History Main / SuperRinger

* ''Film/BostocksCup'': "Brian Parkinson", a mysterious milkman and amateur football player that reporter Gerry Tudor helped recruit for Bostock Stanley ahead of their FA Cup semi-final match against Leicester, is actually a former member of the 1970 Brazilian World Cup team whom Gerry persuaded to play for Bostock in exchange for a chance to meet his idol, comedian Charlie Williams (foreshadowed by the only English phrase "Brian" seems to know being Williams' catchphrase, "Eh up, me old flowers!").

* ''Film/BostocksCup'': "Brian Parkinson", the mysterious milkman and amateur football player that reporter Gerry Tudor helped recruit for Bostock Stanley ahead of their FA Cup semi-final match against Leicester, is actually a former member of the 1970 Brazilian World Cup team whom Gerry persuaded to play for Bostock in exchange for a chance to meet his idol, comedian Charlie Williams (foreshadowed by the only English "Brian" seems to know being Williams' catchphrase, "Eh up, me old flowers!").

* ''Film/BostocksCup'': "Brian Parkinson", the mysterious milkman and amateur football player that reporter Gerry Tudor helped recruit for Bostock Stanley ahead of the FA Cup semi-final match against Leicester, is actually a former member of the 1970 Brazilian World Cup team whom Gerry persuaded to play for Bostock in exchange for a chance to meet his idol, comedian Charlie Williams (foreshadowed by the only English "Brian" seems to know being Williams' catchphrase, "Eh up, me old flowers!").

* ''Film/BostocksCup'': "Brian Parkinson", the mysterious milkman and amateur football player that reporter Gerry Tudor helped recruit for the team ahead of their FA Cup semi-final match against Leicester, is actually a former member of the 1970 Brazilian World Cup team whom Gerry persuaded to play for Bostock Stanley in exchange for a chance to meet his idol, comedian Charlie Williams (foreshadowed by the only English "Brian" seems to know being Williams' catchphrase, "Eh up, me old flowers!").

* In ''Film/OldSchool'', during the debate session, Dean Pritchard announces that the captain of the university's debate team is sick and is being replaced by [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel James Carville]]. Despite the curveball, Frank the Tank manages to out-debate the professional commentator to the point where Carville doesn't have a rebuttal. Then it turns out Frank blacked out and it was his subconsciousness doing the debating.

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': ExtravertedNerd Steve Urkel tries to recruit JerkJock Eddie Winslow as his partner in a 2-on-2 inner city basketball tournament. Despite showing some very respectable ball handling skills, Eddie refuses and goes with someone else. Undaunted, Steve shows up at the tournament with a tall, muscular woman in a dress and bonnet whom he only calls [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Johnson_%28basketball,_born_1969%29 "Grandmama"]]. Sure enough, the two teams face each other in the finals. But [[DefiedTrope defying trope]], Grandmama is injured during the game, so Eddie's partner steps out and Eddie and Steve play each other 1-on-1 for the last point, where Steve jukes right past Eddie for the winning layup.

*** In the AlternateTimeline work ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'', the Einzbern family instead managed to summon the Ruler-class Japanese saint Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, who does much better job than Angra Mainyu even if he ultimately lost and only surviving because he made contact with the Greater Grail, thus managing to materialize.

* ''Film/PromWars'': The Lancaster kids repeatedly hire experts for contests that favor their more academic opponents (like Scrabble and a robotics meet) and claim that their ringers are faculty advisors or transfer students. Sometimes it works, but sometimes the Selby kids win anyway.

* In the ''Film/{{MASH}}'' movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team -- or, in Radar's words, "Our ringer spotted their ringer."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Time Keeps on Slipping", the protagonists are challenged to a game of basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters, so the Professor ''[[CreatingLife creates]]'' some ringers: a team of [[ILoveNuclearPower atomic]] [[{{Ubermensch}} supermen]].

** In another episode, Homer replaces Lisa with Serena Williams as his tennis partner. Then Marge replaces Bart with Venus Williams. Then Venus replaces Marge with Pete Sampras. Then Homer gets replaced by Creator/AndreAgassi. So the family gets to watch a world-class doubles match for free, and try to keep track of which player they "are".

** In another episode, Homer replaces Lisa with Serena Williams as his tennis partner. Then Marge replaces Bart with Venus Williams. Then Venus replaces Marge with Pete Sampras. Then Homer gets replaced by Andre Agassi. So the family gets to watch a world-class doubles match for free, and try to keep track of which player they "are".

* In the Creator/AbbottAndCostello movie ''Here Come the Co-Eds'', a professional women's basketball team is secretly brought in to play a women's college team. (There's heavy betting involved. The college's future is at stake.) One of the college players is injured, so Lou Costello puts on a dress and a wig and goes in as a sub. He's terrible, but after he's knocked out mid-game, he awakens with amnesia and is told, "You're Dolly Dimple, the world's greatest woman basketball player!" Living up to his billing, his team wins. At the end of the game, all of the ringers are revealed. The officials decide that "Five ringers are worse than one" and award the game to the college players (and Lou, who isn't in college.)

A typical plot using the trope would play out as follows: Alice is our plucky heroine. Elena is her [[BlackBestFriend Latina best friend]]. Suzie is the AlphaBitch and Tina is TheDragon in Suzie's GirlPosse. The game is doubles tennis, it's [[BigGame the final]] and the prize is $1,000 to the charity of the winners' choice. Naturally, Suzie will use it for nefarious ends.