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Unnecessary Roughness
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In many sports-related movies, in order to show how competitive and ruthless the Opposing Sports Team is, they will perform many aggressive actions (such as knocking opposing players down) that would never be performed in a real game because they would either result in a foul being called against the offending player or would serve no useful game purpose anyway. Of course, such a play that would normally call for the player's ejection will only result in a small infraction or no penalty at all, because the refs were paid off or not paying attention. Sometimes, the players don't actually want to do it, but are ordered to do so by their ruthless coaches. Not necessarily a case of Artistic License – Sports, except in the cases where extreme roughness is tolerated well beyond what would result in ejections in Real Life. To some, this is a complaint over real officiating and the belief (real or imagined) that star players and popular sports teams get favorable calls from game officials. That's a whole other discussion that will probably make a big mess and we'll just let you read the examples at the bottom of the page for that. For people who use a sporting motif to beat people up, see I Know Madden Kombat. See also Rugby Is Slaughter and Hockey Fight. If this takes place in a tournament, including unnecessary roughness within the context of a fighting tournament, see Flexible Tourney Rules. The Trope Namer for this trope is American Football, the only sport where the refs outright use this term (it's a catchall for rough play that isn't specifically banned but is clearly unfair). Other sports either use a different term or split it up into separate offenses. |
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AAML: Diamond and Pearl Version: Paul proves himself to be nothing more than a Barbaric Bully when he resorts to this during his Full Battle with Ash at Lake Acuity, intentionally aiming to cause as much damage to Ash's Pokémon as possible. When Ash calls him out on it, Paul mockingly suggests that if his rival's teammates aren't prepared to face such brutality, then Ash should rethink his training methods. Up to this point, Ash had given Paul the benefit of the doubt, believing that he was a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who just took battling too seriously; afterwards, he declares that ""I've never met any trainer who was as cruel to Pokémon as you." | |
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The chariot scene in Ben-Hur (1959) is a classic, and often-parodied, example. However, there is no law in the arena. That was the reason for Ben-Hur to participate in the race. | |
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In Ask Dr. Rin!, one of the episodes had the soccer team competing against one of the other teams who made sure to showcase a lot of this, just in case you weren't convinced by a flashback earlier in the episode that showed them being jerks off the field. | |
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In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the episode "The Gang Gives Back" has Dennis, Dee, and Mac forced to do community service by coaching two YMCA youth basketball teams. They all teach their players to use copious amounts of this, including sticking open safety pins in their wristbands to stab the other team with. Unsurprisingly, the Big Game at the end is an all-out brawl. | |
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Raven did the same thing to Perry Saturn's mop "Moppy" on the September 17, 2001 Raw. | |
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Although many British soccer teams in the late 1960s and early 1970s had at least one player with a reputation for violent tackling and otherwise dirty playing, Leeds United under Don Revie could fill an entire first eleven with such players, so when they met Chelsea, who had a number of similarly savage players in their first eleven, in the replay of the 1970 FA Cup final, the inevitable result was one of the most violent matches in the history of the tournament (in 1997, referee David Elleray watched the match and said the two sides should have received a total of twenty yellow cards and six red cards): Leeds' Terry Cooper and Chelsea's Tommy Baldwin were already kicking each other as the match began, while Leeds' Norman Hunter and Chelsea's Ian Hutchinson (the only player to be booked for either side in the match) spent most of the match trading punches and Leeds' Johnny Giles and Chelsea's Eddie McCreadle made numerous lunging tackles on opposing players. Chelsea's Ron "Chopper" Harris effectively took Leeds' Eddie Gray out of commission soon after kickoff with a savage tackle to the back of the leg, while Leeds' Jack Charlton kneed and headbutted Chelsea striker Peter Osgood. Leeds opened the scoring after Mick Jones viciously bundled Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Bonetti into his own goalmouth and then rounded him seconds later while he was still regaining his bearings to score, while the winner was scored by Peter Osgood after Jack Charlton, who was assigned to mark Osgood, devoted his attention instead to exacting revenge on Ian Hutchinson for a dead leg. |
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The evil Iceland team from The Mighty Ducks II sends its captain to take a vicious slash at Banks, breaking his wrist. Despite that such an obvious attempt to injure would get him ejected from the game (at minimum), he only gets a 2-minute minor penalty and lampshades it on the way to the penalty box. This also happens in the first film, when one of the Hawks' players runs Banks from behind, taking him out of the game. |
