then taking them back. After Willie calls him out on it, Thurman takes out three of his pieces and reaches the edge of the board in one move. [[{{Troll}} Thurman just smiles and says "King me"]]. [[http://youtu.be/HxWCAJS7Co8?t=53s Willie doesn't take it very well]].
-->'''Willie''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Lousy! *throws pieces* Cheating! *throws pieces* Little! *throws pieces* Shit!]]
* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', [[spoiler:the hero provokes the FinalBoss into this to save the Earth. [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]] is so far above him (and just about everyone else in the MCU) in terms of power that Strange has no chance of winning in a straight fight and they both know it. However, since Dormammu exists in a timeless dimension, Strange uses magic to lock them both in a 15-second long GroundhogDayLoop, where all Dormammu can do is kill him over and over and over again. Since Dormammu can't escape the loop to conquer Earth (or any other worlds) and is aware of ''every'' reset in the loop, he gets so frustrated that he BEGS Strange to stop and agrees to leave Earth alone.]]

* In Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/OutOfTheDark'', this is how the invading Shongairi ultimately decide the end the war with humanity. The humans [[{{Determinator}} keep fighting]] [[HumanityIsInsane despite half their population being wiped out in orbital bombardments]], they can't beat [[HumansAreWarriors the humans into submission on the ground]], [[HumansAreSurvivors further orbital bombardment just pisses them off]], and [[DepopulationBomb the bioweapon they were developing]] and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident intending to "leak" to wipe out most of the human population]] (thus making the genocide and occupation palatable to the rest of the galaxy) doesn't work because every attempt to gather human test subjects ends with their troops getting slaughtered. ''Then'' "something" starts attacking their ground bases and wiping out the garrisons, so the Shongairi commander just knocks over the whole table and pulls his troops back into orbit, intending to just destroy the entire planet and be done with it, purely out of spite.
* In ''Literature/TheTwelveChairs'', one of [[LovableRogue Ostap Bender]]'s money-making schemes involves pretending to be a chess grandmaster and hosting a simultaneous exhibition, despite being utterly inept at the game. After losing game after game, he resorts to stealing a rook from his last opponent, and when called on it, throws a handful of chess pieces in his face.

* In ''Literature/EndersGame'', the titular character is known for inventing creative solutions to impossible odds. During the final exam for Command School, he faces an insurmountable number of opponents around a planet. [[spoiler:Everyone waits for his first move, until a classmate reminds him of his own words, "The Enemy's gate is down", which is the trigger for action in Ender. For the test, Ender blows up the planet and everyone else in the area.]] This a rage quit from Ender because he's given up on strategy and is just trying to end the tests and go home as fast as possible.
* In "The Manchurian Candidate" a Senator's [[LadyMacbeth manipulative, power mad wife]] asks him what he does if he has to go the bathroom during a session. He says that he gets up and leaves. She instructs him to start pounding on the desk, scream "Point of Order" and loudly announce that he will not stand for this any more. Then go to the bathroom.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': After a RobotUprising destroyed the Utopia Planitia yards — where a relief force to evacuate Romulus and the neighboring systems [[Film/StarTrek2009 before its star went supernova]] was under construction — and rendered Mars uninhabitable, Starfleet decided to abort the rescue effort for purely political reasons. In a last-ditch attempt to strong-arm them into holding to their committment, Picard threatened to resign his commission unless they agreed. When they ''still'' rejected him, he went through with it and returned to his family's vinyards in disgust. His anger and resentment over Starfleet's abandonment of its ideals are still evident over 14 years later.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' references Rage Quitting in a few places:
** The Pyro's [="BarbeQueQ"=] achievement 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.
** The Scout has a voice clip that says "Yeah, I dare ya, [[MediumAwareness Rage Quit]]! C'mon, make us both happy!" when he dominates someone or kills them with the Fan-o-War (a low-damage weapon) or the Holy Mackerel (a fish that has a hit counter).
* Whenever somebody leaves the game shortly after dying in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' the announcer yells out RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAGGGEQUIT.
* In one of the anime shorts of ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', Thanatos screams this at the end.
--> "RAGE QUIT! RAGE QUIT!"
* In ''Sid Meier's [=SimGolf=]'', NPC golfers will [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simgolf-ragequit_5806.gif rage quit your golf course]] if their attitude levels drop too low. This is caused by a variety of factors, but the biggest one is if the holes are too difficult to play due to [[FakeDifficulty poor or unfair]] [[BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame designs]]. Other factors include: being bombarded by other golfers' balls (caused by poor course layouts or too many golfers playing the same hole), unkempt course grounds, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking walking up steep slopes]] and [[UnstableEquilibrium seeing other golfers rage quit.]]
* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', vindictive players have the option of murdering everyone at the card table where they were just blasted out of the pot at poker.
** Also, if you are caught cheating at poker, the person who caught you in the act will become so angry that he will start a duel with you.
* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarTwinBlueStarsOfJudgment'' [[https://youtu.be/U8zx9qxCSvM&feature=related gives one character a ragequit as a Super Move]]. [[MythologyGag As a reference to his death in the series]], Shin starts to limp away and tells his opponent that he won't give them the satisfaction of killing him, then throws himself into the anime SpeedStripes void. Not surprisingly, it counts as a win for Shin's opponent - although Shin will start the next round with a full Star gauge, as opposed with recovering a single Star Gauge.
* The ''computer'' can rage quit in ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'', as strange as that sounds. In the earlier games, if someone types in [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck You"]] as an answer to a Gibberish Question or other question with a typed answer, the host will make fun of you and deduct a vast amount of points from the offending player. Do it again, and the host does nothing, but makes fun of you for being unoriginal. Do it a ''third time'', and the host gets so pissed that he '''ragequits the game on you, booting you back to the desktop!'''

