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The Mighty Ducks

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The Mighty Ducks	comment	A trilogy of Disney films where a bunch of misfit kids play hockey.In the first movie (released 1992; called Champions in some countries), Jerkass hot-shot attorney Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is sentenced to community service after driving while intoxicated. His duty is to coach a rowdy Pee-Wee hockey team simply called "District 5", a team so down on their luck they don't even have a nickname. As the cold Bombay softens up, his bond with the kids grows, and the team is renamed "The Ducks" after Bombay's employer, the team's new sponsor, Mr. Ducksworth. The Ducks eventually make it to the finals, where they face the Hawks, the team Bombay once played for as a kid; in fact, the coach of the Hawks is still the same man, Jack Reilly. Bombay became disillusioned with the sport when he cost the Hawks the championship with a missed penalty shot. The Ducks win the championship, and Gordon's renewed passion for hockey leads him to try out for the minors.In the second movie, D2: The Mighty Ducks (released 1994), a year after the championship game, Gordon is playing in the minor leagues, but his dream is shot down by a knee injury (from a cheap shot by a frustrated opponent no less). He is then approached to coach Team USA in the Junior Goodwill Games. Unsurprisingly, Gordon recruits some of his Ducks, along with five other players to represent Team USA. Team USA proves to be a force to be reckoned with, but fame and fortune get to the team, especially Bombay, as they are pummeled in a game against Team Iceland. Soon after Bombay learns that the game is not about celebrity but about having fun, he is able to put the team back on track, and they compete as the Ducks in a re-match against Team Iceland that will decide the championship.In the third movie, D3: The Mighty Ducks (released 1996), the Ducks are awarded scholarships to the famed Eden Hall Academy, the high school Bombay attended. They also get a new coach in the form of Ted Orion. Orion irritates Captain Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) with his stricter coaching methods ("Your little duck tricks won't work anymore!" Orion remarks), switching of the teammates' positions, and by renaming them the Warriors. The team also faces adversity from the varsity team, as the former Ducks were accepted into the Academy instead of their younger siblings. After Conway becomes more accepting of his new coach following some self-reflection and a pep talk by Bombay, Orion also softens up a little, and re-renames the team the Ducks, and the stage is set for a game against the varsity team.Despite also being by Disney, the eponymous animated series has nothing to do with the films.The entire trilogy is available on Disney+. There is also Sequel Series to the original trilogy called The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers beginning in 2021. Taking place in the modern day, Estevez reprises his role as Gordon Bombay as he steps in to help a mother (Lauren Graham) start a youth hockey team after her son is cut by the Ducks, now an ultra-competitive, powerhouse focused entirely on winning.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Scriptwriter Steven Brill plays prosecutor Frank Huddy in D1. See What Could Have Been in Trivia for details. He has cameos in D2 and D3 as well. note In D2 he's the nameless guy seen speaking to Gordon twice during the "Mr.Big Shot" montage. In D3 he's the arcade attendant that notices Charlie and Fulton playing hooky.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_138d573	type	Knows the Ropes
The Mighty Ducks / int_138d573	comment	Knows the Ropes: Dwayne uses his lasso in D2 to stop an Iceland player from board-checking Connie. He then gets two minutes in the box for "roping".
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The Mighty Ducks / int_140883ec	type	I Will Show You X!
The Mighty Ducks / int_140883ec	comment	I Will Show You X!: After Charlie gets an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in D3 for smashing his stick against a goalpost, he goes to the box grumbling "I'll show you 'unsportsmanlike'!" The reason Dean strips in the penalty box during the JV-Varsity game is that he's outraged to get a Hooking call, declaring "I'll show you a real penalty!"
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Team USA is in this after they lose to Iceland and Bombay becomes a Drill Sergeant Nasty. They start bickering with each other from the stress and can't keep up with their studies. Russ notices and invites them to let off steam with a friendly rollerblading match against his brother's street team. Having fun reminds the team why they're playing hockey in the first place. In the third movie, Charlie starts undergoing this when Orion takes away his captain position and administers Tough Love to the team about improving their defense. He drops out of Eden Hall, argues with his family and friends, and plans to finish his education at public school. Bombay snaps him out of it by telling him why Orion dropped out of the NHL and how they're not that different.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Mighty Ducks / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Mr. Banks is this briefly in the first movie; he tries to pull some strings to get his son back on the Hawks team because he wants Adam to be with his friends. Obviously, Bombay opposes this but is sympathetic. During the final game, Adam's dad is cheering his son as a Duck and goes to his side when Adam is knocked out and has to leave on a stretcher. This no longer applies in the sequels; Bombay tells an injured Adam that his dad is proud of him whether or not he's on the ice and Mr. Banks wouldn't want his son to have a permanent injury.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Mighty Ducks / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: In D2, three Hawks players tie a piece of rope to trip the incoming roller-skating Ducks as revenge for their loss, but don't realize there's one player unaccounted for...
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Mighty Ducks / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Bombay at the start of D1 - in his case it's Coach Reilly and later his boss Ducksworth since his actual dad, who was very supportive of him, died when he was young.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Mighty Ducks / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Adam Banks is considered the best player on the team, but cheap shots knocked him out of the final in the first film and had him injured for most of D2.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Mighty Ducks / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Despite being jerks the entire tourney, Team Iceland accepts defeat and their star player even tells his team to go shake the hands of their opposition. This even extends to Stansson himself who after a moments contemplation shakes Gordon's hand and congratulates him despite being borderline evilly cruel all movie. While most of the Varsity team are NOT this as you'd expect just walking off in disgust Scooter the goalie and the only one of them who thought antagonising the Ducks was beneath them and kept telling his team to chill out seems perfectly fine with their loss. As does their own coach who despite ordering them to up the brutality and was callous to the Ducks getting battered around and injured congratulates Orion on his team's win.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
The Mighty Ducks / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: The Ducks are the perennial losers up against the perennial winners in the first film. In the sequel, Bob Miller makes this analogy re the Ducks (David) and Iceland (Goliath). As if to underscore this, we then see Ken Wu (the smallest Duck) dwarfed by a much larger Icelander.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Mighty Ducks / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The trilogy centers around hockey, so obviously, some big-name hockey players - as well as athletes from other sports - appear in them. In the first film, the Ducks take a trip to the Met Center, then the home of the Minnesota North Stars, where they share a brief chat with then-North Stars Basil McRae and Mike Modano. By the time the second film was released, the North Stars had dropped the "North" from their name and moved to Dallas. In the second film, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Olympic champion diver Greg Louganis, and Olympic champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi appear, along with the usual big-name hockey players, those in this film being Chris Chelios, Luc Robitaille, and Cam Neely. Also, some guy named Gretzky. In the third film, then-real life Mighty Ducks star Paul Kariya is radio announcer Josh's special guest during the second intermission of the JV/Varsity Showdown.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Mighty Ducks / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The Hawks' players, Larson and McGill.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Mighty Ducks / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Coach Orion proves to be this. Despite making a bad first impression on the team by interrupting Dwayne's lassoing game and making Charlie do laps, he really wants them to become better hockey players. Hans says as much, that he knows what he's talking about. When Bombay gives Charlie the courage to apologize to Orion and ask to rejoin the team, Orion welcomes him back with a smile, showing all is forgiven. Later he goes Papa Wolf on finding out the board wants to take away their scholarships and gets Bombay to argue on their behalf. Orion also compromises on making training sessions fun and productive.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Mighty Ducks / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The "Oreo line" from the first film - The Hall brothers, centered by Guy Germaine.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Mighty Ducks / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The Varsity team gets a very excitable Dies irae over their plays.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
The Mighty Ducks / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: A major plot point in D3. Coach Orion tries to stress that "their little duck tricks" (the knuckle-puck, the flying V, etc.) won't work at this level of hockey and they need to focus on defense. In their first game, the Ducks' tricks do work in the first two periods—giving them an absurd nine-goal lead. However, by the third period the other team catches onto the tactics and stops them, then takes advantage of the Ducks' lackluster defense to score nine goals themselves, ending the game in a tie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Mighty Ducks / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Early in D3, Charlie and his teammates marvel at a display of Brazilian fire ants. They later use the ants against the Varsity.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Mighty Ducks / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Russ and Julie are this in the third movie. They're talking about how things will change with Coach Orion, with Julie mentioning she's going to try her hardest but her parents are okay with her coming home if it doesn't work out. Russ says he doesn't have that option; his dad jokingly threatened to whip his butt if he loses his scholarship. When Orion administers Tough Love and Brutal Honesty, they get in line and listen, with Russ outright reminding Charlie that being at Eden Hall is an opportunity most of them wouldn't have. Though they both have a Not So Above It All moment by going along with pranking Varsity when the latter starts an Escalating Prank War.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Mighty Ducks / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Fulton first thinks that Dean is a Small Name, Big Ego Jerkass that intimidates the guys and flirts with the girls. Dean in turn underestimates Fulton until seeing the guy's slapshot. They become the Bash Brothers after their first game and team up to protect the team. Russ Tyler's first appearance in D2 has him heckling the team, but when they're at their nadir, Russ and his gang help them get their groove back. Russ then joins the team and helps them defeat Iceland.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Mighty Ducks / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Foreground Event: In the first film, the Ducks and their classmates start to fight in class, except one girl whose just doing her work like nothing's happening.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_278e545e	comment	Scholarship Students: In D3, the Ducks receive scholarships to a prestigious private school called Eden Hall Academy. The varsity hockey team is pissed off because the Ducks took the junior varsity roster spots that would have been available to their younger siblings. However, they're initially nicer to Adam Banks, who gets called up to the varsity team himself. Due to his family's wealth and his exceptional talent, Adam likely would have gotten onto the team by conventional means, anyway. When the Ducks fail to perform, the Board of Trustees threatens to pull their scholarships, but Gordon Bombay comes to Eden Hall with his lawyer hat on and saves his former team.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
The Mighty Ducks / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: One of the kids relates to Gordon what happened to their previous coach: A long rant, followed by a sudden clutch at his left arm. Gordon concludes, "Heart attack." Worth noting is that the kids claim that he hurt his arm.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
The Mighty Ducks / int_2882c8c1	comment	At the beginning, Bombay returns from his minor league hockey stint after his Career-Ending Injury by bus on a rainy night alone (mirroring his departure at the end of the first film by bus on a clear day with his team and Charlie's mother cheering him off) —he comes home unsure about what to do now that he's injured but doesn't want to go back to being a lawyer (the eggs Jans makes helps a little, but doesn't solve the problem) until he gets the Team USA offer.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Mighty Ducks / int_28a5213a	comment	Fulton first thinks that Dean is a Small Name, Big Ego Jerkass that intimidates the guys and flirts with the girls. Dean in turn underestimates Fulton until seeing the guy's slapshot. They become the Bash Brothers after their first game and team up to protect the team.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Mighty Ducks / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Charlie (divorce) and Gordon (death) bond over theirs.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Mighty Ducks / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Showcasing the power of Fulton's slap shot in pregame warm-ups put the fear of God into the Cardinals, which made it easy to pull the Statue of Liberty play by making all of them curl up on the ice in terror and give another Duck the space and time to put in the easy goal. In D2, Russ' "Knucklepuck." Stansson's best strategy was essentially either mobbing Russ or catching him before he could get a shot off. As soon as Bombay found a way around this (disguising Russ as the goalie) and Russ had a clear shot, Stansson could only let out a Big "NO!" as the "knucklepuck" soared past the baffled Iceland goalie to tie the game and send it to a shootout.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: When Dean Buckley compares Eden Hall Academy to an ant colony.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: In the first film, Gordon asks Jesse and Guy why Fulton isn't on the team. Jesse explains that Fulton's a football player and apparently a prep school offered him a scholarship on the condition he doesn't play hockey so he doesn't get injured. Guy adds that he heard it was actually a college who offered it. When Gordon asks Fulton himself later on, he reveals none of that is true and the reason he didn't join the team was because he doesn't know how to skate.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Mighty Ducks / int_2d3d3e0c	comment	Disqualification-Induced Victory: A related phenomenon occurs in the first movie. They lose most of the games in the season, but due to a series of extreme coincidences (including another team canceling their entire season due to measles) they make it to the playoffs.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Adam seems as much of a Jerk Jock as the rest of the Hawks, but when his father angrily says, "My son would rather not play than play for your team," he does a Double Take, showing he does not agree with this sentiment; winning is less important to him than playing for the pure love of the game. In the third movie, after Charlie and Fulton temporarily quit, Goldberg is made a defenseman and proves surprisingly effective.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2edc82a0	type	Accidental Athlete