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Looney Tunes: The short "Gone Batty" has the entire lineup of the Sweetwater Shnooks knocked out by comically over-the-top violence on behalf of the opposing team, one of whom breaks a bat over the head of a Shnook baserunner in front of the umpire, whose only action is to call the runner most definitely "out". In "Baseball Bugs" the Gas House Gorilla's catcher punches out the umpire for calling a pitch a ball, the ump has just enough time to apologize and change the call to "strike" before he falls unconscious. In "To Duck or Not To Duck," Daffy challenges Elmer Fudd to a boxing match. The referee physically demonstrates on Elmer some of the things not allowed in the match. Daffy does as well inquisitively, and at the end, Elmer does this to both Daffy and the referee. |
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Hungry Heart: Wild Striker: Tenjin High is full of aggressive players whose favorite tactic is crippling their opponents. To illustrate, five of them simultaneously slide-tackle on Kyosuke to injure his leg, leaving Akanegaoka without their key striker for three months. They try it again during the regional championship, but by then Kyosuke has gotten wise and dodges their attempt. | |
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During the dirt bike race in Happy Birthday to Me, Etienne and his rival attempt to force each other off the track. Etienne eventually wins the scuffle (forcing his rival into a ditch) and the race. | |
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Subverted amusingly in the manga My Girl when Masamune decides to run barefoot in the Fathers' Relay Race at his daughter's school athletics carnival. One of the other fathers deliberately treads on his foot just as the starter's pistol goes off, causing him to trip- so Masamune grabs the guy's heel and drags him down as he gets up to run. | |
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One that almost all promotions not affiliated with The National Wrestling Alliance have retired is knocking or throwing your opponent over the top rope. | |
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In Initial D, Shingo Shoji of the Myoji Night Kids is a major Jerkass who won't hesitate to bump his opponent's car with his own to try and cause them to crash (facilitated by his signature challenge being a "Gumtape Death Match" where both drivers have one hand firmly taped to the steering wheel, making the car dangerously hard to control at high speed). He causes Itsuki (who he wasn't even racing against) to have an accident this way when he bullies him off the road to goad Takumi into accepting his challenge, but when he does it during the race Takumi is able to recover even after his car does a full 360 degree spin. When it's apparent he can't beat Takumi, he attempts to end the race in a draw by slamming directly into Takumi's AE86, causing a double crash, only for Takumi to swerve out of the way, causing Shingo to slam into the rail and crash out on his own. | |
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The Classic Disney Short Hockey Homicide features all sorts of comically over-the-top violence at a hockey game, such as the team captains constantly getting sent to the penalty box for fighting and the referee getting run over so many times he resorts to wearing a suit of armor. At the climax, the fighting between the players degenerates into an all-out brawl among the spectators, which the players end up sitting back to watch as the cartoon ends. | |
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In the Harry Potter books and movies (especially the latter), the Slytherin Quidditch team has a ruthless and aggressive playing style-and occasional outright cheating, but it's all considered part of the game. While the referee Madam Hooch winds up screaming virtually non-stop at the Slytherin team and awarding Gryffindor half a dozen penalty shots, we don't know what kind of offence would result in someone being sent off and not even the Slytherin team ever outright assault an opponent. Fred and George meanwhile, are known to make attack Slytherin players in retaliation for attacks on their team-which tends to leading to both teams being given penalty shots. Quidditch is an exceptionally violent and dangerous game anyway—realistically, the bludgers could quite easily kill someone. According to the spinoff book Quidditch Through the Ages, there are 743 separate fouls in the game... including "Attacking one's opponent with an axe". A recurring gag is that every single foul on the list occurred in the first Quidditch World Cup, as well as several nobody thought to put on that list (such as one team captain sending bats after the opposing team and another team captain teleporting his opposite number into the middle of the Sahara). There's also "the Transfiguration of a Keeper into a polecat". It's unclear whether this was done to provide an edge in a scrap, or simply render the enemy Keeper unable to use his broom. In fact, the actual list of what constitutes a foul has been kept secret for years for fear of "giving the players ideas." It's also mentioned that about 90% of the fouls can be prevented from ever happening by just not letting anyone use their wands while on the field. Since a total ban would infringe one of the Wizarding World's most basic human rights, the rule is limited to stating that wands can't be used to attack other players, the crowd, or the balls in play; it's still perfectly legal to use them if an outside danger or interference comes up, like the time Harry used a Patronus to drive away what he thought were some dementors coming after him. |
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Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note series: Onozuka, a leader of Japanese Delinquents in The Valentine Knows, was a member of KZ Soccer Team half a decade prior to Present Day. At the time he was infamous for this and was forced out of the team as a result. | |
