1 | '''Basic Trope''': A man is offended when a woman beats him at something. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob is upset when Alice beats him at shooting. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Bob is upset when Alice beats him at every sport and game they play together. |
5 | ** [[TheLadette Carol]] is upset she lost to [[LadyOfWar Alice]]. |
6 | ** [[EldritchAbomination Bobthulhu]] is upset when [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Alice beats him]] with a [[CherryTapping cherry]]. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob is upset when Alice beats him, but still acts like a good sport and congratulates her. |
8 | * '''Justified''': |
9 | ** Alice is more skilled or more experienced than Bob at the games they play. |
10 | ** Bob is an 8 year old boy. Alice is a highly trained adult woman. |
11 | ** Bob comes from a town where he was indoctrinated with the belief that a male losing to a female is the hallmark of shame and embarrassment. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': |
13 | ** Alice, member of an AmazonBrigade, is upset when Bob beats her at arm wrestling. |
14 | ** Alice is offended that the [[DragQueen Bobbi]] is more feminine and a better dancer than she is. |
15 | ** Bob only respects a woman who can beat him in a sport. |
16 | * '''Subverted''': Alice comes close to beating Bob, but Bob comes out on top in the end. |
17 | * '''Double Subverted''': Alice reveals that [[ILetYouWin she let Bob win]]. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': {{Tomboy}} ActionGirl Alice has this reaction when another girl beats her at a sport. |
19 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice wins some games but Bob wins others, some of which Alice lets him when, but at times Bob lets Alice win, and times where Bob wins on skill alone. |
20 | * '''Averted''': |
21 | ** A female and a male never compete together. |
22 | ** A male and female compete together, but the issue of gender is never brought up. |
23 | ** The male wins, and this doesn't lead to an inversion wherein the girl is upset at being beaten. |
24 | ** Bob is upset that he lost to Alice, not because she's a girl, [[SoreLoser but because he just doesn't like losing period.]] |
25 | * '''Enforced''': "We need to teach AnAesop that some girls can be good at sports." |
26 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
27 | ** "Bob is gonna mope for days after this..." |
28 | ** "[[UnsportsmanlikeGloating What's the matter, Bob? Can't take a loss from a girl?]]" |
29 | * '''Invoked''': "There's nothing more humiliating to a man than losing a competition to a woman." |
30 | * '''Exploited''': |
31 | ** Charlie always places bets on Alice winning the competitions. |
32 | ** Alice, a StrawFeminist, mocks Bob for losing to a girl, just to humiliate him in front of the crowd. |
33 | * '''Defied''': |
34 | ** Bob trains extra hard so that no one can beat him at anything. |
35 | ** Bob decides there's no reason to be upset just because he was beaten by a girl. |
36 | * '''Discussed''': "You ever notice how some guys get so upset over a girl beating them at something?" |
37 | * '''Conversed''': "This is the part where Alice humiliates Bob." |
38 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
39 | ** Bob's defeat of Alice has made him a laughing stock to everyone, even his [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]] and family. Now, he's thinking of [[DrivenToSuicide taking his own life]] as a means escape from this great humiliation. |
40 | ** Bob's defeat of Alice has made him into a StrawMisogynist. |
41 | * '''Reconstructed''': Being defeated by Alice, Bob (and possibly his friends) realizes that gender stereotypes depicting girls as inherently weaker than men are bogus, [[CharacterDevelopment becoming a better and less bigoted person as a result]]. |
42 | * '''Played For Drama''': |
43 | ** Alice has been snide and arrogant towards Bob throughout the game, and after she defeats Bob, she mercilessly ridicules him for losing to a girl. Tired of Alice's mockery of him, Bob snaps and [[DisproportionateRetribution sava]][[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown gely]] [[WouldHitAGirl beats her with of an inch of her life.]] |
44 | ** Bob is completely traumatized from getting ''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped by]]'' Alice, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale having been unsure of how such a thing would even work]]. |
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48 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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50 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
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52 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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