The Mighty Ducks / int_2edc82a0	comment	Accidental Athlete: Fulton, by way of Broken Glass Penalty. The guy can't even skate when he first becomes a Duck.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2ef89a18	comment	Fat Comic Relief: Goldberg is the fat goalie; he has a lot of the franchise's funnier lines.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: The team itself, according to Orion.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_2f3668fa	comment	Force and Finesse: In D1, this is the point of the "soft hands" exercise. Gordon brings egg cartons to the rink and shows the kids they need to "cradle" the puck, using eggs to demonstrate. If they block it too hard the egg will break, but with finesse it will remain intact. The intent is to show that maintaining fine control of the puck as it is passed back and forth is more important than pure power. Eventually, all the kids get it after a few hours of practicing.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_30401348	comment	Too Fast to Stop: Mendoza; he's the fastest skater on the team, and usually ends up crashing into the boards. He's only stopped once, and was as surprised as anyone else.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Larson after McGill knocks Banks out of the championship game.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: One in each movie. The third movie features a lot of Improvised Training.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_332cabca	comment	Danger — Thin Ice: Discussed in 'the first movie when Bombay drives his limo onto the frozen pond to meet his new team and then takes them for a spin on the pond. Charlie's mom is absolutely livid at Bombay and doesn't accept his assurances that the ice wasn't going to crack.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_337b9528	type	The Worf Barrage
The Mighty Ducks / int_337b9528	comment	The Worf Barrage: Fulton's slapshot subverts this twice in D2. The first time, it's blocked by Team Iceland's goalie...but the goalie's intense pain (as well as a puck shaped bruise) suggests that it was mainly sheer luck that his glove was in the right spot. Subverted completely near the end, when the shot unexpectedly works perfectly during the tie-breaker shootout. (On the other hand, viewers may notice the Iceland goalie (same in both games) visibly shaking nervously when Fulton steps up the second time, presumably having the pain fresh in his head from last time, which likely caused him to mess up the save the second time around.) Invoked in D1 when the Ducks start practicing in a proper manner (i.e., not by cheating) - specifically, how Bombay gets Goldberg to stop being afraid of the puck (kind of a problem if you're the goalie): tying Goldberg's limbs to the goal frame and having the rest of District 5 (plus himself) fire hundreds of pucks at him (Karp was especially eager at the chance). Goldberg was shaking in his skates and screaming bloody murder at first, but when he realizes pucks don't hurt he starts laughing and taunting his teammates to shoot harder.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
The Mighty Ducks / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: In the first film, Bombay asks Connie what their current record is. She replies they're 0-9, then weakly defends they almost won once; they almost scored a goal and they only lost by 5 points that time. When Michelle McKay introduces herself as the team's tutor, Dean Portman protests, saying "I don't need no school!" A thousand grammar teachers would say otherwise, Portman.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_35ab4cec	type	You Watch Too Much X
The Mighty Ducks / int_35ab4cec	comment	You Watch Too Much X: Dwayne says his teammates watch too much TV. Russ says it's the safest activity in South Central Los Angeles.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
The Mighty Ducks / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Each film features a scene in the Mall of America and at least one scene where the Ducks are in roller blades.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Mighty Ducks / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Adam has this over the film trilogy. He starts as a Hawk who goes along with bullying D5, only to change his tune when Bombay finds out he should be playing for the Ducks. We find out that he likes playing hockey because he thinks it pleases his dad; in contrast, his dad turns out to be supportive of him whether he's on or off the ice. In the second movie, he wants to play despite a serious wrist injury because his dad and scouts will be watching; Bombay has to sit him down and tell him he's a damn good player, whether or not scouts see him, and he needs to take care of his health. In the third movie, Orion moves him to Varisty because he is better than them and actually practices in the off-season. Adam becomes an Unwitting Pawn as his friends and teammates get into an Escalating Prank War, culminating in him returning to Junior Varisty after his scholarship is threatened and he wants to be with his friends again. The kid Grew a Spine against varisty and refuses to take their nonsense anymore. Russ gets this between the second and third movies. In D2, he starts as a loudmouth that likes heckling the Ducks, only to invite them to a friendly rollerblade hockey match with his brothers and friends to cheer them up. Russ then proves he can be a team player when Charlie recruits him and mellows. In D3, he's the Only Sane Man along with Julie; he said his parents told him to work his butt off because scholarships don't come like this every day. As Charlie and Fulton angst about Orion being a jerk, Russ says they don't have to like the guy; they just have to listen to him. Fulton starts a Boo Radley-type character; a big, mysterious guy who seems to only communicate in grunts, silently helps the Ducks in various ways, and whom the other kids only know rumors about, such as not being allowed to play hockey in order to protect an alleged football scholarship. Once Bombay corners and convinces him to play for the Ducks, he starts to come out of his shell and is shown to be a pretty gentle soul. Early on, he latches onto Charlie as a peer mentor. He opens up further in D2 as he almost instantly strikes up friendship with Portman, leading to the "Bash Brothers" schtick. Despite this, Fulton is shown to exclusively be a follower until midway through D3, when he makes the decision to move out of Charlie's shadow and return to school for his own good.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3b982a5a	type	Crowd Chant
The Mighty Ducks / int_3b982a5a	comment	Crowd Chant: The Ducks' "Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack!" In D1 the Ducks' fans go "We will, we will quack you!" in unison during their semifinal win over the Cardinals to showcase just how far the Ducks have come as a team compared to the start of the movie when nobody except a few parents and Fulton show up to watch then-Distrct 5. In the first movie, the rival Hawks had "Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!" which while mainly used by Coach Riley and the team was also used by the Hawks' supporters in the championship game.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3d02661f	type	Very High Velocity Rounds
The Mighty Ducks / int_3d02661f	comment	Very High Velocity Rounds: Russ's "knucklepuck." Oxymoronic as a knuckler is effective because it's slow. More famously, Fulton's slapshot: he is capable of shattering plexiglass with it, and once left a puck-shaped indent in the hand of the only goalie to actually stop it.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Mighty Ducks / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: D1 and D2, District 5/Team USA's first game against the the Hawks and Team Iceland, respectively, are utter blowouts (17-0 and 12-1, respectively). The 17-0 blowout is further implied to have had the potential to be even more lopsided had the Hawks not decided to lolly-gag in the third period which Coach Riley admonishes them for. The instance in the first film is justified, as they were just beginners with no real training. In the second film, they lose due to overconfidence. The Varsity Warriors score three goals against the Freshman Warriors in their grudge match before it's broken up by Orion. Off the ice in D2, three Hawks set up a rope in the park to clothesline the Ducks as revenge for beating them in the first movie. Then Fulton shows up and tosses them around like ragdolls before tying them to a tree in their underwear.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Mighty Ducks / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: When we first see Gordon Bombay, he's a cocky Amoral Attorney who hates kids and hockey. Over the course of the first film, he warms up to the Ducks (even becoming a Parental Substitute to Charlie) and rekindles his love of hockey, enough that he's playing minor league at the start of the sequel.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3e2c9723	type	We Win, Because You Didn't
The Mighty Ducks / int_3e2c9723	comment	We Win, Because You Didn't: In the third film, the Ducks' opponents' nine goals third period comeback to end the game in a tie is treated as a win for them and a very disappointing defeat for the Ducks (understandable as a four goal lead in hockey is considered a blowout). Orion privately admits to the Dean he would've preferred it if the Ducks lost so it would've be a true loss and have more impact on them. That's also Gordon's legal strategy in the third film over the Ducks scholarships saying that if the board doesn't allow them to remain he will sue them and drag the legal proceedings out for years, throughout which they'll be unable to kick them out until the case is settled, until it's a moot point because the kids will have long graduated. Though Gordon also threatens that after all those years he'll still finally win the case and force them to pay damages because he's THAT good as a lawyer.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Mighty Ducks / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: All three films have several examples of this. Though Fulton eventually improves enough for the Ducks to use him for real, just slotting in a shooter with massive power but poor accuracy isn't a winning strategy. Gordon realizes this and sets up a Bait-and-Switch, exploiting the Cardinals' fear to create an opening for Guy to score. Banks (Reilly's former star player) gets cross-checked by McGill on orders from Reilly (resulting in McGill getting a penalty). Adam is knocked unconscious, and the paramedics put him on a stretcher while checking his eyes for a concussion. Bombay, after 20 years of beating himself up over his missed penalty shot, realizes just how little Reilly thinks of his players. Reilly is not mentioned again coaching hockey in the second movie. It turns out that training your players to seriously injure your opponents is a good way to get fired. One of the Iceland team players injures Adam's shooting hand after he makes a goal, whacking it with his stick. Adam tries to shrug it off and insists he can play. Bombay gives him a reality check when seeing him wrap it in gauze: if the pain is that bad, he needs to rest and recover because he could badly hurt himself. Even in the finals, he's playing gingerly when the same player whacks the same area but makes a shootout nonetheless. During the group stage of the Jr. Goodwill Games, we see Team USA run roughshod on inferior teams without much need for scouting or heavy preparation. Meanwhile, Wolf Stansson is seen in the stands studiously watching the Ducks play. After USA are thoroughly blown out by Iceland, the team blasts Bombay for the lack of preparation, noting Iceland had clearly done their homework on them. When the team works through their issues and get back to it, part of the training montage includes working on their stamina and studying Iceland on tape. Russ's brother and friends are really good hockey players, especially considering they're from southern Los Angeles. Despite that, they have no chance of playing professionally without any contacts; Charlie can only recruit Russ to the team to fill Adam's spot and then gives up his number when Adam's wrist recovers in time for the final game. For what it's worth, Russ's brother doesn't mind and cheers him on at every game. After the Ducks get their scholarships to Eden Hall, Gordon informs them that he won't be coaching them anymore and Orion will be taking over. While the Ducks are upset by this, the fact is that no hockey player has the same coach at every level of the game. Bombay is a good coach, but he doesn't know how to prepare his team for professional player levels. That's why he asks Orion to take over, because Orion used to play for the NHL and has expertise he lacks. By contrast, Bombay quit hockey when he was a boy, and his comeback was limited to one minor league season. Sure enough, Orion gets the team up to par when they start listening to him. Adam is the only Duck that consistently trains in the off-season. While part of it is career pragmatism — scouts are watching the Goodwill Games— he really likes the sport. Orion notes that he's the only Duck dedicated to improving himself and puts him on the Varsity team because he outpaces his teammates in terms of skill and discipline. Adam only returns to Junior Varsity after the board meeting, where it doesn't matter anymore. Goldberg's poor practice habits and lack of athleticism catch up to him and Orion names Julie the starting goalie when she vastly outperforms him at practice. What's more, Orion makes him a line defense. It turns out that Goldberg's real talents were in this line. The Ducks' reliance on gimmicks and trick plays rather than fundamentals bites them in their first game when their opponents catch on to them and exploit the team's poor defense to turn a 9-0 deficit into a 9-9 draw. At the peak of their prank war, the Ducks challenge the varsity team to an unsanctioned game. The varsity team proceeds to take advantage of the lack of officiating to lay several dirty hits that would get them penalized in a real game. They didn't care so much about playing hockey in so much as they wanted to assault them for the fire ants prank. Gordon opting to take a leadership position in the League rather than coach at Eden Hall because he couldn't afford to pass up the offer despite Charlie and the Ducks being upset about it also rings true. In the first movie he torpedoed his legal career to help the Ducks and in D2 his shot at the pros was ruined by his injury and while Hendrix pays him a supposed huge sum to coach team USA Gordon realizes the fame is getting to him and opts not try to and network with the celebs and use Hendrix to make himself "bigger". And as he mentioned to Jan he can't make a living coaching kids hockey. So with his future career prospects dwindling he really needed to take that position to make something of his life before it was too late.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Mighty Ducks / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Gordon for Charlie, who doesn't have a father. Gordon lost his own father when he was about Charlie's age so he knows how he feels. Gordon even falls in love with Charlie's mother but their relationship has ended by the time the second film begins. Hans is implied to have been one for Gordon in a similar way.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
The Mighty Ducks / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The main poster for the film spoils the fact that Adam Banks eventually joins the Ducks.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
The Mighty Ducks / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The UK video title for the first film is The Mighty Ducks Are The Champions.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_420a8323	type	Smart Ball
The Mighty Ducks / int_420a8323	comment	Smart Ball: Russ grabs this in the third movie. He tells off Charlie for jeopardizing their scholarship with his bad attitude and even if they dislike Orion personally, they can learn from him. When Charlie and Fulton temporarily leave, it's implied he gets the other Ducks to pay attention in class and work hard.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_437cbac5	type	Sound Off
The Mighty Ducks / int_437cbac5	comment	Sound Off: Used in D2.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
The Mighty Ducks / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: Pee-Wee hockey results making front-page news seems a little ridiculous even by hockey-loving Minnesota standards. It goes even more overboard in the sequel, where the hockey finals of the Junior Goodwill Games not only gets huge newspaper coverage, but the paper's preview includes a giant Floating Head Syndrome image hyping Coach Bombay vs. Wolf Stansson.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Mighty Ducks / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: In D3, Adam Banks’ skill winds up getting him moved to the Varsity team instead of staying with the rest of the Ducks on the JV team. Despite this making him a target of his friends’ pranks against the Varsity team, he still stands with the rest of the Ducks when their scholarships are threatened and elects to return to the Ducks by the time of the JV-Varsity showdown.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
The Mighty Ducks / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: Adam wants to keep playing in the second film despite a wrist injury because hockey scouts are watching the Goodwill Games. Bombay benches him when seeing how much pain he's in, reassuring him he will get his shot. After some disappointment, Adam takes this well and rests up. He then recovers in time for the big game and makes the final shot during the shootout, ensuring scouts see his talent. The third movie confirms he and his friends received prestigious scholarships.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Mighty Ducks / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: During a rollerblading hockey game against Russ's friends and older brother, Russ demonstrates his knuckle puck. Everyone is impressed, but Fulton, in particular, goes to Russ's side and says he liked his trick shot. Russ, who has seen Fulton's own trick shots, is pleased as he explains what it is After the Ducks beat Iceland, star player Gunner Stahl defies Stansson's criticism to lead his team back onto the ice to shake hands with their opponents, personally congratulating Charlie on their victory.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
