History Main / UnsportsmanlikeGloating

* Wario and Waluigi in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. For example, one of Waluigi's celebrations in VideoGame/MarioStrikers has him take the ball (which is made of ''metal'') and say "Want the ball? HERE!" before he throws it at a member of the other team and starts dancing around.

-->'''Margha:''' I'm sorry, Joey, that is my chose.\\

* Downplayed in ''{{WesternAnimation/The Lion King|1994}}''. After Simba and Nala get into an argument they wrestle and Nala [[CurbStompBattle easily]] pins Simba. She then chuckles happily at him while holding him down and playfully teases him "pinned ya" with a bright smile, showing it is all just in good fun. But after Simba shows to be a SoreLoser, telling her to get off him and pushes her off of him, she turns away with a smug satisfied smile on her face, feeling proud of herself for her victory against him. Then, when Simba tries [[IWasBeatenByAGirl to get back at her right away]] by tackling her while she isn't looking, she once again manages to pin him and while smirking down at him taunts "pinned ya ''again''" in a much more smug and superior tone than her previous playful one. This is despite being Simba's best friend and him being the prince of the Pride Lands at the time. Though somewhat justified as Simba also started both of their brief fights and the argument that started it all, and the two of them were only cubs at the time. [[spoiler:It is averted later in the film when Simba finally manages to pin Nala as adults, and she is a GracefulLoser who accept her loss, even though it was a complete accident, and rewards Simba with a [[SmoochOfVictory surprise lick on the cheek]].]]

--> '''Wario Deluxe:''' Ha! Rookie!\\

* Downplayed in ''{{WesternAnimation/The Lion King|1994}}''. After Simba and Nala get into an argument they wrestle and Nala [[CurbStompBattle easily]] pins Simba. She then chuckles happily at him while holding him down playfully teases him "pinned ya" with a bright smile, showing it is all just in good fun. But after Simba shows to be a SoreLoser, telling her to get off him and pushes her off of him, she turns away with a smug satisfied smile on her face, feeling proud of herself for her victory against him. Then, when Simba tries [[IWasBeatenByAGirl to get back at her right away]] by tackling her while she isn't looking, she once again manages to pin him and while smirking down at him taunts "pinned ya ''again''" in a much more smug and superior tone than her previous playful one. This is despite being Simba's best friend and him being the prince of the Pride Lands at the time. Though somewhat justified as Simba also started both of their brief fights and the argument that started it all, and the two of them were only cubs at the time. [[spoiler:It is averted later in the film when Simba finally manages to pin Nala as adults, and she is a GracefulLoser who accept her loss, even though it was a complete accident, and rewards Simba with a [[SmoochOfVictory surprise lick on the cheek]].]]

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''. After Simba and Nala get into an argument they wrestle and Nala [[CurbStompBattle easily]] pins Simba, then playfully teases him "pinned ya." After he pushes her off of him, she has a smug satisfied smile on her face and when Simba tries [[IWasBeatenByAGirl to get back at her right away]], she once again pins him and while smirking down at him taunts "pinned ya ''again''" in a much more smug and superior tone than her previous playful one. This is despite being Simba's best friend and him being the prince of the Pride Lands at the time. Though somewhat justified as Simba also started both of their brief fights and the argument that started it all, and the two of them were only cubs at the time. [[spoiler:It is averted later in the film when Simba finally manages to pin Nala as adults, and she is a GracefulLoser who accept her loss, even though it was a complete accident, and rewards Simba with a [[SmoochOfVictory surprise lick on the cheek]].]]

* A variant happened after the Mexico-Germany game of the FIFA World Cup 2018. The Mexican players celebrated the normal way, while the fans, on the other hand, burnt the German flag to ashes.

* Part of the long-time "unwritten rules" of baseball, especially [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball at the major league level]], is refraining from celebration after a home run or big strikeout as it's seen as unsportsmanlike. It's not technically against the rules, but the unwritten rules are self-policing, meaning the next time you get up after you do that, you [[LaserGuidedKarma "accidentally" catch a 95-mile-per-hour fastball in the earhole]]. In more recent years, though, more players have become more expressive about it with more celebrations at the plate after big home runs, and there's an ongoing debate as to whether it should be that way or not in the lens of the game becoming more global as more MLB players are coming from outside the United States; what's seen as "poor sportsmanship" to more traditional fans is "how you ''should'' act" for players from Latin America and South Korea. This picked up after [[https://youtu.be/imRhlUpE36Y?t=1033 Jose Bautista's bat-flip following him smashing a critical 3-run homer]] in the deciding Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS sparked so much anger and emotion between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers that when the Jays visited Texas the following May, Rangers pitcher Matt Bush hit Bautista with a pitch, then when Bautista made a hard slide that broke up a double play Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor took exception to ''that'' and punched Bautista square in the jaw, sparking a bench-clearing brawl.

