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This is the entire plot basis of Yu-Gi-Oh! Seto Kaiba can never defeat Yami Yugi in a fair duel and the one time he did win, it was only because Yugi took over control from Yami before Yami could execute an attack that would have killed Kaiba. It causes Kaiba to be The Resenter , and any time he has to help Yugi and company it's shown to be only because he actually has to. Kaiba himself is the "someone better" for Katsuya Jonouchi Joey Wheeler in the dub , and never takes him seriously as a duelist.

The Orichalcos filler arc also had Raphael, the first of only two Duelist to fairly defeat Yami. To be fair, Yami was suffering a nasty case of This Is Your Brain on Evil at the time because he played the Seal of Orichalcos, but Raphael was able to push him to the point were Yami needed to play the Seal to stay in the match. Yami wins the rematch, but mostly because Raphael basically forfeited to stay true to his personal code as a duelist.

It's left ambiguous if Yami would have won otherwise. Regular Yugi becomes this for the Pharaoh at the end of the series. R had a card that turned into a copy of the strongest monster on the field, with both stats being one point higher. Being literally undefeatable, it was only removed via New Powers as the Plot Demands. In Great Mazinger , Tetsuya is pictured to be much more superior than Koji in many ways during his introduction, being a same character with their only difference was Tetsuya being better, more mature but more arrogant than Koji.

When Koji returns after being Put on a Bus , it become apparent that Tetsuya has a weakness which was none, on the flipside, Tetsuya himself don't even know that he is better than Koji and accepted by the others in the same way as Koji, and at the same time have a massive Inferiority complex. This caused a huge amount of problem. In Bleach , Renji Abarai trained for decades to defeat Byakuya Kutchiki to reclaim his old relationship with his childhood friend Rukia whom he views as having been stolen from him when Byakuya adopted her into his clan.

Not only does he completely fail to defeat Byakuya despite achieving bankai because a new bankai is nowhere near the level required to fight a captain, but some punk human kid who's been a Soul Reaper for all of two months shows up, kicks his ass, kicks Byakuya's ass, saves Rukia from being executed by Soul Society all despite having a brand new bankai himself.

The only way it could possibly suck worse for Renji is if this upstart kid was the main character. A more appropriate example would be Ichigo himself. In record time, he becomes a shinigami capable of fighting and defeating captains to save Rukia and change Soul Society enough to ensure Rukia won't be executed once he's gone home. It seems as though he's achieved his goal when the real villain puts in his appearance, able to stop Ichigo's unstoppable blade with a single finger. The significance of this moment is lampshaded in the anime by having Aizen not only stop Ichigo's blade with his finger, but actually bring Ichigo's theme music to crashing halt mid-note.

In Mahou Sensei Negima! Lost Memories exists to make protagonist Akiyuki feel terribly inadequate both as a Xam'd and as a crewmember of the Zanbani Postal Ship. The point is stressed further by the fact that Akiyuki is stuck mostly wearing Raigyo's hand-me-downs which, with Raikyo being a good head taller and utterly ripped, are almost comically oversized on the poor kid — meaning that he has big shirts to fill both figuratively and literally.

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Furuichi's resentment towards Akiyuki, who has everything Furuichi wants — mainly, the affections of their love interest Haru. And when Furuichi puts the matter in his own hands to get what he wants in Episode 14, things don't end well for the guy. Though Yzak tries his hardest he never quite manages to get within Athrun's range and ends up being the No. It does not really make things better that Athrun seems to be mostly oblivious to the fact that he is causing Yzak in fact a lot of Tsundere moments.

It's shown in a manga chapter, that Athrun did notice his rivalry with Yzak, and is as upset and serious about it then the other one, not wanting to lose by any means. Though this time, Athrun was just trying to set a good example for Shinn to follow. The Steel 7 , Giri former Ace Pilot for the Jupiter Empire initially refuses to help the Crossbone Vanguard fight a revived Empire because he says it's not his concern anymore.

Then he learns that the Empire's new leader is his own personal Someone Better, who twists the knife further when he shows up to kill the heroes by mocking Giri as the Empire's second best pilot. After that things are a mite more personal and Giri readily joins up. Sai to Touya Akira. Also, Touya Akira to Hikaru. Deconstructed in Medaka Box. The titular character can and does copy any physical ability she sees and any other character's "abnormal" power she comes in contact with. This means she can copy, say, Akune's "superhuman" abnormality, or Maguro's "perfection" abnormality Master Hiko Seijuro of Rurouni Kenshin.

