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* ArtisticLicenseSports: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Peter makes $5 million by taking the $100000 Dwight bribed him with for his gym, and betting on his team during the match with the Purple Cobras, and winning. In real life this is not allowed in sports or competitions, because it could create conflict with the integrity of sport.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseSports: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Peter makes $5 million by taking the $100000 Dwight bribed him with for his gym, and betting on his team during the match with the Purple Cobras, and winning. In real life this is not allowed in sports or competitions, because it could create conflict with the integrity of the sport.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Peter makes $5 million by taking the $100000 Dwight bribed him with for his gym, and betting on his team during the match with the Purple Cobras, and winning. In real life this is not allowed in sports or competitions, because it could create conflict with the integrity of sport.]]
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* CatchPhrase: White has a pretty on-the-nose motto for his (evil) gym.
-->'''White:''' Cause here at Globo Gym, we're better than you, and we know it!
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: While the educational film on the history of dodgeball runs on RuleOfFunny, dodgeball was not actually invented by opium addicted Chinese who threw severed heads at each other. It was invented by African tribes as a training exercise for their warriors, with rocks being used as the projectiles.
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** Sometime after the beginning of the film, White tells Peter that he will soon acquire his gym and there is nothing he can do about it; it comes back near the end when Kate told Peter that Globo Gym was a publicly traded company and said the same thing to him that there is nothing he can do about it.

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** Sometime after the beginning of the film, White tells Peter that he will soon acquire his gym and there is nothing he can do about it; it comes back near the end when Kate told Peter White that Globo Gym was a publicly traded company and said the same thing to him that there is nothing he can do about it.
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* IronicEcho: "Spare me" is said by both Peter in the beginning after watching Globo Gym's ad, and by White at the end after watching Average Joe's ad.

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"Spare me" is said by both Peter in the beginning after watching Globo Gym's ad, and by White at the end after watching Average Joe's ad.ad.
** Sometime after the beginning of the film, White tells Peter that he will soon acquire his gym and there is nothing he can do about it; it comes back near the end when Kate told Peter that Globo Gym was a publicly traded company and said the same thing to him that there is nothing he can do about it.
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* DeathByIrony: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d with Patches O'Houlihan's death by the "Luck o' the Irish" sign.
-->'''Peter:''' Too bad Hallmark doesn't make a "Sorry your dodgeball coach got killed by two tons of irony" card.

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* DeathByIrony: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d with Patches [[spoiler:Patches O'Houlihan's death by the "Luck o' the Irish" sign.
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-->'''Peter:''' Too bad Hallmark doesn't make a "Sorry your [[spoiler:your dodgeball coach coach]] got killed by two tons of irony" card.



* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:[[DiabolusExMachina Patches gets crushed by a falling sign before the final match.]]]] A sign that reads "[[{{Irony}} The Luck o' the Irish!]]"

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* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:[[DiabolusExMachina Patches gets crushed by a falling sign before the final match.]]]] ]] A sign that reads "[[{{Irony}} The Luck o' the Irish!]]"Irish!]]"]]



* TemptingFate: Peter remarks that, "As long as we have Patches, we've got a shot (at beating Globo Gym)." Cue Patches getting crushed to death with a "Luck of the Irish" sign.

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* TemptingFate: Peter remarks that, "As long as we have Patches, we've got a shot (at beating Globo Gym)." Cue Patches [[spoiler:Patches getting crushed to death with a "Luck of the Irish" sign.sign]].



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** For a specific tournament example, the Joe's team get their first break against their first opponent when one of them steps over the middle line and gets eliminated. [[spoiler:That rule causes the double elimination against Globo Gym which invokes sudden death -- unless you're watching the alternate ending.]]
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* TheAllegedCar: Peter's car, which sputters from his home and can't even make it to Average Joe's without help from four bystanders.

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* TheAllegedCar: Peter's car, which sputters from his home and can't even make it to Average Joe's without help from four three bystanders.
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* TheAllegedCar: Peter's car, which sputters from his home and can't even make it to Average Joe's without help from four bystanders.
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* APirateFourHundredYearsTooLate: Steve the Pirate, obviously.

