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* ''Website/{{Newgrounds}}'' had a "prize" called Turd of the Week that was given to the Flash submission with the lowest score that passes judgment (calculated as closest score to 1.6 out of 5 after 200 votes, with 1.59 or below being disqualified). The most (in)famous submission to win this award was [[Website/TheClockCrew Strawberry Clock's]] [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/28240 B]]. This was discontinued in 2012 because people were flooding the Portal with crappy submissions just to get the award.

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* ''Website/{{Newgrounds}}'' ''Platform/{{Newgrounds}}'' had a "prize" called Turd of the Week that was given to the Flash submission with the lowest score that passes judgment (calculated as closest score to 1.6 out of 5 after 200 votes, with 1.59 or below being disqualified). The most (in)famous submission to win this award was [[Website/TheClockCrew Strawberry Clock's]] [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/28240 B]]. This was discontinued in 2012 because people were flooding the Portal with crappy submissions just to get the award.
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'''Colonel Korn''': For going around twice. You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

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'''Colonel Korn''': For going around twice. You know, that might be the answer - [[RefugeInAudacity to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of.of]]. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
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** General Kubrik Chenkov, the Imperial Guard's contender for WeHaveReserves incarnate. Every one of his operations costs millions of lives in soldiers since he has no strategy beyond "Throw more men at it", including clearing minefields, but every one of these successes results in another medal on his chest.

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** General Kubrik Chenkov, the Imperial Guard's contender for WeHaveReserves incarnate. Every one of his operations costs millions of lives in soldiers since he has no strategy beyond "Throw more men at it", including clearing minefields, but every one of these successes results in another medal on his chest. Chenkov is also a massive KarmaHoudini who has so far survived all of these frontal assaults in the thick of combat.
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* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' (NES) is one of the earliest examples in video game history for the fact that if you beat the game in a minimalist speed-run instead of making an honest time-consuming grind, Palutena "promotes" you to serve as some kind of Janitor because she believes that you are a lucky fraud for saving Angel Land from Medusa.

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* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' (NES) ''VideoGame/KidIcarus1986'' is one of the earliest examples in video game history for the fact that where, if you beat the game in a minimalist speed-run instead of making an honest time-consuming grind, Palutena "promotes" you to serve as some kind of Janitor because she believes that you are a lucky fraud for saving Angel Land from Medusa.Medusa. It is even worse in the Japanese version, where the worst ending has Palutena ''turn Pit into a Specknose''.
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* ''Series/SOKOPotsdam'': Played for laughs in "Let Live". A suspect does a runner and [[ContrivedCoincidence Henschel and Samir chase him past where an off-duty Luna happens to be waiting to meet a friend for a costume party]]. Luna trips him and then ties him up with the tail from her WesternAnimation/PinkPanther costume. Henschel turns up at the end of the episode with a gift for Luna: the costume tail, framed, as an award for "Arrest of the Year".

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* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Kawasaki's prized possession is his master's very own frying pan, which he got after getting smashed in the face with it.



* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In the Roman Legion, retiring legionnaires were given a parcel of land somewhere in the Empire. In ''Asterix and Caesar's Gift'', a perennially drunken legionnaire is "gifted" with land that happened to contain a certain village of indomitable Gauls...

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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In the Roman Legion, retiring legionnaires were given a parcel of land somewhere in the Empire. In ''Asterix and Caesar's Gift'', a perennially drunken legionnaire is "gifted" with land that happened to contain a certain village of indomitable Gauls...Gauls.



* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'': In a flashback, the Constructicons are given badges of honor by Nominus Prime for their work rebuilding Iacon. Scrapper is deeply honored... until he realizes that every relief worker present is getting the same medal, regardless of their importance or accomplishments. It's just some hokey participation trophy.



** This example provided the former [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starburst.jpg page image.]]



* ''Film/BlackCrab''. Caroline Edh cripples herself and gets most of her fellow soldiers killed to deliver a SecretWeapon that will win the war, because she's been told that her daughter has been found in a refugee camp and is waiting for her at their destination. She's lauded as a hero and given a medal and a promotion [[spoiler:only to be told the story about her daughter was a MotivationalLie and she's delivered a virus that will wipe out most of the civilian population, including her daughter if she's still alive. Lieutenant Nyland also gets a promotion and a medal, when Edh shot him because he was trying to destroy the virus. When Edh finally admits they have to destroy the virus, he points out they don't have weapons. They are however decorated heroes, which they use to bluff their way to the door of the laboratory.]]

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* ''Film/BlackCrab''. ''Film/BlackCrab'': Caroline Edh cripples herself and gets most of her fellow soldiers killed to deliver a SecretWeapon that will win the war, because she's been told that her daughter has been found in a refugee camp and is waiting for her at their destination. She's lauded as a hero and given a medal and a promotion [[spoiler:only to be told the story about her daughter was a MotivationalLie and she's delivered a virus that will wipe out most of the civilian population, including her daughter if she's still alive. Lieutenant Nyland also gets a promotion and a medal, when Edh shot him because he was trying to destroy the virus. When Edh finally admits they have to destroy the virus, he points out they don't have weapons. They are however decorated heroes, which they use to bluff their way to the door of the laboratory.]]



* In ''Film/MenOfHonor'' Carl Brashear deserves a medal for saving a fellow deep-sea diver but the Navy in 1948 can't give an award to an African-American. The medal is given to another diver who fled, leaving his team-mate to drown. Everyone, including those originally hostile to Brashear, show their disgust at the unfairness.
* Frank gets an award similar to Starling's in ''Film/TheNakedGunTwoAndAHalf'', for breaking the record of killing drug dealers in one season. (He admits he accidentally backed his car over the two that put him over; fortunately, [[AssholeVictim they happened to be drug dealers]].) But since he's a CowboyCop, the medal is received like a genuine achievement.

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* In ''Film/MenOfHonor'' ''Film/MenOfHonor'', Carl Brashear deserves a medal for saving a fellow deep-sea diver but the Navy in 1948 can't give an award to an African-American. The medal is given to another diver who fled, leaving his team-mate to drown. Everyone, including those originally hostile to Brashear, show their disgust at the unfairness.
* Frank gets an award similar to Starling's in ''Film/TheNakedGunTwoAndAHalf'', ''Film/TheNakedGun 2½'', for breaking the record of killing drug dealers in one season. (He admits he accidentally backed his car over the two that put him over; fortunately, [[AssholeVictim they happened to be drug dealers]].) But since he's a CowboyCop, the medal is received like a genuine achievement.



* ''Film/PatriotGames'' features a good-natured joke version: After Jack Ryan is injured foiling a terrorist attack in London, Robbie Jackson presents him with the Order of the Purple Target, a medal fashioned in the form of a purple bullseye with the inscription "Please Shoot Me".

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* ''Film/PatriotGames'' features a good-natured joke version: version. After Jack Ryan is injured foiling a terrorist attack in London, Robbie Jackson presents him with the Order of the Purple Target, a medal fashioned in the form of a purple bullseye with the inscription "Please Shoot Me".



* On ''Series/{{Kings}}'', David is the fifth person in Gilboan history to be awarded the Medal of Valor...not for his actions but as an attempt to keep him quiet about other things. Even though he doesn't speak up on them, he refuses to wear the medal and throws it away. This proves important...

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* On ''Series/{{Kings}}'', David is the fifth person in Gilboan history to be awarded the Medal of Valor...not for his actions but as an attempt to keep him quiet about other things. Even though he doesn't speak up on them, he refuses to wear the medal and throws it away. This proves important...



* In ''Series/XCompany'' Gestapo officer Franz Faber is given a commendation and a promotion for supervising the execution of a group of French resistance members who orchestrated the assassination of a German general. However, Faber knows quite well that the executed men were actually just innocent villagers and the massacre was done purely for political reasons to hide the fact that a SS officer confessed to the assassination. Faber agreed to supervise the executions because a refusal could see him arrested and it gave him the power to reduce the tragedy by limiting the executions to only older adult males rather than the entire population of the village. He considers it a deeply shameful action and the accolades he receives for it trigger a HeelRealization and later a HeelFaceTurn.

