Line #7 MemeticLoser/WebOriginal


1	* Platform/FourChan's ''/co/ Weekend Hunger Games'' feature an entire category of characters referred to as NEVER EVERS, named as such due to having never won a game despite competing in numerous games across several seasons. Some of the most infamous examples include {{Franchise/Godzilla}}, [[Franchise/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cadpig]], ComicBook/{{Lou}}, [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace Spud]], [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Count Dooku and Aresko]]. The only way to escape this reputation is to actually win a game. Unless you're [[ButtMonkey Dooku or Aresko]], whose losing reputations have been so ingrained into the threads that they're still considered losers despite both having actually won different games in the past.
2	* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-luck-brian Bad Luck Brian]] was among the most popular "advice animal" internet meme characters of the early 2010s. His whole shtick was that he had the worst luck imaginable and failed at absolutely everything. For example, finding water in the desert and drowning in it, or getting a letter from his crush on Valentine's Day only for it to be a restraining order. The person behind the awkward high school photo that became the meme template, Kyle Craven, has embraced the meme and plays along, such as playing his Bad Luck Brian character in [[https://youtu.be/VlFXuiEPD_k a skit]] with the Overly Attached Girlfriend.
3	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'':
4	** The Franchise/PowerRangers are many viewers' childhood heroes. For years, they were also considered a laughingstock in the ''Death Battle'' fandom due to losing three battles in a row: Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon, Power Rangers VS Voltron, and Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla. It wasn't until Jason managed to defeat [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]] in Season 7 that they managed to shake off this reputation. Even then, many watchers were dubious about his chances before the episode's release.
5	** Shadow the Hedgehog has it rough even compared to other ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' characters. His first two appearances, which pit him against Vegeta and Mewtwo, ended with him losing. Although his third showing against Ryūko had him dish out a CurbStompBattle to her, this didn't do much to rescue his reputation. People saw the fight as a "pity win" with an easily-predicted outcome, ''and'' Shadow had to kill his waifu to get it.
6	** Of the Holy Shonen Trinity (''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''), ''Bleach'' has always had the short end of the stick, as not only did the franchise's characters lose twice in a row but both of the matches the characters engaged in ended up being humiliating [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp Battles]] with them on the receiving end.
7	** [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]]. This is the first combatant to lose four times including his Goku Black variant with only a single win to his name. Not helping that said win was basically a MirrorMatch between two of his most iconic [[FusionDance fusions]] (Gogeta VS Vegito) so he was going to lose that match no matter who won.
8	* In Creator/{{Funhaus}}'s playthrough of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' gamemode "The Condemned", it didn't take long for the entire team to declare the eponymous character an absolute joke. Because the Condemned loses health until he can kill another player and transfer the curse to them, the character will always have less health than the people he's supposed to be hunting down. Also, he's [[WimpFight absolutely pathetic in melee combat]], at one point hitting an enemy player ''six times'' with a rifle butt to no avail - an attack that normally ranges from devastating to OneHitKill. By the second video, the Funhaus crew have been able to turn the tables on the Condemned by ganging together and hunting him down instead... and they ''steal money from his corpse'', too. As a result, everyone on the team makes jokes about the serial killer's clumsiness and poor health, to the point that he sometimes appears to die from tripping over a gravestone (it's actually because he ran out of health). And they call him ''Spookums'', too. In fact, the only reason the Condemned manages to occasionally score a kill is because the rest of the crew are laughing too hard to concentrate.
9	* ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' is often treated this way by the online community due to being seen as a [[FollowTheLeader cheap imitation]] of ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''. Most parody videos of him showcase him getting beat up or looking ridiculous. The best example of this is ''WebAnimation/SmashBrosLawl'', which makes him a JokeCharacter and best friends with an even worse JokeCharacter. The series' creator Creator/{{Chincherrinas}} [[ButtMonkey doesn't let him off easy in his other videos either]].
10	* ''WebVideo/MinecraftChampionship'':
11	** Despite appearing in every main MCC, LetsPlay/CaptainSparklez had yet to win a single one for the first season and a half, and had a bad habit of narrowly missing out on the final game of Dodgebolt. Even worse, whoever he's teamed with almost always ended up winning the ''next'' MCC, to the point that Sparklez had referred to it as a curse. And when the streak of constantly getting third place was finally broken in [=MCC15=], [[YankTheDogsChain his team lost Dodgebolt to the Red Rabbits in a complete 3-0 sweep]]. And as it turns out, the curse ''still'' technically wasn't broken -- Seapeekay, who was on Sparklez's team for [=MCC15=], proceeded to win [=MCC16=]. The curse was ''finally'' broken in [=MCC22=], which saw his team make it to Dodgebolt and beat the Red Rabbits in a close match.
12	*** Ranboo was also considered by many to be the successor of this curse, due to placing 3rd a whopping 6 times and 4th 3 more times, as well as losing against Aqua Axolotls in [=MCC29=]'s Dodgebolt. [=MCC32=] saw this curse get broken as well, with Ranboo's team making it to Dodgebolt and winning in a close match. Coincidentally, Ranboo also happened to be on Red Rabbits, the ''very same colored team'' that Captain Sparklez won 10 games ago.