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Hiko chose Kenshin as his successor because of his spirit, but because Kenshin doesn't have the physique he will never reach Hiko's level. Kenshin does defeat him once with the final succession move, but it's completely unblockable, even by someone like Hiko. Saitou also serves as this for Sanosuke; Sanosuke had considered himself Kenshin's strongest ally prior to Saitou's arrival, yet Saitou proves to be just as skilled as Kenshin in swordsmanship, and far more skilled in hand-to-hand combat than Sanosuke.

As Anotsu from Blade of the Immortal so poetically expressed himself concerning Makie as she effortlessly slaughtered a dozen shingyoutou-ryuu samurai: When I was a child, afraid of a single wild dog And that girl appeared, no more than ten, slicing it in half. Only now , remembering my emotion It wasn't fear of her. That she'd walk ahead of me the rest of my life. Accepting that, I felt no fear. Only familiar, comfortable despair.

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I remember it now What I felt then There's no one I particularly aspire to be like, but there is someone I'm no match for I just aspire to be someone who's worthy of his trust. Joe Marvel comic series, before the actual events of the comic, Snake-Eyes became this for Storm Shadow, with some judicious manipulation from Firefly. In many ways, Reed Richards Mr. Fantastic is better than his arch-nemesis Doctor Doom , with regards to science at least; one of Doom's key driving motivations is to prove himself superior to Richards, who has always demonstrated that he's just that little bit smarter and better than Doom.

In this case, the rivalry is far from unnoticed, although it's always Doom who actively plans and attempts to humiliate and subdue Reed, who is less interested in proving himself superior to Doom and in fact considers it a waste that Doom expends his still-impressive intellect on what amounts to little more than petty jealousy. It is worth noting, however, that Doom is an equally-powerful sorcerer, and is in fact more powerful than Richards in this respect.

However, he still meets the basic nature of the trope, as he is obsessed with besting Richards entirely on his own terms, i. In Secret Wars , Reed finally gets Doom to admit that Reed can do something better than him — saving the multiverse. This convinces the Molecule Man to take away Doom's powers and give them to Reed so he can do just that. Doctor Strange is this to Doom in magic, proving that Doom just can't win.

You think he'd be happy being second in two fields to the world's best, but no. It has been stated in "Unthinkable" that if Doom had chosen sorcery over science, he would be Doctor Strange's superior. Strange also had the advantage of being tutored by the world's Sorcerer Supreme, while Doom had only a monastery of mystic monks to teach him. Reed is this to The Wizard, who has actually given up on beating him with science and just wants him dead so he can be the best, resulting in a whole lot of Frightful Fours, one of which had five members.

Reed is surprisingly calm about this, except when it's actually happening; he never sits around worrying about what the Wizard's going to do next. The Mad Thinker is similarly jealous of Reed's accomplishments, but when Reed actually called on the Thinker to check his math during Civil War , the Thinker was bowled over by what Reed had accomplished and finally conceded that Reed was simply smarter than he was; but then he needled Reed that for all his intellectual accomplishments, Reed lacked the common sense to see that his chosen course in the Civil War would cost him everything he loved.

Strange is this to Baron Mordo the other former disciple of the Ancient One rather than Doom; Doom certainly obsesses less about Strange in particular than the not-so-good Baron does. While Richards lends his name to the Reed Richards Is Useless trope for a good reason, Doom actually uses his incredible intellect to make Latveria, the nation he rules, into a high-technology utopia. However, Reed's technology is still usually superior to Doom's efforts.

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Doom also gets away with actively using his technological prowess on Latveria because it's a fictional, highly isolationist country and so not subject to the general Status Quo Is God effect that applies to the more "realistic" areas of the Marvel Universe. Ironically, in Ultimate Marvel , Reed Richards gets to experience it himself, claiming that he feels inferior to his universe's incarnation of Tony Stark. One of Hank Pym 's biggest problems has always been that no matter how good he is in any given area, at least one of his fellow heroes is always better.