* At the end of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'''s 2nd case, [[spoiler:AmoralAttorney Franziska von Karma is so furious at having been defeated by Phoenix that she ''angrily whips him into unconsciousness.'']]
** In the first investigation phase of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'''s 5th case, [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] spends his whole time investigating [[spoiler:Larry's]] [[AccidentalMisnaming psycholocks]]... erm, Psyche-Locks, only to learn a useless piece of irrelevant information, only to find out he had another, more important secret hidden by ''five more'' Psyche-Locks. [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] is so frustrated that he just decides to pull the secret out of him in court the next day, and ends the investigation right then and there.
* [[spoiler:Dickson]] in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1''. Right after Shulk delivers a fatal blow and prepares to finish him off he declares they can proceed and he won't try to stop them. [[spoiler:He then sits down and mutters to himself that he won't let Shulk see him die,]] he doesn't want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that he beat him.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': Don't like the Council's whining when reporting to them in the Comm Room? If you're tired of cracking jokes or apologizing for everything, you can always just cut the signal.

* Any player in ''VideoGame/TabletopSimulator'' can flip the table. Server hosters can disable this.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', you can find out at one point that Cassandra is a fan of Varric's trashy romance novel. Varric asks her why she doesn't like his more popular crime serial instead, she replies that she has enough mysteries in her life to solve, and besides "[[AnyoneCanDie you killed my favorite character]] in the third chapter, so I threw the book across the room!"
* A very humorous one appears in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker''. Very rarely, if you fling Mario off into a BottomlessPit, you'll hear him hit the ground, scramble to his feet, hobble out the door, go to a car, ''start it up and drive off'', declaring "Bye-bye!"
* Invoked in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' by the final boss of the [[OmnicidalManiac No Mercy]] route. [[MediumAwareness This enemy knows you (as in, the player) can come back from a save after losing a fight]], and simply defeating you in battle is therefore not good enough to stop you -- [[SNKBoss they need to make the fight so ridiculously unfair]] that you ''give up on beating the boss'' and stop playing entirely (or at least stop playing that particular path), in a last-ditch effort to [[spoiler:save the entire world.]]

* ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'''s Recursion Stat Tracker GameMod adds achievements and medals, one of which is the "Rage Quit!" medal, which is awarded when you kill someone who then ''immediately'' disconnects. If you dominate an enemy by killing them thrice in a row and they rage quit, it gets turned into a "Submission" medal.
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', if a player disconnects during an online match, [[YourHeadAsplode their character's head explodes]] and is counted as a win for your opponent as a "Quitality". This was implemented following the rash of ragequits that plagued online play in the [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 previous game]].
* This is an actual achievement in ''Blockstorm'' - you get it by leaving the server within a few seconds of getting killed.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' keeps track of how often a player quits a match midway through and will penalize you if you do it too much over a period of time.
* ''VideoGame/Tekken7'' also tracks how often players quit in the middle of a match and applies penalties if it's too often.
* In ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'', the player can observe a game of chess between genius scientist Set Roth and the mentally-challenged Max Hass. When Max puts Roth into checkmate, the incredulous Roth loses his temper, insults Max’s intelligence, sweeps the pieces off the board and kicks one for good measure as he storms out of the room.
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': Randal pulls one of these after [[spoiler:the prison escape]], because he has just had enough of this lunacy. [[TemptingFate He shouldn't have said that.]]