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* In ''Series/XCompany'' ''Series/XCompany'', Gestapo officer Franz Faber is given a commendation and a promotion for supervising the execution of a group of French resistance members who orchestrated the assassination of a German general. However, Faber knows quite well that the executed men were actually just innocent villagers and the massacre was done purely for political reasons to hide the fact that a SS officer confessed to the assassination. Faber agreed to supervise the executions because a refusal could see him arrested and it gave him the power to reduce the tragedy by limiting the executions to only older adult males rather than the entire population of the village. He considers it a deeply shameful action and the accolades he receives for it trigger a HeelRealization and later a HeelFaceTurn.



* Arguably, the Cross of Glory in the light-sided ending for ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. Sure, you took out Malak, turned the Star Forge into slag, saved your crew ([[spoiler: You can still fail to save Bastila, though]]), and "broke the spirit of the Sith." [[spoiler: Seeing as you ''caused'' the damn mess in the first place during your pre-amnesia tenure as Dark Lord of the Sith]] makes the honor somewhat dubious.

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* Arguably, the Cross ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': The credits will list all of Glory your deaths in each dungeon before displaying your grand total, which will be tacked onto Link's character sprite in the light-sided ending for ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. Sure, you took out Malak, turned the Star Forge into slag, saved your crew ([[spoiler: You can still fail to save Bastila, though]]), and "broke the spirit of the Sith." [[spoiler: Seeing as you ''caused'' the damn mess in the first place during your pre-amnesia tenure as Dark Lord of the Sith]] makes the honor somewhat dubious.file select screen after resetting.



* The dreaded Fizbin of Misfortune, first introduced in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic III'' , made appearances in the first two games of the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' series. Just having it in your possession threw your general's morale and luck to the rock bottom, and the only way to get rid of it until the expansion to ''II'' was to disband the hero currently carrying it[[note]]the expansion, ''Price of Loyalty'', added a map object called Alchemist's tower whose sole purpose is to allow you to remove cursed items for a monetary price[[/note]]. There was [[JokeItem absolutely no upside]] to carrying this item around. However, if you were to dump it in the hands of an expendable rookie hero, who then [[LethalJokeItem suicidally attacked]] the strongest enemy hero...

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* The dreaded Fizbin of Misfortune, first introduced in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic III'' , made appearances in the first two games of the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' series. Just having it in your possession threw your general's morale and luck to the rock bottom, and the only way to get rid of it until the expansion to ''II'' was to disband the hero currently carrying it[[note]]the expansion, ''Price of Loyalty'', added a map object called Alchemist's tower whose sole purpose is to allow you to remove cursed items for a monetary price[[/note]]. There was [[JokeItem absolutely no upside]] to carrying this item around. However, if you were to dump it in the hands of an expendable rookie hero, who then [[LethalJokeItem suicidally attacked]] the strongest enemy hero...hero.
* The Mage's Association of the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' has the Sealing Designation. It is a title of the "greatest honor" for magi who develop [[FunctionalMagic thaumuturgy]] that cannot be recreated as it is inherent to their body. The Mage's Association goes to great lengths to preserve this magic... by vivisecting the magus and preserving every part of their body for future study. Needless to say, the magus in question usually objects... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because they won't be able to study it themselves]].



* Miles Edgeworth isn't thrilled to receive the King of Prosecutors Award in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'''s fifth case, "Rise from the Ashes", because it commemorates his now-regretted career as the [[AmoralAttorney "Demon Prosecutor"]]. Later revelations hint that the Chief of Police knew he would be insulted and gave him the award as part of a larger campaign of humiliation, hoping to break him or drive him out of the office.



* Arguably, the Cross of Glory in the light-sided ending for ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]''. Sure, you took out Malak, turned the Star Forge into slag, saved your crew ([[spoiler: You can still fail to save Bastila, though]]), and "broke the spirit of the Sith." [[spoiler: Seeing as you ''caused'' the damn mess in the first place during your pre-amnesia tenure as Dark Lord of the Sith]] makes the honor somewhat dubious.



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* The Mage's Association of the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} has the Sealing Designation. It is a title of the "greatest honor" for magi who develop [[FunctionalMagic thaumuturgy]] that cannot be recreated as it is inherent to their body. The Mage's Association goes to great lengths to preserve this magic... by vivisecting the magus and preserving every part of their body for future study. Needless to say, the magus in question usually objects... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because they won't be able to study it themselves]].
* Miles Edgeworth isn't thrilled to receive the King of Prosecutors Award in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'''s fifth case, "Rise from the Ashes", because it commemorates his now-regretted career as the [[AmoralAttorney "Demon Prosecutor"]]. Later revelations hint that the Chief of Police knew he would be insulted and gave him the award as part of a larger campaign of humiliation, hoping to break him or drive him out of the office.

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* The Mage's Association of the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} ''Webcomic/ABittersweetLife2014'' has the Sealing Designation. It Bitter Awards, hosted by Bunny, who is a title of known to be brutal with words. Each recipient falls to the "greatest honor" for magi ground before Bunny can even announce who develop [[FunctionalMagic thaumuturgy]] that cannot be recreated as it is inherent to their body. is. The Mage's Association goes to great lengths to preserve this magic... by vivisecting the magus and preserving every part of their body for future study. Needless to say, the magus in question usually objects... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because they won't be able to study it themselves]].
* Miles Edgeworth isn't thrilled to receive the King of Prosecutors Award in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'''s fifth case, "Rise from the Ashes", because it commemorates his now-regretted career as the [[AmoralAttorney "Demon Prosecutor"]]. Later revelations hint that the Chief of Police knew he would be insulted and gave him the
first award as part of a larger campaign of humiliation, hoping to break him or drive him out of is for the office.highest credit card bill, which actually has two recipients. The next award is for most unpaid taxes. The requirements for the grand prize are to text girls twice as much as they text back, always eat dinner at home on Saturdays, and look up one's ex-girlfriend on the internet.
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/12/14 the "Most Useless Motherfucker" award]], given to someone who tries to downplay the problems associated with ''VideoGame/CyberPunk2077''.



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* ''Webcomic/ABittersweetLife2014'' has the Bitter Awards, hosted by Bunny, who is known to be brutal with words. Each recipient falls to the ground before Bunny can even announce who it is. The first award is for the highest credit card bill, which actually has two recipients. The next award is for most unpaid taxes. The requirements for the grand prize are to text girls twice as much as they text back, always eat dinner at home on Saturdays, and look up one's ex-girlfriend on the internet.
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/12/14 the "Most Useless Motherfucker" award]], given to someone who tries to downplay the problems associated with ''VideoGame/CyberPunk2077''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'': After bringing his fully-cooked ribs to the town's cook-off, Blik is told that he'll be winning... the prize for the worst-tasting ribs soaked in rocket fuel. Blik is only content because he got award out of the whole thing.



* Dick Dastardly gave Muttley two such medals on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': the Doghouse Medal and the Royal Order of Sour Grapes ("for having a raisin for a brain").

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* Dick Dastardly gave Muttley two such medals on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', the Doghouse Medal and the Royal Order of Sour Grapes ("for having a raisin for a brain").



* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "The Good, The Bad, and the Ed": Eddy challenges Rolf to try and earn the Urban Rangers' toughest merit badge, the Hairy Chest of Resilience Badge. After losing by ''[[YankTheDogsChain one second]]'', when Edd was convinced he had no chance at all against Rolf, Eddy was given...the Crybaby Boo-Hoo Badge. He's understandably incensed and, despite all but being in traction, demands a rematch.

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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "The Good, The Bad, and the Ed": Eddy challenges Rolf to try and earn the Urban Rangers' toughest merit badge, the Hairy Chest of Resilience Badge. After losing by ''[[YankTheDogsChain one second]]'', when Edd was convinced he had no chance at all against Rolf, Eddy was given...given a complementary prize, the Crybaby Boo-Hoo Badge. He's understandably incensed and, despite all but being in traction, demands a rematch.


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* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'': In one episode, Manny and Frida try to expose Zoe Aves as Black Cuervo in the midst of the school's science fair. After failing, while setting off their lab experiment, they're both given ribbons, Manny receives "participant" while Frida (who started the accusation) gets one saying "You're Suspended".
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** The Nerd has also repeatedly said that ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' for the NES is the absolute worst video game he's ever played due to its ludicrous amount of FakeDifficulty (albeit ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' is the worst in terms of development quality) and that the UsefulNotes/RZone was the worst console he's ever played, for being a ShoddyKnockOffProduct of the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy (though he later said that the LJN Video Art may beat it out, depending on whether you count it as a console or a productivity device).