The Mighty Ducks / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Some of the kids overhear Bombay and Reilly having an argument in a hallway but mistake Gordon's "[The Ducks] didn't even deserve to live" as sincerity instead of sarcasm.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Mighty Ducks / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: During the championship game in the first movie, Reilly tells the Hawks "You lose this game and nobody makes the team next year!" Because he's a jerkass who's obsessed with winning, he presumably keeps his word. In D2 Wolf tells Gunnar he lost the game for him, but Gunnar just tells him off. Wolf reflects for a minute, then seems to see his point and goes to congratulate Gordon on his win.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Mighty Ducks / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Coach Orion. First off, although he pretty much destroys the status quo on the Ducks by first putting the players in all the wrong positions on the ice even benching their most experienced goalie and blaming them when they lose, he is violently protective of them. To the point where he even threatened a Varsity member for their part of the non sanctioned game. As well as defending them when they were about to get kicked out of Eden Hall. He also gave up his NHL career because his daughter was injured in a car accident and she didn't want to disrupt her recovery. Adam's father comes across as a bit of a snob when he tries to stop Gordon from taking Adam away from the Hawks, but he's doing it because he wants his son to be able to play with his friends and honestly thinks Adam would rather quit hockey than not play with them. During the final game we see him sitting with the Hawks and wearing a Hawks jacket but cheering for Adam rather than the Hawks, indicating that he still supports his son regardless of the team he's playing for.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Mighty Ducks / int_47fea76b	comment	D3 may be the best example. Early in the movie, Orion criticizes them for their lackluster defense and overreliance on trick plays that no longer cut it at the high school level. When they play against the Varsity, they prove that they took his lessons to heart by playing actual "two-way" hockey and ultimately shutting out the Varsity. Special note to Goldberg, who goes from being a Butt-Monkey goalie to a competent defenseman knocking down players left and right, and shooting the winning goal.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Mighty Ducks / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: While his players are housed in dorms during the Junior Goodwill Games, Bombay gets a sweet Malibu beach house all to himself.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4a84ef8d	type	Big Game
The Mighty Ducks / int_4a84ef8d	comment	Big Game: The Minnesota state pee-wee championship against the Hawks in D1, the Junior Goodwill Games ice hockey final against Iceland in D2, and the JV-Varsity match against the Eden Hall varsity team in D3.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Mighty Ducks / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Emilio Estevez gets top billing in the third movie, but Bombay barely appears at all. A player from Trinidad and Tobago is on the D2 poster.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Mighty Ducks / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Hans in D3.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4cf1658	type	Commander Contrarian
The Mighty Ducks / int_4cf1658	comment	Commander Contrarian: Peter Mark, a Duck in the first film. He leads a mutiny against Bombay, and objects to Charlie taking the championship-winning penalty shot.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Mighty Ducks / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Midway through his first season as the Ducks' coach, Gordon and Hans are sitting in the latter's sporting goods store talking. Hans points out that the sports authority redistricted the area years beforehand, and that—since a lake is no longer a boundary—Gordon would have in the Ducks's District Five instead of a Hawk's district. While already close to the team, this seems to make him bond easier with them, and apparently clues him in on the fact that Adam Banks is not playing for the team he should be, as that's the very next shot.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Mighty Ducks / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In D1, Adam gets checked from behind and crashes into the goal after making the shot. Then Larson skates over and finds out he's unconscious, begging him to wake up. In D2, Fulton's power shot, which could tear a hole into a goalie net as well as knock a goalie into the net by sheer force, actually gets stopped by the Iceland team goalie. Didn't mean he got out of it unscathed. Also in D2, Bombay calls the team over for a time-out and gives them a plan. Cue the Ducks passing the puck to their goalie... who is revealed to be Russ wearing Goldberg's uniform. The crowd, including Russ's older brother, cheer as he finally makes his knucklepuck.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4fb8db6a	type	Skipping School
The Mighty Ducks / int_4fb8db6a	comment	Skipping School: Charlie and Fulton do this in the third installment, going to an amusement park instead. One worker there knows what they're doing, but promises to keep quiet as he did the same thing. Fulton comes to his senses and decides to return, but Charlie needs a pep talk from Bombay.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
The Mighty Ducks / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: The team mutinies against Bombay when some of them overhear him bad-mouthing the team, although Bombay was actually being sarcastic and defending them against Coach Reilly. When Bombay tells Karp he was being sarcastic and asks if he knows what that is, Karp sarcastically replies, "Nooooo!"
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The Mighty Ducks / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Mighty Ducks / int_500ecfb7	comment	In the second movie, when the returning characters practice against the new recruits, Fulton readies his slapshot. The returning characters immediately panic and rush out of the way. The new characters (especially Portman) wonder why until Fulton takes his shot.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Mighty Ducks / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: In the first film, when Adam transfers to the Ducks, his former Hawk teammates immediately cut him off. In the final game, Coach Reilly orders the team to take Adam out of the game by whatever means, which one was more than happy to do. Crosses into Moral Event Horizon as said player actually injures Adam to the point he has to be carried off in a stretcher, and thinks nothing of it.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
The Mighty Ducks / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Dwayne Robertson, who needs the others to explain what several of the terms the Eden Hall dean uses means.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Mighty Ducks / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: the hockey-related plots of D1 begin and end with the Minnesota State Pee-Wee Championship tied at the end of regulation with a kid with a Disappeared Dad being awarded a penalty shot after being taken down illegally from behind on a breakaway. The kid gets one last pep talk from the coach who had become his surrogate father, before going out and taking the penalty shot using the triple deke, sending the puck straight for the nearside post. The first difference is that Reilly tells Gordon that if he misses, he'll be letting his coach and his whole team down, while Gordon tells Charlie that win or lose, it's great that they got this far in the first place. The second difference is that Bombay's shot in 1973 bounces out and he falls to his knees in devastation, while Charlie's shot in 1993 glides in for the winning goal to jubilation as Charlie slides on his knees across the ice. The only thing that remains the same afterwards is that the Hawks lose.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_534bc834	type	Escalating War
The Mighty Ducks / int_534bc834	comment	Escalating War: A subplot in 3. At one point, Varsity gets their clothes soaked in liquid nitrogen and their rooms filled with fire ants. Orion puts an end to it when he catches them doing a grudge match early in the morning.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
The Mighty Ducks / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Because Ken Wu is tiny compared to everyone else on his team, he can use his figure-skating to move past them and score goals easily. Russ's older brother even recognizes this and gives him some tips on how to fight guys bigger than him.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
The Mighty Ducks / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The final shot of the first movie is Bombay on his way to professional tryouts to play in the minors. The first scene of the sequel is him tearing up the minors with the announcer saying that it's only a matter of time before he makes the NHL. Cue cheap shot, ending his hockey career forever.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
The Mighty Ducks / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Subverted. Larson goes to Adams's side when the kid gets knocked out in the first movie. He starts shaking him and saying, "Adam?" with increased urgency and yelling at McGil for checking him. Fortunately, Adam just needs medical treatment and is recovered by the end of the movie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_55f2c035	type	Formal Full Array of Cutlery
The Mighty Ducks / int_55f2c035	comment	Formal Full Array of Cutlery: At the upscale restaurant in the third movie. Cowboy Dwayne is confused by all the forks, especially the "itty-bitty one."
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The Mighty Ducks / int_573b8452	type	Hollywood California
The Mighty Ducks / int_573b8452	comment	Hollywood California: The better part of D2 takes place in Los Angeles; Russ Tyler is recruited from South Central. Ken Wu comes from San Francisco.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Mighty Ducks / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The team that beats Gordon's Hawks at the beginning of the first film. Their underdog story could make a good movie in its own right.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_584cd60c	type	Going Home Again
The Mighty Ducks / int_584cd60c	comment	Going Home Again: In the first film, Gordon's backstory is that he's a rising, talented hockey player who scored 197 goals in a season just before clanging what could have been the 198th off the goalpost. This turns him off hockey and he goes into law. His return back to Hans' sports equipment shop after the disastrous start to his Pee-wee coaching career ends with a quiet nighttime skate that brought back old memories of him and his dad in a frozen backyard pond, rekindling his love of the game and prompting him to begin the long road to repairing the Ducks. D2: The Mighty Ducks: At the beginning, Bombay returns from his minor league hockey stint after his Career-Ending Injury by bus on a rainy night alone (mirroring his departure at the end of the first film by bus on a clear day with his team and Charlie's mother cheering him off) —he comes home unsure about what to do now that he's injured but doesn't want to go back to being a lawyer (the eggs Jans makes helps a little, but doesn't solve the problem) until he gets the Team USA offer. Bombay goes back to the house he's staying at courtesy of his sponsor Hendrix after getting caught up in the Hollywood spotlight —with Jans flying in to cook him the same egg dish— before he goes rollerblading on the beach and reconciling with the team.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_587d824	type	Single Parents Are Undesirable
The Mighty Ducks / int_587d824	comment	Single Parents Are Undesirable: Charlie tells Bombay about how his mother's potential suitors run like hell as soon as they see him.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
The Mighty Ducks / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Luis Mendoza, as seen when he's introduced. Though, to be fair, he's likely just trolling Guy, who is Connie's boyfriend.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_598c4d8a	type	A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
The Mighty Ducks / int_598c4d8a	comment	A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Inverted. D1’s Big Bad Jack Reilly was Gordon Bombay’s coach during his childhood.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
The Mighty Ducks / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: When Gordon first asks Fulton to join the team, Fulton tells he can't. Gordon thinks he's afraid of playing until Fulton clarifies that he physically can't; he doesn't know how to skate. That's an easier problem to solve; Gordon and the Ducks start Fulton on skating lessons.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5bec943d	type	Powerful, but Inaccurate
The Mighty Ducks / int_5bec943d	comment	Powerful, but Inaccurate: Fulton's slapshots are powerful enough to knock a goalie into the net, but his accuracy in the first film is 20% at best. It gets better as he gains more experience.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Mighty Ducks / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Loyalty and teamwork are important themes and all three films. In the first film, Charlie helps Gordon to realize that he's responsible for the only sense of cohesion the Ducks ever had, that he has a responsibility to remain committed to them. Once Gordon gets a grip and starts actually trying to work with the team, he builds and transforms it into a success. The prospect of fame and fortune goes to Gordon and the players' heads in D2, and his relationships and the players' safety suffer. With help, Gordon comes to appreciate the importance of focusing on the team again, and the players become refocused working hard and playing for pride. Relationships are tested in D3, where big events take place. The former Ducks receive scholarships to a prestigious high school, and Dean doesn't come along for the ride. The team is left under the jurisdiction of a new coach who makes personnel changes. Charlie is upset greatly by all of this, and his reaction causes a rift between him and his teammates. Hans dies and the team's scholarships come under threat. Success becomes contingent upon everyone coming together to pull everything together.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Mighty Ducks / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Connie is the only girl on the original District 5 team.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Mighty Ducks / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Luis Mendoza. Connie certainly thinks so. So does Averman. Guy is not so impressed.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Mighty Ducks / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: Banks joined the Ducks because he was mandated to, and needed a while to win over his teammates. He goes Oh, Crap! in D3 when seeing that Orion assigned him to Varsity because he is the Ducks' best player.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_5fcb3c79	type	Golden Snitch
The Mighty Ducks / int_5fcb3c79	comment	Golden Snitch: A standard playoff structure (albeit with an unusually low bar for qualification) is made to look like this when the Ducks are able to overcome an 0-11 start and a later forfeit because one team forfeited their season due to measles, and another team is only doing a little bit better than the Ducks, and it's ten teams competing for eight berths. They then run through the playoffs and win the state title.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
The Mighty Ducks / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: In D3, Varsity could report the Ducks for turning their uniforms into ice. That would be grounds for them losing their scholarships, which the board wants. Instead, they invite the group to a fancy dinner and leave them to pay the bill for steak and seafood. The Ducks retaliate by filling their dorm rooms with Brazilian fire ants.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
The Mighty Ducks / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: Eden Hall Academy has much in common with Shattuck-Saint Mary's, a Minnesota boarding school with a hockey program attended by the likes of Sidney Crosby and Zach Parise.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
The Mighty Ducks / int_6156eafa	comment	The Ducks themselves are the performers to the opposing technicians. Doesn't work quite so well in the third movie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Mighty Ducks / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Hans in the first and third movies, his brother Jan in the second.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The Mighty Ducks / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: After the fire ant prank in D3, a Varsity player tells the Ducks that they're all just white trash. Russ leans over and asks, "Who are you calling white?"