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Shows up in the 1980 animated film Animalympics. In one memorable sequence, a hockey game literally turns into a warzone... and a pastiche of war movies. Even the briefing from the coach is violent, starting with "First, you start with the faceoff. After you take his face off, you kick him in the shins..." | |
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Done in a potato sack race in Uncle Sam. | |
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It's Randy Orton's M.O., regardless of his alignment at the time. If we listed all the examples, we'd be here all day. | |
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Discworld: The impromptu football match between the armies of Ankh-Morpork and Klatch in Jingo is scored by fouls rather than goals. Unseen Academicals suggests that this is how Ankh-Morpork street football is traditionally scored. The Big Match at the climax of the book also has an example; most of A-M United realises that playing UU fairly is both good for the game and not actually that difficult, but there's a handful of real psychos seeded in there, and they're careful only to act when the ref isn't looking (linesmen haven't been introduced yet). The UU team are amateurs so the professional players of A-M United have every advantage. The smarter pros realize that and are also aware that the opposing team are actually ultra-powerful wizards who will likely enact their own Unnecessary Roughness after the game. The Librarian alone is known for beating people to a bloody pulp for calling him a monkey (he is an orangutan). |
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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 is sidelined following a rather vicious hit from the Rowdyruffs, Twitchy (the squirrel Bubbles rescued in "Squirrely Burly") fills in and runs rings around the boys. | |
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In Sorority Boys, the Tri-Pi Sorority girls play the role of the Opposing Sports Team in a football game against the protagonist Delta Omega Gamma sorority. The DOG sorority's advantage comes from having three guys in drag on the team, but this advantage is neutralized when the Tri-Pi sorority girls perpetrate a Groin Attack against each of the disguised frat boys. | |
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The film Slap Shot is largely a subversion of this trope, focusing on a team that is in a huge slump until they recruit three brothers who basically just skate around beating up the other team, allowing the other players to score. The climax pits this team against a makeshift bunch of the roughest players in the sport, and the game quickly degenerates into one huge brawl that culminates in one of the home players stripping themselves, which causes someone on the away team to hit the ref, who disqualifies them. | |
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In Hover Car Racer, Fabian and Trouveau have a strategy of crowding Jason on the course, trying to bump into him to force him to crash. | |
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The impromptu football match between the armies of Ankh-Morpork and Klatch in Jingo is scored by fouls rather than goals. | |
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During the championship game in Facing the Giants, early in the 2nd half the Giants commit a blatant roughing the kicker penalty that leads to the Shiloh Eagles' regular kicker leaving the game with an injury. This comes back to bite the Giants at the end when the Eagles' other kicker, David Childers (who up to then had only been used sporadically on shorter field goals in an attempt to build his confidence) kicks a game-winning 51-yard field goal as time expired. | |
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Father Brown: In "The Last Man", a vital cricket match comes down to three balls left and six runs to win. The opposition bowler deliberately bowls a ball at Kembelford's star player's head to knock him out. | |
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In the episode of Jem where Jem and the Holograms and their rival band The Misfits are invited to compete in a sports competition in Hawaii, The Misfits' band manager Eric Raymond actually hires someone to teach The Misfits "how to cheat"! Tricks such as spring-heeled shoes, spring-powered vaulting poles, and a bike that sprays oil and slices other competitors' tire spokes a la Ben Hur have The Misfits winning and setting records...for a little while at least. This was the eighties. Villains from the eighties Can't Get Away with Nuthin''. | |
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In the opening game of Kicking & Screaming, a player on the opposing team sticks his arm out in order to knock a defender down as he rushes past him. | |
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Unseen Academicals suggests that this is how Ankh-Morpork street football is traditionally scored. The Big Match at the climax of the book also has an example; most of A-M United realises that playing UU fairly is both good for the game and not actually that difficult, but there's a handful of real psychos seeded in there, and they're careful only to act when the ref isn't looking (linesmen haven't been introduced yet). The UU team are amateurs so the professional players of A-M United have every advantage. The smarter pros realize that and are also aware that the opposing team are actually ultra-powerful wizards who will likely enact their own Unnecessary Roughness after the game. The Librarian alone is known for beating people to a bloody pulp for calling him a monkey (he is an orangutan). |
