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Animal Athlete Loophole

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44 feature instances
46 referencing feature instances

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Animal Athlete Loophole	comment	The underdog team brings in an adorable animal to play for them (often exploiting the fact that rules of the game do not explicitly forbid this) and wins the big game. The classic setup: The new kid in town joins the local sports team populated by the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. What they lack in skill, they make up for in Team Spirit, but on paper the next match looks hopeless. The Opposing Sports Team is in town and gunning for the championship. Their coach is a Drill Sergeant Nasty and the town bully is their star player. Just then, the power of plot reveals that the new kid owns Tropey the Wonder Dog, an animal with astounding abilities which could make him a contender in this very sport! He petitions the team coach to try Tropey, where the dog's natural aptitude makes him an instant success. Come the night of the big game, out trots Tropey — the other team may rant and rave, but there's nothing they can do about it. Why? Ain't no specific rule agin' it! This is the Animal Athlete Loophole. But in reality, such a move would be stymied by other rules. Age restrictions, for one: Try finding an arthritis-free dog large enough and old enough to play outside Little League Baseball. Then there are registration requirements: a legal name and school affiliation. Obeying the rules of play are a whole other issue: A dog is physically incapable of dribbling a basketball and there is no known ape or monkey other than humans with legs properly developed to kick a soccer ball. Most sports also have a broad rule against things that would bring the sport into disrepute, which is used to bar absurd shenanigans like these without having to make a rule against each one. Still, family films aplenty adopt the premise and take it to the heartwarming if illogical conclusion. Dogs and monkeys are usually the go-to animals for these kinds of film, but any size animal will fit through the loophole. A particularly rare but still notable inversion is a human applying to a sport that is not meant for one (at least on paper) and exploiting this loophole if asked. Animal Athlete Loophole is a subtrope of Loophole Abuse. Overlaps with Artistic License â€“ Sports. If the events of the plot cause someone to add a specific ban on Animal Athletes, it's an Obvious Rule Patch. Examples
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_10550610	comment	Averted in an episode of Happy Days. The other team might not have complained about Richie's high school hockey team using a German Shepard for a goalie but Richie's team ended up losing that game 12-0.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_13646ab7	comment	In Pale, Avery and Nora watch a movie called Gosh Golly Gosling, Dodgeball Darling, starring a distinctly unlovable Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who make it their mission to lie, cheat, and steal their way into a dodgeball championship. Their mascot, the titular Gosh Golly, is an unpleasant, vicious goose they witness attacking a child. As the team escalates their cheating (and their enemies cheat in turn) the situation escalates to the point where they tag in Golly-who promptly attempts to attack an incoming dodgeball, breaking its neck and giving the opposing team a foul while gaining the protagonists the victory (the protagonists had trained Golly with much lighter dodgeballs to ensure this). The movie ends with the Spoof Aesop "Cheaters prosper in this world."
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_13c064e3	comment	Early Man: Dug assumes that there IS a rule against this sort of thing in Bronze Age football, and thus forbids his porcine pet Hognob from joining the tribe's team. It turns out there isn't. The commentators are incredulous at the sight, but no-one raises issue with Hognob subbing in goal for Chief after he's injured.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_1469522d	comment	Sunless Skies has an unusual example as part of its main quest - ain't no rule says a human can't participate in the Courtesy; as in, the ritualized conspiracy where the Judgements fight and kill each other. Since humanity is so damn far below the participants in power, with a gap even larger than the one separating humans from ants, it's also a particularly exaggerated example.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_160b4833	comment	Parodied on Clone High, where Lincoln directs a film called It Takes a Hero, based on the premise that "There's no rule that says a giraffe can't play football." Subverted in another episode, where there is a rule at Clone High that says that women and animals cannot play boys' basketball. Joan sneaks in anyway, and so do the animals.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_261c8d3f	comment	Parodied on The Simpsons. After adopting a horse, Homer spends hours training it as a placekicker, then checks the rulebook to see whether horses can play in the National Football League. Turns out, there is a rule. Simpsons also averted Human Athlete Loopholes when Homer won at Robot Wars.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In the Looney Tunes short "Gone Batty" (1954), when the Greenville Goons knock out the heroes' lineup with dirty tricks, the Sweetwater Shnooks put their mascot, a baby elephant named Bobo, in to play for them. The Goons protest, but as the umpire says, in singsong fashion: "There's nothing in the rule book that says an elephant can't pitch! Now play ball!"
