History Main / HeadsIWinTailsYouLose

** {{Inverted}} in [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first game]] with the battle against Leon in Traverse Town, where the story will progress regardless of the result. If you win, you get an "Exhausted Sora" cutscene that has Sora passing out (and Yuffie teasing Leon for losing his touch); if you lose, you simply lose in the cutscene as well. You still get an Exp prize for successfully defeating Leon, as well as an extra reward later on, so it isn't that bad.

* While it doesn't come with a curb stomp after the fight, winning against Mukai in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2003'' results in him standing up, back in his standard battle pose, with your characters remarking (more or less) how you barely scratched him (and sometimes how he even seems unfazed). He leaves afterward, with only a hint of the trouble that's to come.

* ''VideoGame/SonicBattle has an [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] of this during Rouge's boss battle in Tails' campaign, where if you lose or forfeit a special cutscene is show where Rouge regardless gives Tails the pass he needs (along with [[TheTease a kiss on the cheek]])

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 7'' has this in the final boss battle of the story mode [[spoiler:against Kazuya as Heihachi. Losing means starting the battle over. After winning, however, Heihachi dies by Kazuya's hand.]]

** The first game of the series has an {{Inverted}} example with the battle against Leon in Traverse Town, where the story will progress regardless of the result. If you win, you get an "Exhausted Sora" cutscene that has Sora passing out (and Yuffie teasing Leon for losing his touch); if you lose, you simply lose in the cutscene as well. You still get an Exp prize for successfully defeating Leon, as well as an extra reward later on, so it isn't that bad.

** The first game of the series has the battles against Leon in Traverse Town. If you win, you get an "Exhausted Sora" cutscene that has Sora passing out (and Yuffie teasing Leon for losing his touch); if you lose, you simply lose in the cutscene as well. You still get an Exp prize for successfully defeating Leon, as well as an extra reward later on, so it isn't that bad.
*** Similar circumstances apply for Cloud in the Olympus Colosseum, Darkside in the prologue, and Sabor in the Deep Jungle. In these cases, however, the ONLY advantage to winning is the Exp bonus.

* An episode in the final season of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' features Rachel saying this verbatim to Joey, agreeing to stay in New York if he wins the coin toss. When he later mentions losing 26 coin flips in a row to Chandler, there's a beat where it seems he's about to put everything together after saying the rules of the coin toss out loud, but ultimately just Joey realises that he forgot to pick up his dry cleaning.

* In the ''UsefulNotes/DualScreen'' version of ''VideoGame/KungFuPanda2''...