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 it's their teammates, or perhaps the other guy just found a way to break their supposedly impenetrable defense. Whatever the reason, their armies are dying, their buildings are burning, their avatar has been sliced into six different pieces and they are about to get this loss added to their permanent gaming record. If they had a winning streak or an undefeated season, it's about to end now.
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 Fate Worse Than Death! Alternately, it need not even be an actual loss or a bad game, some players have ragequit 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 no one will!
As you can well imagine, this is obviously incredibly annoying to the opponents; players who ragequit too often tend to look weak, and it pisses off other players who often just want to get through a game without the other guy backing out on them at the last minute because they don't want to get stuck with a loss.
Rage quitting is also common in people who simply get frustrated at the game and quit early to cool off, whether it be from several streaks of bad luck or results in a game simply not working out in their favor, despite everything they've been doing. Of course, quitting is still quitting, which greatly annoy other players who want to finish the game or earn the win.
In some very rare instances, the rage-quit may not in fact be due to the player sucking or getting frustrated. Rather it's punishment for allies of the player who are in some way abusing game mechanics or items to make the player's experience miserable. As vengeance, the player abandons their team at the worst possible moment.
Measures to alleviate this vary. Some games will register a rage-quit as an automatic loss to the player who quit (possibly with an automatic win for everyone else), or even keep a separate tally for the number of "disconnects". Unfortunately, it is impossible for the network to distinguish a ragequit from actual technical problems (a power outage, for example), and there are usually still ways for players to exploit the ranking system to avoid taking the loss.
Can be spelled both "rage quit" or "ragequit". As the page illustration shows, ragequitting is Older Than They Think.
Compare Save Scumming, a mostly single-player phenomenon that may not entirely be caused by RAGE at losing. Can also mix with Jerkass / Griefer where people may quit the game, in addition to losing, exclusively to piss off other people. People who quit may literally say Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
See also Fake Difficulty, Nintendo Hard, That One Boss, That One Puzzle, That One Level, Flipping the Table. For more information see Rage Quit BaddieThis page is for In-Universe and Invoked examples only. If we had examples such as "{Insert Game Here} is prone to ragequitters", you might as well add every game in existence to this list. For your personal experiences with Ragequitting, take it to the discussion page.
In the very beginning of Captain Tsubasa, the young talented goalkeeper Wakabayashi, back then a Jerk Jock extraordinaire, was obsessed by the challenge he gave to The Hero Tsubasa to try and score a goal against him in the Shűtetsu vs Nankatsu match. When Tsubasa manages to do so, Wakabayashi is so mortified and disgusted he quits the match and leaves his team on his own. Fortunately, his personal coach Mikami promptly gives him a violent Get A Hold Of Yourself Man that makes him realize how rotten his attitude is, and he comes back to the match matured and determined to win it along with his teammates.
Cell from Dragon Ball Z did this after Gohan went SSJ2. He first tried to blow up the Earth Vegeta-style, only for Gohan to effortlessly win the Beam-O-War. Then he turned himself into a giant bomb which the good guys couldn't attack without setting off anyway. Goku had to teleport him to the afterlife...where he came back From a Single Cell (which even he was surprised by).
Freeza did something similar, destroying Namek's core which would cause it to explode within minutes when he realized that he may actually be defeated by Goku, who had just unlocked his Super Saiyan powers. Goku was quick to call him out on this. However, Freeza's race can survive in the vacuum of space, so this was a bit more reasonable than it seemed at first.
And before Frieza, Vegeta tries to do this against Goku during their first fight. Upset that a lowlife commoner was able to equal him in a fight, Vegeta attempts to nuke the entire planet. Goku ends up defeating him in the Beam-O-War, which turns out to be Vegeta's real goal in the first place.
DBZ villains in general tend to be poor losers and will try to blow up the planet if it looks like they'll lose a fight. Or in Buu's case, out of boredom.
In Mega Man NT Warrior, Mega Man's duel with Shadow Man concludes with Shadow Man declaring the battle a draw, then disappearing in a smoke bomb.
Seto Kaiba's very first card game match against Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh! "Season Zero" has Kaiba on the ropes. Kaiba then plays "Goblin," which apparently forces the match to end with no declared winner. Somehow, the table gets destroyed in the process. Yugi (the Pharaoh, actually), doesn't seem bothered by it, as it was his first time playing.
