Discussion Main / DickDastardlyStopsToCheat

• Bakura in the Monster World arc of the manga was already a Killer Game Master with a ludicrously difficult adventure set up, and had he let the dice fall as they may, he would probably have killed the protagonists in minutes. But since he tries to use various methods to rig the dice in his favor, those methods end up being used against him - first by Dark Yugi copying his rolling method, then by his good side using prepared supernaturally-lucky dice to roll fumbles. It culminates in one final roll where he goes so far as to seal a bit of his soul in the dice to ensure a critical success... but his good side hitches a ride on that soul-sealing and performs a Heroic Sacrifice to destroy the dice and invalidate the roll.

The cheats Bakura used WERE effective, the good guys were simply countering them. Dark Yugi started cheating on his own to force Bakura to establish rules that prevented BOTH sides from cheating and enforcing a fair game, while the final roll WOULD have screwed the good guys if it worked, while the roll would be very unlikely to work without it. It didn't work not because the cheat backfired but because good Bakura stopped the cheat from happening in the first place. So overall, not an example.

Oh, and it's from Yu-Gi-Oh!

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We should have a page image here. Any given Wacky Races picture with Dastardly attempting to cheat will do.

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Are Real Life examples allowed for this trope? It made me think of Nixon, exposed for cheating in an election that he was going to win by a landslide anyway.

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Waluigi actually resembles Dick Dasterdly, which why I'm surprised that to my knowledge no one on the Internet has yet done a Mario Kart sprite movie based on Wacky Races

"Knaus was suspended, the car was impounded"

Brilliant!

Took out this:

• In the first season of Glee, Sue Sylvester tries to sabotage the Glee Club's performance at sectionals by leaking their setlist to their opponents. Not only did this effort prove futile, as the Club pulled through with a brand-new setlist improvised at the last second, but their performance impressed the opposing teams so greatly that they came clean about how Sue had helped them cheat. Principal Figgins is outraged, and Sue is promptly suspended.

Not an example, because Sue wasn't "stopping to cheat" in the sense that Glee club wasn't finished. Her plan was supposed to finish it, it just backfired.