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Dragon's Dance: Lance is disturbed by how unnecessarily painful Giovanni's takedowns are during his gym battle with him, including having his nidoking force Archer to swallow poison and having his marowak dislocate the bones in Kana's wings to stop her from flying. He never technically breaks any rules for the matches, as all the damage is non-permanent, but Lance realizes it's an intimidation tactic, intended to show him just how easy it would be for Giovanni to cause that permanent damage. | |
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In an episode of Pinky and the Brain where Brain becomes a basketball player, he starts playing solo because of his Acquired Situational Narcissism, he starts attacking the opposing players. As a result, he loses his popularity with the sports fans just as quickly as he got it. | |
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In Blood Bowl (itself a Fantasy version of American Football), this trope is inverted: the roughness is the only thing necessary, everything else is situational, at best. | |
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Lampshaded in El Chavo del ocho during this exchange between the title character and Quico: | |
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In Bamboo Blade, during the first practice match between Muroe High and Machido High's kendo teams, Machido fighter Yuri Ando attempts to break Muroe team captain Kirino Chiba's concentration by tripping her, even after her coach (who also serves as the referee) warns her before the match to avoid using dirty tricks. Ando winds up losing the match anyway, as Kirino gets a second wind and finds a way to outsmart her. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: In "Hot Wheels of Thunder", Miss James is competing against the Buffalo Queens roller racing team. During the first race, Miss James is unfairly knocked out of the race with an ankle injury. | |
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Starting in 2008, The Undertaker modified his triangle choke into a gogoplata, a legitimately dangerous submission maneuver, which caused the victim to cough up blood. Then-GM Vickie Guerrero banned the move both for petty reasons as well as the safety of the superstars. Later on, after the ban was lifted, the move was named the "Hell's Gate" and Undertaker routinely uses it to finish matches, though it no longer causes the opponent to cough up blood. | |
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The parish basketball game from Angels with Dirty Faces descends into kids tackling and hitting each other no matter how much Father Connolly tries to intervene. It is only when Rocky takes over as referee that they start to follow the rules of the game, and even then only because he hits them back just as hard whenever they start getting rough with each other. | |
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An episode of ReBoot has Matrix and Bobnote actually Megabyte in a Pokemon-variant game. Being Cheating Bastards they ignore the "mon vs mon" rule and go straight for the User handler, ending the game when Bob (as Bobzilla) crushes him under his foot. | |
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Subverted in the BattleTech short story Three Points of Pride. When Clan Ghost Bear invaded a planet with no armed forces, the local All-Star American football team challenged them instead, thinking that the Clanners wouldn't know how to play and lose the game through fouls. Unfortunately for them, it turned out Clan Ghost Bear's Super-Soldier Elementals regularly play American Football to keep in shape and were well-acquainted with the rules and how to play. The resulting game is extraordinarily clean because the Clanners refuse to get rough (not that they'd need to; the elementals are 250 cm, 100+ kilo slabs of solid muscle, and pretty much plow through the defenders by default). | |
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In Letterkenny this along with Trash Talk is the defining trait of Shoresy's ice hockey career, with tons of snowing and dirty hits. His self-titled spin off starts with a group of sports commentators listing his various assaults with a montage of footage. | |
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There were a few instances of the American Gladiators and the contestants mixing it up in the heat of competition. Once, Turbo actually punched a contestant during Sling Shot. | |
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In Kuroko's Basketball the school Kirisaki Daiichi is known for this, except in a way that the refs won't notice. | |
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Done repeatedly in Cars by Jerkass perennial runner-up Chick Hicks, who won't hesitate to slam other racers and cause a thirty-car pileup just to stop his rival. He never gets penalized in any way for his tactics, even after causing a near-fatal crash for the retiring champion and winning the coveted Piston Cup championship. | |
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The first instance of cheating in Angelic Layer has Hikaru's opponent using illegal electric whips that damage her. Misaki, being a Pollyanna, doesn't know this is illegal, and keeps on going anyway. A twist is that the battle is indeed Being Watched, by a very important person in the competitive Angelic Layer world, but since it's not an official match and she's trying her hardest, he lets it go because getting through this will help her out in the long run. | |
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8 Man After features a scene where the Big Bad buys a football team and tries to ensure his victory by stocking the roster with cyborgs high on Psycho Serum. The team naturally gets brutally and unnecessarily violent until they turn on the referees and even start killing people in the audience. | |