* Pictured: [[https://www.oglaf.com/automaton/ In one]] ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' strip, the Dwarves' chess-playing golem rage quits after the King makes ''one move''.
-->'''Dwarf:''' "Yeah, '''fuck''' chess!"
* ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'' once had a short arc featuring a tournament in which the contestants had to continually replay the 1st Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module ''TabletopGame/KeepOnTheBorderlands'', with the winner being the last person left after everyone else ragequit. Nelson won, but was temporarily unable to remember how to play any games other than First Edition D&D.

* This ''Webcomic/VGCats'' [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=278 strip]] provides a handy chart for playing ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''.
* This ''Webcomic/SuperEffective'' [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=2 comic]] has Red pull one when Blue chooses the starter Pokemon with type advantage over his.
* ''Webcomic/ClockworkGame'' provides a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120627033827/http://www.clockwork-comics.com/2011/10/13/what-shall-you-do-now-monsieur-turk/ historical example]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', when it becomes obvious that Caliborn will win their chess match, Calliope wipes the board and storms away. However, given that she had by all accounts already won and had only technically ''not'' by virtue of a ''very'' unsportsmanlike (not to mention downright silly) trick Caliborn had played and that she only continued to play in an irritated attempt to humour him, well, it was probably justified.

* Spoofed in the last panel of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205807/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20080928 this]] ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' strip.

* After opening a canned hamburger, and seeing an unexpected bun, WebVideo/StuartAshen loses his cool, drops a ClusterFBomb and leaves in frustration, grumbling, "Right, we're never going to top that, that's it, channel's over," and leaves in indignation (He comes back).
* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'':
** Spoony's [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/10/30/fmv-hell-halloween-special-bloodwings-pumpkinheads-revenge/ first review]] of ''VideoGame/BloodwingsPumpkinheadsRevenge'' counts as an epic Rage Quit.
--> 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 ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly''. After slogging through several stages of NintendoHard 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''!"
** His review of ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'', while the ending is glossed over, shows that Spoony is clearly done riffing on the game when [[spoiler:Dupre comes back from the dead, causing the final "betrayal" to happen]].
** His review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' ends surprisingly not at the very end of the game, but when the BigBad reveals himself, since [[spoiler: the driving force of the game has been the Fal'cie's inability to communicate directly, having to express their wishes through hazy mental images. Except that the Big Bad, himself a Fal'cie, can ''talk'', and has been passing as human for years.]] He later revealed this to be a fake-out and that he would continue the review; explaining that the Rage Quit in the video was just illustrating that this was the point where he originally got fed up with the game in real life and gave up on it.
** During the reviews for the UsefulNotes/SegaCD games ''Make My Video'', he reaches the Kriss Kross one and comes upon a cut scene where the DJ mocks his video (y'know one of those, "try again" things). Spoony instantly ejects the game, throws the CD to ground and, to the tune ''Jump'', starts stomping on it.
---> '''Spoony''': ''There!'' I just made your video, ''dogg''.

* Leelee Scaldaferri counts herself as the first person to ragequit [[WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun Feed Dump]], after discovering how much the ''Series/JerseyShore'' cast makes per episode.
* Perhaps one of the most justifiable Rage Quits was when LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}} of LetsPlay fame rebooted ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' because he was utterly ''sick'' of playing ''Storm Over The Desert'' (which by that time he'd been playing for a total of nearly 20 minutes, spread over four different videos).
* Creator/RoosterTeeth's Creator/AchievementHunter has ''Rage Quit'', where Creator/{{Michael|Jones}} 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 ''VideoGame/{{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 ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', he flung the Xbox out the window and smashed its remains with a ''crowbar''.
** [[WordOfGod Word of Jack]] says that it was faked as the Xbox thrown out of the window was already broken.
** He also ragequit ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' on the ''title screen''.
** Humorously subverted in the ''Rage Quit'' episode on ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'', where Michael's incredibly mellow throughout the video.
** Subverted another way for "Space Chimps" and "Uncraft Me 2", as he beats these games.
** [[https://youtu.be/aGlVtNXLMmA ''SWISS FUCKING CHEESE!'']]
** Hilariously inverted in the ''Rage Quit'' episode on ''Uproar!'', where the game crashes on him, leaving Michael completely dumbfounded and declared that the game quit on ''him''.
* LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} is normally a cheerful person, but when he [[https://youtu.be/qJJ7oNXS1nU plays a hard level]] ... things won't get pretty. In the next episode, he mentioned it as a ragequit.
* Radio/TrueCapitalist radio broadcasts often end in this, due to Ghost's HairTriggerTemper
* In ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', 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.

