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What is the definition of the evil character losing in the battle?

From the Glossary:

Defeat
Defeat is caused when a character’s toughness is less than or equal to an opposing character’s strength. A defeat also occurs when a character is stopped from achieving his goal in battle. A Hero(es) is defeated when the Hero(es) in battle are discarded, repelled or otherwise fails to make a successful rescue such as in a stalemate. The Evil Character(s) is defeated when the Evil Character(s) in battle are discarded, ignored or otherwise fails to stop the Hero from making a successful rescue such as in a mutual destruction by numbers.

We've always ruled it as a loss since the character was discarded - However I'm not sure how we came to that conclusion, or if it should be played that way. I'll have to do some reading in the old threads about it.

He didn't ask about being defeated, he asked about losing. Does playing DoU result in a loss for the now-Discarded EC who did stop the RA?

Losing is being defeated.

We've always ruled it as a loss since the character was discarded - However I'm not sure how we came to that conclusion, ...

Most likely from the quote I gave above, particularly the bolded part.

What is DoU?

Oh right, my bad.