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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Our story is about a valiant hero, a professional sports/video games/pogosticking champion who is preparing or going to a major tournament for his preferred skill. Normally, these tournaments are contained entirely within the main character's country, as in there are no foreigners competing. But for this special episode/movie, there is a great threat on the horizon ... there is a foreigner rival who might just be even better than the hero, if not possibly the best in the whole world! For some reason, this coincidental clash of titans from across the globe always seems to turn into a showdown between the two representative countries. For example: Who is better, America's best player or Japan's best player? It's implied that whoever wins proves that their country is better as a whole, not just at this particular sport. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Used in different mediums for different reasons. Often used patriotically, because the main character lives in your country, and they win! Sometimes used to introduce a new archnemesis and spice up the show's competitors. When the competition is literally an alternative to war between nations, see Make Games, Not War. This is probably a trope because it tends to happen in Real Life. See also Combat by Champion. |
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Irish Whip Wrestling amusingly had a match in 2006 featuring the Scottish Drew Galloway fighting the Irish Sheamus O'Shaunessy inside the Verona Football Club wearing blue while Sheamus was wearing green. Yes, it was mostly coincidental, but sometimes you can't stop a trope from coming into play. | |
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Parodied on The Simpsons in the form of a hyperbolic advertisement for an upcoming football game; | |
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The beginning of Kickboxer, where Jean-Claude Van Damme's Jerkass brother is a champion kickboxer, and decides to take on a Thai champion, Tong Po. It doesn't go well for him. | |
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The Mighty Ducks II has the Ducks becoming an international hockey team and playing every other nation, climaxing with Iceland. It's an egregious example of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil when this is the plot of the sequel, and the original movie had an Opposing Sports Team made of perfectly ordinary boys. | |
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Naruto: A number of Shinobi Villages intentionally and explicitly set up their Chunin Exams as a “war in miniature” between those on good enough terms to participate. The point is essentially to advertise their new crop of young Shinobi, and by extension the rest of their village, to potential clients for their mercenary industry. | |
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The second Red Dwarf novel, Better Than Life has this as part of the backstory for the GELFs. When humanity becomes too good at their favourite pastime (War), scientists shift their focus onto sport (Described as the new war), firstly through chemical enhancements, then through genetically engineering purpose-built athletes for different sports. Of course, limits are put in place after the Scottish football team fields a goalie in The World Cup who was nothing more than a massive oblong of flesh that is coincidentally the same dimensions as the goal. | |
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Robot Jox, where wars are replaced by Giant Mecha fights, complete with cheering (and easily smashed) crowd. The film ends with Achilles and Alexander evidently becoming friends instead of the expected fight to the death. | |
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On Head of the Class when the Headsters took on a Soviet team in a trivia quiz an academic meet, both when the Soviets came to the US and later when the Class went to Moscow. | |
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Chess is essentially about one or more Cold War proxy showdowns, with the first act always featuring a highly publicized chess match between an American chess player and a Russian chess player. The political undertones are emphasized in the Diplomats' Chorus ("It's the U.S. versus U.S.S.R."). Predictably, the contest is manipulated behind the scenes. | |
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The academic meet aspect also appears in an episode of Small Wonder, with the robotic Vicki representing her school in a meet against a smart Russian boy, who turns out to be a robot as well. | |
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Miracle, which is based on the US trying to defeat the Soviet Union at Olympic ice hockey in 1980. | |
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Samurai Champloo gleefully lampoons this trope in the episode "Baseball Blues", in which a group of Japanese peasants play a baseball game against a crew of brutish Americans, and the fate of Edo Era Japan hangs in the balance over the outcome. Naturally this is all played out within Champloo's typically anachronistic, exaggerated idiom. The most patriotic of the Japanese players are picked off in comical ways, while only Mugen (A thug with no patriotic fervour whatsoever) saves the country single handedly. | |
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Penny Arcade takes this trope and creates a world where all international conflicts are conducted through games of table tennis in their Paint The Line story. | |
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Rocky IV is the Cold War with boxing!!!! Unspoiler: The American wins, and everyone learns a valuable lesson about Patriotic Fervour. | |