* LetsPlay/UberHaxorNova has an ''entire series'' dedicated to rage quitting now, he'll keep playing notoriously hard games until he gets to the breaking point. He made it 10 episodes on ''Super VideoGame/MeatBoy'', 3 on ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', 3 on ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'', 2 on ''VideoGame/TheImpossibleGame'' and 3 on ''[[VideoGame/OneThousandAndOneSpikes Aban Hawkins and The 1000 Spikes]].''
** On ''Street Fighter X Tekken'', he kept receiving challenges from players online. As a result, he never got past the ''first level'' of Arcade Mode.
* Pro ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' player Idra has picked up quite a reputation for being a notorious rage quitter. It's not uncommon during a tournament game where Idra will suddenly just quit the game when he's outplayed, even if he has a chance of making a comeback. What also doesn't earn points in his favor is that he hardly ever gives out the customary "gg" when he leaves. HilariousInHindsight in that at least twice during major tournaments, he's quit a game that he's essentially won (but felt he was losing), much to the shock of the crowd and play-by-play casters.
* Creator/NeilCicierega's "[[https://youtu.be/UivcJ2VdhfA What's Dylan Grillin'?]]" features a player trying to ragequit the titular game, only for the game to prevent it, leaving the player with the only option of hurling insults at the game.

* In Super Mario Galaxy Versus, LetsPlay/AttackingTucans triggers the [[KaizoTrap Kaizo Trap]] at the end of a level. Cue raging.
-->'''[=AttackingTucans=](angry because he got kaizo'ed):''' "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS LEVEL IS A F***ING SLUT! F***ING... SLUAAAH!"
* Among the most memorable of Rage Quits ever heard came from the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' during a playthrough of ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'', a game that is still regarded as one of the worst of its time. Through out the playthrough, Arin and Jon jokingly mock the game for its complicated story, long load times, strange character design, and many, ''many'' glitches. However, once they encountered one on a lava stage that sent Knuckles twirling skyward and [[RantInducingSlight latched him to the side of a cliff]] (sort of, with Knuckles "climbing" in ''midair''), [[RageBreakingPoint Arin.]] [[HilarityEnsues Just.]] Lost it.
** Which is then topped by his reaction at failing ''VideoGame/BattleKidFortressOfPeril''.
* Creator/BradJones has one when reviewing "Rock, It's Your Decision" on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell''. Brad is mostly having fun at the movie's expense, he announces that he's ending the review early when the main character makes a deeply homophobic statement, his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that followed can be summed up with the line "Kid, go fuck yourself". And this is a man who sat through ''Film/ASerbianFilm'' despite being horrified by the whole thing. RealLife reason is that Brad's mother is a lesbian, which is why in his eyes, the DesignatedHero had crossed the MoralEventHorizon.

* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': the godmodder's goal is to have everyone rage quit. Permanently. And then when he lost at the end of the first game he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard rage quit himself]].
* LetsPlay/SimonLane chose to quit his and LetsPlay/LewisBrindley's ''I Get This Call Every Day'' playthrough, after they were fired three times in a row, shouting "FUCK THIS GAME, I QUIT" and leaving Lewis to awkwardly finish the video. Their ''VideoGame/FableIII'' playthrough also ended due to a game-breaking glitch not being fixed after the game was ported to PC, resulting in Simon angrily leaving.

* The Music/KatyPerry {{parody}} music "[[https://youtu.be/X_XGxzMrq04 Don't Mine at Night]]" ([[https://youtu.be/X_TMtgjQuZI both versions]]) has a moment where the singer expresses a desire to ragequit. In one of them, the ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' game over screen is seen with the mouse over the end game button. In the other, the singer is seen on the computer throwing his hooves up in anger.
* After dying at the end of level 2 of ''VideoGame/SyobonAction'', {{LetsPlay/Markiplier}} angrily decided to stop playing. He immediately and repeatedly describes it as not being ragequitting, though (his excuse being that he ran out of time), [[BlatantLies when it clearly is]].
* [[https://youtu.be/Zy85h4MJQos This art student]] just can't seem to handle criticism very well. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the reaction was fake and was in and of itself a performance artwork]]

* Creator/JesseCox goes into a rant-filled Rage Quit while playing ''Pro Gamer Simulator'' after a one-two punch of having his character lose a match followed by having his character tempbanned. Jesse is so frustrated that he leaves the computer and goes screaming "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" so loud that it's picked up in Dodger's podcast nearby. For her part, she just finds it funny and talks it over with him as he tries to cool down.
** The one game that he truly and absolutely rage quit on was ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'', absolutely furious over the ending to the game.