When he was Giant-Man, he lacked the raw power of Thor or the Incredible Hulk , and as a scientist, he's not as well respected as Iron Man or the above-mentioned Mister Fantastic. A Retcon in Mighty Avengers established that many of his neuroses began after he discovered that Iron Man was actually the genius billionaire Tony Stark, which immediately caused Hank to feel inferior. I'm not saying you're not a genius, Hank I could have saved the world if it wasn't for you! You could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor. By the same token, on every one of his birthdays, Sabretooth has always managed to find him, no matter where Logan was or what he was doing, and come within an inch of killing him.

For no other reason than to remind him that he could. Truth is, you're that good. You've always been that good. Which won't even get you a cup of coffee until you can figure out how to be a professional Sarge once gets beaten in a swearing contest by another sergeant, stunned by a word so bad even its symbol is censored.

Flap, who likes to dress outrageously colourfully, comes back from his holiday shocked. It turns out he's met his better — having visited a Liberace museum. Shinji feels like this in chapter 2 after undergoing several synch tests where he managed to catch up with Asuka for several seconds, right before she beat his score again. When he says he wanted to beat her and try to keep up with her is intimidating, Asuka replies that being second only to her is not a bad feat, and she encourages him to keep trying to catch up with her.

Asuka resents Shinji for always surpassing her. Subverted because Shinji thinks that she has nothing to be jealous of: You always gotta one-up me, eh? Says the woman who's fluent in three languages, has two Ph. We know what you can do, in theory. I know Kara can do more than I can. In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls , Sunset Shimmer was sure she was the smarter one of Celestia's students, compared to Twilight Sparkle.

She also loses a math competition to Human Twilight, although just barely. Return to the Sea , this is how Morgana saw her older sister Ursula, because of how their mother favored Ursula over her. Despite his love and knowledge of the Scaring field, Mike becomes a Scare Assistant to Sulley, though he does get treated as an equal. And the benign Oozma Kappa gang end up becoming Scarers too. Woody and Buzz in Toy Story ; Buzz appears to be better at Woody in everything when he first arrives. Though only due to the fact he's an upgraded toy while Woody is considered a relic. It's notably inverted in Toy Story 2 where it's ultimately revealed Buzz is an overproduced common toy the shelves are overflowing with them , while Woody is a nearly one-of-a-kind invaluable collector's item.

Cruz is also this to Lightning to a lesser extent, and this acts as part of Mc Queen 's motivation to have her race in his place at the Florida In Excalibur , Merlin warns Arthur , "You must remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself. Helen is this to Annie in Bridesmaids. It turns out that she's not-so-perfect after all, and far from what Annie thinks was upstaging her mainly out of thoughtless over-eagerness and a desire to fit in rather than maliciousness or competitiveness.

Tony for Justin Hammer, who just barely hides his resentment about always being second-best compared to Stark behind his faux grin. He utterly destroys him in their first fight, and in their rematch, Batman is only able to beat him by disabling his mask. However, Batman was also in bad shape, deteriorating condition, and way out of his prime.

Additionally, Bane's mask was initially a strength; it actually prevented him from feeling pain, which gave him an advantage until Batman turned it into a weakness. Civil War certainly has a few cases of this. Firstly Bucky is portrayed as an unstoppable killing machine, yet T'Challa defeats him three times. Then he himself is defeated by Captain America, providing another example. In The Karate Kid , Mr. Miyagi confesses that he is never at ease in fighting: Yeah, but you knew karate.

Someone always know more. Elfangor from Animorphs , but only from Ax's perspective. In fact, the main reason the Animorphs go to rescue Ax is because they feel an obligation to any Andalite because of Elfangor's kindness. The concept was subverted in Agatha Christie 's Hercule Poirot novel The Big Four , when Poirot mentions his older brother Achille as being a better detective than he is; the only visual difference, he claims, is that Achille doesn't have a mustache and has a scarred lip.

Near the end, when the villains have captured Hastings and Poirot, Hastings realizes that they captured Achille instead - only to have it revealed that Achille doesn't exist ; in order to fool the villains, Hercule shaved off his mustache revealing his own scarred lip. Hastings probably should have realized something was up when Poirot, the biggest egomaniac in literature, started describing someone as better..

This idea was likely inspired by Mycroft Holmes; Poirot gives a Shout-Out to him by noting, "Don't all great detectives have a brother better at it than them? The one time she dresses to impress and feels absolutely gorgeous, she enters a club where everybody looks better than her.