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** The Nerd has also repeatedly said that ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' for the NES is the absolute worst video game he's ever played due to its ludicrous amount of FakeDifficulty (albeit ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' is the worst in terms of development quality) and that the UsefulNotes/RZone Platform/RZone was the worst console he's ever played, for being a ShoddyKnockOffProduct of the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy Platform/VirtualBoy (though he later said that the LJN Video Art Platform/VideoArt may beat it out, depending on whether you count it as a console or a productivity device).
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Compare and contrast with OverlyNarrowSuperlative and MarkOfShame. MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat is roughly the same thing, but on a national scale. Compare ThinkNothingOfIt, in which the hero might reject accolades for any number of reasons, chiefly {{hum|bleHero}}ility. Might overlap with {{Zonk}} in a game show.

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Compare and contrast with OverlyNarrowSuperlative and MarkOfShame. MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat is roughly the same thing, but on a national scale. Compare ThinkNothingOfIt, in which the hero might reject accolades for any number of reasons, chiefly {{hum|bleHero}}ility. Might overlap with {{Zonk}} in a game show.
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* A regular segment on ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'' was "Worst Person in the World," for whoever Keith had deemed most indefensible that day. [[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]] was the most frequent "winner."

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* A regular segment on ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'' was "Worst Person in the World," for whoever Keith had deemed most indefensible that day. [[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]] O'Reilly was the most frequent "winner."
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** Clan Hell's Horces has the ''Mark Of Hell'', a tattoo that a warrior is given if they were selected to participate in The Branding ritual but failed due to being argumentative, arrogant, or otherwise failing to sufficiently cooperate with the rest of their hunting party. They're expected to cover this tattoo by wearing a black armband, indicating their disgrace to fellow warriors.

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** Clan Hell's Horces has the ''Mark Of Hell'', a tattoo that a warrior is given if they were selected to participate in The Branding ritual but failed due to being argumentative, arrogant, or otherwise failing to sufficiently cooperate with the rest of their hunting party.party[[note]]The ritual is extremely difficult, so failing it for other reasons carries no stigma[[/note]]. They're expected to cover this tattoo by wearing a black armband, indicating their disgrace to fellow warriors.



*** He further awarded the Dragoons' commander a bag containing [[Literature/TheBible thirty pieces of silver]] in "commemoration" of the original Dragoons going native and ultimately working alongside the Inner Sphere to resist the Clan Invasion of 3050. This calculated insult caused the Dragoons to not only [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere immediately storm out of the ceremony]], but even more importantly, Alaric had inadvertently declared war on the Dragoons, and the Dragoons were [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge more than happy to show the ilKhan exactly what an enraged Dragoons looked like.]]

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*** He further awarded the Dragoons' commander a bag containing [[Literature/TheBible thirty pieces of silver]] in "commemoration" of the original Dragoons going native and ultimately working alongside the Inner Sphere to resist the Clan Invasion of 3050. This calculated insult caused the Dragoons to not only [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere immediately storm out of the ceremony]], but even more importantly, Alaric had inadvertently declared war on the Dragoons, and the Dragoons were [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge more than happy to show the ilKhan exactly what an enraged Dragoons looked Dragoon looks like.]]
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* Louie Anderson-hosted episodes of ''Series/FamilyFeud'' gave out trophies for "Dumb Answer of the Day" if a contestant came up with a truly horrific guess on a survey question.

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* Louie Anderson-hosted episodes of ''Series/FamilyFeud'' gave out trophies for "Dumb Answer of the Day" if a contestant came up with a truly horrific guess on a survey question. On at least one occasion, a trophy was taken back because an answer was on the board.
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* Getting any of the endings in ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'' awards you with a corresponding certificate. All the certificates aside from the Certificate of Completion (for getting the GoldenEnding) and the Lorekeeper certificate (for finding 3 specific {{Easter Egg}}s,) however, fall under this, including a Certificate of Mediocrity (for sitting on your hands and doing absolutely nothing for the entire game,) a Certificate of Bankruptcy (for running out of money,) a Blacklisted certificate (for getting at least 3 lawsuits per day) and a Certificate of Insanity (for stumbling upon ''another'' specific EasterEgg that causes the higher-ups to decide that [[HeKnowsTooMuch You Know Too Much]] before institutionalizing you as a cover.)

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* Getting any of the endings in ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'' awards you with a corresponding certificate. All the certificates aside from the Certificate of Completion (for getting the GoldenEnding) and the Lorekeeper certificate (for finding 3 specific {{Easter Egg}}s,) however, fall under this, including a Certificate of Mediocrity (for sitting on your hands and doing absolutely nothing for the entire game,) a Certificate of Bankruptcy (for running out of money,) a Blacklisted certificate (for getting finishing the game with at least 3 lawsuits per day) 50 RISK) and a Certificate of Insanity (for stumbling upon ''another'' specific EasterEgg that causes the higher-ups to decide that [[HeKnowsTooMuch You Know Too Much]] before institutionalizing you as a cover.)
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-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Oh, I am honored! And, at the same time, humiliated. So thank you, and ''[[CatchPhrase curse you]].''

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-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Oh, I am honored! And, at the same time, humiliated. So thank you, and ''[[CatchPhrase curse you]].''curse you.''
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Scavenger Vortex", the fact that Raj has slipped everyone the gold coin they were all searching for in said scavenger hunt basically amounts to this. Needless to say the contestants aren’t thrilled about his little “we’re all winners when we’re having fun” lesson, especially since the competition really brought out some nasty things about them and all for a booby prize.

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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Scavenger Vortex", the fact that Raj has slipped everyone the gold coin they were all searching for in said scavenger hunt basically amounts to this. Needless to say the contestants aren’t thrilled about his little “we’re all winners when we’re having fun” lesson, especially since the competition really brought out some nasty things about them and all for a booby prize.participation award.
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** The awardee is disappointed that [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers they didn't win first place]] or another more coveted prize.

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** The awardee is disappointed that [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers they didn't win first place]] or another more coveted prize.prize, even to the point of [[RejectingTheConsolationPrize rejecting it]].
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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode The Scavenger Vortex, the fact that Raj has slipped everyone the gold coin they were all searching for in said scavenger hunt basically amounts to this. Needless to say the contestants aren’t thrilled about his little “we’re all winners when we’re having fun” lesson, especially since the competition really brought out some nasty things about them and all for a booby prize.

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* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode The "The Scavenger Vortex, Vortex", the fact that Raj has slipped everyone the gold coin they were all searching for in said scavenger hunt basically amounts to this. Needless to say the contestants aren’t thrilled about his little “we’re all winners when we’re having fun” lesson, especially since the competition really brought out some nasty things about them and all for a booby prize.
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** He was ''so'' mad, in fact, he had to be bound and gagged like Hannibal Lecter from Film/SilenceOfTheLambs to make him even ''stay'' on the podium for the award ceremony, and when [[BigGood All Might]] ''tried'' to put the medal on him he budged his nose and then ''bit into'' the medal ribbon so it won't go around his neck, and was still chewing into said ribbon-like an angry mad dog when class returned to homeroom that day.

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** He was ''so'' mad, in fact, he had to be bound and gagged like Hannibal Lecter from Film/SilenceOfTheLambs ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'' to make him even ''stay'' on the podium for the award ceremony, and when [[BigGood All Might]] ''tried'' to put the medal on him he budged his nose and then ''bit into'' the medal ribbon so it won't go around his neck, and was still chewing into said ribbon-like an angry mad dog when class returned to homeroom that day.
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** Fallen Star (Silver Star) is for [[GeneralFailure "dereliction in the line of duty"]] is for [[spoiler:failing to sacrifice Alex]] and [[spoiler:Alex not fulfilling his role as the sacrifice]].

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** Fallen Star (Silver Star) is for [[GeneralFailure [[DirtyCoward "dereliction in the line of duty"]] is for [[spoiler:failing to sacrifice Alex]] and [[spoiler:Alex not fulfilling his role as the sacrifice]].