* Creator/TotalBiscuit, his StiffUpperLip withering in the face of ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015'''s refusal to let him connect to a server (a netcode issue that required tinkering with his router settings to work around until it was patched), finally Rage Quits in understated British fashion [[https://youtu.be/67odiVv1dc4 here]]:
--> "Oh, bugger this." [quits game]
** And then just to add insult to injury, when he finally got the game working so he could do a rev- [[InsistentTerminology "First Impressions video"]], [[https://youtu.be/fLtwK6Oe23I it turned out not to be very good.]]
* WebVideo/DashieXP on his gaming channel; LetsPlay/DashieGames. Mostly for his Mario Maker videos. If he dies too much, can't figure out how to do a level, or it's too hard for him ([[AccidentalInnuendo pause]]) he will scream, "NEXT!!!" Here's a compilation for your [[https://youtu.be/kV_sq8fIPmk pleasure]].
* In one ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' short, Weiss is busy checking over the artwork for certain characters towards the subject, Zwei. When she gets to Ruby and finds out she painted Zwei's butt, she drops her pen and clipboard and walks away, Ruby shouting in indignation.
* In the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' episode featuring Ragna the Bloodedge and Sol Badguy, Wiz and Boomstick get into a WhosOnFirst situation concerning the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' villain That Man, which pisses off Boomstick so much that he walks off... then comes back, sheepishly admitting that he was wrong and Wiz was right over the name.
* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}}:
** Kyle rage quits in the ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' video.
** Kyle also rage quits in part one of ''VideoGame/TheImpossibleGame'', he is not as angry and seems more annoyed.
* Chuchu, of ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' fame. Yes, [[NiceGirl that Chuchu]]. Claire tries to get her to grab a snack with her paw to give her some excercise but a combination of short legs and poor coordination means Chuchu keeps missing or pushing the snack in the wrong direction. Claire moves the snack closer and closer and eventually pushes the snack through the hole for her. By this point however, Chuchu has had enough and walks off in a huff.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Subverted when in a Russian district, a losing chess player sweeps the pieces off the board while shouting, but the subtitles reveal that he's simply saying "Good game. How about another?"
** Played straight in another episode, where Homer is seen playing Chutes and Ladders and ragequitting on the first turn.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
** [[JerkassHasAPoint Arcee]] chews out team newbie [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Smokescreen]] one time to many. It gets to the point that Smokescreen, having finally had enough promptly leaves the base to "get some air".
** Wheeljack also has left the Wreckers [[spoiler:and Team Prime on account of one Ultra Magnus]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'': When [=WordGirl=] figures out the secret to Miss Power's [[EmotionEater strength]] and does better in their rematch, Miss Power escapes. She furiously rants that if she leaves of her own free will, it doesn't count as losing.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': After [[BigBad Queen Vexus's]] [[SanitySlippage crumbling sanity]] forces [[TheDragon Smytus]] to lead the Cluster invasion of Earth (the scheme they had spent the whole series planning) all by himself, the latter angrily takes the Cluster's ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill entire military]]'' straight to Earth to try and force the PunyEarthlings to surrender... only for [[HumansAreWarriors them to instead revolt against the robotic occupiers en masse]]. Fed up with wasting his life on Vexus's vendetta against Jenny and Earth, Smytus decides to just [[EarthShatteringKaboom glass the whole planet from orbit with his armada]] and be done with it. [[spoiler:And when Jenny returns just in time to stop him, he's so [[RageBreakingPoint consumed with blind rage]] that he activates his own SelfDestructMechanism in [[TakingYouWithMe a final desperate attempt to kill her]].]]

* Among the most memorable of Rage Quits ever heard came from the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' during a review of ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'', a game that is still regarded as one of the worst of its time. Through out the playthrough, Arin and Jon jokingly mock the game for its complicated story, long load times, strange character design, and many, ''many'' glitches. However, once they encountered one on a lava stage that sent Knuckles twirling skyward and [[RantInducingSlight latched him to the side of a cliff]] (sort of, with Knuckles "climbing" in ''midair''), [[RageBreakingPoint Arin.]] [[HilarityEnsues Just.]] Lost it.

---> "Okay, well this is fucking bullshit. I’m sorry, but like, I’ve spent so much of time on these fucking projects," (smashes painting against wall) "This is fucking shit and I fucking hate [inaudible] this fucking class."