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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', [[TheBully Draco Malfoy]] reacts to his Quidditch team losing by insulting Mrs. Weasley and the late Lily Potter in front of Harry and the Weasley twins, Fred and George. He ends up getting thrashed by Harry (who tries not to get involved until Draco insults Lily) and George for this.

* Conall Haldane loses an informal archery match to Dhugal [=McArdry=] early in ''[[Literature/{{Deryni}} The King's Justice]]'' and "all but slammed down his bow, though he did manage a stiff little bow of acknowledgment before stalking off sullenly toward the stables". This is noticed and commented upon; Kelson says his cousin "hasn't yet learned the graceful art of losing."

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix And The Order Of The Phoenix]]'', [[TheBully Draco Malfoy]] reacts to his Quidditch team losing by insulting Mrs. Weasley and the late Lily Potter in front of Harry and the Weasley twins, Fred and George. He ends up getting thrashed by Harry (who tries not to get involved until Draco insults Lily) and George for this.

* After Prof. St. John-Finnes invites Literature/JamesBond to play a war game simulation with him in ''Literature/RoleOfHonour'', he is warned that the man is a poor loser. Sure enough, he ends up having a childish tantrum at the end of the game. This trait helps partially in saving the day at the climax, [[spoiler:where the professor, enraged by the fact that his plan didn't go as expected, attacks the novel's real BigBad]].

* In the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse ''Literature/TheQContinuum'' trilogy, Q reveals a former acquaintance of his named 0 who is a mass-murdering example of this trope. With powers comparable to the Q, 0 is the one who teaches young Q the value of testing younger races. However, as Q finds out, 0 does ''not'' like to have the younger races beat his tests. The first example is when 0 and Q infiltrate the [[EnergyBeing Calamarain]] society but are discovered and expelled. 0, angry at this, freezes the Calamarain for centuries (if not millennia). This is the reason why they're later pissed off at Q. The second example involves 0 testing the ancient Tkon Empire whose homeworld's star is reaching the end of its life and will go nova within a century or two. Using their advanced technology, the Tkon are building a giant transporter around their star and around a faraway younger star with similar mass. The goal is to swap them. 0 invites three other omnipotent beings ([[Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead Gorgan]], [[Recap/StarTrekS3E7DayOfTheDove (*)]], and [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier The One]]) to help him "test" the Tkon. They end up starting a civil war between the inner and outer planets, but the Tkon manage to come together in the end and complete the project. In a final act of defiance, 0 reaches into the star and turns its fusion up a notch, resulting in a supernova that consumes the system and the surrounding systems, leaving barely anything of the Tkon Empire. The Q Continuum shows up too late to save the Tkon, but they manage to defeat 0 and his cronies.

* Tally from ''Literature/CanYouSeeMe'' deals badly with losing at games because it makes her feel like she must be useless at everything. She once once ripped down the curtains after losing at Monopoly.

** [[Characters/YuGiOhSetoKaiba Seto Kaiba,s]] rivalry with Yugi all comes down to one loss from a guy who ''really'' hates to lose. Originally, he tore Solomon Mouto's copy of Blue Eyes in half just to spite Yugi into a rematch (there were only four copies of that card in the anime world, and at most three at a time are allowed in a deck). It was worse in the manga, where he actually spent a billion yen to build Death-T, an amusement park deathtrap that he hoped would cumulate into a rematch where he disposed of Yugi personally. He lost ''again'' and gets a Mind Crush for all of his troubles. [[spoiler:By the time of the movie ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', he's so obsessed with getting just one more rematch after several times he's lost that he creates a machine '''that allows him to chase the Pharaoh Atem to the afterlife''' just to challenge him yet again.]]

** After Vegeta loses his cool after being injured twice in a row by Goku's Kaioken attack, he decides to blow the Earth up (what he came to do in the first place) with his Galick Gun.
** When Frieza realizes he is outmatched by Super Saiyan Goku in every way, he blows up the core of planet Namek, setting off a countdown that will eventually destroy the planet itself. Also, the thought of losing to a Saiyan 'monkey' angers him so much that he attacked Goku from behind, after being bisected, right after Goku prevented him from dying by transferring some of his life energy to Frieza.
** Cell arguably takes losing even worse than Frieza; whereas Frieza deliberately held back to delay Namek's explosion so he'd have time to escape, Cell fully intended to die in his own blast as long as Gohan wouldn't win.
** This becomes downright ridiculous when it turns out that the supposed God of Destruction, Beerus, reduced King Kai's planet to its current size just because he lost to him in a video game.