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* [[https://stellaawards.com/ The Stella Awards]], named "in honor" of 79-year-old Stella Liebeck, who bought a cup of coffee from [=McDonald=]'s, held it between her knees in the passenger seat of her parked grandson's car and splashed said (180-190 F, 82-88 C) coffee on her legs as she pulled the lid off, resulting in [[BodyHorror third degree burns over 6% of her body requiring extensive skin grafts]], including her [[GroinAttack groin]], then sued [=McDonald=]'s for the cost of her medical care -- [=McDonald=]'s then devoted masses of money to slandering her name rather than paying out, unfortunately resulting in the case becoming the textbook example for a FrivolousLawsuit while it was anything ''but''. The full case and outcome is listed in the synopsis for the book "The True Stella Awards", which is no longer compiling any more of these kinds of suits.
* The UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s. Some recipients are good sports (and/or [[OldShame agree that the "award" is well deserved]]) and avert the trope.
** Creator/HalleBerry had the good grace to actually collect her award in person for ''Film/Catwoman2004'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7s_yeQuDg with her Oscar statuette in tow]]. She even made a suitably effusive and weepy speech, as if she was winning the Oscar again; writer Michael Ferris also showed up to win his, thanking the boosted DVD sales by hating audiences.
** Tom Green went there for ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'', [[InsultBackfire considering it an honor]]; even bringing a red carpet.
** Creator/BillCosby had his Razzie made from marble and gold at the studio's expense when he "won" for ''Film/LeonardPart6'' [-(the awards are typically made from materials that are worth ''less than five dollars'' in total)-].
** Creator/PaulVerhoeven also went to the ceremony for his ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' "honors" (and stated: "I got seven awards for being the worst, and it was more fun than reading the reviews").
** Creator/SandraBullock handed out a free copy of [[Film/AllAboutSteve the offending movie]] to everyone in the audience. Then she won an Oscar ''the very next day'' (for ''Film/TheBlindSide'').
** When Brian Helgeland won a Screenwriting Oscar for his adaptation of ''Film/LAConfidential'', a reporter asked if he would accept the Worst Screenplay Razzie he "won" the day before (for ''Film/ThePostman''). He said "Sure, why not?" and the Razzies founder went to Helgeland's office to give it to him. Reportedly he keeps them side by side on his shelf in his office as a reminder of Hollywood's fickleness.
** The only other person who won both awards the same weekend besides Bullock and Helgeland, composer Music/AlanMenken, proudly received his Worst Original Song Razzie for ''Film/{{Newsies}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTreDSnKE4Q in 2020]], and [[http://www.alanmenken.com/m/awards/ his website]] also shows his "nomination" for the same award for ''Film/RockyV''. [[https://twitter.com/aimenken/status/765626279651663872 And lyricist Jack Feldman requested his statue]] so he could display it alongside the Tony won by the stage adaptation of ''Newsies''. ([[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/alan-menken-goes-for-the-egot-and-the-regot/?_r=0 Menken has mockingly said he's only an Emmy short of a "REGOT"]] [[HilariousInHindsight which he has since finished]]).
** Creator/TomSelleck requested delivery of his award for ''Christopher Columbus the Journey''.
** Some go there as a protest. J.D. Shapiro, one of the screenwriters of ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', received the Worst Screenplay statue at a radio show, and went to the actual ceremony to pick up the award for Worst Picture of the Decade, because he was fired from the movie in early production stages due to ExecutiveMeddling.
--->'''[[http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmfpw80Xc7aO/0 J.D. Shapiro]]:''' Now, looking back at the movie with fresh eyes, I can't help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest.
** Creator/BarryPepper has said that if he knew he was going to win for his role in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', he would have gladly shown up to accept it in person.
** Creator/BenAffleck jokingly complained on the radio about not receiving his Worst Actor award for ''Film/{{Gigli}}'' (plus ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''Film/{{Paycheck}}''). So later Affleck was given the statuette in Larry King's show, and proceeded to pull it apart saying "it's a little cheap". The trophy was then put up on eBay, and its income paid the theater used for the following year's ceremony.
** David Eigenberg [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvHfeoCTAy0 did a video]] to receive "Worst Screen Ensemble" for ''Film/SexAndTheCity 2'' because "he never won an award of any kind and if this was what he won, he would accept it."
** Jamie Dornan said he would've attended the ceremony where he won Worst Actor for ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' had he been invited, so Conan O'Brien [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_S7pI78YEc delivered Dornan his Raspberry]] as he promoted the final film of the trilogy.
** Once ''Film/{{Baywatch}}'' won the kinda positive "[[SoBadItsGood Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It]]", Creator/DwayneJohnson [[https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/970443476935499776 took to Twitter to celebrate it]].
** Dinesh D'Souza appeared in the video announcing ''Hillary's America'' as the winner of four Razzies (three for himself, Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Actor), saying that it was chosen out of petty revenge for Donald Trump's election, while adding that being recognized negatively was better than an Academy Award because "my audience loves the fact that you hate me."
** In a case where the actor didn't go to receive, but took the message to heart, Creator/EddieMurphy [[https://theplaylist.net/eddie-murphy-razzies-acting-break-20210308/ said he worked less during the 2010s]] because being chosen as the Worst Actor of the 2000s made him decide to take a break.
* The Chinese equivalent of the Razzies, the Golden Broom Awards, has seen winners appear to receive their trophies, [[https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2018/03/29/golden-broom-awards/ such as an actor who took the "prizes" won by his directorial debut as stimulus to improve himself]].
* ''Esquire'' magazine's annual Dubious Achievement Awards. The publishers' decision to discontinue the awards after 2008 was itself regarded as a dubious achievement by many of ''Esquire'''s readers.
* The Ig Nobel awards are normally not this -- they are given out to research that sounds silly but is actually very useful (for example, new insights on structural failure gleaned from research into how a piece of dry spaghetti snaps). However, they are also sometimes given as a criticism, such as the Medicine award that was given to several tobacco company executives who testified under oath that they believed that nicotine was not addictive; the Mathematics award given to Enron, [=WorldCom=] et al "for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world"; Volkswagen's award in chemistry for "solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested"; and the Literature award given to the editors of ''Social Text'' due to their part in the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Sokal Affair]]. Most winners who are actual researchers do, in fact, collect their awards at the annual ceremony. The TakeThat targets don't.
* Browse through the ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'' book sometime. There are records in there that few people should want to have, such as "Most Facial Prosthetics" or "Largest Kidney Stone". Jonathan Lee Riches, who won the World Record for "most lawsuits" by filing hundreds of [[FrivolousLawsuit Frivolous Lawsuits]] from prison, [[http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/washington/waedce/2:2009cv00154/47562/ sued the Guinness Book of World Records]] to the surprise of absolutely no one.
** Guinness ended up having to "retire" quite a few records because they felt they were encouraging people to endanger themselves (or their pets--The category of "fattest pet" was retired under allegations of people purposefully abusing and overfeeding their animals) or for accomplishments that could become illegal in extremes (squick-worthy example being youngest pregnancy).
* Dutch TV used to have a consumer show which gave a golden acorn award (noting that the Dutch word for acorn, ''eikel'', also means [[strike:"idiot"]] "dickhead") to companies that had particularly poor consumer service. In a subversion of the trope and owing something to the Dutch cultural mindset, these companies' [=CEOs=] would often appear in person to accept the award and promise a change for the better.
* Another popular Dutch show, ''Kopspijkers'', had an award that changed name every season, but was essentially given to the worst thing seen on TV. The evangelical broadcasting station that literally reduced an entire class of children to tears by trashing the gifts they bought for each other to give a rather convoluted message about not having sex before marriage was a memorable winner. So was the dubious but famous medium, who was displeased with the host and said that she was receiving the number 10 from the other side. Said host later left the left-wing public broadcasting station for a billionaire's pet project channel named Talpa, originally named Ten. His career never really recovered from that move. Huh, guess the other side is pretty vengeful.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striscia_la_notizia Italian parody news show 'Striscia la Notizia']] has the Tapiro D'Oro (Golden Tapir), a statuette made to look like the eponymous animal on a wooden stand (which is nonetheless [[StyrofoamRocks made entirely out of polystyrene]]) that is awarded and delivered on camera to politicians, celebrities, sports people and so on that have experienced then-recent defeats or notable humiliations of some kind, under the reasoning that the people in question are likely wearing a "long face" over their ordeals, enche the award's name. Most anticipate recieving the "prize" and are good sports about it, while some range from not-so-graceful to downright hostile about being approached.
* The Purple Heart medal receives a mixed welcome from various members of the American military. Some see it as rewarding failure, while others see it as proof that you're willing to put your life on the line. Some recipients jokingly refer to it as the "Enemy Marksmanship Medal". Most would nonetheless probably personally favor not ever being eligible to receive the medal (which is to say, not get harmed in combat.)
** Similarly, the Prisoner of War Medal was debated in the United States for over a decade before it was established, as some felt that receiving an award for being captured was shameful and embarrassing. However, it was ultimately passed, awarded to anybody taken prisoner in a combat situation (later expanded to also include being taken hostage by terrorists) and who behaved honorably in captivity, retroactive to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI April 5, 1917]]. Like the Purple Heart (which can also be awarded to anybody injured while in enemy captivity), it shows that the recipient went into harm's way.
* There have occasions of people getting military medals despite not having earned them. The objective is to avoid admitting a mistake was made or the military needs good publicity. This often overlaps with BlingOfWar in communist nation-states.
* When the names on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List Nixon's Enemies List]] was revealed, Creator/PaulNewman and journalist Daniel Schorr stated (separately) that inclusion on the list was their greatest accomplishment. Ironically, Schorr announced the revelation live on television as part of his news report, not realizing that he was on the list until he came to his own name.
* Similarly, the Nazis had a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_(list) secret list]] of prominent British people to be arrested in case of a successful German invasion and occupation. Several of the people included such as playwright Creator/NoelCoward considered it an honor to be included.
