History Main / LetsSeeYOUDoBetter

* In the Dressrosa Arc in ''Manga/OnePiece'', Cavendish responds to the audience's jeers toward Rebecca prior to their colosseum match by telling them to get in the arena, saying they have no right to mock her while she risks her life and they do not.
* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'': In one confrontation with Gluttony, Mustang's fire attack [[NoSell proves ineffective]] because [[spoiler:Gluttony has activated his internal failed gate and so just absorbs it]]. Ed insults him for being useless, prompting Mustang to snap back that ''Ed'' should do something, then. Ed does actually manage to do somewhat better, but not without some running and hiding and he still [[spoiler:gets "eaten"]].

* ''ComicBook/TheBatmanStrikes'': Late Night show host Corwin O'Dooley dares a heckler to host his show. Unfortunately, the heckler is ComicBook/TheJoker.

* Fanfic/WhatIfJJonahJamesonWasSpiderMan has a variation of this, with the premise having the eponymous spider bite J. Jonah Jameson instead of Peter

* In response to the ''Sonic Genesis'' PortingDisaster of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' to the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, modder Simon "Stealth" Thomley ported ''Sonic'' to the GBA (adding the Spin Dash and Tails and Knuckles as playable characters) to prove it could be done properly.

* Jim Sterling of ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' has been told this after criticizing some buggy, poorly made games that were slapped together using unaltered video game assets and sold on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. Their response was to point out that they indeed could not make a decent video game, but nor were they trying to, whereas many games were mediocre and buggy, but developers tried to sell them anyway.

* ''Series/RadioEnfer'': Mr. Giroux once makes two contests where two students would be able to become either principal or psychologist for a day, replacing Giroux and Jocelyne respectively, so that students can see how hard it is to be in their shoes. Vincent becomes the principal for a day, while Camille becomes the psychologist because of Jean-Lou submitted her name. At the end, after Vincent is unable to do anything productive, [[spoiler:Giroux appears with an Étudiants debout! newspaper he made himself where he criticizes the student's incompetency before admitting the whole point of this contest was so that Vincent would know what it's like to be criticized after a day of work like that]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode, "Dances With Smurfs", Cartman is appointed to the morning announcements, and relentlessly and mercilessly picks apart everything Wendy does (and doesn't) as a class president. As her way of asking Cartman if he could do better, Wendy simply resigned from her spot and let Cartman take over. This actually got Cartman to shut up, as he was prepared to only criticise, not ''act''. One morning of being class president (which as it turns out has no power over the school) and being heckled the same way by the replacement announcer is enough to break him.

Just imagine if this were applied to all forms of criticism: "You think I don't do a good job raising my own children, and you think their grandparents should handle them? How can you even say that when ''you've'' never been a parent?" "You think this cake tastes bad and is undercooked? How can you even say that when ''you've'' never been a chef?" Clearly, you need not be good at something yourself in order to be able to tell whether someone else is good or not. This objection is rarely (if ever) raised to deflect ''positive'' criticism, but very few people are particularly inclined to reject positive criticism or praise in the first place, regardless of the source.

* In response to the ''Sonic Genesis'' PortingDisaster of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' to the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, the modder Stealth ported ''Sonic'' to the GBA (adding the Spin Dash and Tails and Knuckles as playable characters) to prove it could be done properly.

** Quite the same thing happened to Pierre Pairault, a French dentist, whose wife once was reading a Sci-Fi story. She found it so bad that she told her husband: "Even you would do better!" Pairault gave it a try, then another. From 1956 to 1959, he wrote (under the name of Creator/StefanWul) eleven novels, most of which are now considered classics of French Sci-Fi literature. Two of them were [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted to the big screen]] (''Animation/FantasticPlanet'' and ''Animation/TimeMasters''), and [[ComicBookAdaptation a series of comics]] covering all his work is currently being published.
* Criticisms of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' will often be met with, 'well, let's see ''you'' write a bestseller.' It turns out that [[MovingTheGoalposts they won't actually care if you've written anything or not]], as when [[Creator/StephenKing an author who met this criterion]] criticized ''Twilight'', fans were quick to declare that [[YoureJustJealous he was just jealous]] because he hadn't written anything popular lately. [[Literature/UnderTheDome Even]] [[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree though]] [[Literature/TheWindThroughTheKeyhole he]] [[Literature/{{Joyland}} has]].

-->'''Stewart:''' You're on Creator/{{CNN}}! The show that leads into me is [[Series/CrankYankers puppets making prank phone calls]]! What is ''wrong'' with you?

* [[http://tropesmirrorwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page The Trope Wiki]] was founded as a StartMyOwn version of this very wiki because one of the Admins of Website/TVTropes challenged the founder of the Trope Wiki with the line, "If you think you can do better, then let's see you try." So he did.

* In-universe example in ''Literature/RamonaQuimby, Age 8'': After Ramona and Beezus [[PickyEater refuse to eat]] their [[StockYuck cows' tongue]], their parents have them cook the next night's dinner. It turns out surprisingly well, and they learn to appreciate their mother's hard work in the kitchen.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBatman The Batman Strikes]]'': Late Night show host Corwin O'Dooley dares a heckler to host his show. Unfortunately, the heckler is ComicBook/TheJoker.

* This is essentially how U.S. Senators Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) got elected. They became vocal and well-known opponents of what the U.S. government (mostly its Republicans, but neither shied away from calling out Democrats, either) was doing. America's collective response was essentially this trope; ''their'' response was 'Okay!'[[note]]Warren, at least, had been a key architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, financial lawyer, and professor of contract law before her election. Franken was a ''comedian''.[[/note]]

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* This has been the basis of Democrats' defence of the Affordable Care Act: Want Obamacare repealed and replaced? Replaced with what? During the first year after Obama left office, there were several attempts to replace the bill, all of which have failed due to not offering any effective replacement option for the millions of Americans who depended on the ACA for health insurance. It's noteable that unlike most instances of this trope, in this case the people who were being told to offer something better actually ''were'' people who were in positions that it was reasonable to expect them to do so, namely Republican lawmaker.

** Linus criticized Lucy for making messy o's in tic-tac-toe, and when Lucy dares him to do better, he makes an ornate O with precise calligraphy that a professional could not do better.

* Wynton Marsalis on ''[[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert's Hiphopketball: A Jazzebration]]'': "You should be a music critic."