History Main / ThatOnePlayer

* ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'', a crossover between [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]] and Manga/SailorMoon, has Nanoha perform so well on the Sailor Moon arcade game that she maxes out her score and reaches a KillScreen.

* In MOBA games you are ''expected'' to be this or you will be raged at by your team if your skill at the game falls short of this. Understandable since one sub-par player can drag the entire team down but that doesn't make the communities of these games any less unpleasant.

* The Founder and leader of the [[Arma2]] clan Shack Tactical, known as Dslyecxi is famous for his uncanny ability to take down ridiculous amount of enemy soldiers solo through a combination of stealth and manipulating game psychology, to the point that a running gag within the group is dslyecxi being a hacker and players ingame calling 'dslyecxi watch' when he is known to be in the area.

* In VideoGame.TeamFortress2, competitive level Scouts run through enemy ranks Scattergunning and Back-capping everything in sight. Competitive Soldiers have the tendency to blast the shit out of any player in their way. Competitive Demos won't let the enemy team go NEAR an objective. Competitive Snipers often are accused of aimbotting and are a no. 1 source of ragequitting. There's a trend going on here...

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': the main characters take up ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', but finds 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 fat guy.

* In ''TeamFortress2'', competitive level Scouts run through enemy ranks Scattergunning and Back-capping everything in sight. Competitive Soldiers have the tendency to blast the shit out of any player in their way. Competitive Demos won't let the enemy team go NEAR an objective. Competitive Snipers often are accused of aimbotting and are a no. 1 source of ragequitting. There's a trend going on here...

* In ''TeamFortress2'', competitive level Scouts run through enemy ranks Scattergunning and Back-capping everything in sight. Competitive Soldiers have the tendency to blast the $#!+ out of any player in their way. Competitive Demos won't let the enemy team go NEAR an objective. Competitive Snipers often are accused of aimbotting and are a no. 1 source of ragequitting. There's a trend going on here...

* In Team Fortress 2, competitive level Scouts run through enemy ranks Scattergunning and Back-capping everything in sight. Competitive Soldiers have the tendency to blast the $#!+ out of any player in their way. Competitive Demos won't let the enemy team go NEAR an objective. Competitive Snipers often are accused of aimbotting and are a no. 1 source of ragequitting. There's a trend going on here...

That One Player describes someone who has played a game so much, discovered all the secrets, knows all the moves, hell, he might as well have gotten the timing down to the point where he plays with almost super human reflexes. However, this ruins the fun of everyone else who plays with or against that one guy because he's so skilled, he's either doing all the fun parts or able to take on an army of adversaries without breaking a sweat. Of course, That One Player could also be [[GamerChick a woman]], which may be even more embarrassing (arguably). However, sometimes being That One Guy can be a talent for entertainment, when he can show off his inhuman skills.

->''"Of course, the problem with playing alone is that when you do finally get your mates around, suddenly you turn into ''that guy.'' Don't pretend you don't know what I mean. That guy who's so much better than everyone because he plays it on his own, the loser."'''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', on '''''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'''''

-->--'''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', on '''''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'''''

--> '''God:''' Who's this guy who always beats my ''{{Pong}}'' high scores?

* Makoto Kousaka from ''{{Genshiken}}'' is like this with ''all'' video games, but his skill at fighting games (up to and including ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'') makes other otaku quake.

-->--'''[[ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', on '''''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'''''

* Ami Mizuno in ''SailorMoon'' manages to be this ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome on a game she has never played before]]''. She's just ''that'' smart.

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* ''Fanfic/WhiteDevilOfTheMoon'', a crossover between [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]] and SailorMoon, has Nanoha perform so well on the Sailor Moon arcade game that she maxes out her score and reaches a KillScreen.

* [[HowIMetYourMother Marshall Eriksen]] has a preternatural skill for board games, such that he can deduce the rules of a complex foreign gambling game just by watching others play for a few minutes, despite not understanding what the players are saying. His friends assigned him to [[KickedUpstairs officiate their game nights rather than playing]], because otherwise he'd win every time.

* The FightingGameCommunity has a small number of individuals who are just so many cuts above the rest that the title race in every tournament seems to be among them ''alone''.
* The TournamentPlay scene for the original ''StarCraft'' and its ExpansionPack had the ''bonjwas'', players with incredible streaks of dominance in the top Korean tournaments.

* Isai is particularly memetic for his skill at ''SuperSmashBros 64'', while "Ken" is known as the best Melee player.

* ''SouthPark'': the main characters take up ''WorldOfWarcraft'', but finds 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 fat guy.

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.

* Makoto Kousaka from ''{{Genshiken}}'' is like this with ''all'' video games, but his skill at fighting games (up to and including ''PuyoPop'') makes other otkau quake.

* Makoto Kousaka from ''{{Genshiken}}'' is like this with ''all'' video games, but his skill at fighting games (up to and including ''PuyoPop'') makes other otkau 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".

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* If you beat ''IWannaBeTheGuy'' on the hardest setting, you're instantly this, even if you use the save glitch near the end, which most (which is exactly 2) people have.

* {{LordKat}}, formerly of ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. He beats insanely hard games (some deliberately so, more often those with FakeDifficulty) mainly through being a {{Determinator}} about never giving up. This means he's defeated games which have induced UnstoppableRage in other internet reviewers. And yet even he couldn't beat some games, as he admitted in his [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/lk/uww/25951-top-10-worst-game-requests Top 10 Worst Game Requests]].

* Isai is particularly memetic for his skill at ''SuperSmashBros 64'', while "Ken" is known as the best Melee player.

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* Makoto Kousaka from ''{{Genshiken}}'' is like this with [[strike: fighting games]] ''all video games'', if his complete demolition of his girlfriend at Puyo Pop is any evidence.
** He demolishes ''everyone'' at videogames. She just wanted to try one of his hobbies.

* Pablo "DJ [[FinalFight Mike Haggar]]" Bert from [[http://speeddemosarchive.com Speed Demos Archive]] qualifies, as he holds the run for BattleToads, and he plays it almost perfectly. And it's not a tool-assisted speedrun either because he clearly makes a few mistakes.

** Bear in mind, he beat games like ''{{Battletoads}}'' and ''BayouBilly'' and called them too easy.

* Konata Izumi of ''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}} owned Konata-- but with such razor thin of a margin that she knew it was Konata who ''let her win''!

That One Player, though, may not necessarily mean a [[StopHavingFunGuys stop having fun guy]] or the other way around. Nor is he ThatOneBoss, though if he was a boss, he would be.