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• Straight: Bob is upset when Alice beats him at shooting.
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob is upset when Alice beats him at every sport and game they play together.
  • Carol is upset she lost to Alice.
• Downplayed: Bob is upset when Alice beats him, but still acts like a good sport and congratulates her.
• Justified:
  • Alice is more skilled or more experienced than Bob at the games they play.
  • Bob is an 8 year old boy. Alice is a highly trained adult woman.
• Inverted:
  • Alice, member of an Amazon Brigade, is upset when Bob beats her at arm wrestling.
  • Alice is offended that the Bobbi is more feminine and a better dancer than she is.
  • Bob only respects woman who can beat him in a sport.
• Subverted: Alice comes close to beating Bob, but Bob comes out on top in the end.
• Double Subverted: Alice reveals that she let Bob win.
• Parodied: Bob is upset that all women can beat him at any sport.
• 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.
• Averted:
  • A female and a male never compete together.
  • A male and female compete together, but the issue of gender is never brought up.
• Enforced: "We need to teach An Aesop that some girls can be good at sports."
• Lampshaded: "Bob is gonna mope for days after this..."
• Invoked: "There's nothing more humiliating to a man than losing a competition to a woman."
• Exploited: Charlie always places bets on Alice winning the competitions.
• Defied:
  • Bob trains extra hard so that no one can beat him at anything.
  • Or Bob decides there's no reason to be upset just because he was beaten by a girl.
• Discussed: "You ever notice how some guys get so upset over a girl beating them at something?"
• Conversed: "This is the part where Alice humiliates Bob."
• Deconstructed:
  • Bob's defeat of Alice has made him a laughing stock to everyone, even his friends and family. Now, he's thinking of taking his own life as a means escape from this great humiliation.
  • Bob's defeat of Alice has made him into a Straw Misogynist.
  • Bob's defeat of Alice has driven him into severe wrath to the point where he savagely beats her to death, showing no remorse for his actions.