History Main / ThatOnePlayer

* Posters on Website/FourChan's video game board sometimes post about their (fictional) encounters with the MemeticBadass player known only as "Gregor", who joins a server and proves to be frighteningly competent at whatever role he chooses to play: offense, healing, whatever, and somehow knows exactly how to coordinate with his teammates in every situation despite [[HeroicMime never using any voice or text chat]].

* Nestov in ''{{Series/Tracker}}'' was this with one of the video games in the Watchfire. He could analyze the math and patterns well as a Dessarian, according to Cole. He was making bets and money off it.

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* ''Anime/NoGameNoLife'': Sora and Shiro. Through teamwork, and years of experience from never leaving their house they are the greatest game players in the world to the point that they catch the God of Games' attention and win an invitation to his world where everything is based on games.
* ''Anime/OnePunchMan'': King can beat very hard games one handed and trounces the protagonist on every game they play. His badassery in videogames is contrasted, in turn, with all the badassery people ''[[BadassOnPaper think]]'' he has in real life.

* ''LightNovel/BottomTierCharacterTomozaki'': Fumiya Tomozaki, the main character, is Japan's number one player of the PlatformFighter [[FictionalVideoGame Attack Families]]. Of course, the reason he is so good at the game is that he is bad with dealing with real life, meaning he basically puts all his free time into the game. When Aoi Hinami, number two player, who happens to be a classmate at his school, finally meets him, she doesn't like the idea of her WorthyOpponent having NoSocialSkills.

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* Konata Izumi of ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is seen playing a fighting game at an arcade in one episode. She beats a guy, much to his dismay of finding out who beat him. A strip similar in idea was: since she is [[OlderThanTheyLook excessively short]], the other {{tomboy}} misjudged her ability and got owned. On the next day, that other tomboy beat Konata -- but within such a razor-thin margin that she knew that Konata ''let her win''!
* Ami Mizuno in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' manages to be this on a game she has never played before, ''twice''. First a platforming game in the original series and then a fighting game ''at a tournament'' in the ''Stars'' series. She's just ''that'' smart.
* Makoto Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' is like this with ''all'' video games, but his skill at fighting games (as well as ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'') in particular makes other otaku quake.
* In ''Manga/AiKora'', ClosetGeek Yukari is secretly a fan of video games, and likes to unwind after final exams by going to the local arcade incognito and getting a high score on all her favorite games under the alias "Fantazma".
* Sora and Shio in ''Anime/NoGameNoLife'' turn this UpToEleven. Through teamwork, and years of experience from never leaving their house they are the greatest game players in the world to the point that they catch the God of Games' attention and win an invitation to his world where everything is based on games.
* King from ''Anime/OnePunchMan'', who can beat very hard games one handed and trounces the protagonist on every game they play. His badassery in videogames is contrasted, in turn, with all the badassery people ''[[BadassOnPaper think]]'' he has in real life.
* Fumiya Tomozaki, the main character of ''LightNovel/BottomTierCharacterTomozaki'', is Japan's number one player of the PlatformFighter [[FictionalVideoGame Attack Families]]. Of course, the reason he is so good at the game is that he is bad with dealing with real life, meaning he basically puts all his free time into the game. When Aoi Hinami, number two player, who happens to be a classmate at his school, finally meets him, she doesn't like the idea of her WorthyOpponent having NoSocialSkills.

* Fumiya Tomozaki, the main character of ''LightNovel/BottomTierCharacterTomozaki'', is Japan's number one player of the PlatformFighter [[ShowWithinAShow Attack Families]]. Of course, the reason he is so good at the game is that he is bad with dealing with real life, meaning he basically puts all his free time into the game. When Aoi Hinami, number two player, who happens to be a classmate at his school, finally meets him, she doesn't like the idea of her WorthyOpponent having NoSocialSkills.

Not to be confused with TheOneGuy, a trope about one male character in an otherwise all female cast. Or with the concept of "[[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/That_guy That guy]]", a tabletop player who ruins the experience for everybody else through creepiness, powergaming, poor hygiene, or general unpleasantness.

* Konata Izumi of ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is seen playing a fighting game at an arcade in one episode. She beats a guy, much to his dismay of finding out who beat him. A strip similar in idea was: since she is [[OlderThanTheyLook excessively short]], the other {{tomboy}} misjudged her ability and got owned. On the next day, that other {{tomboy}} beat Konata -- but with such a razor-thin margin that she knew that Konata ''let her win''!
* Ami Mizuno in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' manages to be this on a game she has never played before, '''''twice'''''! First a platforming game in the original series and then a fighting game ''at a tournament'' in the ''Stars'' series. She's just ''that'' smart.
* Makoto Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' is like this with ''all'' video games, but his skill at fighting games (as well as ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'') makes other otaku quake.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': the main characters take up ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', but find it unplayable because a griefer has leveled up so high that even the admins can't ban him. As you can see, IRL he's just a PerpetualFrowner, morbidly obese BasementDweller.

Some video games have a "handicap" option to either make a certain player weaker or everyone else stronger, purely to keep ThatOnePlayer from restricting other players' fun... or [[ItsEasySoItSucks their own]], for that matter.

%% ''Film/TheWizard'' features two of these, Jimmy and Lucas. Arguably Lucas is more of ThatOnePlayer as Jimmy just seems to have his skills as an ExcusePlot.

* Death both is this and is stymied by one in ''Series/GoodOmens'', as the other Horsemen find him playing a video game in the diner where they all meet. The high scores list consists entirely of himself, except for the absolute top player, [[Creator/TerryPratchett T Pratchett]], whom he cannot seem to beat - by a margin of one point. [[note]]According to Creator/NeilGaiman, this was included so that [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments his dear friend Terry, who passed away before the series was made, could beat Death]].[[/note]]

* reallyjoel's dad (an in-joke of Creator/DanielRemar and the eponymous reallyjoel, which developed into a RunningGag of his games) is a MemeticBadass version of ThatOnePlayer. reallyjoel's dad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfM3vtVlCTw is said to play]] at ToolAssistedSpeedrun level, and several games use reallyjoel's dad mode as an [[UnwinnableJokeGame over-the-top, literally impossible difficulty setting,]] as he's the only person who could beat it.