In Ben-To, Sen of all people does this after just about everyone beats her at Virtua Fighter 2. Rather than simply pulling the plug, however, she throws Satou's beloved Dreamcast out the window.
In RedLine the Roboworld military decides to give up when the racers blast off to watch the final stretch of the race.
"Fuck this. They're too fast."
Comics
Brian of Knights Of The Dinner Table is king of the trope. If he doesn't like B.A.'s call, if someone accuses him of cheating or reminds him that his imaginary girlfriend wasn't real, he'll flip the whole table over. Other characters have been known to storm off in anger, but never with quite the panache Brian uses.
Calvin And Hobbes had this a few times, with even a Metaphysical example of Calvin stating that his spirit was kicking the chess-board's spirit clear across the room.
In Jason X, two guys playing a holographic video game have their characters (controlled mentally) killed by Jason, so they quit in frustration. It doesn't take a genius to realize how events played out after that.
A bar brawl version of this happens in the first scene of Way Of The Gun, as pointed out by the director in the commentary. The two antiheroes square off against an angry man and a number of his friends. Heavily outnumbered, they realize that they're going to get beaten up anyway, so they throw their first punch at the guy's girlfriend, spoiling his victory.
In Cheers, Frasier famously did this playing Woody in chess, to the point in which he upset the board. Woody pointed out his King was still standing, so Frasier tossed it, mimicking Woody's annoying explosion noise (every time he took one of Frasier's pieces.) Woody didn't mind, he did the explosion noise with Frasier.
In the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Peak Performance", Data has a rematch against an opponent who defeated him earlier at a game of Stratagema. Data decides to play for a stalling tactic, denying himself winning moves to prevent those of his opponent (as playing to win last time got him trounced). His opponent eventually rage quits.
A Klingon once challenged him to two-fisted arm wrestling-and was swiftly laid to the table. Enter a Klingon Rage Quit. It involves beating your opponent silly, starting with a headbutt. This works very poorly for the Klingon.
On a Celebrity Edition of Wheel of Fortune in November 1997, William Shatner got mad because he was in last place after the second round. He rage-quit and Julie Pinson came in to play the rest of the game for him.
An episode of According to Jim, Andy turns off the video game before he can lose to Gracie.
In US Season 15, one team was eliminated at the starting line, and they were so mad they just up and left and didn't even attend the finale. The part where people were sympathetic to them was that they didn't even get to leave the country, or even go through the first leg of the race. One fan compared it to qualifying for the olympics and being eliminated during the opening ceremony.
Nick of Nick and Vicki got mad and quit in the middle of a task in Season 17. The episode in question turned out to be a non-elimination, which meant that the audience had to suffer their presence for another episode.
In Season 3 of Top Shot, Blue Team member Jake quit after being voted into an elimination challenge, but before actually participating in said challenge. The other person getting the votes, Phil, didn't win the elimination challenge by default, though; instead, he had to compete against the last person eliminated (Mike Hughes). Mike won, and made it all the way to the final challenge that season.
In the "CharDee MacDennis: The Game of Games" episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the gang explains that they always have to nail the playing board down to the bar counter because at some point Mac will get angry that he's losing and try to flip the board over. Mac admits that it's "for the best." Sure enough, toward the end of the game, Mac goes into a rage and tries to flip the board over.
In the series finale of Battlestar Galactica, Cavil blurts an expletive and kills himself when the means of immortality are taken from his grasp.
In the Doctor Who story "Dragonfire", the villain Kane melts himself to death on discovering that he's outlived all the people who he intended to take revenge on.
Discussed on Leverage when Hardison is running a con he designed based on video game principles. Turns out he may have made the whole thing too complicated and didn't account for this possible reaction.
Funny thing is, Hardison, a computer geek, doesn't know the term. Meanwhile, Nate, who's not big on computers, is not only aware of it but anticipates it, to the point where he plans out his own con based on the assumption that Hardison's will fail due to this.
When Master Vile realizes that the good guys always find a way to win, even after his supposed victory, he pitches a fit and pulls up stakes, leaving Rita and Zedd to deal with the Power Rangers.
In the introductions to the "Cheating Death" segments of The Colbert Report, The Grim Reaper often shows violent disapproval for Stephen's strategy in the current game.
Done a couple times on Storage Wars, once by Dave after Barry brings along a couple of supposed psychics to scan the lockers of the week, and in another episode by Jarrod's employee Mark. Dave returned the next week, Mark did not.