* The Lowsman trophy (punning off of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisman_Trophy the Heisman Trophy]]), a statuette of a player fumbling a football, is awarded annually to the last player selected in the NFL draft. The player is also awarded the title "Mr. Irrelevant" and invited to Newport Beach for a parade and humiliating roast.
** Ironically, as most teams use those late-round picks to select players best suited for Special Teams needs, whoever gets tabbed "Mr. Irrelevant" might actually garner a decent career in the league. Ryan Succop, 2009's Mr. Irrelevant, was the starting kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs when they won Super Bowl LV a decade later. [[http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/where-are-they-now-catching-up-with-20-different-mr-irrelevant-draft-picks There have been other notable "winners"]].
* Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (D - NE) wasn't proud of his Medal of Honor (awarded for a routine SEAL action for essentially political reasons) and Bronze Star (supposedly for wiping out a VC base; actually a village of civilians including children).
* The Music/SexPistols certainly saw their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this way, and chose instead to not attend, scrawling [[http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/feature/sex-pistols-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-letter-2006 an obscenely-worded note detailing just how insulted they were by the honor.]]
* Gamespot, until 2012, devoted a whole section for this in their year-end awards, "Dubious Honors", where all but one award ("Best Game No One Played") are bad achievements. Awards vary, but every year included "Most Despicable Use of [[ProductPlacement In-Game Advertising]]", "Most Disappointing Game", "Worst Game Everyone Played", and "Flat-Out Worst Game".
* Likewise, Series/XPlay has The Golden Mullet Awards for the worst games of the year. The award is named after the first game to receive a 1 out of 5, ''Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}: Battle for Atlantis''.
** They also hosted a segment recognizing games they couldn't give a full review on because the producers refused to allow a 0 out of 5.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repugnant_battle_honours_of_the_Indian_Army Repugnant Battle Honours]]: battle honours won by Indian regiments of UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire for actions relating to the subjugation of India.
* Fact-checking website [[https://www.politifact.com/ PolitiFact]] has "Lie of the Year" awards that are given out to the most infamous false claims that they have covered that year.
* Creator/InsomniacGames has the [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/Snowbeast_Award Snowbeast Award]] ([[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/Y.E.T.I.#Behind_the_scenes picture here]]), given out to whichever employee at the studio made the worst aspect of a game that shipped over the previous year. Each recipient, what they made, and what game it's from, is written on its base.
** The Snowbeast Award got its name and model in honor of what inspired it: the [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/Y.E.T.I[=.=] Y.E.T.I.s]] on the snowy Planet Grelbin in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', infamous DemonicSpiders for being [[LightningBruiser fast (both in movement and attack speed), durable]], [[MookChivalry unchivalrous]], and [[MultiMookMelee abundant]]. Tony Garcia coded what shipped with Grelbin, including the Y.E.T.I.s that earned him the first Snowbeast Award; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB-iWq0IhH4 according to him and Mike Stout]], Tony coded the whole level in about ''three days''. Newly-hired Insomniacs playing the company's backlog would show up to work in bad moods after reaching Grelbin, and once they found out Tony made the level, they made sure to let him know; at first he thought it was funny, but it eventually got tiresome. Because of that, Nathan Fouts, another Insomniac employee, requested the Y.E.T.I. model from Insomniac's art department, which he used to sculpt a real-life model for what would become the Snowbeast Award. Tony, once he received the award, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny found it and the effort Nathan went through to make the joke hilarious]], and appreciated it becoming a joke around the office in following years.
** The next recipient is "[=RC3=] - Carl Rocket Turret", referring to Carl Glave and the [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/%27Noid_missile_station 'Noid missile station]] from ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal''. These turrets are DemonicSpiders for their missiles' awkward projectile trajectory; they fly in a gentle path upwards and [[FakeDifficulty out of your view]] before barreling directly downwards, throwing off when you would expect to have to dodge them. If the shot doesn't land on Ratchet's head, it hits the ground and emits a fast shockwave which must be jumped over.
** Next is "RCB - Moo Insect Samurai", which, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH9S7NSA9xY according to Moo Yu]], is the [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/Tremor Tremor]] enemy from ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked''. Moo reasons it's because of the large lunge that they do when attacking, though he also notes that since ''RAC'' encourages not sitting still and Tremors are [[GlassCannon fairly frail]], they're not as bad as the award would make them out to be.
** The first non-''Ratchet & Clank'' example is "IX - Drew Mines"; this is referencing the mines from ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}: Fall of Man'', made by Drew Murray.
** Sean Wissler received this for the creation of [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/Percival_Tachyon Percival Tachyon]] from ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction''.
** Daniel Gonzalez earned the Snowbeast Award for the Daedalus in ''Resistance 2''.
** Mark Stewart got it for the Glider Challenge in ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive''.
** Billy Parmenter received this for the Blarg Turrets in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'' - likely for the oddly finicky hurtbox enemies using them receive unless you use the Groovitron.
** Johnny Barnes was awarded this for ice floes in ''VideoGame/EdgeOfNowhere''.
** Additionally, Shaun [=McCabe=] said in a 2019 tweet that the Snowbeast Award would be presented during the week of [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]], in regards to ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' - but who received it and what for doesn't seems to have been announced.
* One anecdote in ''Literature/TheIllusionOfLife: Disney Animation'' mentions that story meetings that weren't successful would have other storymen bestow the "Bomb of the Week" (or Big Bomb Award for Worst Sketch of the Week) award on the drawings. A "1st prize" likewise existed if the storyboard was approved.
* Interesting, even the biggest awards in a field can become this. There are certain awards from the big award shows that some people are a little suspicious of because of a track record that they might be cursed. A couple:
** Best New Artist at the Grammys: The award is notorious for its completely erratic track record. You either go to soaring new heights (like Music/TheBeatles or Music/MariahCarey) or your career tanks afterwards. In particular, the category has had a lot of {{One Hit Wonder}}s and acts that were briefly big but couldn't sustain longterm success (Music/MenAtWork is probably the best example). Almost every Best New Artist winner is asked afterward if they're worried about the curse. More specifically, the 1990 award, which was awarded to Music/MilliVanilli and was later revoked. They had planned to give the award to one of the other nominees (Neneh Cherry, Music/IndigoGirls, Soul II Soul, or Music/ToneLoc), but none of them wanted it.
** Best Supporting Actor and Actress at the Oscars: Louis Gossett Jr. said, after his win, that he felt it was something of a double-edged sword. While he did have an Oscar to his credit, he said he felt like he was trapped in a strange gray area where smaller productions don't think they can afford you (since you're an Oscar winner) and big productions don't think you can carry a film on your own (since you're a Supporting Actor). In particular, Best Supporting Actress has attracted a reputation for having a Best New Artist-like curse. While Supporting Actor often goes to well-known men in lesser roles (it's the category in which Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/RobinWilliams won their Oscars), Supporting Actress has had a striking number of obscure character actresses who didn't do much noteworthy work after their wins (Beatrice Straight, Brenda Fricker, Mercedes Ruehl).
** Most "Car of the Year" awards are similarly erratic. The Simca 1308 beat out the first BMW 3-series for the 1976 European COTY, for instance.
* ''Magazine/{{People}}'' magazine puts out annual Best and Worst Dressed lists, the latter supposed to be this Trope. Sometimes a subversion, with some second and third Worst Dressed recipients often expression public displeasure at not having the number one spot.
* UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat really loved medals of this type. In 1709, he "awarded" (in absentia) an "Order of [[ObviousJudas Judas]]" to Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa for betraying him and siding with Swedish king [[UsefulNotes/CarolusRex Charles XII]]. In 1714, he introduced the [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Za_pjanstvo.jpg Drunk Medal]], a huge chunk of cast iron (weighing between 9 and 18 pounds), to be worn for a week as a punishment for being a VodkaDrunkenski.
* When Finland ended up fighting alongside Nazi Germany to recover territory lost to the Soviet Union during the Winter War, their ranks included Jewish officers. Some of them received the Iron Cross, one of Nazi Germany's highest awards, which they all told the Nazis where to stick.
* The Bad Sex In Fiction Prize, awarded annually by ''Literary Review'' to the writer who has produced [[IkeaErotica the worst sex scene]] in literature that year. A notable nomination in 2010 (though not the eventual 'winner') was a passage from UsefulNotes/TonyBlair's memoirs about sex with his wife on the night after his predecessor as Labour Party Leader died; the nomination was a double insult to Blair, implying not only bad writing on his part but also dishonesty in the rest of the book, as it bears repeating, this prize is an award for bad sex in ''fiction''.
* SF fandom has (or had) the Hogu Awards, a parody of the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s with such categories as Worst Fanzine Title, Best New Feud, Most Desired Gafication (or in non-fanspeak, the person the voters would most like to leave fandom - in a bonus parody of the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund that sends British fans to the US and vice versa, the winner of this award is said to be eligible for the ''Mid''-Atlantic Fan Fund) and Special Devo Award for Harm to Science Fiction. The Hugo is a statuette of a space rocket on a wooden plinth; the Hogu is a wooden plinth with a scorch mark on top.
* The Golden Poo from consumer-awareness website ''The Consumerist'' is given to the "Worst Company in America," as selected by site voters. Creator/ElectronicArts got the dubious honor (along with the resulting hit in stock and the need to send CEO John Riccitiello [[CreatorKiller packing]]) two years in a row back in 2012 and 2013, and Bank of America has been a contender for the award ever since the website has been running the contest.
* Italian football has Bidone d'oro, the golden trashcan, which is given to the "worst" player in Serie A. This award has only been given to top club players, so it's really closer to biggest disappointment. France also has Ballon de Plomb, the lead ball, for the most disappointing player in Ligue 1.
* The UsefulNotes/TourDeFrance awards the Red Lantern (La Lanterne Rouge) to the rider who came in last. The award is named after the red light that used to shine on the rearmost car of a train. Cyclists who fell hopelessly behind on the race would actually compete with each other for this award, as "winning" would at least get your name in the papers, and get you invited criteriums, which could be rather lucrative. Not to mention that winning the Red Lantern means at least the cyclist ''finished'' the race, which given the overall distance of 3500 kilometers many participants fail to do.
