History Main / DodgeballIsHell

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'' enemies the Gangreen Gang pelt a bunch of kindergarteners in a game of dodgeball, taking advantage of the fact that the girls are not allowed to beat them up at school. Ms. Keane manages to find a loophole around this by telling the girls to go outside and "play dodgeball" as well.

* ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'', which follows the chipmunks going to high school, has a dodgeball scene where both Simon and Theodore get the shit knocked out of them by dodgeballs- thrown by the token [[TheBully school bullies]]- whilst Alvin barely makes it through the game by catching a ball thrown at him.

* Taken to literal extremes in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where they're forced to fight a Chinese dodgeball team who are trained from birth to be [[HumanWeapon living dodgeball-armed weapons]] and who are capable of ''actually killing'' their opponents. Thankfully, Pip becomes a Dodgeball savant when he gets pissed off over people calling him French, a quirk which the boys weaponize by tricking the Chinese kids into setting him off.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': In "The Sparrow Scouts", the group initiate every new member with a game of dodgeball, but it's {{subverted}} when everybody enjoys the game, and those who get hit don't suffer any kind of injuries.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': In the anime, the first round that the straw hats play against the foxy pirates in the second davy back fight is a game of dodgeball.[[note]]Called "hit and dead ball" here.[[/note]] Not only do the ball have clear spikes on them, but a ball launcher is also allowed to be used to make the blows more brutal. The game also has many rules such as a rule where blows to the face don't result in elimination, and [[ExtremeOmnivore eating the ball]] does.

* A subarc of the Greed Island arc of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' involves Gon, Killua, Bisk, Hisoka and some minor characters in a dodgeball game. The players on the other team throw the ball with sufficient force to break bones. The players on the heroes' team, however, are battle-hardened people with lethal superpowers themselves. The captain of the opposing team, Razor, is so powerful that he inflicts TheWorfEffect by his mere presence and is the only person shown so far to genuinely put MonsterClown Hisoka on edge.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS5E19Sick Sick]] Finn and Munch once walked into a gym with a game of dodgeball in full swing and shared their memories of it. Finn loved it; Munch, not so much.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Finn and Munch once walked into a gym with a game of dodgeball in full swing and shared their memories of it. Finn loved it; Munch, not so much.

* In both the original film and musical adaptation of ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'', Tracy gets knocked out by a dodgeball. In the new movie, it's a throwaway gag, but in the original, it's a major plot point: Link asks her out after it, and Penney and Seaweed bond when they rush over to help her.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' has Bella dealing with a similar situation in her gym class, which she tried to opt out of but couldn't. Haters just ''love'' the panel from the manga showing her get smacked in the face with a volleyball.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Ed in a Halfshell" makes it clear that gym class, and dodgeball specifically, was so horrific, it has become a TraumaButton for Double-D.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ZS4xvWtwo the "dreadful pioneering dodgeball game"]] played with an extremely heavy basketball. Not even Sakura is safe.

* ''Honoo no Toukyuuji: Dodge Danpei'' is an entire anime series based on this.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': The minigame Revers-a-Bomb consists of two teams sending each other Bob-ombs to hurt them with their explosions. Instead of being thrown, the Bob-ombs walk onto a team's area (colored red in the left and blue in the right) until someone from there presses and holds a switch aligned with a specific Bob-omb's path to make it retreat and go to the opposite side instead. Since all six paths have Bob-ombs moving into either direction, the two players in each team must always focus on the closest Bob-ombs to drive them away, or else they'll explode upon reaching their destinations (and hurting whoever is in their impact ratio). If the two characters of a team are hit a combined total of 10 times, the other team will win; if 30 seconds pass, then whichever team received fewer hits will win.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty5'': The minigame Dodge Bomb pits all characters within a plaza where Bob-ombs are hanging around before exploding. A character can grab a Bob-omb and throw it at the others. Whoever gets hit by an explosion will be blasted away and lose. The last remaining player wins, but if two or more players remain after 60 seconds, or the last remaining players blast away each other at the same time, the minigame ends in a tie.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Weight For It has two dueling characters use mallets to whack weighted balls onto each other's sides. If a player is hit by a ball, they'll be stunned, but that's not the objective of the minigame; instead, each character has to have fewer balls in their side than in that of the rival. This way, when the minigame ends after 15 seconds, whoever has more balls will make their side crumble and fall into a pit, losing the duel while rendering the other victorious. In the unlikely event there are three balls in each side and the seventh one is exactly at the center, the whole arena will crumble and both players will fall down, leaving the minigame in a tie.
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'': The minigame Shuffleboard Showdown pits three characters in the middle of a casino chip table, delimited by numerous chip stacks. The fourth player, from the foreground, has to slide chips onto them in order to kick them away, and those characters have to dodge the chips. As time passes, other chips will fall from above, giving the solo player a chance to perform clever collisions that can potentially catch the rivals off-guard. The solo player wins if they hit all three rivals, while the trio will win if at least one of them survives for 30 seconds.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy episode "Ed in a Halfshell" makes it clear that gym class, and dodgeball specifically, was so horrific, it has become a TraumaButton for Double-D.

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