** Starting in 2017, though, the league scaled back a lot of the restrictions on touchdown celebrations, allowing (for instance) group celebrations once again. Referees will still throw the flag for things that seem intended to put down the other team.

--> '''Wario Deluxe:''' Ha! Rookie!
--> '''Wario Deluxe:''' Aw, giving up!? (If you fail three microgames in a row.)
--> '''Wario Deluxe:''' Aw, too bad! (If your failure leaves you with one life left provided you cleared the previous microgame or the one before it.)
--> '''Wario Deluxe:''' Done so soon? (Game-over line.)

* AJ in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' partakes in this in the episode "Smarty Pants," openly bragging about his straight As and seizing virtually every opportunity to rub them in [[BookDumb Timmy's]] face. Timmy later turns this around after obtaining Nigh Omniscience via his Fairy Godparents, and rubs his own victories into AJ's face, causing the ladder to [[HypocriticalHumor become furious with envy]]. Then finally, at the end of the episode, this comes back to bite AJ ''once again'' when he wins a trophy... and promptly spikes it into the ground in a show of gloating, breaking it.

Note that this is not just wanting to crush your enemies and [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian hear the lamentations of their women]]. This is strictly for when Alice wins and proceeds to be insufferable about it. Although doing those things ''just after'' you win does count.

* The UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague had set increasingly larger penalties through the 1990s and 2000s for players who engage in 'excessive celebration', to the point where some had taken to calling it the '''N'''o '''F'''un '''L'''eague. Some of these are for player safety - for instance, a player is never allowed to remove his helmet if he's anywhere on the play field no matter what's going on, even if he just scored a touchdown. However, taunting carries a penalty because it's seen as just bad form.

* In the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' games, several of Little Mac's opponents will laugh evilly when they beat him. Overall Soda Popinski is probably the worst, doing so every time he even knocks you down, but Aran Ryan in the Wii version ''really'' takes the cake: he actually hovers over Little Mac and hurls insults while he struggles to stand:

--->'''Will:''': How do you like them apples?

--> '''Xia Jiang:''' You're just here to gloat this time, aren't you?
--> '''Mei Changsu:''' Yes. I've seen you play all your best cards and end up back in prison anyway. It makes me happy.

-->'''Boone''': You don't have to dance every time!
-->'''Terry''': Yeah, but I ''choose'' to dance, every time!

* "So Excellent" by Kylie Mole (a regular character on Australian sketch comedy show ''The Comedy Company'') is about Kylie fantasising about being a famous pop star. Near the end of the song, she exclaims "Eat your heart out, [[Music/WhitneyHouston Whitney!]] Move over, Music/{{Madonna}}!", and then launches into a rant about how jealous her enemy at school is going to be of her popularity and fame, how she's going to have to dump her boyfriend because he's not cool enough, and how she's not going to share any of her money with anyone, especially not her parents, since they don't give her enough pocket money.

-->'''Sonic''': ''(gloating over a defeated boss)'' Wow, sometimes I even impress myself! For a second there I wasn't sure I was going to pull it off... Oh, who am I kidding, we ''both'' knew how this would end.
-->'''Tails''': Uh, are you ''talking'' to the broken robot who can't hear you?
-->'''Sonic''': ...Maybe. That's between me and the robot.

-->'''Marina''': ''(interrupting Pearl's rapping)'' [[BigShutUp OMG. SHUT UP ALREADY, PEARL!]]

-->'''Tycho''': Jesus Christ threw up the horns?
-->'''Gabe''': What can I say? Jesus is fucking metal.

--->'''Cartman:''' "Yes! Yesss!! Oh, let me taste your tears, Scott! Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet."
--->'''Cartman:''' "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah! [[CrossesTheLineTwice I made you eat your parents!]] Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah!"

-->'''Skill Crane''': You lose! [''Kid sighs'']\\

** That same game was the reason why Hank himself is against this trope. When he scored a touchdown, he did a goofy victory dance which re-watching the footage as an adult [[OldShame ashamed him]]. He told Bobby that his ankle breaking which cost the game was "God punishing [him] for showboating".