** [[http://rouleur.cc/journal/riders/chris-juul-jensen-paris-roubaix-anecdote-lanterne-rouge This article]] describes Lanterne Rouge (in Paris-Roubaix, one of the most important one-day races in the world), and [[http://www.bicycling.com/2014-tour-de-france/how-tough-are-tour-de-france-riders this article]] describes what riders try to go through to finish a race like this.
** Giro d'Italia used to award a black jersey to the rider who was last in the GC between 1946 and 1951.
* Cambridge University students who graduated with a "third-class honour" (the lowest passing grade for an honour's degree program) were once given a wooden spoon. The spoon got bigger and bigger with every passing year, and by the time they banned it in the early 1900s, the thing was two metres long.
** In many sports, the team that finishes in last place on the ladder/table at the end of a season is said to have won the wooden spoon.
* Similar to the above, the cadet at West Point who graduates with the largest number of demerits is granted the title of "the goat". This is not purely an example of this trope, though, since a fair number of people consider it quite impressive to be able to get into that amount of trouble and not get expelled in disgrace. While there is no official award, it is customary for the rest of the graduating class to pay the goat a dollar. Since the graduating class at West Point is usually about a thousand people, it makes a pretty nice prize.
* Each year, the French soccer magazine ''France Football'' awards the "Golden Ball" (Ballon d'Or) to the best player in the world over the season. And each year, the French satirical site ''Les Cahiers du Football'' responds by awarding the "Lead Ball" (Ballon de Plomb) to the worst player of the French soccer league. Some awardees take it better than others. They also reward the "Lead Mic" (Micro de Plomb) to the worst soccer commentator on French Television − and there is ''serious'' competition on that one.
* UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel, famed daredevil of TheSeventies, is listed in the ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'' for "most bones broken in a lifetime" (433).
** Since there are only ''206'' bones in the human body, Evel had to have broken several of them multiple times.
* Any movie that manages to land on a list of the biggest {{Box Office Bomb}}s in terms of the amount of money lost. The current (as of 2013) leaders are ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' and ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior''.
* School yearbooks sometimes go with this with the "Most Likely To" categories. While most of the awards tend to be the usual "Most Likely To Succeed" type awards, some yearbook committees can parody the concept with stuff like "Most Likely To End Up In Prison" or "Strangest Haircut." Others are a deliberate joke poking fun at a particular student's quirks, like a Civil War buff being voted "Most Likely To Secede."
* Some [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_decorations_awarded_to_members_of_the_United_States_military American [=POWs=]]] sentenced to [[WorkingOnTheChainGang forced labor]] in WWII UsefulNotes/NaziGermany managed to get the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Merit_Medal War Merit Medal]]'' for "high production" or performing above the standards expected of an enemy prisoner.
* Wearing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_decorations_of_the_Nazi_Party political decorations of the Nazi Party]], awards directly associated with the SA or SS, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Occupation_Medals occupation service medals]] directly associated with the expansion of Nazi Germany in the 1930s is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a forbidden in modern Germany]].
* On Dutch television, there's an annual award ceremony for the best TV advertisement, the Gouden Loeki (Golden Loeki, after the animated lion that served as the mascot for the national advertisement broadcasting foundation). Its counterpart is the Loden Leeuw (Lead Lion), for the year's most annoying ad.
* The movie poster website impawards.com has an annual tradition where they vote for both the best and worst posters of the year in several categories and genres. There's also a third section, not part of the official picks, where they award various tongue-in-cheek prizes for things like "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Best Review From a Dead Dictator]] Award" or "Least Romantic Poster for a Romance Movie".
* The [[http://covercafe.com/contest.shtml Annual Romance Cover Contest]] includes a "worst cover" category. There's been at least one case of an author ''lobbying for her own book'' in this category as a way of pointing out her lack of input on the art.
* At one Felix Award ceremony (Felix Award being UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}'s version of the Grammys), Music/CelineDion was awarded ''Best English-Speaking Artist'' given that she just began her successful streak in the English market after having spent her early years singing only to French markets. She said in her speech that the title ''English-Speaking Artist'' doesn't suit her (owing to her Francophone roots) and thus she rejected the award. This apparently caused that particular category to be subsequently known as ''Most successful artist performing in a language other than French''.
* In Germany exists a ''extremely'' persistent rumor that if you manage to receive your Abitur (Highschool Graduation certificate) with exactly 4.0 (the worst mark possible since a 4.1 means you failed), you would win a car. It is unclear where the rumor originates from, but bad students are infamous for attempting to at least get the 4.0 for this reason. Considering that the student needs to get '''exactly''' 280 points (5 points in each course), it is needless to say that most candidates not only don't get a car but also no certificate.
* The French ''Légion d'Honneur'' has become this for some people. Created by Napoléon in 1802, it was initially the greatest honorific distinction, awarded to those who achieve great service for France. Nowadays though, it is better known as "the award of the President's friends", given away to people who didn't do much to deserve it (including… the Prince of Saudi Arabia). As such, it is often refused by people who either don't want to be associated with the government in any way or reject the idea of that award entirely.
* The ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}} Award is granted to the French official who has perpetrated the year's most high-profile failure.
* ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' bestows the Order of the Brown Nose (OBN) upon people who engage in egregious sycophantic praise. There are also three annual awards or sets thereof announced at Christmas or New Year:
** The ''Nooks and Corners'' architecture columnist "Piloti" awards the Sir Hugh Casson Medal for the Worst New Building of the year. (It's named after an architect whom Piloti despised because in his later years he routinely took a fee to give evidence in favour of demolishing worthwhile buildings.)
** ''Rotten Boroughs'', the local government column, presents a set of awards to local councillors, senior council staff, etc. that it has reported on throughout the year. The categories vary from year to year but have included e.g. "Tory Bigot of the Year", "Jailbird of the Year" and "Nepotism Award".
** The ''Literary Review'' column presents the Christmas Log-Rolling Awards for the most blatant examples of log-rolling (i.e. writers trading favours by praising each other's books) and other such disreputable practices in newspapers' and magazines' "book of the year" pieces.
* [[https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/26/texas-junior-high-student-gets-most-likely-to-become-a-terroris/22111238/ This story]] proves that this sort of thing is ''not'' as funny in reality than in fiction. (To make it even worse, the "award" was given right after the terrorist attack in Manchester, Great Britain, where 22 people were killed.)
* While not intentionally handed out, one dubious yet frequent occurrence at the Series/EurovisionSongContest is the phenomenon of a country somehow not receiving points from any of the other countries. As an inverse to the famous "douze points" (12 points) awarded to a country's top pick, this distinction (as coined by longtime British commentator Sir Radio/TerryWogan) is referred to as "nul points" (this, of course, is not proper French, but leave us not pick at straws). Thirty-nine songs over the years have received it.
** This wasn't an uncommon phenomenon in the contest's early years. Given a voting system that only favored a country's top five, this left many songs that weren't necessarily bad, but couldn't quite finish in the top five, to languish. At least one country received ''nul points'' every year from 1962 to 1967. In fact, from 1962 to 1965, four countries each year shared last place. Notable occurrences include 1963 (where almost every Nordic country received ''nul points'', even [[TheAce Sweden]], along with the Netherlands - the one major exception being Denmark, who won the whole thing with a fair deal of support from their Nordic neighbors), 1964 (where Portugal became the first country to score ''nul points'' for their debut entry), and 1966 (where one of the two recipients was Italian singer Domenico Modugno, responsible for two stone-cold Eurovision classics in "Volare" and "Piove (Ciao, ciao, bambina);" it was also the sole ''nul points'' for both Italy and Monaco).
** Following a similar fate for usually-successful Luxembourg in 1970, precautions were taken to ensure no country could finish that low again. A system from 1971 to 1973 required juries to award points to every song that year, so while a country could still come in last, it was never with nothing (as poor Malta found out when their first two entries both bottomed out the scoreboard). Then 1975 saw the introduction of the 12 points system that's more or less been used in variations ever since. People thought ''nul points'' were still basically a thing of the past...until 1978. That was when Norway sent singer/comedian Jahn Teigen and his song "Mil etter mil" to represent them in Paris, France. Apparently disgruntled at the way his song had been arranged for the contest (loud and brassy as opposed to the smooth country-rock tune he intended), Teigen decided that if that's the way his song was to be played, he'd perform accordingly. And thus, we got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVj8tlXQ1Vg this masterpiece]], a perfect storm of bizarre choices regarding performance, vocalization, and, er, wardrobe, with a hefty dose of LargeHam on top of it all. It ended the night with nothing, making Teigen something of a Eurovision folk hero (and, indeed, he competed on two more occasions), but that would've been the end of it. Until...
** 1981 saw Norway once again bottom out the scoreboard with ''nul points'', this time for folk singer Finn Kalvik and his composition "Aldri i livet." A fairly chintzy number (despite production assistance from Bjorn Ulvaeus of Music/{{ABBA}}), its fate combined with that of Teigen and Anita Thallaug (who scored ''nul points'' under the old system in '63) established Norway as the "''nul points'' country," which took Norway some time (and a win in 1985) to shake off (to a degree, but that's for later).
** 1982 to 1983 saw more countries take ''nul points'', with Finland's punk song "Nuku pomiin" by Kojo doing so in 1982 and the double whammy of Spain's "Quien maneja mi barca" by Remedios Amaya (an intense, let's charitably say interestingly-sung flamenco number) and Turkey's "Opera" by Cetin Alp and the Short Waves (what do you think it sounds like?) doing so in 1983. After a few more charitable years, the same fate once again befell Turkey's Seyyal Taner in 1987, Austria's Wilfried in 1988, Iceland's Daniel in 1989, and (once again) Austria's Thomas Forstner in 1991. Wilfried's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKcQb3ZEG4 "Lisa Mona Lisa"]] was voted by Eurovision fans to be the worst song to receive ''nul points'' in 2003. (For what it's worth, Remedios Amaya was deemed the best).
** There were sporadic occurrences throughout the rest of the '90s. Lithuania, one of seven debuting (largely Eastern European) countries in 1994, scored ''nul points'' for their first-ever entry (a distinction it shares with Portugal), leading them to withdraw until 1999. 