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Necessary Roughness, about a sports therapist working for a (gridiron) pro football team, is a pun on the football foul. Excessive on-field violence becomes an important point in season 2 when the new owner institutes a 'bounty' system where players get under-the-table bonuses for injuring key players on the opposite team.note The New Orleans Saints had recently been caught doing this when Season 2 aired. When Coach and Niko find out about it, they are furious because it is an extremely dangerous practice and if the truth is revealed, the league will shut the team down and clean house. | |
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Omega Strikers: Beyond the simple rules of "hit the Core into the goal", anything goes. Players are routinely punched, kicked, sliced, and bombarded. Drek'ar even carries a laser shotgun into the field. | |
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Nebula: Done accidentally (presumably), when Earth manages to nail Venus right in the face with a rock while playing a game of catch. | |
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The rival baseball team in 3 Ninjas: Kick Back. | |
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In Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, the eponymous characters go up against a hockey team called the Destroyers, who were banned from the NHL for this, in a practice game. | |
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Notably used in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life in a rugby game with students versus teachers. When one of the young boys is about to make a try, a teacher watching from the sidelines trips him up. | |
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The Vinny Jones vehicle Mean Machine, a remake of the The Longest Yard. is centered around an association football (AKA soccer) match between prison inmates and guards. It seems only an excuse for both parties to kick the hell out of each other, the prisoners going as far as recruiting a deranged kung-fu serial killer and giving their players lessons on how to hurt their opponents while avoiding penalties. | |
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In Million Dollar Baby, Maggie's opponent for the final match repeatedly takes cheap shots and hits her after the bell rings, which should disqualify her, but she only gets points deducted. One such dirty hit ultimately leads to Maggie's Career-Ending Injury. | |
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Sleepers provides a rare example of unnecessary roughness being perpetrated by the protagonists and morally justified in context. Hey, it isn't a sports film. The inmates of a juvenile prison play a game of football against the guards. The guards have made and will continue to make the boys' lives a living hell, including but not limited to the sexual molestation of the four main characters. The boys see this as a chance to turn the tables for one day. Their game plan is simple: brutalize the guards, who can't resort to such tactics themselves in public, and give the ball to Rizzo, a college star. Rizzo pays with his life; his death is avenged many years later. | |
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Sheamus, the following Survivor Series of that year (2012), hits The Big Show with 31 chair shots. (And Sheamus was actually the Face in this feud...) | |
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Wizards in Fairy Tail tend to grow more powerful the stronger their emotions become; in the titular guild's case, it's the more they feel for their friends and allies' sake. Seeking a chance to prove Saber Tooth's superiority, Minerva gives Lucy a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in a contest that only requires a simple ring-out, while her teammates (sans Rogue) laugh and taunt Lucy's friends from the bleachers to ensure Fairy Tail will give nothing but their absolute best. They get Fairy Tail's best, all right, when Natsu delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to a fully-powered Sting and Rogue without needing to use either of his Super Modes, costing Saber Tooth the lead they've held since the very start of the tournament. | |
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In Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (episode "Travelling All Stars") we see a baseball game where the professional team's players deliberately injure members of the Colorado Springs team and receive no penalty. (Naturally, Colorado Springs wins anyway.) | |
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In Necessary Roughness, a loudmouth defensive lineman on the opposing team takes a cheap shot at kicker Lucy Draper (played by the lovely and talented Kathy Ireland). She gets even. In a later game, after karate expert Samurai is told to go all out: There's also the practice match between the team and a team from the local prison. The catch? 1) The people playing the prisoners are all former NFL pros, such as Jim Kelley, Too-Tall Jones, Jerry Rice, etc. 2) The Dean who wants to shut the team down arranged it to get players hurt. "Man, I don't feel well. I think I swallowed a finger". |
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In Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars, it's possible to run over other players' basketball and soccer games with a car. | |
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Norman Smiley ran Chavo Guerrero Jr.'s stickhorse "Pepe" through a wood chipper on the January 11, 1999 WCW Monday Nitro. Raven did the same thing to Perry Saturn's mop "Moppy" on the September 17, 2001 Raw. |
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In Final Fantasy X, the Luca Goers play this trope almost stereotypically in their effort to prove themselves as Jerkasses. The Al Bhed Psyches kidnap Yuna to attempt to blackmail the Besaid Aurochs into throwing their game, and they also beat Wakka up so badly he collapses. Considering how absurdly high the Psyches' blitzball stats are, this comes off as unnecessary, although it turns out that they really kidnapped Yuna to prevent her from completing her pilgrimage. Tidus can get in on the action if he figures out the Jecht Shot, which consists of bouncing the ball off the blockers' guts and back into Tidus's control, ensuring that it comes down to just Tidus and the goalie when the time comes to actually make the shot. |
