History Main / RageQuit

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 exit a match, and then immediately close the game.

* New York Yankee's manager Billy Martin pulled one when AL president Lee [=MacPhail=] overturned the infamous "pine tar 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 overturned 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 affidavit 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.

* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersSimGolf'', 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.]]

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

* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': Season 12 contestant Joy quit in the middle of the second black jacket service because she served halibut before Jason was ready on garnish. That's it. Ramsay was not even yelling at Joy for the mistake, he was giving her a stern lecture on waiting for Jason. But Joy took offense to that and quit in the middle of service. The fact that Joy was consistent up until then made it more of a shock to the other chefs. While Joy did calm down and realize the error of her decision, she decided not to apologize to Ramsay and beg for a second chance as she pretty much burned bridges by leaving and screaming at Ramsay.

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

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 rage quit 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!]]

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. Even the whims of the RandomNumberGod could be uncooperative. 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.

* Gamefly's "Don't Buy a Bad Game Again" shows a montage of many people doing this!

* HP did this to promote their line of OMEN gamer-centric laptops and desktops.

* In ''WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd'' it sometimes deals with ragequitting especially in games like ''Dick Tracy'' or ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer''.

* ''Radio/TheUnbelievableTruth:'' In one episode, Henning Wehn vows not to buzz in again for the rest of the game (since as per the rules, buzzing incorrectly loses points). Several years later, Susan Calman did much the same thing. After being the first person to buzz in that episode. She proved much less capable of maintaining her silence than Henning.

* 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.

** 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 an OptionalBoss 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.

** 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.

** In fairness, it's universally agreed by experts that the Soviets were indeed getting hosed by the pro-American refs. The only people who think otherwise are either die-hard Flyers fans and/or loonies stuck in the Cold War era.

** 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 overturned 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 affidavit 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.

** This quite possibly makes him the smartest enemy the Rangers ever had, as he was the only one to realize the Rangers always won.

* 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[[note]]Traditionally in pro wrestling a title can change hands only on a pin or submission[[/note]]. 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.

* 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]].

* In Norman Kochanowski's "PC Spielen" video, his Der Echte Gangster/Leopold Slikk characters gets an incredible ragequit by smashing his keyboard when he loses a match in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004''.

* Leopold Slikk known as ''WebVideo/AngryGermanKid'' gets an incredible ragequit by smashing his keyboard and banging the computer with his keyboard when he lose in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004''.

* 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.

''This page is for InUniverse and {{Invoked}} examples only. If we had examples such as "{Insert Game Here} is prone to ragequitters", [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs you might as well add every game in existence to this list.]] In addition, every film and TV franchise fandom has had fans "rage quit" at one point or another. For your personal experiences with Ragequitting, take it to the message boards.''

See also FakeDifficulty, NintendoHard, ThatOneBoss, ThatOnePuzzle, ThatOneLevel, FlippingTheTable. For more information see [[http://www.ragequitbaddie.com/rages/ Rage Quit Baddie.]] If the person running the game gets fed up and ends the game, they might say RocksFallEveryoneDies. For when it's a character quitting a ''job'' in this manner rather than any kind of game, see TakeThisJobAndShoveIt.

* ''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 commitment, 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 vineyards in disgust. His anger and resentment over Starfleet's abandonment of its ideals are still evident over 14 years later.

** In "Peak Performance," Data has a rematch against an opponent at a game of Stratagema. Rather than playing to win, which got him soundly defeated last time, Data goes for a stalling tactic to keep the game at a permanent impasse. His opponent eventually rage quits. If this sounds rather unsporting... well, it was, but his opponent was so insufferably smug about the previous victory that it was impossible to feel very sorry for him.

* An example of a high-school tandem writing assignment (two students taking turns writing paragraphs that are supposed to be a coherent story) that was sent to a local radio morning show ended this way when the students killed each others’ characters in the third and fourth paragraphs. [[https://youtu.be/bE2C6PpSabI Listen to the whole story here.]]

See also FakeDifficulty, NintendoHard, ThatOneBoss, ThatOnePuzzle, ThatOneLevel, FlippingTheTable. For more information see [[http://www.ragequitbaddie.com/rages/ Rage Quit Baddie.]] For when it's a character quitting a ''job'' in this manner rather than any kind of game, see TakeThisJobAndShoveIt.

* 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.