Professional Wrestling
Any heel not booked as a "monster heel" will almost certainly have done it at some point in their career, ESPECIALLY if they hold a title belt. Whether it's a blatant kick to the opponent's groin, hitting the referee, or even just going 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.
This can sometimes be used as a means of writing a heel off of TV if they have decided to quit a company for other endeavors. For example, John Bradshaw Layfield angrily declared that he quit at WrestleMania 25 after losing the Intercontinental Championship to Rey Mysterio Jr in 21 seconds. This was also done by Eve Torres, who, after losing her Diva's Championship to Kaitlyn, quit the company in a fit of rage. In reality, she left to be with her new husband and to continue to pursue her Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu programs.
Sports
The NFL's Buffalo Bills held a slim lead in the closing seconds of a game against the New England Patriots. The Patriots' quarterback heaved a long pass (known as a "Hail Mary" due to the difficulty in completing it), but the Bills were called for Pass Interference in the endzone. Defensive Pass Interference as the clock expires gives the offense one more untimed down, which the Patriots used to score the winning points. The Bills by this point had seen the replay showing there was no interference, and were incensed when the refs tried to force them to come out and play the conversion even though it was completely meaningless. The Bills responded by storming off the field en masse, allowing New England to play the final conversion completely uncontested.
The much-hyped race between Michael Johnson and Donovan Bailey in 1997. At the time, Johnson held the world record for the 200m event, and Bailey held the record for the 100m. They were to settle the question of the "World's Fastest Man" with a 150m race. At around the 100m mark, Bailey was clearly ahead, and Johnson pulled up with an injured hamstring. Cynics thought he faked the injury rather than lose to Bailey fair and square.
During the 1976 Soviet Red Army vs. Philadelphia Flyers exhibition ice hockey game, the Soviet Team, who agreed to play by NHL rules, began protesting calls made by the officials. After vocal complaints weren't going anywhere, the Soviet Coach opted to call the entire team back and leave the game. In another Rage Quit move, the Flyers owner threatened to not pay the Soviets for the game should they leave. Eventually, the Red Army team relented and continued play...and lost.
In fairness, it's almost universally agreed by experts and those who watched the game that the Soviets were getting screwed by the refs.
Michael Jordan is so intense and committed to winning that he has a tendency to do this. Once in 1992 just before the All-Star game he did this on court after drawing a foul and was suspended from the next game and fined $5,000.
The Green Bay Packers / Seattle Seahawks game in 2012. The NFL referees were locked out at the time due to a contract dispute, and the replacement refs made 4 horrendously bad calls in the final minute of the game. The last two of these were on the same play. Blatant offensive pass interference in the endzone that was not called, followed by a Packers interception that was ruled a simultaneous catch and therefore a touchdown for Seattle, with zero time on the clock. It cost the Packers the game, and they were so pissed that they walked off the field before the (utterly meaningless) extra point was kicked. After a few minutes they came back to contest the final play for appearance's sake, presumably after some persuasion from Mike McCarthy.
After the New Mexico men's basketball team were upset by Harvard in the first round of the 2013 NCAA tournament, one sportswriter covering the team was so incensed that he retired the very next day.
Video Games
A common rage quitting tactic in most games, especially RTS games, is for the loser to cut their own internet connection so that they would get disconnected rather than taking a loss, as well as spiting their opponents by forcing them wait for their connection to the server to time out. This tactic is commonly dubbed "plug pulling", and most games now count disconnects as automatic losses.
Sports games have the highest level of Rage Quit. One of the new features of FIFA 13 allows players to quit at halftime so they can do it peacefully and not disrupt someone's win.
Team Fortress 2: Actually, Valve makes fun of this with the Pyro's "BarbeQueQ" achievement, which is awarded if a player you are Dominating ends up leaving the server you are currently playing in.
An achievement for the Spy, "Slash and Burn", is awarded if another player rage-switches to the Pyro class immediately after you kill him.
Also, the Scout now has a voice clip that says "Yeah, I dare ya, Rage Quit! C'mon, make us both happy!" when he dominates someone or kills them with the Fan-o-War (a low-damage weapon) or the Holy Mackerel (a fish that has a hit counter).