---> '''Pinkie Pie:''' Lost his voice, ''and'' the title! ''[[[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Bounces off, making more turkey calls as she leaves]]]''
** Season 6 episode ''Buckball Season'' had Applejack have Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Snails (yes, really) sub for them in a game against her cousin, Breaburn. After Ponyville wins in a very close game, [[GracefulLoser Breaburn and his team congratulate Ponyville on their win]]. Dash naturally soils this a bit by claiming "[Ponyville] whooped the hooves off them!". Again, it was a ''close'' game and both Pinkie and Fluttershy admitted that Breaburn's team was very good and really pushed them to their limits.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lynn, as seen in the episode "Lynner Take All", is the undisputed queen of this trope. The plot has the rest of the Loud siblings team up to try to beat her at a board game, simply because they're that sick of her excessive gloating whenever she wins such as writing "loser" on her sister's foreheads (and shaving it on Lincoln's head) and making confetti out of their homework.

* A case of this caused [[FallenHero Jingles Morgan’s]] StartOfDarkness in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}''. In a duel against fellow lawman Salaman Bliss, Morgan lost badly and got knocked into the mud outside the ring. Bliss, not content with his victory, started laughing his ass off and [[BullyingADragon mocking Morgan]]... until Morgan, in a fit of rage over being humiliated like that, [[DisproportionateRetribution pulled his pistol and shot Bliss dead]]. Morgan ended up on the run for murder and became the very sort of selfish criminal he once fought.

* ''VideoGame/ClubhouseGamesFiftyOneWorldwideClassics'' points out that some traditions allow winners of mancala to mock the loser as much as they want. The loser isn't allowed to get mad or say anything.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''

---> [[KickTheDog "You're the weakest.]] [[BreakTheCutie The weakest leader I ever fought]], [[HeroicBSOD and this lightweight Badge is just like you."]]
** In the Unova arc, this is apparently the reasoning behind Burgundy's bitter resentment towards Cilan after he beat her in a Gym battle and decided to rub it in her face. He doesn't remember doing that at all, [[SelfServingMemory implying that Burgundy exaggerated her loss.]]
** While not as bad as the two above, [[TheHero Ash himself]] could be prone to this in his worst moments during the first seasons, like when he beat Mandi in his first Indigo League match using only Krabby (which evolved to Kingler during the match, but still), he went to jump around overexcited and showing off to the camera. Thankfully, [[CharacterDevelopment over time he dropped this trait.]]
* ''Manga/IronWokJan'': At one point Jan follows a defeated opponent out to the street to taunt him some more as the fellow looked insufficiently crushed.
* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', Yukari does this after the first two of the three Sports Fest games, interrupting fellow teacher and friend Nyamo's attempts to cheer up her class by [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger pointing her finger]] at them and dancing about while mockingly chanting "Loser Team" after seeing that they aren't too saddened by the loss. Said students aren't sure how to respond to the English teacher's childish behavior, while Yukari's own class stares at her antics from across the field, embarrassed and ashamed.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Flare Corona mocks Lucy mercilessly after she wins their match in the magic tournament. Even worse than usual since the only reason Flare won was that one of her teammates interfered from the sidelines to depower Lucy right when she had Flare on the ropes. Flare doesn't get off completely scot-free though -- in a later chapter, one of her other teammates beats her up for being so weak.
* In ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', Yomi of Team G-Master engages in some snotty gloating towards Kaoruko ([[InSeriesNickname AKA Gyanko]]) after G-Master beats Team Song Dynasty Vase. Yomi's teammate Sudou tells her to knock it off, and when she continues her other teammate Akira Suga [[WouldHitAGirl slaps her]] and chews her out, saying it's wrong to mock an opponent who fought to the best of their ability. (Note that this sequence is an {{Homage}} to a similar scene from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', with Akira taking the place of his {{Expy}} material Sleggar Law.)[[note]]It should be noted that in the next scene, he sports a handprint from her slapping him back. This isn't the '70s after all.[[/note]]

* In Marvel's ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' story "The Miraculous Moon Meet," an alien named Moon Man Murray kidnaps some of the members of each team and challenges them to a series of athletic contests for the fate of the Earth. Murray hedges his bets with belts he gives to the athletes which negate their gravity. Every time Murray wins an event, he rubs it in the teams' collective faces.