1997 saw two countries do so, one being Portugal and the other being - you guessed it! - Norway, a year after a highly successful hosting gig in Oslo. Switzerland's Gunvor, who by the time of the contest had become a Swiss tabloid fixture, worsened her hometown reputation by earning ''nul points'' in 1998. That was that for a few years, until...
** 2003 saw a triple whammy for the United Kingdom's ill-fated Jemini and "Cry Baby." It was the first British entry to finish last, the first British song to score ''nul points'', and the first English-language song to receive no points (also, it remains the only Eurovision performance on this very site's DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible page for music). The duo blamed several causes for their failure, including non-functioning monitors preventing them from hearing the backing track (and therefore starting the song in the wrong key, which they barely recovered from before the end of the song), and - in relation to that - sabotage by other contestants. Terry Wogan believed it may have been a result of "post-Iraq backlash," but the common counterpoint was that the song just kinda stunk.
** The introduction of the semi-finals in 2004 should theoretically have made ''nul points'' even harder to achieve, as now most countries have to earn their place in the final as opposed to just being there by virtue of their score the previous year. However, the very first year of the semi-final saw Switzerland earn ''nul points'' for Piero and the MusicStars' "Celebrate" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUX3_0KM7fc here's why - proceed with caution]]) and 2009 saw the Czech Republic's Gipsy.cz and "Aven Romale" also finish their semi-final with nothing, leading them to withdraw until 2015. And speaking of that year...
** 2015 saw not one, but two countries achieve ''nul points'' in the final.. Austria and Germany's infamous mutual Eurovision hate-crush combined with nothing from the other juries meant that both Austria's Makemakes and Germany's Ann Sophie ended the night with ''nul points.'' This made Austria the first host country to finish with no points (not the first to finish last on home ground - the Netherlands did it in 1958 and Portugal would do it in 2018), as well as tying it with Norway and Switzerland as the country to most frequently receive the dreaded score. Interestingly, Austria isn't officially listed as finishing last, despite its shared lack-of-score: due to current tie-break rules, ties are broken by placing the country that performed earlier over the country that performed later, so Germany is officially listed as finishing last.
** Since 2016, the voting system has been changed so that each country now awards two separate scores, one from the jury vote and one from the televote. 2021 was the first year to see an overall ''nul points'' result since the change, with the United Kingdom's entry, "Embers" by James Newman, being awarded zero points in both votes. Since the voting change also meant that "zero points" was officially announced as opposed to being skipped over, the UK had to suffer the humiliation of sitting through said announcement twice.
** Obtaining zero points in just one of the jury vote or televote rounds is more frequent; since 2016, two songs have received no points from only the jury vote (Spain in 2017 and Israel in 2019) and six songs have received no points from only the televote (The Czech Republic in 2016 and Austria in 2017, Germany in 2019, and three songs in 2021). It has also appeared in the semi-finals several times: 2017 saw no televote points for Malta and no jury points for San Marino, for example.
** Between 1997 and 2021, the Eurovision fan site House of Eurovision and later Songfestival.be awarded the Barbara Dex award for the worst-dressed contestant of the contest. Its namesake, the Belgian entrant for the 1993 contest, wore a self-made, semi-transparent dress that many found to be kitschy. Songfestival.be tried to scrub the dishonor by changing the criterion to "most striking look" in 2019, but eventually found that the negative associations were too much and discontinued it in 2022, instead replacing it with a more straight-forward award meant to promote creativity, diversity and positivity on the stage, named [[StealthPun You're A Vision Award]].
* The French [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:G%C3%A9rard Gérard]]award is essentially their version of the Razzie awards (and a parody of the César movie trophies, but where a César is a golden statuette, a Gérard is a cinderblock), given as a TakeThat to politicians and TV/movie stars with highly evocative categories like:
** "Gérard for Talking So Much About How Well He Did As A Local Elected Official That You Want To Tell Him To Stay In His Dump Of A Backwater"
** "Gérard for Best Presidential Bootlicker And When We Say Boots It's A Euphemism"
** "Gérard for Best Use Of Her Husband's Connections To Boost Her Career"
** "Gérard for Best Actor Who Should Really Have Stayed A Stand-up Comedian"
** "Gérard for Best Singer Who's Gone Into Acting, Or The Other Way Around, In Any Case He's Bad At It"
** "Gérard for Best Movie Where It's Explained To You That Racism Is Bad"
*** Slight Inversion - "Gérard for Best Singer/Actor Who's Pretty Reasonable In Both, But We Wish They'd Make A Bloody Decision As To What They're Best At"
* As of January 2019, British Conservative Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TheresaMay has two dubious honours of overseeing the biggest ever defeat for a democratic government in the Commons (for her Brexit deal, 432 noes to 202 ayes, a difference of 230) and being the first government in British history to be held in contempt in parliament (for defying a vote to release legal documents related to Brexit).
** Her successor, UsefulNotes/LizTruss, failed even harder; [[ShortLivedLeadership she only lasted]] ''50 days'' in office, with the death of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII happening only ''two days'' after her election. Aside from the mourning period, Truss' time in office was defined by absolute chaos as she failed in attempts to lower runaway inflation (largely by cutting taxes for the rich, a move she was roundly criticized for) and the inability to control her own party, with 19 October [[https://youtu.be/e-AgqBHjhA8 providing an absolute goldmine for the news media]] in the aftermath of a failed confidence vote. Things got so bad that the ''Daily Star'', a [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers red-top tabloid]], began livestreaming video of a head of lettuce to see if Truss would outlast it; ''[[EpicFail the lettuce won]]''.
* The title of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-word_of_the_year Unwort des Jahres]] ("''Un-word of the Year''") is annually awarded to the most annoying or politically incorrect neologism, euphemism, or buzzword that has appeared in German media.
* When {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} broadcast its first ever [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] game in 2021, a playoff matchup between the New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears, the network introduced a special edition of their [[https://www.desipio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/EracOh5W8AAqW8S.png Nickelodeon Valuable Player]] award. Instead of being the usual weekly trophy, this NVP was supposed to go to the best player of the game, selected by an online fan vote ''a la'' the Super Bowl MVP. However, when the game turned out to be a [[CurbStompBattle predictable, one-sided Saints victory]], [[PeripheryDemographic millions of adult fans watching Nick's broadcast over the standard CBS one]] thought it would be funny to go to the website and vote for Mitchell Trubisky, the Bears' underperforming quarterback. Despite Nick's multiple attempts to reset the poll, Trubisky won the NVP in what turned out to be his final game in Chicago.
** Amazingly, the next year's playoff NVP almost flipped into a genuine honor. This time, Nick aired a rivalry matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers, and when the underdog 49ers jumped out to an early double-digit lead, fans raced to recreate the NVP magic by voting ''en masse'' for Cowboys QB Dak Prescott. Come the fourth quarter, though, the momentum started swinging Dallas's way, as they put up 10 unanswered points to pull within striking distance of the lead--and, amazingly, Nick announced Prescott as the NVP right before the Cowboys' defense made a crucial stop to give Dak the ball for one last drive with no time-outs and the season on the line. [[HopeSpot The offense took the field, Dak threw methodically up the field to get into San Francisco territory]]...and then, with 14 seconds left, [[ThirdActStupidity Dallas had Dak run straight up the middle for a first down, then failed to line up and spike the ball before time expired]]. Just like that, the Cowboys were eliminated, and not only did Dak's NVP become ironic again, it became a booby prize for the whole team's boneheaded mistakes throughout the game.
** For the Christmas game between the Denver Broncos and the Los Angeles Rams, it seems Nick came prepared to avert this trope. They released the poll once it was clear the Rams were delivering a CurbStompBattle to the tune of 51-14. The poll only had Rams players, and the award went to starting QB Baker Mayfield. For some fans, the award was a sign of how Baker pulled his career out of the fire[[note]]Long story short: was traded from Cleveland to Carolina for a pittance. After badly underperforming for a dysfunctional team, he was cut. He was then claimed on waivers by the Rams, and he won them several games standing in for the injured Matthew Stafford.[[/note]], while others were disappointed they couldn't vote for Broncos QB Russell Wilson (who had an awful season, to put it mildly – to the point of getting roasted by [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Patrick Star]] [[https://youtu.be/nl4f0yNcWrI in the broadcast for a bad interception]]).
* Sister Andre (Real name Lucile Randon), a retired French nun born in February 1904, became the oldest living person in France on October 19, 2017, and is currently the oldest living person in the world as of April 19, 2022. When she found out about the latter, Randon stated that she thought it was a "sad honor" that everyone born before her has now died.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Awards Ernie Awards]] are Australian awards for comments deemed misogynistic, held annually. They are named after former Australian Workers' Union secretary Ernie Ecob, who was known for his misogynistic remarks. One of his best-known remarks was "Women aren't welcome in the shearing sheds. They're only after the sex", which is why there is a sheep on top of the Gold Ernie.
* The ever-popular Website/DarwinAwards, which is given to those who remove themselves from the gene pool through their own stupidity. While it's a type 1, the ridicule is often posthumous, as "removing oneself from the gene pool" often means the recipient got a bad case of dead because they thought some incredibly stupid action was a good idea. Past winners include:
** A devout missionary who went to the banned Sentinel Island to preach about Jesus to an uncontacted tribe who not only kill all visitors but also speak a totally unknown language.
** A livestreamer who attempted to climb Mount Fuji in winter, in street clothes, without any safety/climbing gear, and while complaining about how slippery/steep/dangerous the path was, slipped and fell to his death while thousands of viewers watched.
** A soldier who removed a ballistic plate from his body armor so he could carry his laptop instead.
** Too many people whose last words were "Hold my beer."
* ''Film/KarateAMuerteEnTorremolinos'' won 4 Godoy awards (Spanish equivalent to Golden raspberries) for art direction, special effects, wardrobe and make-up/hairdresser (the only nomination in this last category); and was nominated to three others: Worst movie, director and writing.
* In Sweden, there exists the Johnny Bode award, named after the controversial singer and fraudster. The award is given to celebrities or organizations which have "acted in Johnny Bode's spirit" by creating a scandal and continually making mistakes in a seeming lack of self-awareness. The prize is that the jury that decided on the recipient splurge on a party among themselves at a public location, then send the recipient the receipt and bill alongside a diploma.