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_2f3d08a7	comment	In the 1980s Dennis the Menace cartoon, there ain't no rule that says a dog can't play football. There is, however, a rule that says plays cannot be made with a player's mouth, so Ruff is disqualified.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_334120fc	comment	While the trope itself doesn't appear in 8-Bit Theater, Red Mage refers to "The Air Bud Clause" when explaining how natural twenties work in Rock, Paper, Scissors.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_3f1ab25c	comment	In the Leaping Lizards entry of the Nintendo Adventure Books series, the Mario brothers and company are competing in the Mushroom Games. Why? The king of the Mushroom Kingdom has been turned into a rabbit and the prize is a magic whistle that will change him back. This rabbit form however is advantageous; depending on what choices you make, you can have the king in rabbit form complete the high jump event and win big! Of course, the Koopas complain about this selection not being fair — which turns out to be bizarre as they themselves cheat throughout the games.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_40e5c09c	comment	Inverted in The Jenkins. There's no rule against entering a basketball player in a dog show.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_455e3038	comment	In King of the Hill, there's a passing reference to a movie about a goat playing football. Peggy tries (and succeeds) to get into the movie for free by showing the ticket seller her press pass (as she worked with a newspaper at the time) and saying she wants to tell the readers if it's really possible for a goat to help a down-and-out football team.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: No rule saying an orangutan can't play football! Since the wizards are writing the rules of football themselves as they go along, of course, there wouldn't be. The climax relied on this (for non-ape reasons), with the twist that there actually was a rarely-used rule allowing it. It was implied there soon be an Obvious Rule Patch. Naturally, the Librarian was already in the habit of using this same Loophole to safely peruse books of arcane secrets "Man" Was Not Meant To Know. There's also no rule saying a sentient piece of luggage can't play football. However, it really can't. As in, it has no ability. There's also no rule barring an orangutan from the college council, though the wizards looked very hard for one.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_4c949405	comment	Subverted in The Hair Bear Bunch episode "King Klong Vs. The Masked Marvel." Bananas the Gorilla, as King Klong, defeats the Masked Marvel (Botch, filling as the Marvel who came down with measles) but loses the offered $500 prize because animals cannot compete as wrestlers.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: In "Mini-Golf at the DSA", Sunspot helps Mindy score the hole-in-one needed for the kids' team to win. Bergs thinks that they might be cheating, but Mr. Peterson allows it since there's no rule in the rulebook about animal assists.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_5261d625	comment	Used, surprisingly, in Samurai Champloo. In a baseball game against the Eagleland Navy, ninja Kagemaru is a little shorthanded. Even after conscripting Mugen, Jin and Fuu, he needs five more players. So he gets a really old man (who dies in his first at-bat), Fuu's pet flying squirrel Momo, and a dog. When one of the American sailors objects, the umpire consults a rulebook, and rules that "I can't find anything about dogs in the rulebook. He's good." note Fun fact: One of the Americans was named Abner Doubleday, who has a lasting belief that he invented the game. The pitcher proceeds to get rid of the dog by hitting it with a pitch. (He had no other choice - the dog's so small that the strike zone is laughable.) The dog runs off with a yelp, and Kagemaru concedes, "Of course, he's still a dog."
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_585e4b8b	comment	Gus: Ain't no rule that says a mule can't play football! At least initially nobody was sure about there being a loophole and the mule was hired as a half-time show attraction. He also only does (incredibly powerful) kicks - his trainer is also hired as a player and he is the one doing the catches and running with the ball.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_5f68ab24	comment	Buttersafe has the winning athlete use a Paper-Thin Disguise.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd's Randall Munroe must really hate this trope, it's been referenced (at least) seven times in his comics and what-ifs It's the primary subject of #115 Meerkat, implied in #1552 Rulebook (in which the primary subject is the response to a team attempting to do this) and appears on #1957 2018 CVE List (8th item) . And it's referenced in the alt text of #1439 Rack Unit and as alt text for images in What-ifs #77 Growth Rate (third to last image), #103 Vanishing Water (third image) and #111 All the Money (last image).
