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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBearsBigChapterBooks'':
** In ''The Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback'', at the start of the climactic football game, Bertha comes out with her uniform in knots, and reveals her pads have been stolen too. It turns out to be the doing of a few members of the opposing team, who did so in order to keep her from participating because they couldn't stand the idea of losing to a girl. Naturally, their plan fails: Too-Tall gives Bertha his own pads, and the uniform gets untied in time for her to take part. Beartown easily wins the match as a result.
** In ''The Berenstain Bears at Camp Crush'', the cubs at Camp Grizzmeyer are taking part in the Inter-Camp Games at the end of the summer, and the trope comes into play when it's time for the basketball game -- back home, Too-Tall is rarely punished for his usual style of playing dirty, but here, it gets the team penalized, as he's fouled out in all but one game, and the team finishes third overall as a result.
** Invoked in-universe in ''The Berenstain Bears and the Bermuda Triangle''. After the cubs discover that Carl King has stolen test answers from Miss Glitch and sold them to his classmates, they inform the school of his theft and cheating. Miss Glitch promptly works up a ''new'' test, ensuring that those who memorized the stolen test rather than studying properly will fail the new one (and be identified in the process so they can be properly punished)... which she rather bluntly informs the class of right ''before'' they're about to take the test.
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* Another [=YouTuber=] [[https://www.youtube.com/@karljobst Karl Jobst]] has devoted numerous videos to speedrun and video game world record cheaters, and how they were exposed. He has stated numerous times that, thanks to near-flawless identification tactics like audio analysis[[note]]By looking at the audio of a video in a spectrograph, there will be a steady "hum" from mains voltage in the background that isn't noticable by the human ear. "Gaps" in it are signs of splices, where different videos were edited together to make a seamless run[[/note]], frame rules[[note]]Certain games, like ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'', will always have a time in multiples of 0.35 seconds due to the framerate of the game (the exception being the time of the final level, since the timer stops the instant you touch the axe), so a time that doesn't fall into one of those multiples is suspect[[/note]], and demo playbacks[[note]]games like ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' store controller inputs as part of their recording method, and this can be analyzed to find suspicious "gaps" or movements that are faster than a button could physically be pressed[[/note]], intimate knowledge of what games and gamers are and aren't capable of[[note]]Many cheaters use "tool-assisted" speed runs, where they use save states and a preprogrammed script of controller inputs, which can be intimately recognizable if the player presses button combos that are too quick or impossible for a human (too many at once, left and right at the same time, etc)[[/note]], and even simple understandings of effective and ineffective tactics[[note]]A player using a wildly different tactic than what other speed runners are using is almost guaranteed fake, as is a player who's reactions or movements are "too good" (is likely playing in slow-motion), or even a player who evidently lacks the skill to be getting the times he is getting[[/note]], that it would actually be easier to ''do the speed run for real'' than it would be to make a fake video that would actually fool the experts.
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*** When Johan/[[DubNameChange Jesse]] is about to defeat Giese/[[DubNameChange Trapper]], Giese threatens to rip up a Jerry Beans Man card that he stole from a kid, which would have likely killed the Duel Spirit connected to the card, if Johan tried to attack. Eventually, Judai knocks Giese down and recovers the card, allowing Johan to defeat him.
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** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXbiR3BckM UNO made us REALLY toxic...]]", Brent constantly reveals what cards the others have either by challenging them whenever they played a +4 Card on him or simply remembering what cards he had before they swapped his deck with a ''7''. Yet despite this dirty tactic, [[EpicFail Brent ends up being the only one to not win a single round in the entire video]].

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** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXbiR3BckM UNO made us REALLY toxic...]]", Brent constantly reveals what cards the others have either by challenging them whenever they played a +4 Card on him or simply remembering what cards he had before they swapped his deck with a ''7''. Yet despite this dirty tactic, [[EpicFail Brent ends up being the only one member of the group to not win a single round in the entire video]].
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** In their first ''TabletopGame/{{UNO}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXbiR3BckM video]], Brent constantly reveals what cards the others have either by challenging them whenever they played a +4 Card on him or simply remembering what cards he had before they swapped his deck with a 7. Despite this dirty tactic however, Brent ends up being the only one in the group to not win a single round throughout the entire session.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ShACjvJ-8 We RACED in Mario Wonder]]", everyone's scores get reset after the second round due to Vernias using the Fast Dash badge for the first two races.

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** In their first ''TabletopGame/{{UNO}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXbiR3BckM video]], Brent constantly reveals what cards the others have either by challenging them whenever they played a +4 Card on him or simply remembering what cards he had before they swapped his deck with a 7. Despite this dirty tactic however, Brent ends up being the only one in the group to not win a single round throughout the entire session.
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeXbiR3BckM UNO made us REALLY toxic...]]", Brent constantly reveals what cards the others have either by challenging them whenever they played a +4 Card on him or simply remembering what cards he had before they swapped his deck with a ''7''. Yet despite this dirty tactic, [[EpicFail Brent ends up being the only one to not win a single round in the entire video]].
** In "[[https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=z0ShACjvJ-8 We RACED in Mario Wonder]]", everyone's scores get reset after for the second third round due to because Vernias using used the Fast Dash badge for in the first two races.
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* WebAnimation/FazbearAndFriendsZamination: In the three Squid Game games, Bendy kills Foxy by cheating in order to win, only to realize that he is detected as a cheater and dies at the worst moment, this is avoided in the game of "HIDE AND SEEK" where he ends up coming in second place.
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** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Gilderoy Lockhart claims to have defeated several magical creatures and has written books about his alleged exploits. In fact, the creatures in question were defeated by other witches and wizards, with Lockhart wiping their memories and stealing the credit. When Harry and Ron find out about this, Lockhart tries to erase their memories as well, but uses Ron's wand [[note]]which has been malfunctioning since Harry and Ron crashed a FlyingCar belonging to Ron's father into the [[WhenTreesAttack Whomping Willow]] at the beginning of the school year[[/note]] and gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hit by the spell he was trying to use on the two boys]]. He is next seen (in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'') as a long-term patient in Saint Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies.

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** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Gilderoy Lockhart claims to have defeated several magical creatures and has written books about his alleged exploits. In fact, reality, the creatures in question were defeated by other witches and wizards, with Lockhart wiping their memories and stealing the credit. When Harry and Ron find out about this, Lockhart tries to erase their memories as well, but uses Ron's wand [[note]]which has been malfunctioning since Harry and Ron crashed a FlyingCar belonging to Ron's father into the [[WhenTreesAttack Whomping Willow]] at the beginning of the school year[[/note]] and gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hit by the spell he was trying to use on the two boys]]. He is next seen (in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'') as By ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', he's become a long-term patient in Saint Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies.

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