1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character reveals that another character who beat them somehow only won because they let them. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice is fighting [[TheDragon Dracone]] and after a long, arduous battle, she wins. He later reveals that he let her win for reasons unknown. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice fights Dracone several hundred times, winning each time by the skin of her teeth. Dracone reveals that he was letting her win each time. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Dracone could conceivably have fought harder and maybe won, [[PyrrhicVictory but it would cost too much even if he did]], [[KnowWhenToFoldEm so he bowed out]]. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Dracone is looking for a successor and sees great potential in Alice. By letting her win he [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt sets up a better dragon for his employer.]] However, if he she didn't meet his standards he would have killed her than and there. [[XanatosGambit Either outcome worked for him.]] |
6 | * '''Inverted''': |
7 | ** Alice gives up against Dracone. |
8 | ** Alice gloats after beating Dracone, saying that defeating him was a such a breeze... When, in fact, she had a really hard time winning. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': |
10 | ** After recalling the fight, Alice realizes that Dracone couldn't have let her win...he was fighting too hard. |
11 | ** Dracone plans on letting Alice win, but it turns out she's actually stronger than him and would've won anyways |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': He was fighting hard to further his motives. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': |
14 | ** Alice beat all kinds of pain into Dracone's sorry ass, and yet he still insists that she only won because he let her. |
15 | ** Alice and Dracone are both trying to pull this trope on each-other, and end up entering a contest of PolitenessJudo to in order to determine who beats on who. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': It's truly too difficult to tell whether he was letting her win or not. |
17 | * '''Averted''': Alice won fair and square. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': "We need to show that this villain is sinister! What better way than to tell TheHero that he let her win?" |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
20 | ** "Remember when you defeated me at Death's Gulch? I let you win that time!" |
21 | ** "[[LameComeback Yeah, well, _I-I let you lose!...Jerk!]]" |
22 | * '''Invoked''': Dracone, while fighting Alice and holding his own, realizes that his agenda would be better served if she won. So...he lets her win. |
23 | * '''Exploited''': |
24 | ** Alice picked a fight with Dracone knowing that she couldn't win [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow but also knowing that he had a reason to let her win]]. |
25 | ** Dracone got an associate to put money on his fight with Alice, as he already knew the outcome and needed to lose anyway to further his dastardly ends. |
26 | * '''Defied''': Alice, realizing that Dracone is about to let her win, forces him to keep fighting her. |
27 | * '''Discussed''': "So he let you win... Now we must find how that factors into his next plan..." |
28 | * '''Conversed''': "[[XanatosGambit Considering how often being beaten factors into his plans,]] you have to wonder if Dracone is a closet masochist..." |
29 | * '''Implied''': Dracone is the SilentBob, and although we obviously never hear him or anyone say this, we do notice him [[CurbStompBattle absolutely schooling an opponent much stronger than Alice a few minutes after his "defeat."]] |
30 | * '''Deconstructed''': The revelation that he let her win causes Alice to give up and stop fighting the bad guys. |
31 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice realizes that Dracone might have let her win, but she needs to keep fighting. |
32 | ---- |
33 | [[ILetYouWin I let you go back to the main page]], you little fool!. [[EvilLaugh Muahahahahahahaha!!!]] |
34 | ---- |
35 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
36 | %% |
37 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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