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The Mighty Ducks / int_62518d4a	type	Sorry Ociffer
The Mighty Ducks / int_62518d4a	comment	Sorry Ociffer: The cop who pulled Bombay over on suspicion of DUI gets enough evidence when, having asked Bombay to turn down the car stereo, he hears Bombay admit that it was "a 'widdle' noisy".
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Mighty Ducks / int_6375f746	comment	Team USA is in this after they lose to Iceland and Bombay becomes a Drill Sergeant Nasty. They start bickering with each other from the stress and can't keep up with their studies. Russ notices and invites them to let off steam with a friendly rollerblading match against his brother's street team. Having fun reminds the team why they're playing hockey in the first place.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_64325825	type	Who Needs Overtime?
The Mighty Ducks / int_64325825	comment	Who Needs Overtime?: Played straight for the first and third films - the second one it's averted in the sense that though the game went to a shootout instead of a traditional sudden-death overtime it's still extra play that was required due to a tie score after regulation. Interestingly, in the first film Gordon actually says the team will beat the Hawks in overtime before the below happens. D1: Score tied at 4, Charlie draws a hooking penalty on a breakaway with no time left in regulation and is awarded a penalty shot (any Duck on the ice was eligible according to the ref, but Bombay chose Charlie). Charlie triple-dekes the Hawks' goalie and banks his shot off the post and in for the game-winner. D2: Russ, pretending to be Goldberg since Iceland had been swarming him every time he got on the ice as a normal skater, launches his knucklepuck unimpeded and gets it past the Iceland goalie to tie the score at 5 at the end of the third period. The game goes to a five-round shootout with the US going first; after four rounds each side nets three. Banks pots his attempt for the US, then Bombay pulls Goldberg and puts in Julie, who gloves Gunnar Stahl's shot to win. D3: Scoreless game going into the dying seconds of regulation, the puck somehow ends up on the stick of Goldbergnote who in this movie had been moved from goaltender to defenseman to everyone's suprise (including Goldberg's) - he fires it top-shelf past the varsity team's goalie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_65d658f	type	Putting the Band Back Together
The Mighty Ducks / int_65d658f	comment	Putting the Band Back Together: Charlie goes around town gathering his teammates at the start of the second film. The montage serves as a rapid way to introduce the returning Ducks players to those in the audience who hadn't seen the first film, such as Banks first being seen practicing his moves in his suburban home driveway by himself which indicates both his being studious at keeping up his skills in the off-season and also being a Lonely Rich Kid (or would be if it weren't for the Ducks coming by — he immediately jumps at the chance at joining them). Along the way, an Almost Kiss between Connie and Guy is broken up, upsetting the latter. Also serves as a plot point when the team shows up to play for the first time after getting back together. Seriously, for the first time:
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The Mighty Ducks / int_65df51a8	type	That Poor Cat
The Mighty Ducks / int_65df51a8	comment	That Poor Cat: After one of Fulton's slapshots in the third movie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Mighty Ducks / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The films are about hockey because scriptwriter Steven Brill is a hockey fan.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_675056e4	type	Signature Move
The Mighty Ducks / int_675056e4	comment	The Ducks' Flying V worked in D1, but gets stood up in D2 (by Iceland in the final) and D3 (by the varsity team in the challenge game) and they get knocked on their asses.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_678b0fa9	type	Fair-Weather Friend
The Mighty Ducks / int_678b0fa9	comment	Fair-Weather Friend: Adam's former Hawk teammates, especially McGill, and even his former coach views him as an enemy to be taken down after he gets transferred to the Ducks, even though it was against his will.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Mighty Ducks / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Russ's brother boos Team Iceland when they keep Russ from using the knucklepuck and dogpiling him.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_698dcc45	type	Huddle Shot
The Mighty Ducks / int_698dcc45	comment	Second Iceland game, all we get is a brief Huddle Shot of the Ducks at their bench while Charlie is explaining whatever his plan is with a markerboard. There's a hint when Averman exclaims in disbelief "this isn't the NBA!" Charlie's plan turns out to be having Dwayne take the puck to center ice just short of Iceland defensive zone then flinging the puck at a high angle so that it drops down just in front of the Iceland goalie and bounce in, with Banks quickly skating in to make sure it has enough to get past. Dwayne shouting "Alley-oop, boys!" right as he launches it is how the basketball analogy comes in.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6aab3ca0	type	Shockingly Expensive Bill
The Mighty Ducks / int_6aab3ca0	comment	Shockingly Expensive Bill: An $857 formal dinner in D3. The shopping montage mentioned below is also an example as it shows the cash register for Hans's sporting goods store quickly racking up a massive bill for the newly sponsored Ducks.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Mighty Ducks / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In D3, the varsity captain when he says it's not fair that players who would've been on the JV team under normal circumstances, like his younger brother, lost their spots because the school decided to give full scholarships to a team that won the gold medal in an international competition. His argument is well-founded, especially since it's implied that other players weren't even allowed to try out for the team. On the other hand, the Ducks didn't know that and didn't ask for the scholarship besides that. Orion is a walking moment of this trope. He's absolutely strict on the team and removes seniority privileges, but he is completely correct. Goldberg is an okay goalie but he doesn't practice and is definitely worse than Julie. Making Julie the starter goalie is completely reasonable. Likewise, he refuses to acknowledge Charlie as captain because he wants a player to earn their way as the team leader. Even Hans tells Charlie that Orion has the right to test him. When Charlie earns Orion's respect, he receives that coveted C on his jersey for captain. Orion may be harsh on the team, but everything he says about defense is proven right in an early game when a 9-0 lead collapses into a 9-9 tie because of shoddy defense. They take it to heart later and follow all of his instructions.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Mighty Ducks / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Apparently children's hockey games are this in the team's hometown: The local paper covers them, complete with large headers and dramatic photographs. How Reilly treats children's hockey, to the point where he orders one of his players to freaking injure Banks, badly enough that Banks has to be taken out on a stretcher. No American state is more crazy about hockey than Minnesota, but the films definitely take it up to eleven.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Mighty Ducks / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Adam Banks. He's rich. "Adam" means "man" in Hebrew, so he's literally a rich man.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Mighty Ducks / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Bombay is haunted by his missed penalty shot in overtime for decades. He finally gets over it when he realizes what a dick his old coach was.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7046be0a	comment	Shopping Montage: In the first film, after sponsorship allows the Ducks to buy proper hockey equipment.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_72d43279	type	Blocking Stops All Damage
The Mighty Ducks / int_72d43279	comment	Blocking Stops All Damage: Totally averted in the first film, where a goalie who tries to stop the puck gets knocked backward into the net by it. Subverted in the second film, where the opposing team's goalie manages to stop a slap shot from the power hitter. The film takes a few seconds to show the goalie taking off his glove and a massive puck-shaped bruise. The second time, Fulton accidentally aims for the head and knocks him out.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Mighty Ducks / int_733e007a	comment	Adam has this over the film trilogy. He starts as a Hawk who goes along with bullying D5, only to change his tune when Bombay finds out he should be playing for the Ducks. We find out that he likes playing hockey because he thinks it pleases his dad; in contrast, his dad turns out to be supportive of him whether he's on or off the ice. In the second movie, he wants to play despite a serious wrist injury because his dad and scouts will be watching; Bombay has to sit him down and tell him he's a damn good player, whether or not scouts see him, and he needs to take care of his health. In the third movie, Orion moves him to Varisty because he is better than them and actually practices in the off-season. Adam becomes an Unwitting Pawn as his friends and teammates get into an Escalating Prank War, culminating in him returning to Junior Varisty after his scholarship is threatened and he wants to be with his friends again. The kid Grew a Spine against varisty and refuses to take their nonsense anymore.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
The Mighty Ducks / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: After Disney branded their NHL franchise the Mighty Ducks a year after the first movie was a hit, it's established in-universe in D3 that the NHL team was specifically named after Gordon Bombay's team once they rose to national prominence. Exploited for all its worth in the final act of D2. The climactic game takes place in the Ducks' home arena (then known as the Arrowhead Pond) and in the third period the team come out wearing the Ducks' home uniforms. The novelization also canonizes the naming of the team after Bombay's squad in the epilogue.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
The Mighty Ducks / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: The Ducks, to varying extents. In D1, District 5 is centered around Minneapolis and has no money to spend on proper equipment at the start of the movie. Early scenes have them trawling through dumpsters to look for things like a nice purse (to prank unscrupulous people with) or thrown-away porn magazines (which Karp immediately starts trying to charge money to look through). Several of the players are at least implied to come from working-class backgrounds — Charlie has a single mom who works at a diner, Jesse and Terry's dad works overtime just to attend his sons' games, Averman and Goldberg are found working part-time jobs when the Ducks reunite in D2, etc. It highlights the initial divide between Lonely Rich Kid Banks and the rest of the team more before Banks was able to settle in.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
The Mighty Ducks / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: Tammy Duncan and Connie Moreau in D1; Julie "The Cat" Gaffney replaces Tammy for the two sequels.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Mighty Ducks / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Half the kids from the first film, presumably to make way for the newcomers. Also, Charlie's mom, said to have re-married during Gordon's comeback attempt. Hans is said to be visiting his mother, leaving the shop in the care of his brother Jan.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_755228	type	Hockey Fight
The Mighty Ducks / int_755228	comment	Hockey Fight: Pops up a few times. Ken Wu picks a fight with the Iceland goalie and spends two minutes in the box after the guy intimidates him. In D3, the Freshman and Varsity teams have hostile relations to start with, and by the time Orion comes along to break up their grudge match, they're in the middle of a physical altercation.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_75987da9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Mighty Ducks / int_75987da9	comment	Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: The Ducks, when they were simply District 5, are a band of underdogs who were basically at the bottom of the barrel (they didn't even have proper hockey equipment). Once they become the Ducks, they become champions.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_76c7754f	type	All of Them
The Mighty Ducks / int_76c7754f	comment	All of Them: In the first movie, when Bombay goes to the school to talk to the team, he presents a list of the students he wants to see to the principal. What Bombay doesn't know yet is that the entire team is in detention because they had been in science class together and got into an atom fight with each other, then collectively quacked at the principal.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Mighty Ducks / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: The Ducks against the Opposing Sports Team in D1 and D3 are the clearest examples, with the Ducks as the Slobs (and even in D2, several Iceland players give off the impression that they look down upon Team USA such as with mocking laughs). Part of Banks' difficulty in integrating with the Ducks in D1 also stems from this, with the Slob part best encapsulated with Jesse's nicknaming of Banks "cake eater" and overriding Charlie's attempt to reach out to Banks by leading the other Ducks in shunning him at the start of the Huskies game. Emphasized by the Varsity team calling the Ducks "white trash" and "affirmative action."
