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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Used twice in the same episode. Ulrich sends a text to Sissi, asking to meet her at the garden shed, where she is instead jumped on and licked by Kiwi (a dog) while Ulrich and Odd taunt her. In revenge, Sissi reports Kiwi to the school authorities. Post-RTTP, having learned not to put Odd's dog in danger, Ulrich, Odd, Jérémie, and Yumi prank-date and humiliate Sissi AND Herb, who is an unlucky enough geek as it is and is now left with Sissi's wrath after getting his hopes up. [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic These are the heroes of the story doing this.]]

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* In ''Series/{{Liv and Maddie}}'', this is what [[HollywoodNerd Joey]] believed would happen after a cheerleader asked him to the dance. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when she revealed she was actually interested in him.

* This is what sets in motion the plot of ''VideoGame/UntilDawn''.

* Used twice in the same episode in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Ulrich sends a text to Sissi, asking to meet her at the garden shed, where she is instead jumped on and licked by Kiwi (a dog) while Ulrich and Odd taunt her. In revenge, Sissi reports Kiwi to the school authorities. Post-RTTP, having learned not to put Odd's dog in danger, Ulrich, Odd, Jérémie, and Yumi prank-date and humiliate Sissi AND Herb, who is an unlucky enough geek as it is and is now left with Sissi's wrath after getting his hopes up. [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic These are the heroes of the story doing this.]]

* This happened to Mary Cavanaugh in the 1950s on ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. She was invited to the school dance by the popular boy, only for him and some {{Alpha Bitch}}es to dump (presumably) [[TarAndFeathers molasses and feathers]] on her. Might fall under the Malicious Trap example, as she was never heard from again [[spoiler:although she didn't die]].
* Seen in a home video in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', in which [[WhiteSheep Diane's]] entire family wrote as her penpal "Leo", only to bribe a homeless man to show up and take her to prom. They dubbed it the "Cry-ane" tape, and laugh their asses off every time it plays.

* Used twice in the same episode in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Ulrich sends a text to Sissi, asking to meet her at the garden shed, where she is instead jumped on and licked by Kiwi (a dog) while Ulrich and Odd taunt her. In revenge, Sissi reports Kiwi to the school authorities. Post-RTTP, having learned not to put Odd's dog in danger, Ulrich, Odd, Jérémie, and Yumi prank-date and humiliate Sissi AND Herb, who is an unlucky enough geek as it is and is now left with Sissi's wrath after getting his hopes up. [[MoralDissonance These are the heroes of the story doing this.]]

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* An example that doesn't ''exactly'' fit in any of the types above takes place in ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial 4''. [[spoiler: After repeatedly asking ([[ThirteenIsUnlucky an ominous thirteen times]]), the Protagonist convinces his PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Miyako Okura to go on a date with him. This event boosts her hopes, as she's always been in love with him, [[ChildhoodFriendRomance and now thinks the feeling is mutual]]. However soon after this date, the Protagonist [[SayingTooMuch makes a careless remark]] how Miyako would make a lovely wife for another man. This [[BreakTheCutie shatters her psyche]], as she begins to believe the Protagonist is screwing with her emotions (he isn't), and triggers her transformation into a heartbroken and ''very'' creepy {{yandere}}.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In S04E20, Roger and Hayley go to the mall, and later argue over who a CraigsList Missed Connection is about. They both return to the mall where a frat boy approaches Roger and not Hayley. Roger believes the frat boy finds him to be more attractive than Hayley, but the boy then brings Roger to a pig party at the fraternity. Roger returns home and apologizes to Hayley, and he then dresses as a frat boy and brings Hayley to the pig party as his date.

* Happened to Jacob in Genesis when he works 7 years to marry Rachel, and gets Leah instead, making this trope OlderThanFeudalism.

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' has an AlphaBitch invite Steve to a party, when in reality it was a "Geek Party" in a contest to see who could bring the biggest geek. Laura tells him the truth, which results in Steve calling her out before giving her a goodbye kiss which sweeps her off her feet.

* Happens twice to Beatrice (Betty) Pinzon in the Colombian telenovela ''Series/YoSoyBetyLaFea'':

* In the third Creator/TimDorsey novel, ''Orange Crush'', a lobbyist invites an unattractive staffer with no fashion sense to be his date, only to later reveal that he did this to win a bet with his friends over who could bring the dorkiest date to the party. In front of her. This makes the readers [[JerkassVictim enjoy the fact that he dies at the end of the chapter when a bomb planted in his cellphone blows his head off]].

* Uniquely Subverted in ''Creator/GrantMorrison'' ''[[ComicBook/NewXMen]]'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''BabiesEverAfter''.

* Uniquely ''Subverted'' in ''[[Creator/Grant Morrison]]'' ''[[ComicBook/NewXMen]]'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''[[BabiesEverAfter]]''.

* Uniquely ''Subverted'' in ''[[Creator/Grant Morrisons]]'' ''[[ComicBook/NewX-Men]]'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''[[BabiesEverAfter]]''.

* Uniquely ''Subverted'' in ''[[Creator/Grant Morrisons]]'' ''[[ComicBook/NewX-Men]]'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''[[BabiesEverAfter/Chicken/FlyHybrids]]'' that they adore.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', the former AlphaBitch of Whitey's high school class confesses (in song!) that she told Whitey to meet her at the prom, and he showed up only for her, her real date and all of his classmates to laugh at him, saying they couldn't believe he thought she was serious. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She's not proud of it.]]
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* Uniquely ''Subverted'' in ''Creator/Grant Morrisons'' ''ComicBook/NewX-Men'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''{{BabiesEverAfter/Chicken/FlyHybrids}}'' that they adore.

* Uniquely ''{{Subverted}}'' in ''{{Creator/Grant Morrison's}}'' ''{{ComicBook/X-Men}}'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''{{BabiesEverAfter/Chicken/Fly hybrids}}'' that they adore.

* This was meant to be a Dogfight and ended up a straight up Setup for Humiliation in an ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' bit in which Veronica went with a rich guy to his estate only to find out that she was the last item on the scavenger hunt list, the thing no one else had managed to get: a "townie." Archie and the gang got back at them for that one.

* An episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' was an AffectionateParody of horror and slasher films and featured a high school student being set up for one of these in an apparent gender-flipped homage to Film/Carrie (albeit with the prom date also being in on the prank). It gets set up but is then quickly subverted when the victim's date takes a liking to him and keeps him out of range of the intended trap.

* Uniquely ''[[Subverted]]'' in ''Creator/Grant Morrison's'' ''ComicBook/X-Men'' run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them being ''HappilyMarried'' and having ''BabiesEverAfter/Chicken/Fly hybrids'' that they adore.

* Uniquely [[Subverted]] in [[Creator/Grant Morrison's]] [[ComicBook/X-Men]] run when Angel Salvadore is betted to kiss Beak who looks like a chicken, this ends up with the two of them falling in love and having [[BabiesEverAfter/Chicken/Fly hybrids]] that they adore named after the ''Music/Jackson Five''.