** Zamasu takes losing a sparring match to Goku ''extremely'' poorly and uses it as a justification to hate mortals even more. Future Zamasu even wants to kill Goku personally because he's apparently still bitter about it. [[spoiler:His present counterpart's AlternateSelf, Goku Black, even took Goku's body and killed him primarily because of this, then butchered his family just as a final, [[EvilIsPetty immature]] [[ForTheEvulz act of revenge.]]]]
** When [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Jiren]] gets overpowered by Goku's [[spoiler:Mastered Ultra Instinct form]], he attempts to [[spoiler:'''murder his friends sitting on the elimination bench out of pure spite and rage''' (along with ''his own teammates,'' too).]] This makes an already uneven battle against Goku even ''more'' [[UnstoppableRage brutally one-sided,]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown as he viciously beats the stuffing out of Jiren.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Katsuki Bakugo is prone to reacting very badly when he loses - or if he wins in a way he dislikes (after winning the Sports Festival tournament, he has to be tied up for the medal ceremony because Todoroki didn't use his fire during the final match).

** [[DishingOutDirt Gaara]] in the first part starts as cool and stern in battle, as virtually nothing can harm him. As Lee (and later Sasuke) start breaking through his defense, he reacts badly (namely, he ends up crushing Lee's legs and in the second battle starts turning into [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Shukaku).
** [[spoiler:Madara]]. Just [[spoiler:Madara]]. His fighting style is based on making up an incredibly broken defense or attack system against his opponents and when they manage to overcome it due to hard work and strategy, he pulls out an even more broken technique. A big part of the series is due to [[spoiler:Madara not being able to cope with Hashirama beating him in everything, combined with his inability to entrust the future to anyone but himself]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Black Zetsu]] actively [[TheCorrupter encouraged these traits]] for his own ends]].

** Zoro was like this when he was a kid, getting very annoyed when Kuina would beat him every time. Actually, he's still technically a sore loser as an adult (of sorts), given the [[MenDontCry only]] time we see him [[ManlyTears cry]] is when he loses to Mihawk and tearfully vows he'll never lose again (a declaration he couldn't keep as Arlong kicked his ass in the next arc). Of course, it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as he swore to the memory of Kuina he would beat Mihawk and become the greatest swordsman, and would naturally be upset that he fell short as well as believing he had disappointed Luffy by losing (which isn't true).

** Sanji has his moments: he sulks when Zoro gets a bounty before him, when Usopp ends up in Luffy's picture, and when Jinbe gets a higher bounty than him. Sanji also especially hates it when other men have better luck with women than he does -- e.g. Luffy going to [[LadyLand Amazon Lily]], Momonosuke getting special treatment despite being a DirtyKid, and Momonosuke's sister Hiyori's apparent ShipTease with [[TheRival Zoro]].

** Ash Ketchum acts like this in the episode "Brave the Wave." He was acting all high and mighty and got too carried away until he challenged Brawly in a gym battle and lost. When Brock tries to advise Ash about how wrong he was to force Treecko to fight, Ash angrily tells Brock to shut up. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He does eventually feel guilty about forcing Treecko to battle]], [[GracefulLoser accepts his loss]], and ends up beating Brawly in a rematch.

** Seto Kaiba's rivalry with Yugi all comes down to one loss from a guy who ''really'' hates to lose. Originally, he tore Solomon Mouto's copy of Blue Eyes in half just to spite Yugi into a rematch (there were only four copies of that card in the anime world, and at most three at a time are allowed in a deck). It was worse in the manga, where he actually spent a billion yen to build Death-T, an amusement park deathtrap that he hoped would cumulate into a rematch where he disposed of Yugi personally. He lost ''again'' and gets a Mind Crush for all of his troubles. [[spoiler:By the time of the movie ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', he's so obsessed with getting just one more rematch after several times he's lost that he creates a machine '''that allows him to chase the Pharaoh Atem to the afterlife''' just to challenge him yet again.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': [[JerkassGods Zeus]] ''really'' hates losing to Scrooge. The last time he visited Ithaquack, Scrooge beat Zeus at every game he was challenged to; Zeus got so grumpy that he cast a lightning storm over the island for a whole year, driving out every other visitor to the island (which of course [[NeverMyFault he blames on Scrooge]]). When Scrooge and his family return to the island in the present, Zeus ends up challenging them to more games, and makes it abundantly clear that they will not be allowed to leave until he's won at least once.

* ''WesternAnimation/SymBioticTitan'': After [[JerkJock Baron]] and his cronies lose to Lance in the war games, they steal several of the academy's guns and try to assassinate him for real.