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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TourDePharmacy'', where Slim Robinson, a fictional nephew of Jackie Robinson who wants to live up to his uncle's legacy. Unfortunately for him, by 1987 most sports have already been racially integrated, so he goes with cycling as his sport of choice because it's just about the only one where the color barrier hasn't been broken. [[spoiler:After a brief CallToAgriculture that leads to him missing most of the race, he eventually succeeds in becoming the first black cyclist to win the Tour de France.]]
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* Pretty much the entire plot of ''Film/GIJane''. In that case, the US Navy [=SEALs=]. (One might even mistake the first line of this trope entry as a synopsis for the movie.)
* ''Film/GloryRoad'', the story of the first all-black Texas Western college basketball team, who defeated the mostly white Kentucky (led by Coach Adolph Rupp, [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade who wasn't the overt rabid racist the movie made him out to be]]) in the finals of the NCAA tournament.
** Plus, in RealLife, the teams they were playing against mostly already had 3 or 4 starting players who were black, they were just the first to have an ''all'' black starting line-up.
* ''Film/GloryRoad'', the story of the first all-black Texas Western college basketball team, who defeated the mostly white Kentucky (led by Coach Adolph Rupp, [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade who wasn't the overt rabid racist the movie made him out to be]]) in the finals of the NCAA tournament.
** Plus, in RealLife, the teams they were playing against mostly already had 3 or 4 starting players who were black, they were just the first to have an ''all'' black starting line-up.
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* Pretty much the entire plot of ''Film/GIJane''. In that case, a woman trying to enter the almost exclusively male US Navy [=SEALs=]. (One might even mistake the first line of this trope entry as a synopsis for the movie.)
* ''Film/GloryRoad'', the story of the first all-black Texas Western college basketball team, who defeated the mostly white Kentucky (led by Coach Adolph Rupp, [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade who wasn't the overt rabid racist the movie made him out to be]]) in the finals of the NCAAtournament.
**tournament. Plus, in RealLife, the teams they were playing against mostly already had 3 or 4 starting players who were black, they were just the first to have an ''all'' black starting line-up.
* ''Film/GloryRoad'', the story of the first all-black Texas Western college basketball team, who defeated the mostly white Kentucky (led by Coach Adolph Rupp, [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade who wasn't the overt rabid racist the movie made him out to be]]) in the finals of the NCAA
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* ''Film/TheExpress'', about Ernie Davis, first black Heisman Trophy winner.
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* ''Film/TheExpress'', ''Film/TheExpress'' is about Ernie Davis, the first black Heisman Trophy winner.winner (awarded each year to the best player in UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball).
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* ''Film/RedTails'' is based on the first African American pilot squadron.
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* ''Film/RedTails'' is based on the first African American pilot squadron.squadron during World War II in the still segregated US Army.
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** Played straight in another episode where Lisa joins a till-then-boys-only military academy.
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** Played straight in another episode where Lisa joins a till-then-boys-only military academy. Overall, the trope is downplayed after she makes her decision: she does not shows herself to be better than the other students in any field that we see, and barely survives her stay.
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Named after UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson, who broke the color barrier in major league American baseball.
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Named after [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} second baseman]] UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson, who in [[TheForties 1947]] broke the color barrier in major league American baseball.
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* It's a secondary plot going on in Mel Gibson's ''Film/ThePatriot''.
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* It's a secondary plot going on in Mel Gibson's ''Film/ThePatriot''.''Film/ThePatriot2000''.
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-->"''Now it's all the way down to'' swimming, ''and I've got to admit, I-I don't think I give a fuck."
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-->"''Now it's all the way down to'' swimming, ''and I've got to admit, I-I don't think I give a fuck."''"
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* Creator/BillBurr had a stand-up bit about this, wherein he mocked the overuse of this trope in film, to the point that they were beginning to run out of sports to tell the Jackie Robertson Story with.
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* Creator/BillBurr had a stand-up bit about this, wherein he mocked the overuse of this trope in film, to the point that they were beginning to run out of sports to tell this kind of story with:
-->"''Now it's all theJackie Robertson Story with.way down to'' swimming, ''and I've got to admit, I-I don't think I give a fuck."
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* Shurei Hong in ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'' sets out to become the first woman to ever hold a position as a government official in a FantasyCounterpartCulture to feudal China, after the current Emperor changes the law that previously denied women the right to apply for government positions. Even with the support of the Emperor, she faces quite a bit of opposition, to the point that when an outbreak of plague occurs in the province she's been appointed to, a cult starts a rumor that it's divine punishment for allowing a woman to hold office.
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* Shurei Hong in ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'' ''Literature/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'' sets out to become the first woman to ever hold a position as a government official in a FantasyCounterpartCulture to feudal China, after the current Emperor changes the law that previously denied women the right to apply for government positions. Even with the support of the Emperor, she faces quite a bit of opposition, to the point that when an outbreak of plague occurs in the province she's been appointed to, a cult starts a rumor that it's divine punishment for allowing a woman to hold office.
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* Baseball comic ''[[http://thedugs.com The Dugs]]'' introduced a female pitcher attempting to break into the major leagues in a story line that begins [[http://thedugs.com/?p=796 here]]. The team and management are less than supportive.
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* Baseball comic ''[[http://thedugs.com The Dugs]]'' introduced a female pitcher attempting to break into the major leagues in a story line that begins [[http://thedugs.com/?p=796 here]]. The team and management are less than supportive.
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* Baseball comic ''[[http://thedugs.com The Dugs]]'' introduced a female pitcher attempting to break into the major leagues in a story line that begins [[http://thedugs.com/?p=796 here]]. The team and management are less than supportive.
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