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Not to be confused with not letting that [[VideoGame/MegaManX X]] win.
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* At the 2014 and 2015 editions of ''Series/EurovisionSongContest'', amidst disasters between UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} and UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} around the same time, the crowd at these events were clear in that they didn't want Russia to win. In 2014, loud booings were heard when Russia qualified from the semi-final and whenever they recieved a high amount of points. The following year, Russia happened to be one of the favorites, meaning it was at the top of the scoreboard several times, which led to the crowd not caring about who would actually win (it was UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}), as long as Russia did not come out on top.
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* UsefulNotes/NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick actually invoked one in the form of a bounty in 2020 after Kyle Busch, who also owns a race team in it, won his seventh straight start in the Truck Series. Gander Outdoors, the title sponsor of the Truck Series, matched it, putting the total bounty at a hundred thousand US dollars. Chase Elliott succeeded in claiming it the first time of asking.

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* UsefulNotes/NASCAR UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} driver Kevin Harvick actually invoked one in the form of a bounty in 2020 after Kyle Busch, who also owns a race team in it, won his seventh straight start in the Truck Series. Gander Outdoors, the title sponsor of the Truck Series, matched it, putting the total bounty at a hundred thousand US dollars. Chase Elliott succeeded in claiming it the first time of asking.
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* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', the four employees of the Liebe Girls' Academy salon compete in a Blume election to decide which one will become Lady Blume and issue a decree. It soon becomes clear that the race is between Mitsuki and Sumika, and they are rather close. Kanoko, who has an unrequited love for her friend and Mitsuki's schwester Hime, offers to make a deal with Sumika: in exchange for Kanoko's vote(employees' votes are worth 90 regular votes), Sumika will use her decree to dissolve the schwester system. Sumika, however, bluntly refuses, telling Kanoko to give up on Hime and promising to use her power to make the schwester bonds permanent. Kanoko is dejected, but votes for Sumika anyway, causing her to win by a margin of 118 votes, simply because she doesn't want Mitsuki to win.

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* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019:'' As the series goes on, Megatron's sanity starts going increasingly south, and he believes so long as there is a single Autobot alive and free ''anywhere'' he hasn't actually "won", even when he effectively has the entire planet, supposedly everything he ever wanted.

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* ''Literature/FireAndBlood:'' Part of the motivation for some of the backers of Aegon II in the Dance of the Dragons. They really, ''really'' don't want Daemon to become king, and are totally prepared to start a civil war to that end. With some of them, it's a cut-and-paste with Rhaenyra's name instead.



* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Peanuts}}'', whenever Charlie Brown has any real chance of winning something, someone has to be around specifically to prevent him from achieving the victory, usually Snoopy.
** The most prominent case is in ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', where he is one of the two remaining contestants on a winner-takes-all national spelling bee. Charlie Brown screws up spelling "beagle" due to a combination of Snoopy (who is a beagle) following him along and worry over Linus getting angry at Charlie Brown for a trivial reason.
** In ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown's team is set to win the river race, but Pepperment Patty's overexcitement causes her and the girls to throw the boys overboard, allowing the bullies to slip ahead before LaserGuidedKarma hits them and their boat sinks.
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* After Creator/{{ABSCBN}} was shut down on February 10, 2020 under the Duterte Administration. The Malacañang Palace is very insistent on not bringing the studio back despite ABS-CBN attempting to renew their contract numerous times. Only time will tell if the new administration will bring ABS-CBN back on the channel.

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* After Creator/{{ABSCBN}} was shut down on February 10, 2020 under the Duterte Administration. The Malacañang Palace is very insistent on not bringing the studio back despite ABS-CBN attempting ABS-CBN's attempts to renew their contract numerous ''numerous'' times. Only time will tell if the new administration will bring ABS-CBN back on the channel.
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After Creator/{{ABSCBN}} was shut down on February 10, 2020 under the Duterte Administration. The Malacañang Palace is very insistent on not bringing the studio back despite ABS-CBN attempting to renew their contract numerous times. Only time will tell if the new administration will bring ABS-CBN back on the channel.

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* After Creator/{{ABSCBN}} was shut down on February 10, 2020 under the Duterte Administration. The Malacañang Palace is very insistent on not bringing the studio back despite ABS-CBN attempting to renew their contract numerous times. Only time will tell if the new administration will bring ABS-CBN back on the channel.
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After Creator/{{ABSCBN}} was shut down on February 10, 2020 under the Duterte Administration. The Malacañang Palace is very insistent on not bringing the studio back despite ABS-CBN attempting to renew their contract numerous times. Only time will tell if the new administration will bring ABS-CBN back on the channel.
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* ''VideoGame/MegaMan'':
** Doctor Wily almost never wins in the ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' games, even with his most elaborate plots.
** Sigma in ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' gets his butt kicked by the titular protagonist. In every game.
*** And in ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', Vile[[note]]originally VAVA[[/note]] gets denied his own victory, causing his story to become a total DownerEnding for his side. [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin Thanks, X.]]
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** Doctor Wily almost never wins in the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' games, even with his most elaborate plots.

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** Doctor Wily almost never wins in the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' games, even with his most elaborate plots.



*** And in ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', Vile[[note]]originally VAVA[[/note]] gets denied his own victory, causing his story to become a total DownerEnding for his side. [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWing Thanks, X.]]

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*** And in ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', Vile[[note]]originally VAVA[[/note]] gets denied his own victory, causing his story to become a total DownerEnding for his side. [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWing [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin Thanks, X.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MegaMan'':
** Doctor Wily almost never wins in the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' games, even with his most elaborate plots.
** Sigma in ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' gets his butt kicked by the titular protagonist. In every game.
*** And in ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', Vile[[note]]originally VAVA[[/note]] gets denied his own victory, causing his story to become a total DownerEnding for his side. [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWing Thanks, X.]]

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