Pyrrhic Victory

''I won! (cue failure theme)''

A victory that is so powerful that it harms the winner or those at their side for in a way almost paramount to a defeat. This can come in the form of leaving the winner scarred or injured after their face-off (let it be a battle or competition), having the winner's weapons or land heavily destroyed, or with them losing a tragic number of allies in the process. A Pyrrhic Victory in some contexts can be considered getting karma.