This repeats itself each time she visits the place. It ends up screwing him over in the end. The novel later turned into a film Hating Alison Ashley is based on this. The Shadow Club by Neil Shusterman was devoted to this concept, with seven second-best children being driven to incredible lengths to humiliate their better.

When he too is targeted, the adults suspect the former Shadow Club of being the cause, but they are surprisingly innocent and the main character begins sleuthing to figure out who is trying to frame them. After blowing through military academy in record time and without finding anyone who can match his strategic genius, the titular protagonist of Ender's Game meets a strange old man in Command School, who catches him off guard and beats him up.

Turns out the old guy is Mazer Rackham, the hero from the last war against the aliens, whose victory Ender is being groomed to repeat. His introduction is awesome: I've had too many teachers, how was I supposed to know you'd turn out to be a-. An enemy, Ender Wiggin.

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I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had that was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No-one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No-one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher. Drkh off the rhetorical road.

Drkh looks as if he's just taken a fifty-caliber round in the small of his back. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames. The Dukes of Hazzard: Once the series became a hit, the writers decided to introduce several new adversaries that were intended to be more focused, smarter and determined than usual antagonists Boss Hogg and Rosco.

The most notable of these recurring characters were Hughie Hogg, Boss Hogg's nephew who was college-educated and seemed to come up with a more nefarious plan to defeat the Duke family once and for all; and Chickasaw County Sheriff "Big" Edward Little, who while not a villain per se, was far superior in law enforcement ability than Rosco ever hoped of dreaming At one point during their first episode, Boss is alarmed that Coy and Vance are returning, suggesting that when in Hazzard County earlier, they made the now-departed Bo and Luke "look like choir boys.

Occasionally done in-universe, with Boss Hogg firing Rosco or other deputy Enos Strate for various reasons, and replacing them with "better" officers at least in the case of Rosco, that was true who were more willing to do Boss' bidding and show little to no mercy when they confronted Bo and Luke. In the end, the "new" deputies always proved to double-cross Boss and were criminals themselves. Two of these examples are stated outright: Greg refuses to cool down and what his father, Mike, was trying to help him understand figure that this may simply be the trope taking effect — ergo, Warren simply is better than he is at basketball and was the better candidate for class president.

Instead, Greg lets it fester in him, calling Warren a phony who lies to his classmates and kisses up to his teachers and coaches The show has both Jon and Theon talk about coming to terms with growing up feeling this in regards to Robb. Jon reminisces that Robb was better at fighting, riding, hunting, and being a ladies man while they were growing up together, just the same way Sam feels compared to Jon, while Theon always looked up to him and felt he stood in Robb's shadow. I was jealous of Robb my whole life. The way my father looked at him?

He was better than me at everything. Fighting, and hunting, and riding. Gods, the girls loved him. I wanted to hate him, but I never could. Is he smarter than you? Would you trust him with your life? That's your Chief of Staff. This is unheard of! Face it, Pierce is the best cutter in the outfit.

He's certified in chest and general surgery. Frank, in case you haven't read the papers, there's a war on. We're here to patch guys together! We can't be so G. Are you implying he's a better doctor?! Yes, when the heat's on! Jim Croce , twice, in two different songs: In "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" the title character is a tough guy who learns a lesson at the end of the song when he gets beaten up by an even tougher guy.

Well the two men took to fighting And when they pulled them from the floor Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle With a couple of pieces gone. The idea behind most championship title changes — given that the winner gets the victory by clean means i. There was just one setback throughout this for him, but a recurring setback. Losing to Mil Mascaras. Joshi female Japanese wrestler Mariko Yoshida is considered one of the best submissionists of either gender in pro wrestling, and beating her on the mat is essentially impossible for other pro wrestlers.

Then Yoshida fought a worked wrestling match against Megumi Fujii - a legitimate MMA fighter who retired with a record with 16 submission wins. Fujii countered all of Yoshida's best holds with relatively little effort. Yoshida's pride wouldn't allow her to stop going for submission holds no matter how often Fujii countered them.

Yoshida finally gave up on trying to beat Fujii on the mat and started using pro wrestling moves, eventually winning via backslide. Triple H was forced to realize that Batista was this to him in after Triple H lost 3 straight ppv matches to him, even handing Triple H his first pinfall loss inside the Hell in a Cell he had been in 5 before that, winning 4, and was not involved in the winning decision of the other. After Matthews won the singles title, she and Perez went to 3G to inform them it proved the Ninja's superiority only to be laid out by Nakagawa.