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Friday Night Lights is full of these; in one case Riggins is shown having bloody gashes on his neck stitched up midgame, the implication being that an opponent tried to claw his jugular open. | |
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The climax of Asterix in Britain features a rugby match between Camulodenum and Durovernum. The first big tackle of the game results in one burly Durovernum player jumping up and down on the head of a skinny Camulodenum player. The druid umpire blows his horn and calls for a penalty for reasons of "unnecessary roughness" (this in the animated film; in the comic, it's "this is a British sport, not a Roman circus!"). The Camulodenum player later takes magic potion and exacts his revenge, by this point the chaos on pitch renders the druid umpire ineffective. | |
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Most hockey minigames in the Spyro the Dragon-series involve breathing fire at your opponents. The ones that don't take place in worlds where Spyro's Breath Weapon has been changed to something else. | |
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Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown had, among other things, the three bullies diverting the raft of the Peanuts gang through a mining area (complete with explosives) and a log mill. | |
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Slam Dunk: Team Toyotama in the nationals is known for this, as their players often hit and push their opponents in ways the referee can't notice. The one who takes the cake is their ace player, Tsuyoshi Minami, who lives up to his nickname "Ace Killer" by elbowing Rukawa in the eye, and when that doesn't stop him, tries to jump and knee him in the face, but this attempt backfires and he ends up getting a head injury for his trouble. | |
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The entire football game in The Longest Yard has lots of Unnecessary Roughness going on, on both sides. The opportunity for Unnecessary Roughness is really the only reason the prisoners agree to play the game in the first place, and the warden instructs the guards' team to humiliate the inmates by pounding them into dust. Though in this and the following example's case, the games are exhibition games between guards and prisoners - they may very well have decided to allow roughness for the sake of it. |
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Even in a franchise that is basically G-rated dogfighting, Pokémon: The Series does have lines to draw when a battle gets out of hand. In particular, "Showdown at Dark City" shows two Gyms in the same town competing for official status only for both to be immediately denied because the rivalry had turned into gang warfare. | |
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Odd-vehicle races on Top Gear have strict no-contact rules — which are always forgotten before two laps. | |
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The Last Boy Scout takes the trope to its logical extreme (but ultimately a subversion because...well, it should be obvious why) when a football player gets high on PCP and then pulls out a gun and shoots 3 opposing players to score a touchdown before killing himself. The investigation on said events by the good guys leads to the revelation of how crooked the team's owner (a Mafia kingpin) is, culminating with saving an equally crooked Senator from assassination because it was cheaper than paying the bribe the Senator wanted to legalize gambling. | |
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The Monstars employ this in Space Jam. And it nearly worked, too, were it not for Bill Murray. (But then, when you have Marvin the Martian as your referee...) | |
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Pretty much the entire plot of The Waterboy. | |
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There's a famous scene in The Karate Kid where Evil Sensei orders his charge to sweep Daniel's already wounded leg. The kid is reluctant but ultimately goes along with it. The leg is actually injured in the first place when Daniel's opponent is ordered by the Sensei to deliberately cripple him with an illegal attack in another example of this. He protests the order, does it anyway, and is subsequently ejected from the tournament. For his part, the kid apologizes profusely as Daniel is carried out of the ring. Johnny experiences some unnecessary roughness in the sequel, in the opening scene which takes place immediately after the first film's climactic fight. Having cheated and still lost, Johnny confronts Kreese and tells him where he can stick his particular brand of karate. Kreese nearly kills him, but Miyagi intervenes. |
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Probably one of the worst offenders is Little Giants, where the assistant coach of the Opposing Sports Team tells his son to injure the quarterback by any means necessary. He does so well after the whistle. In real life, not only would he be ejected, but he'd likely never be able to play in Pop Warner again (these are 12-year-olds, by the way). In the movie? Just 15 yards, and the assistant coach getting dressed down by the head coach. Also, the impetus for the star girl football player to come from cheering her team on to getting back on the field and kicking some butt. For their own part, the Giants commit so many fouls of their own (Not even a false start for Zoltec turning around and farting?) that it makes you wonder what the refs were even doing. | |