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The Mighty Ducks / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
The Mighty Ducks / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: "Shut up, Averman!", and, unsurprisingly, "Goldberg!!!"
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The Mighty Ducks / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Mighty Ducks / int_77b03c0a	comment	Jans has a picture with the Ducks winning the state Championship hung in his store. Gordon mentions how he and Charlie's mother drifted off between movies while observing it.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
The Mighty Ducks / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: At least one at Eden Hall.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7881ddf0	type	HometownHero
The Mighty Ducks / int_7881ddf0	comment	Hometown Hero: In-universe, Russ is listed as such after Charlie recruits him to the team. Los Angeles loves how a kid from their city is winning in the Goodwill Games.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7986a111	type	Bonding over Missing Parents
The Mighty Ducks / int_7986a111	comment	Bonding over Missing Parents: Bombay and Charlie talk about growing up without their fathers. (Charlie's mom divorced, while Bombay's father died.)
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7b3c03d9	type	SignificantName
The Mighty Ducks / int_7b3c03d9	comment	Significant Name: Gordon Bombay has two brands of gin in his name (Gordon's Gin and Bombay Sapphire), and the plot of the first movie starts with him getting arrested for drunk driving.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7cc1924a	type	Handshake Refusal
The Mighty Ducks / int_7cc1924a	comment	Handshake Refusal: A Varsity Warrior puts his chewing gum in Dwayne's hand.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
The Mighty Ducks / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: The Hawks team. Even a year later they're pretty upset that they lost to the Ducks.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
The Mighty Ducks / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: Apparently, Goldberg has something of a reputation for this.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
The Mighty Ducks / int_7eb49b31	comment	Along the way, an Almost Kiss between Connie and Guy is broken up, upsetting the latter.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_7f0f19e5	type	I Coulda Been a Contender!
The Mighty Ducks / int_7f0f19e5	comment	I Coulda Been a Contender!: Played With. In the first film, Gordon was a star Pee Wee hockey player until he quit due to a combination of grief over his father's death and missing a potential game winning shot that cost his team the championship. As an adult, people keep reminding Gordon how great he was and that he could have gone "all the way" to the NHL if he didn't quit. Hans, on the other hand, considers it sad because of how much Gordon loved to play as a kid. By the end, he regains his love for the game and decides to try out for the minors. He's on the fast track to the NHL by the beginning of the sequel until he suffers a Career-Ending Injury, which makes him play the trope straight.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Mighty Ducks / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: A few moments in D2 Russ invites Team USA for a friendly game of Rollerblade hockey with his brother's team. When Russ's big brother says he heard stuff about them, Jesse retorts that Russ has a big mouth. Team USA goes Mass "Oh, Crap!", but after a long beat, his older brother says, "He does, doesn't he?" Dwayne saves Connie by jumping onto the ice with a rope and lassoing the Iceland player about the check her. The commentator is very befuddled by this play. Bombay, while outwardly disappointed that Dwayne stooped to Iceland's level, later admits a part of him was laughing inside, and Ms. McKay looks like she's trying not to laugh.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
The Mighty Ducks / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: Guy Germaine's character can only be described as a) Connie's love interest and b) the best player on the team aside from Banks.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Mighty Ducks / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: "Hey Goldberg, if that puck was a CHEESEBURGER you'd stop it!"
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The Mighty Ducks / int_84df0713	type	ForgotICouldFly
The Mighty Ducks / int_84df0713	comment	Forgot I Could Stop: Either this happened, or Luis apparently didn't refine his stopping skills between D2 and D3, as he goes right back to being a classic Fragile Speedster: Fantastic speed, absolutely NO brakes. Justified as it's revealed that none of the Ducks practice in the off-season, with Adam being the exception.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Mighty Ducks / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the first movie Goldberg says that he won't be the team's goalie for long, because he was moving back to Philly with his mom. This never happens in the sequels and is never even brought up again, though in the second movie, his parents seem to be operating a deli together; possibly they were getting divorced, then changed their minds. Jack Reilly orders one of his players, McGill, to deliberately injure Banks. McGill does so without any sign of remorse. Neither is shown suffering any real consequences beyond McGill getting a two-minute penalty. In real life, not only would Reilly and McGill likely be immediately kicked out of the league, but possibly face criminal charges. (Then again, for guys like McGill and Reilly simply losing a game may be more than punishment enough.) Plus, neither Reilly nor McGill were ever seen or mentioned after the first film, which implies that Reilly was fired and McGill was kicked out after Adam's dad was done with them.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
The Mighty Ducks / int_863fac26	comment	Adam seems as much of a Jerk Jock as the rest of the Hawks, but when his father angrily says, "My son would rather not play than play for your team," he does a Double Take, showing he does not agree with this sentiment; winning is less important to him than playing for the pure love of the game.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
The Mighty Ducks / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: Real-life sportscaster Bob Miller provides the play-by-play for several of the Ducks' games.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Mighty Ducks / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Serious hockey players do have to learn to play two-way hockey eventually. Successful professional teams speak to its importance on a regular basis.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Mighty Ducks / int_8797239c	comment	Though Fulton eventually improves enough for the Ducks to use him for real, just slotting in a shooter with massive power but poor accuracy isn't a winning strategy. Gordon realizes this and sets up a Bait-and-Switch, exploiting the Cardinals' fear to create an opening for Guy to score.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Mighty Ducks / int_890d4ef2	comment	The second film has Sanderson attack Adam by going for his recovering wrist. The rest of the team pegs him and ensures he suffers a Humiliation Conga. First, Ken Wu successfully gets past him to score a goal and then do the "stick, glove, shirt" trick to take him down. Second, Sanderson tries to check Connie from behind. Dwayne grabs his rope and lassos him like a cattle, to the audience's amusement. Sanderson finds himself off-balance and knocked down several times.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_892552b	type	Kung Fu-Proof Mook
The Mighty Ducks / int_892552b	comment	Kung Fu-Proof Mook: D3, the Ducks are told "Your little Duck tricks won't work anymore."
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The Mighty Ducks / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
The Mighty Ducks / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: Russ tells Charlie in D3 that they can't lose their scholarship. So if they're going to prank Varisty, they need to make sure they're not caught.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8b2e9310	type	Ordered to Cheat
The Mighty Ducks / int_8b2e9310	comment	Ordered to Cheat: Two in the first film: The first time, Gordon orders the team to take several falls, but Charlie refuses. It becomes a What the Hell, Hero? moment and the beginning of a mild Heel–Face Turn. During the championship game, Reilly orders McGill to take Banks out. McGill is only too eager to comply.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Mighty Ducks / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Pretty much the ENTIRE team in D3. Though the rival varsity players are pretty huge jerks too, the protaganists match them prank for prank through the first half of the movie, and also act very disrespectful towards their new coach, mostly just for the "crime" of shaking up their status quo and holding them to higher standards. A large part of the plot is focused on Charlie in particular getting over his new Jerkassery after having established himself as the team's most selfless player in the first two films. Just look at how they treat Banks after he gets promoted to varsity (which wasn't his fault). They stop talking to him, blame him for the pranks the varsity does on them (even though he takes no part and didn't know about them until it was too late), freeze his locker along with the rest of the varsity players just because he's on the team, and Charlie insults him when he tries to explain himself and cheap shots him in the unofficial scrimmage in retaliation for playing clean defense. Probably the biggest offense is when Fulton accuses Russ of being a "sell out." Russ is merely driven; he realizes what a great opportunity he and his teammates have at Eden Hall Academy and doesn't want any of them to blow it.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Mighty Ducks / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: After the fire ants prank the Varsity challenge the Ducks to a secret game. The Ducks are only too happy to oblige thinking they can show them up on the ice, but the pissed off Varsity with no ref and no reason to play fair (after all THEY certainly don't need to impress the school to stay) and wanting to take their aggression out proceed to just cheat and do nothing but cheap shots and blatantly illegal moves (cracking Charlie with his stick during the face off, checking the goalie etc) which as Connie points out makes it impossible to win and not even worth bothering to play if they're just gonna cheat. Eventually the Ducks just give up and start a brawl on the ice, which is when Orion comes in and breaks it up.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
The Mighty Ducks / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Hans' death is the turning point in D3.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Mighty Ducks / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: While he doesn't have much screentime, Scooter, the goalie for the varsity team in D3, is a mild example of this. While he is a willing participant in the pranks against the Ducks, he tries to discourage Riley and Cole from being overly antagonistic, and he genuinely congratulates Julie on a game well played after Varsity loses at the end.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Mighty Ducks / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The first film opens with Gordon smugly beating a D.A. in court and also humiliating the judge involved by using one of the latter's old arguments to win. When Gordon is arrested on a DUI, guess which court he ends up in. The D.A. says the State won't be looking for a plea deal and throws Gordon's own words back on "gotta go for the Big W" with a smug smile on his face the whole time. The second film has Sanderson attack Adam by going for his recovering wrist. The rest of the team pegs him and ensures he suffers a Humiliation Conga. First, Ken Wu successfully gets past him to score a goal and then do the "stick, glove, shirt" trick to take him down. Second, Sanderson tries to check Connie from behind. Dwayne grabs his rope and lassos him like a cattle, to the audience's amusement. Sanderson finds himself off-balance and knocked down several times.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
The Mighty Ducks / int_958a7bef	comment	Layman's Terms: Dwayne is a little slow on the uptake in D3 when Dean Buckley tells the team that their scholarships are being revoked and they'll have to enjoy "other educational opportunities", so Russ has to simplify it for him.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
The Mighty Ducks / int_970ca74e	comment	Adam's actual father and Gordon tag-team this when Reilly orders McGill to check Adam from behind, giving him an incapacitating head injury. Mr. Banks gives a Big "OMG!" and heads down to the ice to help his son as paramedics load him on a stretcher. Bombay goes over to Reilly and says, "To think I wasted all those years, worrying about what you thought. You're going down, Reilly." Indeed, it's implied that Bombay didn't forcibly recruit Adam just for his skills, but also to keep him from succumbing to Reilly's pressure.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Mighty Ducks / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: In D3, Charlie's Face–Heel Turn is primarily driven by this, blaming his negative behavior on anything and anyone other than himself. This includes Gordon leaving the team, Orion's coaching methods and insistence on shaking up the status quo, and the atmosphere of Eden Hall itself, among other things. It takes Hans' death and Gordon's pep talk later in the film for him to finally take responsibility for his actions.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Mighty Ducks / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!":
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The Mighty Ducks / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Mighty Ducks / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: When Gordon accepts Stansson's one-on-one challenge in D2 and lays out the rules so the audience can follow the game.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_99c3dd05	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
The Mighty Ducks / int_99c3dd05	comment	Lifesaving Misfortune: Gordon admits to Charlie in the third film that being arrested for DUI was the best thing that happened to him, as it got him to start turning his life around.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Mighty Ducks / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Once per movie. In D1, the team goes from the laughingstock of pee-wee hockey to a championship team. D3 may be the best example. Early in the movie, Orion criticizes them for their lackluster defense and overreliance on trick plays that no longer cut it at the high school level. When they play against the Varsity, they prove that they took his lessons to heart by playing actual "two-way" hockey and ultimately shutting out the Varsity. Special note to Goldberg, who goes from being a Butt-Monkey goalie to a competent defenseman knocking down players left and right, and shooting the winning goal.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Mighty Ducks / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In D2, Bombay is initially chagrined at the addition of Dean Portman, noting that his team doesn't play "goon" hockey, but Tibbles notes that the team will need an enforcer to keep up with Iceland. Sure enough, Portman is ejected mere seconds into their first meeting, and the Ducks are obliterated by the overly physical play of Iceland. With both Bash Brothers available in the championship game, the Ducks manage to keep their deficit at a more manageable level.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Mighty Ducks / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The second movie: In the Goldbergs' family deli in D2, There's a picture of Greg with the caption "OUR SON, THE GOALIE". They're also running a special on chopped duck liver on rye. Jans has a picture with the Ducks winning the state Championship hung in his store. Gordon mentions how he and Charlie's mother drifted off between movies while observing it. The third movie: Gordon plans on staying on as Team USA Coach in the Goodwill Games after his showing in the previous movie. Charlie asks Dwayne to start a game of round-up before their first practice at the Eden Hall rink. One of the Eden Hall seniors tries to get Charlie to show him how to triple-deke like he did against the Hawks. Gordon's talk with Charlie during the latter half of D3 is similar to Jan's discussion with Gordon in D2. The same could be said for the training montages in the last two films. Fulton and Dean are immediately re-referred to as the Bash Brothers once they take to the ice.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Mighty Ducks / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:"I am Goldberg, THE GOALIE!!"