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** For the Christmas game between the Denver Broncos and the Los Angeles Rams, it seems Nick came prepared to avert this trope. They released the poll once it was clear the Rams were delivering a CurbStompBattle to the tune of 51-14. The poll only had Rams players, and the award went to starting QB Baker Mayfield. For some fans, the award was a sign of how Baker pulled his career out of the fire, while others were disappointed they couldn't vote for Broncos QB Russell Wilson (who had an awful season, to put it mildly – to the point of getting roasted by [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Patrick Star]] in the broadcast for a bad interception).

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** Between 1997 and 2021, the Eurovision fan site House of Eurovision and later Songfestival.be awarded the Barbara Dex award for the worst-dressed contestant of the contest. Its namesake, the Belgian entrant for the 1993 contest, wore a self-made, semi-transparent dress that many found to be kitschy. Songfestival.be tried to scrub the dishonor by changing the criterion to "most striking look" in 2019, but eventually found that the negative associations were too much and discontinued it in 2022, instead replacing it with a more straight-forward award meant to promote creativity, diversity and positivity on the stage, named [[StealthPun You're A Vision Award]].




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** In "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes," the "Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence" is kind of one, although no one but Burns and his lawyers realize it. It's a made-up award invented by Burns as an excuse to give Homer—whose results from a routine physical showed that he had become sterile after years of radiation exposure—a $2000 check to forestall any future medical lawsuits, while ensuring he wouldn't read the fine print. So essentially it's an award for being infertile.

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** In "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes," the "Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence" is kind of one, although no one but Burns and his lawyers realize it. It's a made-up award invented by Burns as an excuse to give Homer—whose results from a routine physical showed that he had unwittingly become sterile after years of radiation exposure—a $2000 check to forestall any future medical lawsuits, while ensuring he wouldn't read the fine print. So essentially it's an award for being infertile.impotent.

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