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* APirateFourHundredYearsTooLate: APirate400YearsTooLate: Steve the Pirate, obviously.
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* APirateFourHundredYearsTooLate: Steve the Pirate, obviously.
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** Pepper Brooks ''thinks'' that Average Joe's forfeiting the match against Globo Gym is one of these. ("It's a bold strategy Cotton...")
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Dodgeball Chancellor is sympathetic to the Joe's when they don't have enough players, but can't break the rules to let them play. However, when Peter shows up, the Chancellor acquiesces to an obscure bylaw in which the judges can determine if they can play, which they do.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Dodgeball Chancellor is sympathetic to the Joe's when they don't have enough players, but can't break the rules to let them play. However, when Peter shows up, the Chancellor acquiesces to an obscure bylaw in which the judges can determine if they can play, which they do. He's also irritated with White's complete lack of good sportsmanship.

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** When Gordon finally gets angry while seeing his mail order bride explicitly flirting with another man, Stephen Root lets out a primal growl that sounds exactly like the "Billdozer" growl that he used playing the character Bill Dauterive in WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill. The characters he plays even have similar temperaments (mostly mild and meek, but when angry, absolutely frightening).



** Gordon comes off as the least developed member of the Average Joe's team (except perhaps Dwight), and he gets the smallest share of lines. Notably, though, he's the one who tells the rest of the guys about the dodgeball tournament's cash prize (the rest of the characters had never even heard of competitive dodgeball before he brought it up), meaning that the movie's entire plot probably ''wouldn't have happened'' if it weren't for him.
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--->'''Girl Scout:''' ''[tearfully]'' How could you hit a little ''girl''?\\

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--->'''Girl Scout:''' ''[tearfully]'' How could Why would you hit a little ''girl''?\\''girl? Why?''\\
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* TheTriple: Dodgeball announcer Cotton [=McKnight=] is good at these. "It's an event greater than UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup, [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]], and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII combined!" and "Tomorrow we separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, and the awkwardly feminine from the [[CanadaEh possibly Canadian]]" -- culminating in "Ladies and gentlemen, I have BEEN to the Great Wall of China, I have SEEN the Pyramids of Egypt ... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I've even seen a grown man satisfy a camel]]!"

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* TheTriple: Dodgeball announcer Cotton [=McKnight=] is good at these. "It's an event greater than UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup, [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]], and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII combined!" and "Tomorrow we separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, and the awkwardly feminine from the [[CanadaEh possibly Canadian]]" -- culminating in "Ladies and gentlemen, I have BEEN to the Great Wall of China, I have SEEN the Pyramids of Egypt ... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I've even seen witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel]]!"



-->'''White:''' You're going down like a bran muffin!

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-->'''White:''' You're going down like a bran sweet muffin!
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** Creator/DavidHasselhoff appears twice, first as the coach berating the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff German team]] for losing to Average Joe's, and then later on flirting with Gordon's wife.

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** Creator/DavidHasselhoff appears twice, first as the coach berating the [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff German team]] for losing to Average Joe's, and then later on flirting with Gordon's wife.Joe's.
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** Globo Gym comes very close to winning the final match by default due to there not being enough Average Joe's players to start the game, but they manage to fill out the team at the last second.

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** Globo Gym comes very close to winning the final match by default due to there not being enough Average Joe's players to start the game, but they manage to fill out the team at the last second.second, and with Chuck Norris's help the game is allowed to go ahead.
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** Globo Gym comes very close to winning the final match by default due to there not being enough Average Joe's players to start the game, but they manage to fill out the team at the last second.
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* {{Gaydar}}: Pretty much every male character in the movie instantly recognises that Kate is into other women.
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* GangOfHats: The dodgeball teams that Average Joe's and Globo Gym compete against include a team of Girl Scouts (who play in full uniform), a team of German bodybuilders, a team of lumberjacks, a team of break-dancers, and a team of Japanese martial artists who play in their underwear. Hilariously, Average Joe's unintentionally becomes one when a botched package delivery forces them to play their first match wearing S&M gear.

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* GangOfHats: The dodgeball teams that Average Joe's and Globo Gym compete against include a team of Girl Scouts (who play in full uniform), a team of German bodybuilders, a team of lumberjacks, a team of break-dancers, and a team of Japanese martial artists who play in their underwear.[[SumoWrestling mawashi]]. Hilariously, Average Joe's unintentionally becomes one when a botched package delivery forces them to play their first match wearing S&M gear.

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** One of the suggestions made for the guys to come up with the money to save the gym is to sell their blood, and their semen, just not mixed together.



** One of the suggestions made for the guys to come up with the money to save the gym is to sell their blood, and their semen, just not mixed together.
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** His choice to humiliate the average joes at the bar is what attracts Patches O'Houlihan to them, and without his coaching the Joes would have had no hope of winning.

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