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The Mighty Ducks / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Mighty Ducks / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is Fulton and Portman's theme. It plays in the background when they're on the ice doing their Bash Brothers thing, and they listen to it at night in the dorms.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a0f9ada9	type	Drench Celebration
The Mighty Ducks / int_a0f9ada9	comment	Drench Celebration: The Ducks in D1 celebrate their semifinal victory over the Cardinals by spraying shaken-up soft drink cans all over the locker room, with Fulton heaving a cooler full of ice and dumping it on Bombay's head.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a13bda01	type	Crack! "Oh, My Back!"
The Mighty Ducks / int_a13bda01	comment	Crack! "Oh, My Back!": Goldberg displays some inflexibility by the second film. This convinces Bombay to embrace Julie as a backup goalie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Mighty Ducks / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Adam's father is technically a Hero Antagonist, in that in the first movie he asks for Duckworth to move his son back to the Hawks so Adam can be with his friends. He is supportive, however, when Adam decides to play for the Ducks, and goes to his son's side when the latter gets injured. It's referenced in the second movie where Adam tells Bombay he needs to work through his injury because his dad will be watching Team USA; Bombay sits him down and tells him his dad would be proud of him whether or not he plays. He's right, especially when Adam wins the shootout for Team USA.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
The Mighty Ducks / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: In the first film, when Fulton uses his slapshot against the Hawks' goalie (who, unlike a goalie from earlier in the movie, actually stays in to block it), it knocks the goalie backward into the net.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
The Mighty Ducks / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: Charlie comes to one as Gordon tells him the full story about Orion. He learns that Orion has a daughter who was injured in an accident, so he quit playing pro to take care of her.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a5f168ab	type	Let Me at Him!
The Mighty Ducks / int_a5f168ab	comment	Let Me at Him!: Invoked in the sequel — Goldberg tells his teammates to hold him back while he makes a show of doing this during the game against Iceland.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Mighty Ducks / int_a6cda066	comment	Gordon gets three of them in quick succession in D2 after he falls prey to the fame and loses what everyone liked about him; one by his team, one by Ms. McKay, and one by Jan. In particular, after he berates his team for losing so badly to Iceland, they turn it back on him by pointing out that Iceland actually prepared for their game while he didn't.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a7f99c1f	type	Two First Names
The Mighty Ducks / int_a7f99c1f	comment	Two First Names: Russ Tyler; Peter Mark.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a7fa2fa4	type	Crossing the Burnt Bridge
The Mighty Ducks / int_a7fa2fa4	comment	Crossing the Burnt Bridge: Russ has been heckling Team USA and even mocking Bombay to his face. Then Charlie finds out that he is a really good hockey player and wants to recruit him to the team. Russ gives a winning but obvious "Oh, Crap!" Smile when Bombay recognizes him. Fortunately, Bombay is willing to see his knucklepuck.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a8238745	type	"Hell, Yes!" Moment
The Mighty Ducks / int_a8238745	comment	"Hell, Yes!" Moment: Despite it costing the team a penalty, the Ducks cheer on Dwayne when he saves Connie from being bodyslammed. Bombay is the only one who is disappointed. Luis Mendoza has a hard time stopping. He finally succeeds while on a breakaway with the puck, in the climax. Luis is shocked that he stopped just in front of the Iceland goal. Gordon with a So Proud of You look shouts at him to score. Luis does so, closing Iceland's lead, much to the crowd's approval. Russ's brother, the Ducks, and Team USA supporters have this reaction in D2 when Russ disguises himself as the goalie in Goldberg's uniform, gets the puck, and shoots a goal before Iceland can stop him. In the third movie, the Ducks are taking a pounding from the Varsity, can barely maintain a stalemate, and desperately need a miracle. In walks...
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The Mighty Ducks / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
The Mighty Ducks / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: Bombay and Charlie share a lot of these.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_aa23b8ee	type	History with Celebrity
The Mighty Ducks / int_aa23b8ee	comment	History with Celebrity: In the first film, Basil McRae recognizes Gordon because they played each other in Pee Wee hockeynote A goof on the filmmakers' part as McRae grew up in Canada and not Minnesota. Mike Modano is also familiar with Gordon's prowess, but incorrectly believed Gordon became a farmer instead of a lawyer.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Mighty Ducks / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: The most memorable of these is toward the end of D2, when the Ducks fear they will lose the Goodwill Games championship to Iceland. There's another one in the middle of the first movie when Bombay urges them to get behind the "Ducks" nickname. After explaining the circumstances surrounding the end of Orion's playing career, Gordon gives a short but heartfelt one to Charlie next to the Eden Hall trophy case. Gordon attributes the turnaround in his own life after his DUI arrest to the influence Charlie and the Ducks had on him. He also mentions that he told Orion the same thing when he approached him about taking over the role of head coach, and that he was hopeful that Charlie and Orion could learn from each other. He knows Charlie still has the ability to effect positive change in his peers and his superiors, and encourages him to be that person. This leads Charlie to finally reconcile with Orion and the rest of the Ducks.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ab031997	type	Underdogs Never Lose
The Mighty Ducks / int_ab031997	comment	Underdogs Never Lose: Well, once Bombay gets the team's act together and adds a couple of very good players in Adam Banks and Fulton Reed, suddenly they can play.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Mighty Ducks / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Fulton unleashes his high-powered slapshot on the Icelandic goalie, who manages to stop it...but ends up with the imprint of the puck in his palm. The second time around, this doesn't happen. The Ducks' Flying V worked in D1, but gets stood up in D2 (by Iceland in the final) and D3 (by the varsity team in the challenge game) and they get knocked on their asses.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ac546cd4	type	Worth It
The Mighty Ducks / int_ac546cd4	comment	Worth It: Said by Iceland player Olaf Sanderson after intentionally going after Adam Banks and receiving only a 2-minute minor; gets an Ironic Echo later. Dwayne also has this attitude when he ropes Sanderson for trying to check Connie from behind.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Mighty Ducks / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Bombay's legal training and debating skills come into play even after he starts getting back into hockey. In D1, it helps him sell the idea of sponsoring District 5 to Ducksworth as well as recruit both Duncans and Fulton with pitches tailored to each of them (to the more skeptical Tammy he puts the idea of hockey as "figure skating with a stick" while letting the more excited Tommy help pitch it further to his sister; for Fulton he quickly feels out why someone with such a powerful shot isn't already playing hockey and offers to help him get over his barriers). In D3, his acting as the Ducks' lawyer gets Eden Hall to reverse their initial decision to revoke their scholarships by implicitly threatening to sue them on the Ducks' behalf for breach of contract. In D2, Russ' brother teaches Ken Wu the "stick, gloves, shirt" fighting technique. He then puts it to use against Iceland.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Mighty Ducks / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: For most of the first movie, Jesse doesn't trust Banks for being a Hawk and having assisted in bullying them. Then in the final game, Reilly orders McGill to check Adam and get him off the ice on a stretcher. Jesse gets an Everyone Has Standards moment and promises to "kick Hawk butt" on Adam's behalf. The team overall is more determined to win and avenge one of their own. In the third movie, Charlie and Fulton dropped out of Eden Hall after arguing with Orion for taking away what they loved about the team. It's the perfect opportunity for the Board to fill those spots with two of the Varsity family students who otherwise would have gotten the spot. Instead, they try to kick all of the Ducks out and Bombay successfully defends his team by pointing out it would be a breach of contract.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Mighty Ducks / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Fulton's slapshots tend to strike fear into the Ducks' opponents. When he winds up for a shot against the Cardinals, everyone ducks for cover — which turns out to be a ruse so that the Ducks can score a more conventional goal. When Fulton fires off his slapshot against the Hawks, the goalie is literally screaming in fear before the puck hits him and knocks him into the net. In the second movie, when the returning characters practice against the new recruits, Fulton readies his slapshot. The returning characters immediately panic and rush out of the way. The new characters (especially Portman) wonder why until Fulton takes his shot. Fulton does this again later to Iceland's goalie, when it's his turn at the shoot out. The goalie had previously blocked one of his shots but messed up his hand doing so, so he's shaking nervously, and ends up failing the save because Fulton gets him in the head. During the first movie's championship game, Reilly looks visibly unnerved when Bombay makes it clear that he's no longer intimidated by the Hawks and is determined to put Reilly in his place.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ae475b01	type	A True Story in My Universe
The Mighty Ducks / int_ae475b01	comment	A True Story in My Universe: After the first movie came out, The Walt Disney Company founded a pro hockey team called the "Anaheim Mighty Ducks". They're mentioned in D3 where it's said they're a pro team named after the Ducks and captain, Paul Kariya cameos As Himself.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
The Mighty Ducks / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Seeing that his team is fine without him, Gordon Bombay happily walks out of the Eden Hall rink unnoticed at the end of D3.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
The Mighty Ducks / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The three Eden Hall Warriors who get the most screentime in D3 are Riley (the Affably Evil Hunk), Scooter (the pedantic Deadpan Snarker), and Cole (the Dumb Muscle).
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Mighty Ducks / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Defied only once in the first movie. Reilly orders McGill to check Banks, who hits his head on the Hawks net railing. Gordon and Larson realize that Adam could have been seriously injured, with both losing their faith in Reilly and going to the kid's side. Banks is barely conscious when the paramedics come and orders Jesse in a weak voice to "kick some Hawk butt".