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_60fad6e	comment	Way of the Samurai 4 plays with this during a battle tournament during the main story. In some plot branches, the player may end up facing a man and his dog. The specific loophole used in this case is that any weapons are allowed, so he declares the dog to be one of his weapons.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_6276800c	comment	Lampshaded by The Nostalgia Critic in a video on sports movies, where he sardonically asks if there's a rule against rollerskating bears playing basketball. Or porfessionally trained tap dancing orangutans. Or a giant, urinating elephant, with one testicle, who can sing the classical works of Andrew Loyd Webber. Turns out there is one for the elephant.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_68424cf3	comment	The premise of There's No Rule That Says A Wolf Can't Be A Jedi is that a lothwolf named Swift applies to join the Jedi Order. As he's fully sapient and clearly Force-sensitive, there isn't necessarily a problem, but the Council is still a bit stumped by how to respond to an applicant who is fully mature despite being only a year old, and has no hands to wield a lightsaber with.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_6ba20f54	comment	In Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, there was one episode where the Foolish Magistrate entered Sagwa in a caligraphy contest. Her status as one of the entrants was validated because there was no rule against cats entering the contest. The Magistrate tried to enter the rest of Sagwa's family but there was a rule against having more than one entrant from a same province.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_72b5eb35	comment	Inverted in Qwerpline with the sport of Sideball. Sideball teams are allowed to field up to six non-human players although raccoons are specifically banned.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_76a243c4	comment	Played with in Boxer Hockey, where anyone can play, "Even good 'ole Fido". That being said the Sydney Screamers' goalie is a kangaroo.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_7a5368c1	comment	The Air Bud series: There's no rule that a dog can't play basketball/football/soccer/baseball/volleyball/skateboard! In the first film, the referees even check the rulebook to make sure of it. The opposing coaches still object to Buddy playing until Coach Chaney goads them into allowing it by asking if they're afraid they'll lose to a dog.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_88ce9bf2	comment	Rune Soldier Louie: A horse wins a race, as the rules did not specify that the winner has to be a human, and "The great god Mylee never discriminates against anyone."
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_997387b2	comment	Turbo is entirely built around the concept of a snail competing in a race meant for cars.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_9c1d0ac8	comment	Concerned (set in the world of Half-Life 2) shows the erstwhile hero telling a monster called a Gargantua "There's no rule against having a Garg play soccer! This is gonna be the best season EVER!"
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_9fcc8c53	comment	Punch-Out!!: This is the in-universe reason why Donkey Kong appears in the Wii game. Many prior boxers had exploited the astoundingly lenient rules of the WVBA in different ways, so bringing a wild animal (however anthropomorphic, in DK's case) into the tournament doesn't sound like a strange idea.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_abfcff6a	comment	In Rocky and Bullwinkle "Wossamotta U" story arc, the title duo received football scholarships because of Bullwinkle's throwing ability. The rulebook said that anyone can play college football except for a mouse.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_b2ac2311	comment	Subverted in Peanuts, where there ain't no rule that says a dog can't play baseball... but he plays just like every other member of the team (and it's Charlie Brown's team), and Snoopy sometimes gets mistaken for a short kid with a big nose. Except in the TV specials Charlie Brown's All Stars and It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown, where in order to get into an organized league, the team must abide by its rules against animal players. In the latter, Lucy was not allowed as a girl, but Little League Baseball had changed its policies just in time for Lucy to play.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_b368933c	comment	Babe: Ain't no rule that says a pig can't compete in a sheep-herding dog trial! Actually discussed quite thoroughly: the competition registration form requires "Name of Entry", and the narrator even mentions that had it read "Name of Dog", Mr. Hoggett would have aborted the plan as EXPLICITLY dishonest. The judges are not happy, but agree to let Babe compete based on the letter of the rules not covering this—though clearly they think the situation will resolve itself via Hoggett making a fool of himself in public. For their part, the commentators covering the trials wonder aloud if Hoggett is trying to make some sort of political protest.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_c0369f1b	comment	The Rowdyruff Boys challenge The Powerpuff Girls to a football game in "Anything Boys Can Do, Squirrels Can Do Better" (Cartoon Network Action Pack #1). After Bubbles gets knocked out of the game, Twitchy the squirrel (from "Squirrely Burly," issue #1 of the PPG's book) fills in and helps defeat the boys.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_c57a6e3	comment	Comic Cavalcade: Katie's uncle in Australia sends her a Kangaroo named Myrtle, that turns out to be the best player by far on Katie's baseball team as none of the kids can catch the ball no matter how perfect a toss was.
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Animal Athlete Loophole / int_d10e315e	comment	Racing Stripes, a kids' movie about a zebra that wants to be a racehorse. To quote Wikipedia's summary, It is similar in the style to the 1995 movie Babe, in that the protagonist is a talking animal who lives on a farm and succeeds at an activity not expected of his species. While there's a greater similarity between horses and zebras than there are in most examples of the trope, even most horses can't compete as racehorses, because races are generally limited to a very specific breed of horse (thoroughbreds, quarter horses, etc.) and these terms are minutely defined (often even to how the animal was conceived); funny as it might sound, there's no way you could enter a zebra as a "quarter horse" (with the implication being that the other three quarters are zebranote The "quarter horse" is actually a breed of horse that is exceptionally good at sprinting short distances, so that stands a good chance of beating other breeds in a race of a quarter mile or less).
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