This video plays with both the trope and the Scout's taunts. In it, the Scout repeatedly defeats the Pyro in Soul Calibur, obnoxiously taunting him all the while. Eventually, after Scout does the rage quit taunt, Pyro does rage quit... by shooting the tv and turning his flamethrower on Scout. All of Scout's teammates find him so obnoxious they sit back and watch him burn.
Some servers will announce players on a losing side leaving the game as "RAGE QUIT!", with the requisite notification on your heads-up display and a Large Ham voice booming it so everyone can hear.
The plugin is also common in Left 4 Dead (see below).
Whenever somebody leaves the game shortly after dying in "Heroes of Newerth" the announcer yells out RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAGGGEQUIT.
In Sid Meier's SimGolf, NPC golfers will 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 poor or unfairdesigns. 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, walking up steep slopes and seeing other golfers rage quit.
In Red Dead Redemption, vindictive players have the option of murdering everyone at the card table where they were just blasted out of the pot at poker.
In one Fist of the North Star fighting game, a character actually has this as a Super Move. As a reference to his death in the series, Shin starts to limp away and tells his opponent that he won't give them the satisfaction of killing him, then throws himself into the anime speed line void. Not surprisingly, it counts as a win for Shin's opponent.
Inverted in You Don't Know Jack, as strange as that sounds. In the earlier games, if someone types in "Fuck You" as an answer to a Gibberish Question or other question with a typed answer, the host will make fun of you and deduct a vast amount of points from the offending player. Do it again, and the host does nothing, but makes fun of you for being unoriginal. Do it a third time, and the host gets so pissed that he ragequits the game on you, booting you back to the desktop!
Happens a LOT in Left 4 Dead. Seriously, it's reached outright memetic levels.
It's now an Ascended Meme: Valve made an achievement in Left 4 Dead 2 called Connecting Fights, where you could only earn the achievement by playing the Dead Air campaign (a campaign notable for rage quits even by Left 4 Dead standards) in VS mode from start to finish, meaning you can't quit. Valve's official blog encouraged people not to rage quit if they wanted this achievement.
Some servers in Left 4 Dead announce via text when someone rage quits (though the plugin can't discern between people ragequitting and those leaving the server normally for other, more peaceful reasons).
Apparently, Neopets had enormous problems with people quitting while playing against other players in the Battledome and had to implement countermeasures because of this.
It remains a problem in Key Quest, especially in two-player games. The losing player will quit just as the winning player is about to enter the door to win the game. This is despite the fact that a silver key will occasionally net prizes better than the gold key.
At the end of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All's 2nd case, Amoral Attorney Franziska von Karma is so furious at having been defeated by Phoenix that she angrily whips him into unconsciousness.
Infamously dubbed the "Logoffski" in the EVE Online community. When suddenly surprised by an enemy, players who quickly use the Ctrl-Q command to kill the game client will initiate an automatic procedure called "Emergency Warp" designed to save players who suddenly lose internet connection. This will cause the ship to warp out of the battlezone and disappear after a couple of minutes, (hopefully) before your ship is destroyed.
Self-Destruct initiates a countdown that destroys your ship completely after a few minutes. The purpose is to deny the enemy anything salvageable from your wreckage, but also to deny them a kill mail confirmation. The latter reason is why Pv Pershate it so much.
Leaving during a League of Legends match, assuming teams are more or less equal in terms of skill and progress, is almost always a guaranteed defeat for your team, meaning people on your team will get a rating loss without that being any of their fault. Thus, leaving during a match gives you a larger rating loss and no IP / Exp gain. It is also a punishable offense and, much like griefing and trashtalking, leads to eventual permaban.
Brütal Legend multiplayer does not count a disconnection as a loss. As a result many of the highest-ranked players on the leaderboards are ones who got there by pulling the plug whenever they're losing.
Mass Effect 3 has multiplayer where your character earns experience for each match. If you quit the gamenote or your connection to the EA server drops you earn no experience or money.
Warlords2 offered a "Resign" option for hopeless situations, giving you the option to resign "ungracefully" (razing all your cities first) or "gracefully." If you choose to resign gracefully the game sneers at you and burns everything anyway.
Dota 2 solves this problem by flagging rage quitters for "abandonment". Flagged players are punished by taking lower priority in matchmaking and are only matched with other flagged players for a set period of time.
Dickson in Xenoblade Chronicles. Right after Shulk delivers a fatal blow and prepares to finish him off he declares they can proceed and he won't try to stop them. He then sits down and mutters to himself that he won't let Shulk see him die, he doesn't want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that he beat him.
