Basic Trope: A character reveals that another character who beat them somehow only won because they let them.
* Straight: Alice is fighting Dracone and after a long, arduous battle, she wins. He later reveals that he let her win for reasons unknown.
* Exaggerated: Alice fights Dracone several hundred times, winning each time by the skin of her teeth. Dracone reveals that he was letting her win each time.
* Justified: Dracone is looking for a successor and sees great poetential in Alice. By letting her win he he sets up a better a better dragon for his employer. However, if he she didn't meet his standards he would have killed her than and there. either outcome worked for him.
* Inverted: Alice gives up against Dracone.
* Alice gloats after beating Dracone, saying that def
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| - Basic Trope: A character reveals that another character who beat them somehow only won because they let them.
* Straight: Alice is fighting Dracone and after a long, arduous battle, she wins. He later reveals that he let her win for reasons unknown.
* Exaggerated: Alice fights Dracone several hundred times, winning each time by the skin of her teeth. Dracone reveals that he was letting her win each time.
* Justified: Dracone is looking for a successor and sees great poetential in Alice. By letting her win he he sets up a better a better dragon for his employer. However, if he she didn't meet his standards he would have killed her than and there. either outcome worked for him.
* Inverted: Alice gives up against Dracone.
* Alice gloats after beating Dracone, saying that def
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| - Basic Trope: A character reveals that another character who beat them somehow only won because they let them.
* Straight: Alice is fighting Dracone and after a long, arduous battle, she wins. He later reveals that he let her win for reasons unknown.
* Exaggerated: Alice fights Dracone several hundred times, winning each time by the skin of her teeth. Dracone reveals that he was letting her win each time.
* Justified: Dracone is looking for a successor and sees great poetential in Alice. By letting her win he he sets up a better a better dragon for his employer. However, if he she didn't meet his standards he would have killed her than and there. either outcome worked for him.
* Inverted: Alice gives up against Dracone.
* Alice gloats after beating Dracone, saying that defeating him was a such a breeze... When, in fact, she had a really hard time winning.
* Subverted: After recalling the fight, Alice realizes that Dracone couldn't have let her win...he was fighting too hard.
* Double Subverted: He was fighting hard to further his motives.
* Parodied: Alice beat all kinds of pain into Dracone's sorry ass, and yet he still insists that she only won because he let her.
* Deconstructed: The revelation that he let her win causes Alice to give up and stop fighting the bad guys.
* Reconstructed: Alice realizes that Dracone might have let her win, but she needs to keep fighting.
* Zig Zagged: It's truly too difficult to tell whether he was letting her win or not.
* Averted: Alice won fair and square.
* Enforced: "We need to show that this villain is sinister! What better way than to tell The Hero that he let her win?"
* Lampshaded: "Remember when you defeated me at Death's Gulch? I let you win that time!"
* Invoked: Dracone, while fighting Alice and holding his own, realizes that his agenda would be better served if she won. So...he lets her win.
* Defied: Alice, realizing that Dracone is about to let her win, forces him to keep fighting her.
* Discussed: ???
* Conversed: ??? I let you go back to the main page, you little fool!. Muahahahahahahaha!!!
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