Their only solace was that neither member of 3G would win the belt until both teams had broken up. This was the setup for Brock Lesnar 's rematch against Goldberg at the Survivor Series - according to Paul Heyman , the fact that Goldberg is the only man he hadn't beaten kept him awake at night. And after a match lasting less than 2 minutes, Goldberg went up before Lesnar finally conquered him at Wrestlemania. CM Punk was this to Chris Jericho. It was to the point that, when asking Paul Heyman for another match with Punk at Payback , he outright admitted he needed to beat Punk, and after he failed with that match, he finally stopped trying, conceding that Punk was simply better him.

Often a source of frustration in virtually any online game. No matter what you do, there will always be someone with better reflexes, a quicker mind, or more practice. Being a true contender for the title of 'best' often requires absolutely obscene time investment. The higher ranked online players of Fighting Games rarely allow you to get a move in, meaning that you can't beat them without doing unblockable combos. And given that they are used to doing this, it is virtually impossible to beat them.

Many professional fighting game players stream their training sessions and ranked online matches for fans to see on websites like TwitchTv. One of the constant themes during the ranked matches, is that despite them being well known as top tier players at events like The EVO Championships, they'll always come across a random online player who'll completely dominate them.

Most professional's don't complain, however, they actually add them as friends, then set up private matches with them to get even better at the game. This describes the relationship between Kieran and Oscar in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and subsequently Radiant Dawn. Kieran is a loud, obnoxious man who challenges Oscar at every possible moment, yet Oscar isn't even aware of it until he breaks Kieran out of prison.

He is indifferent to Kieran's continued proclamations. Grandia II 's protagonist Ryudo has always been a lesser swordsman than his brother Melfice. This becomes a considerable problem when the group meets the now psychotic brother at various points in the game, generally leading to a Hopeless Boss Fight or two before Ryudo is finally able to defeat him. Dias Flac is this to Claude in Star Ocean: A better swordsman, and another love interest for Rena whom he has history with - Claude just showed up.

Ultimately subverted in Rena's story, since when he joins your party Claude eventually surpasses him. Eventually, Cipher manages to become better, as demonstrated when Cipher in his F squares off against Pixy in the Morgan and wins. Final Fantasy VII has Teioh, the black chocobo found in the chocobo races whose stats are always higher than your chocobo's, even going past the normal maximum stats. Not unbeatable, mind you, but still a challenge to win consistently against.

He's always a step or more ahead of you, getting to places and making noteworthy achievements much faster than you can. Anne, at which point the player has probably caught barely half that number. Your rival does rush in after it's all over to offer advice, but ends up just standing there in awe of the fact that you won.

Your first rival, Bianca, chooses the starter that's weak to what you picked, doesn't seem to know what she's doing sometimes and usually just accepts that she's probably the weakest of the three of you. Your other rival, Cheren, chooses the starter with an advantage over yours may actually beat you in your first battle but from then on, continues to lose to you, which he chooses to challenge you after almost every goddamn Gym battle, usually lamenting his loss with "why are you so much better than me?

All the while, the Rival never becomes angry or bitter and is only mildly frustrated at the inability to catch up. Not only will you always be a step ahead of Hau in terms of completing the island trials, but you'll actually end up with the starter that's strong against his.

But the greatest parallel is after you've become the Champion and have to defend your title. Remember how in Red and Blue you fought your way through the Elite Four only to find that your rival had beaten you to it?

This time, it happens again, only this time you're the one who got there first. What could possibly go wrong? Fembot Sally is about to find out This is the 20th century. The last thing Fembot Sally needs is the undead trying to prey on her as well. But dark rumors are circulating of an evil presence up at the castle.

Bodies are being found drained of blood and the finger of suspicion has already fallen on the feudal lord Count Vetrikinski. Fembot Sally travels up to the castle to investigate, but will she be able to resist the strangely hypnotic man who lives there? Sometimes a book goes temporarily out of print - and sometimes no audio version has ever been recorded. Audible wants to give you the most complete selection we can and we'll keep adding series and filling in gaps as quickly as possible. Fembot Sally 7 books in series. Stealing diamonds and seducing secret agents is all in a day's work for a robotic femme fatale.

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