Happens occasionally in Pokémon random matchups online. Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 attempt to alleviate this with some success by preventing players from playing in random matchups for an hour if the DS is turned off during a random matchup. However, when it does happen in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, it's doubly frustrating because you get neither the win nor the extra Join Avenue points.
Attempting to ragequit after dying in Hardcore mode on Minecraft will not work; Perma Death still applies and you will still be forced to delete your game world.
Mass Effect: Don't like the Council's whining when reporting to them in the Comm Room? If you're tired of cracking jokes or apologising for everything, you can always just cut the signal.
In Dynasty Warriors Online people who do this actually have a name: Alt Tabber. This is because if you use the alt + tab command you can force the game to stop working, getting you out of the match. In the English version, because direct combat PVP is so common, this can become an actual problem due to the increased likelihood that somebody will quit when there is a distinct chance of turning the match around. This leaves their character not only with an A.I. that has both poor survival skills and an inability to preform certain moves, but killing a ditched player still counts as a kill, as opposed to a character that was an A.I. from the beginning which doesn't count.
In the Assassins Creed III DLC story "The Tyranny of King Washington", Connor learns from a mocking Blue Coat who he's playing checkers with that all of his friends were ambushed and massacred. Cue the command prompt "Press X to rage quit".
Connor: "That's it!" (smashes the guy's face with the checkerboard and beats up everyone in the bar)
In Homestuck, when it becomes obvious that Caliborn will win their chess match, Calliope wipes the board and storms away. However, given that she had by all accounts already won and had only technically not by virtue of a very unsportsmanlike (not to mention downright silly) trick Caliborn had played and that she only continued to play in an irritated attempt to humour him, well, it was probably justified.
I warn you now that the tale of Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge is long, cryptic, and incredibly stupid. I have never before wasted this much time on a project this pointless, and if you sit through this review, you will truly be stupider for having experienced it.
A similar thing happened in his review of The Adventures of Bayou Billy. After slogging through several stages of Nintendo Hard beatdowns, the final straw for him came when he encountered a bunch of enemy mooks who were immune to bullets.
"But a bullwhip messes them up!"
His review of Ultima VIII, while the ending is glossed over, shows that Spoony is clearly done riffing on the game when Dupre comes back from the dead, causing the final "betrayal" to happen.
His review of Final Fantasy XIII ends surprisingly not at the very end of the game, but when the Big Bad reveals himself, since his presence caused the game's plot of the fal'Cie being unable to talk directly to their l'Cie and thus only give them vague clues of what they're supposed to do to collapse in on itself.
Epee Em in his Let's Play of the Megaman Battle Network series. The whole Lets Play for the fourth game in the series featured Epee Em raging at the game's numerous flaws (and keeping track to pass the time and to give some motivation to beat the game). Because the game requires multiple playthroughs to unlock all the post-game content, he used cheat codes to burst through the second and third playthroughs. This caused a surprising amount of glitches such as permanently reducing the HP to a base zero, randomly deleting all of the in-game currency and completely glitching out during some minigames. The game itself responded by corrupting the save file at the end of the second playthrough.
Leelee Scaldaferri counts herself as the first person to Ragequit Feed Dump, after discovering how much the Jersey Shore cast makes per episode.
Perhaps one of the most justifiable Rage Quits was when Kikoskia of Let's Play fame rebooted Action52 because he was utterly sick of playing Storm Over The Desert.
Rooster Teeth has a feature on their site called Rage Quit, where Michael plays through a game, which invariably becomes this trope. Sometimes it's more than justified, since he's going in with no instructions — going into Ikaruga without ever knowing how to switch polarities (a key gameplay mechanic and required to even pass Stage 1), for example. Bonus material showed that right after filming his play of Catherine, he flung the Xbox out the window and smashed its remains with a crowbar.
Word of Jack says that it was faked as the Xbox thrown out of the window was already broken.
Hilarious inverted in the Rage Quit episode on Uproar!, where the game crashes on him, leaving Michael completely dumbfounded and declared that the game quit on him.
Raocow is normally a cheerful person, but when he plays a hard level ... things won't get pretty. In the next episode, he mentioned it as a Rage Quit.