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b3ac07aa	type	AmusingInjury
The Mighty Ducks / int_b3ac07aa	comment	Fulton unleashes his high-powered slapshot on the Icelandic goalie, who manages to stop it...but ends up with the imprint of the puck in his palm. The second time around, this doesn't happen.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
The Mighty Ducks / int_b4a44588	comment	Tough Love: In D1, Goldberg is scared of the puck, because before his shoddy equipment wasn't enough to protect him. When he gets an upgrade, that doesn't rid him of his fear. To help out, Gordon ties him to the goal, and orders everyone on the team to fire at him. At first, Goldberg is understandably screaming bloody murder and begging Bombay to let him go. After a few seconds, he realizes that he's still alive and not in pain and asks for everyone to keep firing.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Mighty Ducks / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	For most of the first movie, Jesse doesn't trust Banks for being a Hawk and having assisted in bullying them. Then in the final game, Reilly orders McGill to check Adam and get him off the ice on a stretcher. Jesse gets an Everyone Has Standards moment and promises to "kick Hawk butt" on Adam's behalf. The team overall is more determined to win and avenge one of their own.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b52a20be	type	Take Five
The Mighty Ducks / int_b52a20be	comment	Take Five: In the first film, Tommy and Tammy Duncan are spotted on a hockey rink before practice. Bombay tells his team to get ready, then recruits the Duncans in private.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b59f6070	type	Confusion Fu
The Mighty Ducks / int_b59f6070	comment	D1: During the championship game, the Ducks' 3rd goal comes after Bombay draws up a play with the Duncans during the 2nd intermission. All we hear is Bombay addressing the two of them and telling them, "Let's show these Hawks something really different", before we cut to the on-ice action: Tammy skates up just to the right of the Hawks' goal and starts spinning like a figure-skater, inflicting Confusion Fu on the entire Hawks team who have no idea what to make of it until Tommy calls out to her and sends her a pass which she pots in for the goal before the Hawks snap out of it.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Mighty Ducks / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Bombay becomes one, but in a subversion of the trope, his boss doesn't like it. It makes sense; Bombay goes out of his way to antagonize judges and prosecutors, who he has to be able to work with.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
The Mighty Ducks / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: After getting ejected from the first Iceland game, Portman vents his frustration on things in the locker room.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
The Mighty Ducks / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In D2, the referee has a Jaw Drop when seeing that Dwayne brings a rope onto the ice to save Connie. He's too stunned to interfere until Dwayne lassos Sanderson and humiliates him. How Charlie reacts when Bombay steps down in D3. Charlie says this verbatim in the very next scene when Fulton informs him that Portman has refused his Eden Hall scholarship. Charlie has a complete meltdown during the first game of D3 after getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for breaking his stick across the goalpost. Seriously, Charlie overreacts in this manner to pretty much everything that happens to him in the first 3/4 of D3 (Orion's coaching methods, losing the captaincy, converting to defenseman, being scolded by Casey for his on-ice behavior, tackling and insulting Banks during the dawn scrimmage, Fulton returning to school, Hans delivering the hard truth and then dying, Bombay showing up at Hans' funeral. D3 is basically the story of Charlie learning to cope with change and adversity while dealing with the raging hormones of a 14-year old boy.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
The Mighty Ducks / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Coach Orion is a former NHL player and is completely right about both the Ducks' lackluster defensive skills and the need for them to improve in order to compete in hockey at the high school level. However, because this requires shaking up the Ducks' traditions which the team might have been more receptive to if he wasn’t acting like a self-righteous tyrannical dictator and an a**hole about it which is why the team ignores him until Bombay has a heart to heart with Charlie. Charlie humbly admits he was wrong and starts listening, winning Orion's respect.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Mighty Ducks / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Subverted with the new coach in the third movie. While Coach Orion is a lot stricter than Bombay, he knows what he's talking about and all the changes he makes to the team lineup and practices make the Ducks better players. Given the players' disrespectful attitudes towards him, the punishments he gives them are pretty well justified.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
The Mighty Ducks / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Bombay at first, which is one reason why he's not thrilled about coaching a pee-wee hockey team. (The other reason is that he's come to hate hockey after what Coach Reilly did to him.) He gets better, though, after working with the Ducks (especially Charlie).
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
The Mighty Ducks / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted in the sequel when Fulton (again) hits a slapshot that breaks a guy's window. The guy nonchalantly throws the puck back.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
The Mighty Ducks / int_bc37d80d	comment	Luis Mendoza has a hard time stopping. He finally succeeds while on a breakaway with the puck, in the climax. Luis is shocked that he stopped just in front of the Iceland goal. Gordon with a So Proud of You look shouts at him to score. Luis does so, closing Iceland's lead, much to the crowd's approval.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bcbb5596	type	Not Afraid of You Anymore
The Mighty Ducks / int_bcbb5596	comment	During the first movie's championship game, Reilly looks visibly unnerved when Bombay makes it clear that he's no longer intimidated by the Hawks and is determined to put Reilly in his place.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
The Mighty Ducks / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Dave Karp -> Plucky Comic Relief -> Dwayne Robertson
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The Mighty Ducks / int_bf5951e0	type	Appeal to Flattery
The Mighty Ducks / int_bf5951e0	comment	Appeal to Flattery: Gordon gets his law firm to sponsor the team this way. While Ducksworth seems somewhat moved by the PR victory of being a firm that gives back to the community, he fully relents when Gordon throws in a personalized jersey.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c0c4b1e8	type	Writing Lines
The Mighty Ducks / int_c0c4b1e8	comment	Writing Lines: After a display of insubordination, most of the team has to write "I will not quack at the principal" in detention.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c129ee65	type	Kids Play Matchmaker
The Mighty Ducks / int_c129ee65	comment	Kids Play Matchmaker: Charlie tries to hook up his (presumably divorced) mom and his hockey coach. They start to date, but come the start of D2, we find out his mother remarried while Gordon was trying out for the minors.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c1e2c633	type	Academic Athlete
The Mighty Ducks / int_c1e2c633	comment	Academic Athlete: Required by Coach Orion. During the last game, Dean Buckley tells Tom Riley that Julie is an "A" student.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Mighty Ducks / int_c2cedc1c	comment	In D2, Russ' "Knucklepuck." Stansson's best strategy was essentially either mobbing Russ or catching him before he could get a shot off. As soon as Bombay found a way around this (disguising Russ as the goalie) and Russ had a clear shot, Stansson could only let out a Big "NO!" as the "knucklepuck" soared past the baffled Iceland goalie to tie the game and send it to a shootout.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c3191ad7	type	Smooch of Victory
The Mighty Ducks / int_c3191ad7	comment	Smooch of Victory: Connie and Guy at the end of the first movie. The third ends with Luis making out with a cheerleader and Charlie kissing Linda, a girl whom he was courting throughout the film.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c322a093	type	A Bloody Mess
The Mighty Ducks / int_c322a093	comment	A Bloody Mess: In the third movie, Hans uses ketchup to act like he's just cut himself on his skate sharpener. Charlie isn't fooled for a moment, possibly because Hans has tried this stunt before.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Mighty Ducks / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Some of the players from the first movienote Terry Hall, Dave Karp, Peter Mark, and the Duncan siblings are suddenly gone with no explanation in the sequels. It's particularly noteworthy in the case of one of the players — Jesse's brother, Terry Hall, who's not mentioned at all despite being a very eager member of the team in the first film. The news implies, however, that Team USA recruited new people who have different skills specialties — Dwayne for his signature cowboy moves, Ken Wu for being an Olympic figure skater, Julie for being an expert goalie, and Dean for being an enforcer. Jesse Hall falls victim to this in D3 after being the most outspoken Duck in each of the first two films.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
The Mighty Ducks / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: While Charlie briefly quits the team in D3, the commentator says that Goldberg's suddenly excelled as a defenseman. He's alluded to in the Freshman-JV as the "new defensive weapon," but we don't get to see much of this until the climax, where he successfully knocks down several Varsity players.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c57f5c87	type	Broken Glass Penalty
The Mighty Ducks / int_c57f5c87	comment	Broken Glass Penalty: Inverted in the first movie — Fulton hits a slapshot that breaks a window on Gordon's van, and Gordon decides to recruit him to the team. Subverted in the sequel when Fulton (again) hits a slapshot that breaks a guy's window. The guy nonchalantly throws the puck back.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Mighty Ducks / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Several games take place offscreen. Notably in D2, Team Russia deals Team Iceland its first defeat (allowing the Iceland-US rematch to be a true winner-take-all in the double-elimination format set up); Team USA also defeats Team Canada offscreen, likely not to alienate the Canadian demographic.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c5d50cb0	type	Opposing Sports Team
The Mighty Ducks / int_c5d50cb0	comment	Opposing Sports Team: First the Hawks, then Iceland, then Eden Hall Varsity Warriors. Slobs vs Snobs
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c5dcc180	type	How Many Fingers?
The Mighty Ducks / int_c5dcc180	comment	How Many Fingers?: When Karp takes a slapshot to the face. Good thing he was wearing a helmet.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Mighty Ducks / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: D1: During the championship game, the Ducks' 3rd goal comes after Bombay draws up a play with the Duncans during the 2nd intermission. All we hear is Bombay addressing the two of them and telling them, "Let's show these Hawks something really different", before we cut to the on-ice action: Tammy skates up just to the right of the Hawks' goal and starts spinning like a figure-skater, inflicting Confusion Fu on the entire Hawks team who have no idea what to make of it until Tommy calls out to her and sends her a pass which she pots in for the goal before the Hawks snap out of it. D2 has one shown failure and two unspoken successes, all against Iceland: During the first Iceland game, Ken Wu outlines to Gordon a figure skating maneuver he can use to split the defense. He barely starts the maneuver when two Iceland defensemen clobber him. Notably, in the final Iceland game Ken tries the same maneuver again without explainting it ahead of time and this time it works scoring them their first goal of the game. Second Iceland game, all we get is a brief Huddle Shot of the Ducks at their bench while Charlie is explaining whatever his plan is with a markerboard. There's a hint when Averman exclaims in disbelief "this isn't the NBA!" Charlie's plan turns out to be having Dwayne take the puck to center ice just short of Iceland defensive zone then flinging the puck at a high angle so that it drops down just in front of the Iceland goalie and bounce in, with Banks quickly skating in to make sure it has enough to get past. Dwayne shouting "Alley-oop, boys!" right as he launches it is how the basketball analogy comes in. Ducks down by one to Iceland with two minutes left, Russ keeps getting swarmed by Iceland players every time he gets near the puck and has no chance to get his knucklepuck off for the tying goal. Bombay then calls timeout and calls the whole team in to a huddle to discuss his plan. We then cut to the Iceland bench and hear Stanson pep talking to his team about keeping three guys on Russ at all times; the camera then cuts back to the Ducks breaking the huddle with a "Go Ducks!" chant, so we never hear Bombay's plan: he had Russ put on Goldberg's jersey and goalie equipment and pretend Russ was Goldberg once play resumed so that the Iceland players don't pay attention to him when the Ducks finally begin their attack on Iceland's goal. Russ-pretending-to-be-Goldberg then skates up the ice along with the other regular Ducks skaters like he's going to the bench for an extra skater before the puck is passed back to him. He then takes off the goalie helmet to reveal his true identity, takes Averman's regular hockey stick, and now has enough time to set up and shoot his knucklepuck because all of Iceland's players had fallen back to their defensive zone. Game tied.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c9954979	type	Crippling the Competition
The Mighty Ducks / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: In D2: The Mighty Ducks, Wolf "The Dentist" Stanson whacks Gordon Bombay his bad leg, keeping Bombay from winning a game of three bar against him. It's also how Gordon's comeback is derailed in the first place. Done to Banks in the first two movies: in the first, he is hit with a cheap shot that sends him sliding into a goalpost, knocking him out. In the second, his arm is seriously injured after an opposing player hits him with his stick as though it were an axe.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_c9c317cd	type	Last-Minute Hookup
The Mighty Ducks / int_c9c317cd	comment	Last-Minute Hookup: At least two of these in D3: Charlie with Linda and Luis with Riley's unnamed girlfriend. There's also a hint of romance between Scooter and Julie.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_caca21f7	type	Easily-Distracted Referee
The Mighty Ducks / int_caca21f7	comment	Easily-Distracted Referee: In the first game against Iceland, Dean Portman is given a game misconduct penalty and ejected for rushing at an opponent unprovoked and knocking him down, then striking a referee. Later, Julie "The Cat" Gaffney is ejected for "intent to injure" after shoving a pair of Icelandic hecklers. Shortly after, An Iceland player intentionally shatters his stick off Adam Banks' outstretched arm after Banks has scored a goal. He is given a two minute penalty.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_cb71c461	type	Deus Exit Machina
The Mighty Ducks / int_cb71c461	comment	Deus Exit Machina: In the championship game of the first film, Adam is injured and has to get medical treatment and Fulton gets ejected for starting a fight against the Hawks, leaving the less talented Ducks to have to win the game themselves. Happens in the second and third films with Portman, who gets ejected from the first game against Iceland and in D3 doesn't rejoin the team until almost the end of the film. As he's the biggest baddest guy in the team (Fulton is too but can't quite be as aggressive without him) the Ducks pounded by the bigger and stronger Iceland and Varsity teams until he returns and is able to smack them around just as much.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_cbf5c04	type	Insult of Endearment
The Mighty Ducks / int_cbf5c04	comment	Insult of Endearment: Jesse first calls Adam "cake eater" to mock him for being rich and a Hawk after he has to join the Ducks. After Adam gets injured, Jesse gets an Everyone Has Standards moment and promises to kick Hawk butt on his behalf. Later, it becomes an in-joke between them and Adam smiles whenever Jesse calls him "cake eater".
