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* On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Connie ends up trying out for the boys wrestling team after Peggy takes her on as her personal project. At first the coaches tell her that wrestling is a boy's sport, until Peggy and her parents bring up Title IX and threaten to sue. The team is forced to actually have tryouts (as opposed to letting everyone who shows up make the team) for the first time, and the coach gets revenge on Peggy by making Connie wrestle Peggy's son Bobby. The episode ends with Bobby spinning Connie over his head.

->''"You know, Amy, any time someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo."''
-->-- '''[[HiddenDepths Knuckles]]''', ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'': Anne Chan gets several little moments like this, usually in response to Alan or Tom claiming she can't surf, climb trees or follow a crook as well as them because she's a girl. They're both miniature [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome crowning moments of awesome]] and PlayedForLaughs at the same time.

* It seemed like almost every sitcom in the 70s-80s had to have one of these episodes where not only did the female cast outperform the guys at ''everything'', but turning every male in the show into a massive chauvinist whether they were in previous episodes or not.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Eggman's Anti-Gravity Ray". During a game of soccer, Amy prepares to make a penalty kick, and starts boasting in third-person narration about proving that females can be just as good as males at sports, when [[DumbMuscle Knuckles]] makes [[DumbassHasAPoint a surprisingly-insightful]] [[DiscussedTrope comment on this trope]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', princess Merida holds an archery tournament between three clans to see who is worthy of having her hand in marriage. Only one succeeds in hitting the bullseye, but Merida isn't impressed. She hits all three bullseyes easily, including [[ImprobableAimingSkills splitting the arrow that hit the bullseye down the middle]]. HilarityEnsues [[RealityEnsues and reality]] between her and Queen Elinor; [[spoiler: Merida broke tradition, embarrased the three clans, and almost provoked a civil war because she didn't choose a husband]].

* One episode of the NBC cop drama ''Life'' featured a suspect who had hidden important files on the hard drive of his XBox. The only way to access the files was to reach "Level 10" of ''PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' (the errors of this requirement earned it the top spot in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19160_8-scenes-that-prove-hollywood-doesnt-get-technology.html this Cracked article]]). The leads get a stereotypical (male) nerd to play the game, but he proves unable to get past level two. At this point, a crowd has gathered to watch him try. Main character Charlie Crews suddenly notices a young woman among the group who is moving her fingers as if she is holding a controller. He walks over, brings her out of the crowd, and has the current player give her the controller; true to this trope, she manages to successfully complete the game and unlock the files.

* Invoked on an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Turk doesn't pick the only female in the group of candidates to be his assistant, which Elliot decides is sexist, so she gets Carla (Turk's wife) to [[LysistrataGambit deny him sex]] until he makes the girl his assistant instead.

* ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'', "The Great Race." The girls' swim team challenges the boys' soccer team [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Degrassi/Junior_High/The_Great_Race.aspx to a swimming match]]. The boys secretly know the girls' team is better, but they think they can win -- because the girls' star swimmer is morbidly afraid of letting boys see her in a bathing suit and because they allow champion swimmer Snake to join the team, even though he's awful at soccer.

* While Wrestling/LouThesz was traveling around, beating other world champion claimants to establish the NWA, Mildred Burke went with him and herself defeated 200 men to establish the NWA Women's division.
* The Fabulous Moolah became the first woman to wrestle at Madison Square Garden, which had previously outlawed women's wrestling.
* Both [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Madusa Miceli]] and Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html Cruiserweight Title]], the former in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and the latter in Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Jacqueline also won her second [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Championship]] from a man (don't ask).

* A brief clip from ''Series/ThirtyRock'' shows that Liz sued her high school for the right to play football, despite the fact that she was absolutely abysmal. It's implied she did it just so she could be a feminist crusader rather than because she wanted to play the game.

* Also, ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' parodied this, with [[BlackBestFriend Cookie]] trying out for cheerleading, and getting laughed off because he's a boy. He sues them, and gets a tryout, leading to this quote, summing up the tryout.

* A brief clip from ''Series/ThirtyRock'' shows that Liz sued her high school for the right to play football, despite the fact that she was absolutely abysmal.

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* This is the outcome in the film ''Film/LittleGiants''. Becky's dad was pissed that she wasn't chosen for the town's football team because she was girl and so he [[StartMyOwn started his own team]] and challenged the official team.
* In ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'', [[spoiler:Mui shows up at the end of the championship game in a BigDamnHeroes moment to counteract the Evil Team with [[ChekhovsSkill her Tai-chi skills]]]].
* ''Film/ShesTheMan'', the modern re-imagining of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', centers around this trope. The girl's soccer team is cut, the girls are denied the chance to try out for the guys' team because "girls can't beat boys," so Amanda Bynes transfers schools in drag and HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', it's implied that Lady Sif had to pull one in order to be taken seriously as a warrior.
-->'''Thor''': And who proved wrong all who scoffed at the idea that a young maiden could be one of the fiercest warriors this realm has ever known?\\
'''Sif''': ''I'' did.\\
'''Thor''': ...true, but I supported you!

** Wrestling/{{Lita}} played a sort of [[MamaBear Sister Bear]] role when her boyfriend Wrestling/MattHardy was battling Wrestling/TheUndertaker at the 2002 ''Royal Rumble''. She crashed the Rumble Match and she and Matt double-teamed the "Deadman." They didn't get very far, but it was still pretty {{Badass}}.

* Aki finding her need-for-speed and becoming a Riding Duelist in StoryArc 3 of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''. When getting her license, misogynists try to sabotage her test because she is both her woman and she is the only one who passed through the preliminary tests. Not only Aki manages to handle the situation and won her Riding Duel (against Ushio), [[{{Badass}} Jack]] beats the crap out of the guys.

** In December 2015, Princess Kimberlee became the first woman to hold the Chikara Grand Championship - that's the promotion's top title, by the way - pinning Hallowicked to do so.

* Parodied in "Big Time Jobs," an episode of ''Series/BigTimeRush.'' Carlos takes the position of Gustavo's production assistant, and is forced to deal with an espresso machine named C.A.L. (a parody of a [[ASpaceOdyssey certain famous A.I.]]) that [[ItMakesSenseInContext eventually becomes sentient and attempts to take over the world by flooding it with foam.]] Kelly, Gustavo's assistant manager, tells Carlos that he'll have to deal with the problem on his own--until C.A.L. starts spouting sexist rhetoric ("WOMEN ARE WEAK"). She then takes a baseball bat to the machine.

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