In The Guild, Codex unknowingly complains about recent changes to The Game's creator, who gets frustrated with the constant stream of criticism and decides to sell The Game. She spends the remainder of the season trying to talk him out of rage quitting.
Do NOT make up your own rules while playing a game with Natalie Tran. She will flip your scrabble board.
Uber Haxor Nova has an entire series dedicated to rage quitting now, he'll keep playing notoriously hard games until he gets to the breaking point. He made it 10 episodes on Super Meat Boy, 3 on I Wanna Be The Guy, 3 on Street Fighter X Tekken, 2 on The Impossible Game and 3 on Aban Hawkins and the 1000 Spikes.
On Street Fighter X Tekken, he kept receiving challenges from players online. As a result, he never got past the first level of Arcade Mode.
Pro Starcraft II player Idra has picked up quite a reputation for being a notorious rage quitter. It's not uncommon during a tournament game where Idra will suddenly just quit the game when he's outplayed, even if he has a chance of making a comeback. What also doesn't earn points in his favor is that he hardly ever gives out the customary "gg" when he leaves.
Neil Cicierega's "What's Dylan Grillin'?" features a player trying to ragequit the titular game, only for the game to prevent it, leaving the player with the only option of hurling insults at the game.
Holms tends to threaten this, leading to a Lampshading during their first 8-Player run on 7's Neon Heights. By the end of that same episode, everyone but Team Dolphin resigns.
During the group's play-through of Mario Party 2's Space Land (found on Mr. Doom's YouTube channel), Holms' gambit during a duel minigame against Steeler late in the game failed. Holms, who was not having his best game to begin with, then proceeded to take himself out by setting his controller to the Easy-level CPU.
Western Animation
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Discord's reaction to Fluttershy beating his mind games is pretty much this. Up until then, he was treating the task of putting the rest of the Mane Six in a Hate Plague like a game; when someone actually wins, he goes berserk, brute force brainwashes her, and leaves in a huff.
Discord: Oh for goodness' sake! You've been kind for far too long, my dear! TIME TO BE CRUEL! Arrivederci!
It comes back to haunt Discord when he returns in Season 3's "Keep Calm and Flutter On", tired of Discord's pranks despite being the only pony to actually be his friend, Fluttershy throws down her ice skates and trots off in a huff. Discord calls her out on it, saying that it's only because she was his friend that she's doing that. Until he realizes she really was her friend, leading Discord to realize he really was an idiot.
In a Family GuyCutaway Gag, after Brian beat Peter at checkers, Peter took the checker board, put it in the car, drove the car off a cliff and shot at it until it exploded.
In Transformers Prime, Arcee chews out team newbie Smokescreen one time to many. It gets to the point that Smokescreen, having finally had enough promptly leaves the base to "get some air".
Zach Varmitech is the worst rage quitter I've seen in western animation. As long as he thinks there's a chance he can cheat his way to victory (although props to him if he tried to win legitly first, because this is rare), he stays in the game, and is his usual Psychopathic Man Child self. As soon as he sees there is no chance in hell he's pulling it off (which is Once an Episode in the ones he's in), and assuming he hasn't been sent off (like his blimp was popped and he went shooting off in the distance), he'll rage quit with his usual We'll See About ThatCatch Phrase of "I'll get you next time, you Wild Ratts"! Did I mention he has to turn everything into a competiton?
Real Life
Kim Jong-il allegedly died in a fit of rage after being told that the Huichon Dam, which North Korea built too quickly in the wrong place, had suffered leaks and was seriously structurally unsound, making this a real-life example of a rage quit.
A woman who was said to be the greatest miser of her time Hetty Green (aka "The Witch of Wall Street") was also said to have had an apopletic fit while arguing over a money matter.
The page image is from a game of Go. There is an actual technique, called the nuclear tesuji (tesuji stands for a "clever" or "skillful" move), that involves Flipping the Table and uppercutting your opponent after a particularly bad loss. Oddly enough, the act of punching is almost always described as an uppercut, though sometimes hitting your opponent with the board has been considered accepted technique also.
Another Go example: the Crown Prince of Han invited his cousin over for a game. The Prince lost and threw the twenty kilo (forty pound) board at his cousin, killing him and causing the cousin's father to declare war.
This page is for In-Universe and Invoked examples only. If we had examples such as "{Insert Game Here} is prone to ragequitters", you might as well add every game in existence to this list. For your personal experiences with Ragequitting, take it to the discussion page.