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Shows up in an episode of South Park that parodies the living hell out of sports movies, and ends with a team of hockey players causing bloody injuries to a group of four-year-olds. | |
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This comes up in at least two different games of Pro Bending in The Legend of Korra: Since she never learned the rules of the game, Korra gets penalized for illegal moves like using the large pool of water under the stage to attack or using multiple elements. In the finals against the Wolfbats, the Wolfbats cheat all over the place with illegal head shots, ice, and mixing rocks with water. Since they bought off the ref, the Fire Ferrets can't retaliate because he'd surely call them out in a heartbeat. The Fire Ferrets lose because of the cheating, but the Equalists attack the arena immediately after the match. Amon even uses the Wolfbats' blatant cheating as fuel for his anti-bending propaganda and removes the Wolfbats' bending abilities. |
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In The Wave (1981), fascist methods apparently gave the water polo team more team spirit than ever. The supporters really cheer them, they work as a team... but lose shortly anyway. So one of them tries to drown the adversary captain. Yeah, fascist training leads to team unity, but not to fair play. | |
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Pretty much the point of most Midway arcade sports games, such as Arch Rivals, High Impact Football, the NFL Blitz series, NBA Jam, etc. Also the entire gameplay focus of EA's Mutant League Football and hockey. You can win a game by simply killing the entire opposing team. And the refs don't escape from the bloodbaths either. Mutant League Football also has an inversion of this trope. By bribing the ref, he will start calling bogus penalties against the other team if it will help yours. One of the penalties that can be called is "Unnecessary Kindness." Then there's Blood Bowl. This is what happens when you take the over-the-top ridiculous aspects of Warhammer and replace the GRIMDARK with American Football. Based on the tabletop gaidengame, you can choose between "classic" mode (taking individual turns and rolling a crap-ton of dice like said tabletop) or "arcade" mode (standard real-time football, except instead of "downs" you play from kickoff/snap until you either score, or the enemy gets the ball and HE scores.) Blitz: The League encourages this, as not only do late hits, beat downs, dirty hits, and injuries contribute to the Clash meter, injuries (from a pinched nerve to a season-ending punctured lung) grant additional money at the end of a match. |
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Mutant Football League is the Spiritual Successor to Mutant League Football and carries on in its tradition. Some dirty plays involve guns and chainsaws, and most tackles are made with pro wrestling slams. You can force a forfeit by killing enough opposing players! One of the very few penalties in the game is the equivalent of unnecessary roughness: unnecessary manslaughter. It's rarely even called. According to Brickhead Mulligan, late hits are one of the leading causes of death for mutants over 25. | |
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In Escape to Victory, the German team commits many violent fouls against the Allied players, which the referee doesn't call. The reason is that the referee has been ordered by the German Army officers to cheat and help the German team win. | |
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Invoked in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by various sport coaches in Romance Academy by calling Seo, who has terrible and often aggressive sportsmanship, up to trainings so that the team members know how to deal with this trope in actual games. | |
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Blitz: The League encourages this, as not only do late hits, beat downs, dirty hits, and injuries contribute to the Clash meter, injuries (from a pinched nerve to a season-ending punctured lung) grant additional money at the end of a match. | |
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Hey Arnold! gives us this during a football game between the 4th and 5th graders. | |
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Dwayne Johnson (yes, The Rock) was recruited by the University of Miami to play football, but injuries kept him out of the starting lineup for most of his college career. His biggest moment in a game was when he became involved in a bench-clearing brawl (Miami vs. San Diego State) and was shown on ESPN chasing the San Diego mascot screaming "I'll kill you!" | |
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There was an episode of Doug (second season) where Roger Klotz not only sabotages Doug and Skeeter's original downhill derby car, but he also pulls the Ben Hur chariot race trick. | |
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According to the spinoff book Quidditch Through the Ages, there are 743 separate fouls in the game... including "Attacking one's opponent with an axe". A recurring gag is that every single foul on the list occurred in the first Quidditch World Cup, as well as several nobody thought to put on that list (such as one team captain sending bats after the opposing team and another team captain teleporting his opposite number into the middle of the Sahara). There's also "the Transfiguration of a Keeper into a polecat". It's unclear whether this was done to provide an edge in a scrap, or simply render the enemy Keeper unable to use his broom. In fact, the actual list of what constitutes a foul has been kept secret for years for fear of "giving the players ideas." It's also mentioned that about 90% of the fouls can be prevented from ever happening by just not letting anyone use their wands while on the field. Since a total ban would infringe one of the Wizarding World's most basic human rights, the rule is limited to stating that wands can't be used to attack other players, the crowd, or the balls in play; it's still perfectly legal to use them if an outside danger or interference comes up, like the time Harry used a Patronus to drive away what he thought were some dementors coming after him. |