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-->'''Jara:''' This belt is now in the hands of its rightful owner. It never really belonged to that—to her. I have made her suffer in equal combat, and I have beaten her. She was never my equal, and never will be. From here on, the title belongs to a true woman, a real woman, a superior woman to this cringing mess beneath us all... it belongs to Jasmine. And it always will, till the day I willingly pass it on! It will NEVER return to the hands of Kara Zor-El!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': Chick Hicks, after winning the Piston Cup by deliberately causing an accident for the car who'd been beating him for years. If the dirty race hadn't cost him the Dinoco sponsorship already, then the gloating certainly put him over the top.

* Among serious chess players even the media-spanning "announcing CheckAndMate when someone's made a winning move" is considered Unsportsmanlike Gloating since it implies your opponent is too stupid to realize they've lost. Which makes [[https://notalwaysright.com/an-emotional-victory/134673/ this chess player's]] gloating and mocking of his opponent (the previous champion) even more egregious, so much that [[RealityEnsues the judges disqualify him for foul behavior]], forcing him to forfeit the prize. When he throws a tantrum about that, security throws him out of the tournament entirely and bans him for life. When he sues over ''that'', he gets ''banned from every chess tournament in Ohio''. The previous champion, on the other hand, turned down the victory-by-disqualification, saying that "[[GracefulLoser it would be better to not have a champion this year than to have one that didn’t earn it.]]"

A SisterTrope to SoreLoser, and they are often the same character, because the more gloating and ungracious a character is in victory, the more sulky and ungracious they'll be in defeat. Ironically, UnsportsmanlikeGloating can also make a SoreLoser (if they're different people in question) look sympathetic InUniverse and out.

* In Marvel's ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' story "The Miraculous Moon Meet," an alien named Moon Man Murray kidnaps some of the members of each team and challenges them to a series of athletic contests for the fate of the Earth. Murray hedges his bets with belts he gives to the athletes which negates their gravity. Every time Murray wins an event, he rubs it in the teams' collective faces.

** Droppable banners were recently added to the game, which grant a buff to nearby players... or can be dropped on corpses to humiliate them. There even exists the Banner of Ownership, which shoves a banner with a mocking thumbs down emblem into the corpse of an enemy.

* ''VideoGame/ClubhouseGamesFiftyOneWorldwideClassics'' points out that some traditions allow winners of mancala to mock the loser the as much as they want. The loser isn't allowed to get mad or say anything.

* As part of his general campaign to rub his disrespect for the evil [[FishPeople Kua-Toa]] in their scaly faces, Little One of ''WebVideo/TalesFromMyDDCampaign'' sets up some impromptu art displays using the corpses of Kua scouting parties he surprised on a raid into trout-occupied territory. The first group he simply impales on stakes, for the second he cuts their heads off, impales the bodies upside-down and then sticks the head on top (i.e., the Kua have their heads up their behinds).

* UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball in Europe is played to NCAA (College) rules, which - College being about educating young people - are rather heavy on the "no gloating" part. However, referees in the national leagues vary widely in their enforcement and many players grew up watching over the top celebrations from the NFL that they naturally want to emulate. In the 2014 final of the European Championship, this all went to a head. Germany and Austria were pretty evenly matched and the game went to overtime, but all through the game, the refs would harshly penalize every hint of celebration after a big play. Germany ultimately caught wise, Austria didn't. [[GermanicEfficiency Guess who won]]?

* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' Yukari does this after the first two of the three Sports Fest the second one complete with the [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger Finger Point]] and "Loser Team Loser Team" her class just walks away when she starts it.

** And in addition to that, there's also Randy Marsh during the Pinewood Derby. He pretty much gloats and mocks the rival's father, who later suicides.

* In ''Series/{{The Big Bang Theory}}'', [[InsufferableGenius Sheldon Cooper]] is established as a rather unpleasant winner.

** Of course, he's also a rather [[SoreLoser sore loser]].

-->"What do Sheldon Cooper and a black hole have in common? They both suck. Ha ha ha ha ha. Neener neener."

** Callie engages in this after winning the Naughty vs Nice splatfest.

* "[[Wrestling/PaulHeyman My client]], Wrestling/BrockLesnar, [[HeroKiller conquered]] the [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker Undertaker's]] undefeated streak at Wrestlemania!" [[spoiler:This would bite both Heyman and Lesnar in the ass one year and a half later when 'Taker decided to cost Lesnar his chance to regain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, just because they wouldn't ''shut up'' about it]].

-->'''Marty Wolf''': Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! Ya happy now? '''''I STOLE JASON SHEPARD'S PAPER AND TURNED IT INTO BIG FAT LIAR!''''' Do you know who's listening? Nobody. And they never will. So for the last time, give it up. Because I will never-ever-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!