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In Gunsmith Cats, Rally has a habit of shooting the hands (specifically the trigger fingers) of opposing gunmen.

Subverted when the culprit (who wasn't Angela's assistant) turns out to have sent the package for reasons entirely unrelated to the competition. Angela suspects her assistant sent the package in an attempt at this trope and fires her.

In Carole & Tuesday, while preparing backstage for the Mars Brightest semi-final, Tuesday is sent a package that turns out to contain liquid nitrogen, freeze-burning her hands and preventing her from playing her guitar.

Captain Tsubasa has some players who invoke this trope as much as possible in the soccer fields, with Makoto Souda as the most infamous example.

Uryu does the same thing to the arrancar Cirucci Sanderwicci, firing an arrow into her chest to seal off her power.

During the fight between Uryu Ishida and the Soul Reaper Jirobo Ikkanzaka, Uryu fires an arrow into Jirobo in such a way as to prevent him from using spiritual pressure and thus making it impossible to continue as a Soul Reaper.

And if the person tries to compete despite the attempted crippling, you can always Attack the Injury during the competition to make sure it pays off. If the person being crippled attempts to compete or fight anyway, this may lead to You Can Barely Stand. Not to be confused with Blasting It Out of Their Hands. Some coaches even tell their players to "punish them on the scoreboard" rather than physically retaliating. Note that in real life this can backfire, especially in team sports, where a player getting taken out can encourage their teammates to step up their game.

For example, this trope would be a bunch of mobsters might break the legs of a championship marathon runner so the guy they're betting on will win, whereas, with Make an Example of Them, the mobsters break the marathon runner's legs because he failed to pay his gambling debts. It's commonly the purpose of Unnecessary Roughness unless the roughness has no purpose and is just For the Evulz.ĭifferent from Make an Example of Them, where in some cases the victim's punishment might deliberately target their ability to perform, but the motivation is not the fear of competition. Frequently leads to Throwing Off the Disability. When applied to superpowered beings, this trope may lead to them being Brought Down to Normal. In these cases, the person responsible for crippling the competition generally is either a misguided fan trying to help, or a third party that stands to gain from a certain outcome of the match. Sometimes the opponent to the crippled competition isn't actually the one who did the deed and said opponent may not even have desired it. Can overlap with Game-Breaking Injury if it occurs during the final showdown. A Sub-Trope of Career-Ending Injury, Crippling the Competition is always a deliberate act done with malice and forethought. You decide to fix it so they can never beat you ever again.Ĭrippling the Competition is when someone, usually a villain, injures their rival to get the advantage.

Or they have humiliated you once too often in their field of expertise. Sometimes someone is just too good at something. "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Headline News" (see the Real Life folder for the incident this is referring to)