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This is one of the most common complaints about Eyeshield 21- that players eventually start outright brawling and even maiming each other on the field (one player ended every game by breaking the arms of every quarterback he faced) and it's regarded as just "part of the game". Which it isn't. The guy who breaks everyone's arms IS insanely strong and has managed to pass it off as just being a result of that... (although considering this is still being played at the high school level, you'd think the torrent of complaints from the parents of the crippled students would results in something being done about it) Everything else is just unnecessary roughness, including throwing punches and even martial arts moves, not to mention linebackers throwing the small protagonist around the field. It wasn't so bad during the Zokugaku game, when the delinquent Chameleon thugs were actually cheating by using cheap shots (e.g crotch kicks, eye-pokes etc) to take out Deimon's linemen without the referee seeing, and Deimon's own thugs got one over them simply by being better at fighting dirty. But by the time of the Seibu game the Gunmen's centre defensive lineman is knocking down Deimon's linemen with lariats and even Deimon's coach is brushing it off by describing football as "A combat sport using your fists." Yeah, no. One of the worse offenders is probably Mr. Don, the American best lineman who made a time out to declare to the audience he will kill a linebacker and then proceed to savagely tackle said linebacker. He also tries to sack the quarterback out of commission like the other player in the first play. However, more than the liberties about the contact rules Mr.Don is the president's son (not of the league, of the U.S.A) so he might get away with a lot. There is one attempt at a subversion during the Death March arc. Sena accidentally enters a tryout session for an American football club. Once he demonstrates his speed and evasion skills, the opposition gets obsessed with crushing him, literally. The examiner has to point out that they would get disqualified if they tried to carry out their threats — not that Sena lets them try. |
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The entire premise of Mario Strikers Charged is this trope. Tackling your opponent into electrical fences, lobbing bombs, Koopa shells, banana peels, and unleashing Chain Chomps onto the field is very common. They've turned soccer into something so intense the players all wear body armor. Even Bowser. | |
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On Justified the Bennetts and Givens have been Feuding Families for over 50 years but in the 1980s agreed to a truce. However, Dickie Bennett and Raylan Givens ended up on opposite sides of a high school baseball game. Dickie tried to hit Raylan with a baseball, a brawl erupted as result and Raylan hit Dickie in the knee with a baseball bat. Dickie's knee was broken and he had to walk with a limp ever since. Dickie still holds a massive grudge over this and in the present tries to kill Raylan with a baseball bat. | |
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Funnily enough though, the Vancouver/Calgary fight is not a line brawl notable enough to get its own entry on The Other Wiki; no, that dubious honor goes to these five fights (in chronological order): The Good Friday Massacre in 1984 between heated rivals Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques, particularly notable as some players didn't find out they were ejected until after the intermission, prompting them to start more fights to take other players out with them. The Punch-up in Piestany, a bench-clearing brawl between the Canadian and Soviet teams in the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships that lasted for 20 minutes and had the officials literally turn out the lights on the arena to try and stop the brawl. Both teams ended up disqualified from the championships, which cost Canada a guaranteed bronze and possibly better (which led to speculation that the Soviets, who were already eliminated from contention, and had cleared the bench first, deliberately did so to sabotage Canada's chances). The 1997 Avalanche/Red Wings brawl, aka "The Brawl in Hockeytown", which was the revenge match of an incident in the previous season between Red Wing Kris Draper and notorious Avalanche enforcer Claude Lemieux, and sparked the Red Wings-Avalanche rivalry of the late 90s and early 00s. Notable both for drawing a lot of blood on the ice (leading to another nickname, Bloody Wednesday), but also for leading to another fight almost exactly a year later (and combined produced two of the greatest goaltender fights in hockey). note This technically makes the Avs the only team to get multiple entries, as they were previously the Quebec Nordiques. Some of the blood was from Lemieux, who was getting pummeled from behind by Darren McCarty, and another player to bleed was Patrick Roy, who brawled with Mike Vernon after Brendan Shanahan intercepted his bid to aid Lemieux. The 2004 Flyers/Senators brawl, which still holds the record for most penalty minutes awarded for a fight. The Penguins/Islanders brawl in 2011, an act of revenge on the Islanders' part after a previous game left one of their players concussed and the Penguin that did it unpunished. |
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