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The Mighty Ducks / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Mighty Ducks / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Iceland isn't a known hockey power in the slightest. A more suitable final opponent for Team USA in D2 would've been either Russia or Canada, America's two biggest rivals in hockey. To be fair, Team USA did play and defeat both of them. note Steven Brill (who wrote the scripts for all three films) revealed in an interview that he didn't use Russia because he considered them "too obvious" for the bad guy role, didn't want the film to get political, and because the fall of the Soviet Union (which had happened only a few years prior) had diminished Russia's standing as America's chief antagonist. Iceland was chosen because it was a "stock country" with a "Nordic mystique" and not many people knew about it, allowing it to be fashioned into a convincing villain team. Though that only begs the question of why not use Sweden, an actual powerhouse in hockey.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
The Mighty Ducks / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Adam Banks was a bit of a jerk when he was on the Hawks thanks to Reilly's coaching and his hanging out with McGill and Lawson. Once he joins the Ducks, he becomes a lot nicer.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
The Mighty Ducks / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: In the third movie, the Varsity players steal Ken's lunch. Charlie, Russ, and Fulton get them back by letting them steal a lunch bag that's filled with horse crap.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
The Mighty Ducks / int_cef6a167	comment	Jack Reilly orders one of his players, McGill, to deliberately injure Banks. McGill does so without any sign of remorse. Neither is shown suffering any real consequences beyond McGill getting a two-minute penalty. In real life, not only would Reilly and McGill likely be immediately kicked out of the league, but possibly face criminal charges. (Then again, for guys like McGill and Reilly simply losing a game may be more than punishment enough.) Plus, neither Reilly nor McGill were ever seen or mentioned after the first film, which implies that Reilly was fired and McGill was kicked out after Adam's dad was done with them.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_cfeb01b3	type	Title Confusion
The Mighty Ducks / int_cfeb01b3	comment	Title Confusion: The Mighty Ducks was called Champions in the UK and Commonwealth countries. D2: The Mighty Ducks was simply called The Mighty Ducks, the same as the international name for the first film. Ultimately the third film was called D3: The Mighty Ducks everywhere.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Mighty Ducks / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Gordon gets three of them in quick succession in D2 after he falls prey to the fame and loses what everyone liked about him; one by his team, one by Ms. McKay, and one by Jan. In particular, after he berates his team for losing so badly to Iceland, they turn it back on him by pointing out that Iceland actually prepared for their game while he didn't. In the third movie, a stubborn Charlie gets it from Hans, his mother, and his teammates.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Mighty Ducks / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Ducksworth in D1. He forces Gordon to coach peewee hockey because he thinks Gordon needs to learn fair play, but later we see that Ducksworth himself is totally willing to not play fair when it suits him. Like for instance: pulling strings with the Pee Wee Hockey League to get his friend's son (Banks) to stay on a team he legally shouldn't be on, threatening Gordon with his job if Gordon doesn't cooperate with this, then firing Gordon out of spite when Gordon refuses to cave. The Varsity team in D3. They look down on the Ducks because most of them come from middle/working class families and dismiss their scholarships to the school as a "free ride". Russ immediately points out that the Varsity players are also on a "free ride" as their rich parents are the ones paying for their tuition.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
The Mighty Ducks / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: The Ducks in every movie often play porous defense, to the degree that this is actually a plot point in the third movie while the more athletic Julie eventually supplants long-standing Goldberg as the team's netminder.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_d9d6ae49	type	I Am Not Him
The Mighty Ducks / int_d9d6ae49	comment	I Am Not Him: Orion immediately establishes that he's doing things differently than Bombay by demoting Charlie from his position as captain.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Mighty Ducks / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Hans states that Gordon scored 198 goals in a season. In their typical 17-game season, that’s a highly unrealistic, almost 12 goals per game. Even worse is when Reilly tells Adam that he set a "new Hawks record" in their 17-goal barrage against District 5. There were two goals shown that Adam didn’t score, so the most he could have gotten is 15. That means Gordon, in his 12 goals/game season, didn’t score more than 14 once, and consistently scored 10 goals or more.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
The Mighty Ducks / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Luis Mendoza is brought on in D2 because of his great speed. He just has some issues with stopping.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Dean of Eden Hall in the third film likes the Ducks and does his best to fight for the Ducks even when the Alumni and the Board want to revoke their scholarships. Subverted with Ducksworth in D1. He seems like one at first, forcing Gordon to become a pee-wee hockey coach for his community service in the hope that it would make Gordon a better person and attorney. Ironically he ends up firing Gordon after Gordon displays his newfound integrity by refusing to let Banks continue playing with the Hawks in violation of district rules. Coach Orion proves to be this. Despite making a bad first impression on the team by interrupting Dwayne's lassoing game and making Charlie do laps, he really wants them to become better hockey players. Hans says as much, that he knows what he's talking about. When Bombay gives Charlie the courage to apologize to Orion and ask to rejoin the team, Orion welcomes him back with a smile, showing all is forgiven. Later he goes Papa Wolf on finding out the board wants to take away their scholarships and gets Bombay to argue on their behalf. Orion also compromises on making training sessions fun and productive.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e462893a	comment	Or do what Iceland did and body-check the entire formation for a turnover and five-man breakaway. (This is a case of Artistic License – Sports; hitting anybody but the puck carrier is supposed to be an interference penalty; hitting the entire formation should net several of you at least two minutes in the box).
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: After Banks is carted off the ice on a stretcher having been cross-checked by McGill on orders from Reilly, Bombay realizes just how little Reilly thought of him while he beat himself up over his missed penalty shot for the past 20 years. It leads to this exchange: When Bombay chews the team out for their epic loss against Iceland, they turn it back on him for neglecting his responsibilites.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Stansson seems to come across as another version of Reilly. Subverted at the end, though, when he congratulates Gordon for winning.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e598d4ac	comment	Worth noting is that the kids claim that he hurt his arm.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The Opposing Sports Team in each movie wears black.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Fulton tells Bombay that he can't play for the Ducks, he has to explain that he means it literally.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Mighty Ducks / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: In the first movie, we learn that the Banks family's address is "450 North Hennepin Avenue." The real-life 450 Hennepin Avenue is in downtown Minneapolis, not the suburb of Edina where the family is shown to live in D2. In the second film, Bombay says he doesn’t want “to spend the rest of [his] life sharpening skates in this rinky-dink town.” He lives in Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota, with a population of over 350,000 people.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
The Mighty Ducks / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: A mild example when District 5 first learns what their team's going to be named just prior to the Cardinals game.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: An accidental one Played for Laughs in the first scene with then-District 5 kids in D1, as the driver whom the kids pranked with a fake lost purse (it had dog poo in it) chases them through a construction site — the kids manage to hurry across a single plank crossing over a gap, but the pranked man slips when he tries to cross to follow them and lands on the beam with his crotch, wincing in pain for a couple of seconds before he keels over and falls all the way down to the muddy ground below.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Mighty Ducks / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Connie is about to be bodyslammed in D2 by an Iceland player, as she's struggling to control the puck. Dwayne sees the danger, grabs his lasso, and leaps onto the ice against Bombay's protests. He saves her with his rope, humiliates the guy, and earns applause from the crowd and his teammates. D3 has Gordon Bombay, who saves the Ducks' scholarships with his oratory skills, and Dean Portman, whose sudden return to the Ducks after a long absence brings Fulton Reed back to full power.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_ec71dc46	type	Wealth's in a Name
The Mighty Ducks / int_ec71dc46	comment	Wealth's in a Name: Adam Banks, who is rich.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f11e5ede	comment	Miracle Rally: In the title games of the first two films. D1, the Ducks were down 3-0 after one period and 4-2 after two (a little more imposing since the pee-wee games had 12-minute periods instead of 20). D2, Team USA was down 4-1 to Iceland after two periods and was facing a 5-2 deficit partway through the third. In the third movie, the Ducks manage to jump to a 9-0 lead against an opponent; the game ends up being tied due to sloppy defense.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f25b1ae6	type	Unskilled, but Strong
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f2e13990	type	AintNoRule
The Mighty Ducks / int_f2e13990	comment	Ain't No Rule: In D2, the commentator lampshades that there's no rule against a team changing into different uniforms during a game.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
The Mighty Ducks / int_f314f8c4	comment	Traveling at the Speed of Plot: The Ducks' rollerblading trip in D2 takes them from downtown Minneapolis to the Mall of America in the suburb of Bloomington, back to Saint Anthony Falls downtown, then to the suburb of Edina, then downtown again. All in, this is between 40 to 50 miles of rollerblading in a single afternoon.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Mighty Ducks / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Be honest, as kids, how many of us actually noticed that Hans was swapped with his brother Jan for D2? The replacement players in D2: Peter Mark -> Leather-clad, rebellious, loud-mouth -> Dean Portman Dave Karp -> Plucky Comic Relief -> Dwayne Robertson Terry Hall -> Speedster -> Luis Mendoza Tommy Duncan -> Kid figure skater -> Ken Wu Tammy Duncan -> Second female player -> Julie Gaffney Also in D3, Russ Tyler, though appearing in D2, gains some of departed player Jesse Hall’s characteristics.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f61d4485	type	Waking Non Sequitur
The Mighty Ducks / int_f61d4485	comment	Waking Non Sequitur: Mr. Tibbles is knocked out by Fulton's slapshot in D2 and when he comes to he orders a cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate shake.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f62cc38a	comment	Stone Wall: In the final game of D3, the Ducks prove that they've shed their Glass Cannon weaknesses by shutting out the Varsity.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f6e05922	comment	Sarcastic Clapping: Coach Stansson of Team Iceland gives Bombay a sarcastic little clap after beating Team USA 12-1.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: Happened to Gordon Bombay in the first two movies: In The Mighty Ducks, a young Gordon, playing for the Hawks, missed a penalty shot that would have won the championship for the Hawks; instead, the Hawks lost in overtime. In D2, Gordon suffered a career-ending knee injury while playing in minor league hockey.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_f935efbf	comment	Unnecessary Roughness: The Ducks are frequently the victim of this until Fulton and/or Portman start dishing it right back to the other team.
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The Mighty Ducks / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: The knucklepuck simply wouldn't work. The sheer lack of any aerodynamics would result in the puck harmlessly fluttering at the goal rather than improbably flying through the air, as many hockey-playing viewers likely discovered in the early 1990s. There's also Fulton's slapshot. It moves fast enough to ricochet around the arena and still knock out Mr. Tibbles, and yet in the tracking shots from behind it appears to be moving all of three miles an hour.
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The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Dance Battler / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Defeat as Backstory / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Desperate Plea for Home / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Divorced Installment / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Down to the Last Play / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Drench Celebration / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Duck! / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	11th-Hour Costume Change / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Glass Cannon / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Golden Snitch / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Good All Along / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Handshake Refusal / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Hollywood California / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Hollywood Heart Attack / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	How Many Fingers? / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Huddle Power / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	I Am Not Him / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Improbable Sports Skills / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	International Showdown by Proxy / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Intimidation Demonstration / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Juxtaposed Halves Shot / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Kids Play Matchmaker / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Lonely Rich Kid / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Man Hug / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Moe / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Moving-Away Ending / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Newscaster Cameo / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Opposing Sports Team / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Pom-Pom Girl / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Post-Game Retaliation / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Powerful, but Inaccurate / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Privileged Rival / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Put Me In, Coach! / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Putting the Band Back Together / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Sarcastic Clapping / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Scholarship Student / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Sequel: The Original Title / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Shockingly Expensive Bill / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Shopping Montage / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Single Parents Are Undesirable / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Skipping School / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	So Last Season / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Sound Off / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Spoiler Title / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Team Hand-Stack / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Team Title / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Technician Versus Performer / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	That Poor Cat / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	The Adjectival Superhero / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	The Leader / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	The Worf Barrage / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Too Fast to Stop / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Took a Level in Kindness / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Training Montage / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Two Girls to a Team / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Underdogs Never Lose / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Unnecessary Roughness / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Very High Velocity Rounds / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Waking Non Sequitur / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Wealth's in a Name / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Who Needs Overtime? / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Work Off the Debt / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Writing Lines / int_2a5cb601
Galactik Football	seeAlso	The Mighty Ducks
themightyducks	sameAs	The Mighty Ducks
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Broken Glass Penalty / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Formal Full Array of Cutlery / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Going Home Again / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Ordered to Cheat / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Save Our Team / int_2a5cb601
The Mighty Ducks	hasFeature	Spinning Paper / int_2a5cb601

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