History Main / MedalOfDishonor

* One episode of ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' had the Cutie Mark Crusaders performing a rock ballad in a school talent show, hoping they'll win an award and get their cutie marks. They do win an award...[[SoBadItsGood for comedy]]. Although the CMC was more disappointed that they didn't get their Cutie Marks.
** Its more of an avertion as the CMC were rather happy about their award, even thinking they should do more comedy.

* One episode of ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' had the Cutie Mark Crusaders performing a rock ballad in a school talent show, hoping they'll win an award and get their cutie marks. They do win an award...for comedy. Although the CMC was more disappointed that they didn't get their Cutie Marks.

* The Ig Nobel awards are usually given to silly-sounding (but real!) scientific research. However, they are sometimes given as criticism, such as the Medicine award that was given to several tobacco company executives who testified under oath that they believed that nicotine was not addictive; the Mathematics award given to Enron, WorldCom et al "for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world" and the Literature award given to the editors of ''Social Text'' due to their part in the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Sokal Affair]]. (Most winners who are actual researchers do, in fact, collect their awards at the annual ceremony. The TakeThat targets don't.)

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** One that jumps to mind is ''{{Call Of Duty 4}}'s'' achievement. If you fail to kill anyone in a multiplayer round, and die at least ten times, you get an achievement. Anyone looking knows that you either [[TheKillingJoke had a bad day]], or you ''suck''.

* ''{{Battlefield}} 2142'' gives you the above mentioned Purple Heart medal if your frag vs death ratio is 1:2 or less by the end of the round.

* The {{Golden Raspberry Award}}s. Halle Berry, BTW, had the good grace to actually collect her award in person for ''{{Catwoman}}'' with her Oscar statuette in tow. Tom Green went there for ''FreddyGotFingered'', considering an honor (even bringing a red carpet). BillCosby had his Razzie made from marble and gold at the studio's expense when he "won" for ''Leonard Part 6''. Paul Verhoven also went to the ceremony for his ''{{Showgirls}}'' "honors" (and stated: "I got seven awards for being the worst, and it was more fun than reading the reviews"). And Sandra Bullock handed out a free copy of the offending movie to everyone in the audience.
** And then Sandra won an Oscar the same weekend.
*** It has a precedent When Brian Helgeland won a Screenwriting Oscar for ''LAConfidential'', a reporter asked if he would accept the Worst Screenplay Razzie he "won" the day before (for ''ThePostman''). He said "Sure, why not?" and the Razzies founder went to his office to give it to Helgeland. Reportedly he keeps them side by side on his shelf in his office as reminder of Hollywood's fickleness.

* The accidental kind - The award is honestly meant as an honor, but it isn't received as such due to an ethical dissonance between the awarder and the awardee. See also YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame.
** Or alternatively, because the awardee takes it as an honor, but thinks he doesn't deserve it.
** And sometimes the medal itself is just an eyesore, even if the awarder doesn't think so.

** Also when Homer disgraces the Stonecutters, he's forced to drag home the Stone of Shame while naked. Then whent the Stonecutters discover his birthmark identifying him as the Chosen One: "Remove the Stone of Shame." "Woo hoo!" "Attach the (significantly ''larger'') Stone of Triumph!" "D'oh!"

** Homer, on the other hand, was proud to receive every single one.

* The dreaded Fizbin of Misfortune, first introduced in MightAndMagic 3, made appearances in the first two games of the ''HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' series. Just having it in your possession threw your general's morale and luck to the rock bottom, and the only way to get rid of it was to disband the hero currently carrying it. [[JokeItem There was absolutely no upside to carrying this item around.]]

*** It has a precedent When Brian Helgeland won a Screenwriting Oscar for ''LAConfidential'', a reporter asked if he would accept the Worst Screenplay Razzie he "won" the day before (for ''ThePostman''). He said "Sure, why not?" and the Razzies founder went to his office to give it to Helgeland.

** The XWingSeries comics have Baron Fel, best Imperial pilot since Vader's death, put under the command of an incompetent admiral with terribly lax morals and no sense of strategy. He gives Fel and Fel's pilots medals, which Fel refuses because he thinks they didn't do anything worth accolades. They flew against Rebel pilots and, close to victory, were suddenly recalled by the admiral when the man saw reports of X-Wings too close for comfort and wanted the protection of his entire force. Fel's pilots accept at the ceremony, and [[http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4452/blz05.jpg we]] [[http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2788/blz06.jpg see]] that the "starburst" medals were designed by the admiral and are ''really'' ugly.

* ''Warhammer Online'' has a series of titles unlocked by failure, including dying via mobs up to a million times ("The Tragic"), being killed up to 100,000 times by enemy players ("The Feckless") or falling to your death up to 5000 times ("The Pancake"). In addition to this there are specific titles for being killed by each enemy class, drowning in lava and several other dubious rewards that people nonetheless wear with pride.

** For obvious reasons the Prisoner of War Medal is ''not'' something you want to avoid being awarded.
*** [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives Yes it is!]]
**** Uh... [[LeaveNoSurvivors no it isn't]]

** Don't forget their Honorable Mentions, which go to people who couldn't even get themselves killed properly. Some are due to sterilizing themselves, thus also leaving the gene pool.

** Also when Homer disgraces the Stonecutters, he's forced to drag home the Stone of Shame while naked. Then whent the Stonecutters discover his birthmark identifying him as the Chosen One: "Remove the Stone of Shame." "Woo hoo!" "Attach the Stone of Triumph!" "D'oh!"

** And then Sandra won an Oscar the same weekend, SoYeah.

** "Remove the rock of shame." "Woo hoo!" "Replace it with the rock of triumph." "D'oh!"