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The Hopeless Replacement
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It's always this way: The team has just made the finals of the big tournament, or the Fake Band has a big gig around the corner. However, the star team member just wrenched his back and is out of the Big Game, or the lead singer has come down with laryngitis. Cue panic as the group scrambles to find a replacement (and this trope usually has a scene where the group is calling someone with a last name beginning with the letter Z). Down to their last hope, they bring in the Love Interest of one of the team members. She's the savior of their group...except she stinks...can't score to save her life, can't sing, can barely play tambourine. However, thanks to her romantic arrangements and/or the fact that the team forfeits if they do, she can't be kicked out of the group. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The team trudges on, thinking they'll get creamed in the Big Game or the contest...and they either do, but have fun doing it anyway, or they win in spite of her (or even because of her, bringing the Aesop with it). Examples |
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Subverted in Ranma ½: after Akane injures herself on the night before the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics tournament, she despairs at the thought of finding someone who "...is good at martial arts, knows gymnastics, and looks good in a leotard" in such short notice. Everyone immediately shanghais Ranma into service. | |
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A good decade or two before that, guess who did something similar in a short in the The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. | |
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In the baseball episode of Samurai Champloo, all the members of the team quit before the big game against the Americans, so the ninja coach recruits the main characters. Mugen and Jin are the only useful ones however, as the other players are Fuu, an old man, a dog, and Fuu's pet flying squirrel. | |
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On Family Ties, Alex needs a third for a quiz bowl team, and is forced to use Mallory. He coaches her extensively and she ends up being the star of the team after Alex suffers stage fright. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", after cutting him from the team earlier because of his lack of skill, Rom is brought on as a last-minute substitute by Captain Sisko after he himself gets booted from the game. Rom makes an accidental bunt that lets Nog score the Niners' only point. | |
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This was subverted in an episode of Clueless, during a big school basketball game when the star player is out. Friends Sean and Murray fill in as replacements, and happen to be really good and beat the other team. | |
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In Shaolin Soccer, the villainous soccer team named...wait for it...Team Evil have used their doping-enhanced strength to injure several of the players on the good-guys team - the game's nearly over, but they're short one goalie, and they have to forfeit if they can't find a replacement. Cue the hero's love-interest entering to demonstrate that her Kung Fu is stronger, and win them the match. | |
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In Glee, Brittany, of all people, is bribed into joining the McKinley academic decathlon team as an emergency replacement. As it turns out, she knows a lot about cat diseases, winning them the semi-finals almost singlehandedly. | |
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Parodied on Futurama, "Time Keeps On Slipping". Fry volunteers to sub in a basketball game so the team won't forfeit. The team is leading by a large margin and the game is nearly over, but Fry costs them the game anyway, and he doesn't understand how that happened (see episode title). | |
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Played with in The Producers (2005). When the star of Springtime for Hitler has a broken leg, the director fills in at the last minute. He turns the show into a roaring success, when it was supposed to fail. Turns out the audience couldn't get enough of Camp Gay Hitler. | |
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In DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, when three of the "Average Joes" team members go missing right before the final match (ironically, one of them was absent because he was called away to be a Hopeless Replacement in a completely different competition), the team's manager Owen is brought in to play in a last ditch effort to fill space. | |
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An Extremely Goofy Movie: In the final race, the Gammas succeed in launching PJ out of the arena, forcing Max to call on Goofy to replace him so that they don't forfeit. | |
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In the Cabin Pressure episode "Fitton", standby passenger Mr. Goddard arrives after the staff of MJN Air have given up on his showing up and after Martin has got spectacularly drunk. Douglas, who doesn't drink, is perfectly capable of doing all the flying, but they need a sober warm body in the captain's seat. Arthur and Martin trade uniforms, and Arthur impersonates a pilot (poorly). | |
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Space Jam: The toons are taken out one by one by one, until finally Michael Jordan's publicist is in the game. When he gets squashed, it looks like they'll have to forfeit...until the miraculous entrance of Bill Murray! Who just fills out the five on the floor as Michael stretches for the winning basket. | |
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Subverted (or inverted? Or just parodied?) in an episode of South Park: The boys need to win a dance contest, and try to recruit Butters, who's a world class tapdancer. He refuses because he accidentally killed 15 people last time he danced, so instead they recruit a dancing duck. Then, in the climax, the duck is injured, and Butters subs in for him. Let's just say he had a good reason for refusing the call the first go-round. Also inverted in an episode where the entire South Park Little League team is sick to death of playing baseball, and are trying their hardest to lose the final game, as the winning will keep playing other teams. They get the brilliant idea of getting Kyle's unbelievably unathletic cousin, but even that doesn't work out as it turns out the other team had the exact same feelings for the game, and were better at playing badly. Fortunately, Stan's dad gets in a fight with another fan, which causes the South Park team to be disqualified. |
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In The Legend of Korra, Korra first joins the Fire Ferrets when their third member fails to show up and they have two minutes to come up with a replacement. Unfortunately, she has no idea of the rules of pro-bending and quickly commits multiple fouls. Even when settling for just not getting knocked out, she still has trouble until her airbending training kicks in and allows her to dodge long enough for her teammates to win it. By the next match she actually knows what she's doing and becomes a competent teammate. | |
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In the Dark Tournament arc of YuYu Hakusho, circumstances leave both Team Urameshi and Team Toguro with only four of the required five members as they head into the finals, so each team's sponsor (Koenma and Sakyo, respectively) volunteers to fill the missing rank. Possibly subverted, as neither one are actually combatants, and both freely admit that they will run like hell rather than set foot in the ring. | |
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