13	** Prior to the aforementioned [=MCC15=], the Red Rabbits were the one of the colors not to win a single MCC, and the only color to not make it to the finals. Fortunately for them, the streak was finally broken when the [=MCC15=] Red Rabbits (Dream, Sapnap, Michaelmcchill, and Quackity) took first place in both points and Dodgebolt.
14	* Mike Dawson from ''VideoGame/DarkSeedII'' already deserved this status, but the ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' videos of the game just made him look worse. The player decided to be ridiculously thorough, to the point of talking to nearly every character and visiting nearly every area after everything, making Mike look like a moron who could never work out what to do next and had a strange fixation on standing in his bathroom and staring into space. He also lost at the carnival games so many times that it became a RunningGag, to the point that when Mike was supposed to win at ring toss, slowbeef edited the footage and said [[FanonDiscontinuity that according to Retsupurae canon, he didn't win ring toss and never would]].
15	** [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra Cobra]] also got this status. He was presented as an inconsistent cad who orders milk at bars, has an obsessive foot fetish, and is deathly afraid of caterpillars.
16	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
17	** [[CowardlyLion Jaune Arc]] is often portrayed as a wimpy coward in fics, ignoring the part in episode 14 where he beheads a giant demon-bear. [[note]]To be fair, Jaune is wimpy compared to most of his classmates, especially team RWBY; it's just that in [[WorldOfBadass Remnant]], even the resident ButtMonkey is badass.) Arguably, he is more brave due to entering into combat situations without formal training.[[/note]] This has become lessened over time as he's become a more competent fighter, such as in Volume 4 where he goes toe-to-toe with the Nuckelavee for a moment and then in ''"Vault of the Spring Maiden"'' when he [[spoiler:finally unlocks [[HealingHands his Semblance]] and uses it to save Weiss' life.]]
18	** Weiss has an unfortunate reputation among the FNDM as she is the only member of Team RWBY who still hasn't won a victory against a single opponent alone, ''six seasons in'': Vernal stomped her badly, Flynt had her on the ropes through most of their fight, and even an unnamed {{Elite Mook\|s}}. Taken further with ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' where she loses quite handily to [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Mitsuru Kirijo]]. She has even been compared to a {{Jobber}}. Though for what it's worth, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6Z73v5ZEA an analysis video]] suggests Weiss has ''by far'' the most assists and saves of any of Team RWBY.
19	** [[DarkActionGirl Cinder Fall]] is a {{downplayed\|Trope}} example due to her strong showing early on in the series, but has steadily fallen into this ever since her defeat in Volume 3. After her climactic battle with Pyrrha, Ruby shows up to OneHitKO her, then she spends all of season 4 too injured to do anything. Then when she finally recovers in season 5, she immediately pulls a LeeroyJenkins and starts a battle that her cohort [[DeadpanSnarker Watts]] warns her is a bad idea. Surprise surprise, Watts is right and her poorly-thought-out rush to get revenge on Ruby leads to her getting almost killed again. She then shows up at the end of season 6 with an UnexplainedRecovery, preparing to make a return in season 7. In season 7, almost immediately after she makes her first appearance, the entire city finds out that [[BigBad Salem’s]] associates have infiltrated. She manages to not get caught, but still loses in the season finale and has to flee AGAIN. Even worse, her ally [[CuteMute Neo]] is the one who is actually responsible for the one part of Cinder’s plan that actually went right here, retrieving a MacGuffin. Cinder’s part of the plan, obtaining a new set of Maiden powers, fails once again just as it did in season 5. Overall, she’s more or less fallen into GoldFishPoopGang status and [[ButtMonkey nothing ever really seems to go right for her since season 3]]. She does still have EvilIsCool working in her favor, but many fans note that an actual look at her recent accomplishments makes her look more like TheChewToy than anything.
20	* Website/{{SFDebris}} characterizes Hawke of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' as this: already an unlucky protagonist in canon, Chuck took issue with the fact that the game insists that Hawke is supposedly vitally important to the setting even though Hawke does nothing but bumble about for about three quarters of the game due to [[{{Railroading}} the plot being on rails]]. As a result, Chuck roleplays Hawke as a miserable, put-upon loser doomed to fail at everything she does; plus, [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten he will never let anyone forget]] the time that a Desire Demon ''refused to make a DealWithTheDevil with her'', recharacterizing the incident as the demon simply not wanting to do business with someone as pathetic as Hawke.
21	%%* Several Pokémon species have this reputation in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonArena'', most notably Entei and Deoxys. It's generally treated more as a joke. Lacks context - Why are they considered losers?
22	%%** The [[https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/120232/1.0 "TriHard"]] emoticon is generally used in the stream's chat to represent this exact concept.

Context MemeticLoser / WebOriginal