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The Wildcats
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A tropably generic name and mascot for a sports team. This trope tends to run in two flavors. When the team and its struggles are central to the plot, they are likely to be the Wildcats because it's a safely neutral name (i.e. not under the claim and copyright of someone who could sue the work to kingdom come). The implication is that the writers needed a placeholder name, and the Wildcats will do. When the team is not the focus of the plot, calling them the Wildcats make them sound like the local sports team of Everytown, America; a placeholder team rather than merely a placeholder name. This flavor often comes up in sitcoms and cartoons, especially when the plot centers on a character trying to make "the team" or go to "the game." Definitely Truth in Television. Nor is this trope confined to high school: the sports teams of the University of Arizona, Bethune–Cookman University, Davidson College, Kansas State, University of Kentucky, University of New Hampshire, Northwestern University, Villanova, and Weber State (not an exhaustive list) are all Real Life Wildcats. Similarly generic team names are Cougars, Tigers, Eagles, or Bulldogs. These along with the Wildcats are among the top 8 most popular team nicknames in active use by high schools, colleges, and professional teams in the US. One use for this trope is to make a gentle dig at the NCAA's naming policies. While the name Wildcats is historically popular, the number of teams vaguely named after cats and birds has exploded recently as schools try to get away from older, politically incorrect nicknames (e.g. "We're the Sabrecats. We used to be the Savages, but we had to change that"). Not to be confused with the superhero comic series Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm). |
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Goldie Hawn was in a 1986 film called... Wildcats. Her dream was to coach high school football. Guess what the name of the team is... go on, guess. | |
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Superhero teams aren't immune to this. Just ask the Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm). | |
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In Allegro, the football team at Joe's college is named the Wildcats. Joe has a disastrous tryout for the cheering squad, but he makes friends with Charlie, the freshman football star. | |
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House: When Cuddy asked, "The janitor's closet here?" in response to hearing that Cameron and Chase had been having liaisons in the janitor's closet, House sarcastically replied, "No, the one at the local high school. Go Tigercats!"note This may have been a slightly fictionalized local in-joke. House is set in a slightly fictionalized Central New Jersey, specifically in the area around Princeton; as Princeton University's mascot is the Tigers, the two high schools in town (the public Princeton High and the private Princeton Day School) are called the Tigers and the Panthers. | |
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The Simpsons lampshaded this trope in "Bart Star", when the Springfield Wildcats' first game is against... the Ogdenville Wildcats. | |
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Thomas & Friends gives us their football team, the Sodor United. United what? Darned if we know! | |
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Claire's original high-school football team on Heroes: The Wildcats. | |
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The baseball team in Burnout Paradise. | |
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In Mustangs FC, the Mustangs' most hated rivals are the Wildcats. | |
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In High School Musical, the basketball team is called this: | |
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The high school and middle school teams from King of the Hill were originally named the Cougars. It was changed to the Longhorns later on. | |
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The college in Gulfhaven uses the Cougar nickname, as a self-admitted weak justification for Cougar Town keeping its original title. | |
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Parodied on Teen Girl Squad with the Fighting Growlbacks. | |
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Bayside High in Saved by the Bell are the Tigers, and their fiercest rivals are the Valley High School Bulldogs. | |
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The school mascot in Ultimate Spider-Man. | |
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Hal coaching Dewie's soccer team The Tigers on Malcolm in the Middle. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, when the various teams (Light Warriors, Dark Warriors, Other Light Warriors), recombine, one of the new teams (comprising Rogue, Garland, Ranger and Fighter) is the Wildcats, which was also Fighter's elementary school mascot. | |
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The Kitchen Coliseum in Futurama is "Home to the Kitchen Universium Wildcats." | |
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When Abby temporarily has superpowers in Love and Capes, she is trying to come up with a superhero name and asks Mark how he decided on Crusader. Mark admits it was the name of his high school football team. Abby says hers was the Cougars, and they agree she should keep looking. | |
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In Babe Ruth: Man-Tank Gladiator amateur team are always named "Wildcats". | |
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In Modern Family, when Haley has her student disciplinary hearing after being arrested at a college party, her last comment on her actions is a weak "Go Wildcats". A member of the board points out that that's not even the college's mascot, and they vote to expel her. | |
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A plot point in Speed. The villain refers to Annie as a "wildcat" behind the wheel, revealing that he can see her Wildcats sweatshirt through a hidden camera. (A nod to the aforementioned real-life Arizona Wildcats.) | |
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In the town of Hatchetfield there are two high schools, Hatchetfield and Sycamore, home of respectively the Nighthawks and the Timberwolves, both named after some of the tourism-worthy wildlife species that inhabit the island. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In "Bobcats on Three!", Daffy's recruited to coach the school water polo team, the Bobcats. (Which makes very little sense as the name of a water polo team.) | |
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Played with in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, since the actual mascot for East High isn't the Wildcats, but the Leopards. "Wildcats" still becomes an unofficial term for the drama club, however. | |
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In Groove Squad (a made-for-TV animated film from Nickelodeon), the mascot for Bay City High School is the "wildcat," the mascot costume for which looks like a smiling fat tiger. The person with the job of the mascot is Zeke, one of the movie's lead characters, and he appears to wear his mascot costume everywhere—in fact, he's only seen in one other outfit outside of his mascot costume (a tuxedo he wears at his High-School Dance at the end of the movie). | |
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MacGyver: The Pee Wee Hockey League team MacGuyver belonged to as a boy was the Wildcats, as seen in the episode "Harry's Will". | |
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The football team from Prudence's high school in Across the Universe. | |
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