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Played for laughs in Alien Night on Union Station when the human characters realize that several alien cultures have taken the Serious Business of a hot new virtual reality MMORPG (something like Elite Dangerous on steroids) to the point where they think the Earth government is trying to use the game as a way to get around the Stryx ban on interstellar warfare. This is partly because EarthCent Ambassador Kelly Frank-McAllister is the stepmother of one of the top human guild leaders. (They aren't, it really is just a video game to the humans and Kelly is astounded when she realizes the problem.) | |
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Iron Man's first encounter with Dirty Communist villain the Titanium Man was in the context of a televised battle on neutral territory agreed upon by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. | |
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Given that it's a send-up of Olympic coverage, Animalympics has these overtones. | |
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Parodied in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby with over-the-top Eaglelander Ricky Bobby vs. queer (in every sense of the word) Frenchman Jean Girard. note The movie was released at a time when a higher than usual number of Americans held a rather poor view toward the French | |
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The world tournament series of the anime Medabots contains a truly stunning amount of cultural clichés (to be fair Team Japan don't get off lightly either) but the worst by far were Team France, who all sported twirly moustaches, spoke in exaggerated French accents and crept around in black cloaks lying and cheating their way to victory. This was so blatant it might possibly be considered a parody of the trope. Also incredibly stereotyped were the Canadians who sported at least four layers of snow gear and Medabots designed specifically for a snowy winter arena. They also unknowingly added "Eh?" to the end of sentences and used "aboot". And a blizzard was considered a "light dusting". Though one could easily argue that would be the dub production company taking pot shots at themselves. |
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The team of foreigners in The Prince of Tennis (the ones who show up at Nationals, not the team from the Junior Senbatsu arc of the anime). Their playstyle is extremely violent, and they openly ridicule the Japanese team they play against, and Japanese tennis in general. Of course, the Japanese team was losing on purpose, and they win by a large margin once they begin playing seriously. Then they mock the foreigners' arrogance... in (equally broken) English. | |
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Part of the plot for the latest revamp of I Spy, where American Heavyweight champion boxer Kelly Robinson decides to take on "European Champion" Cedric Mills, who's generically Eastern European. | |
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Downplayed considerably in Chariots of Fire, in which the national teams are more amiable toward one another then might be expected. Probably Truth in Television, as Patriotic Fervour was very unfashionable indeed for many years after after World War I. | |
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Inverted in Korean table tennis movie As One. The governments of North Korea and South Korea merge their national table tennis teams into one unified team, which competes together and wins the world championship, thus fostering International Friendship By Proxy. | |
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Fighters from the Japanese military were the primary villains in Ip Man, and Twister, the villain of Ip Man 2 was essentially a British version of the above mentioned Ivan Drago. | |
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In an early Judge Dredd story, a war between Mega-City One and a Sov-controlled East-Meg One is fought by fielding small four-man teams from each Mega-City against one another in an Olympics-style competition...to the death. | |
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Hajime no Ippo: The match of Takamura against Bryan Hawk for the world title. It takes place in a Japanese boxing hall, so basically the entire audience is rooting for Takamura. It helps that Bryan Hawk is blatantly racist against the "weak" Japanese. | |
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Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky in Iceland for the world chess championship in 1972. Pity Bobby was insane and Spassky was not a serious Communist Party member. | |
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G Gundam is basically summed up with this trope, plus with earth as the battlefield and most of the population in space, the winner would literally be the strongest, and only, person on Earth. In fact the Gundam Fight was created to provide a (comparatively) peaceful alternative to war. The country whose representative wins the fight gets to rule over all the colonies for the next four years. | |
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The duel in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a fight between a British soldier outraged by German accusations of atrocities in the Boer War, and a German officer selected by lot to fight him. | |
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The World Youth Cup arc in Eyeshield 21 sees an all-star team of players from various American football teams seen in the series (including, of course, Sena and several of the Devil Bats) traveling to America to take on all comers, culminating in the finals match against the U.S. Team. | |
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This happened in real life with Super Smash Bros. at a huge tournament called Genesis, where the best North American player (and up until that point generally considered best player in the world) came one hit away from losing the grand finals to Europe's best player. Watching the matches, it comes down to a lot of cheering on both sides for their respective player/country. | |
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