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* Averted in ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin''. Despite Lydia's status as the first female general in Baalaria's history, all her critics focus on her ImprobableAge (15!) instead of her gender.
* ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'': Tiza thinks she has something to prove because she's in a mercenary guild. To this end she makes everything into a competition and doesn't like Nolien taking a leadership role among the three novices. This confuses her teammates because they don't think she has to prove anything. Two of the five guild captains are female, the other three captains have female lieutenants and the overall guildhead is female as well.

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* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''/''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' crossover fanfiction ''SAK: Sword Art Online'', when Asuna learns the Chinese Imperial Army doesn't allow women into their ranks, she outright enters the camp as herself and challenges Captain Li Shang to a sword fight so she can prove a point, refusing to let anyone walk over her pride as a woman. She [[CurbStompBattle defeats Shang easily]], who allows her to fight alongside the army, but not be a part of it.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheThreeMusketeers'', Barbie/Corinne sets off to become a musketeer, but is mocked for her dreams by several who believe a girl can't be a musketeer, [[BerserkButton which angers her]]. She and her three friends end up proving them wrong by defeating the villain, Philippe, who attempts to kill his cousin, the prince. At the end, the prince becomes king and the four heroines become royal musketeers.

Sub-trope of PassionateSportsGirl. Also a sub-trope of ShowingUpChauvinists; non-sports examples should go there. Compare MarsAndVenusGenderContrast. Not to be confused with OneOfTheBoys, where a girl hangs out with boys in general.

Sub-trope of PassionateSportsGirl. Compare MarsAndVenusGenderContrast. Not to be confused with OneOfTheBoys, where a girl hangs out with boys in general.

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-->'''Knuckles:''' 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. (''realizes everyone is starring at him in StunnedSilence'') [[DefensiveWhat What?]] Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist

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-->'''Knuckles:''' 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. (''realizes everyone is starring at him in StunnedSilence'') [[DefensiveWhat What?]] Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.

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* In ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' they lost the baseball game. But Amanda (played by Tatum O'Neal) was definitely a kick-ass pitcher. It's something of a DownplayedTrope, however, in that she has to be talked into playing, her acceptance on the team is a very minor source of conflict at most (as the team's equal-opportunity bigot, Tanner, is the only one to have issue, and she quickly puts him in his place), and one of her conditions for joining the team is that Coach Buttermaker pays for her designer clothes and ballet classes.

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* In ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' they lost the baseball game. But Amanda (played by Tatum O'Neal) was definitely a kick-ass pitcher. It's something of a DownplayedTrope, however, in that she has to be talked into playing, her acceptance on the team is a very minor source of conflict at most (as the team's equal-opportunity bigot, Tanner, is the only one to have issue, and she quickly puts him in his place), and one of her conditions for joining the team is that Buttermaker pays for her designer clothes and ballet classes.

* In ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' they lost the baseball game. But Amanda (played by Tatum O'Neal) was definitely a kick-ass pitcher.

This is frequently an instance of a JackieRobinsonStory. The SpearCounterpart is the BillyElliotPlot in that they both subvert gender norms, but whereas that trope centers on the same-sex parent's disapproval, the parents' input in this case is not as vital, and they tend to range from supportive to neutral.

* Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah became the first woman to wrestle at Madison Square Garden, which had previously outlawed women's wrestling.

* Tessa Blanchard main-evented [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling Slammiversary]] 2019 vs. Sami Callahan in a critically-acclaimed match which saw her lose but got Tommy Dreamer's respect and also comparisons to Chyna as well.

* Tessa Blanchard main-evented [[ImpactWrestling Slammiversary]] 2019 in match vs. Sami Callahan in a critically-acclaimed match which saw her lose but got Callahan's respect and also comparisons to Chyna as well.

** [[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]] pinned her former [[Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes BDK]] stablemate Tim Donst to win the Torneo [=Cibernetico=] at ''Cibernetico: The Animated Series'' November 12, 2011, making her the first and so far only woman to do so. Earlier in the match, she had eliminated the BDK's monster Tursas.

** [[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]] pinned her former BDK stablemate Tim Donst to win the Torneo [=Cibernetico=] at ''Cibernetico: The Animated Series'' November 12, 2011, making her the first and so far only woman to do so. Earlier in the match, she had eliminated the BDK's monster Tursas.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', Eleanor wants to join Alvin's soccer team. The other boys don't see anything wrong with it, but Alvin refuses to let her join, which causes his team to loose the next game. She eventually proves herself to him by beating him in a one-on-one game.

* The famous "Battle of the Sexes", a 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, had this as its overarching narrative. Riggs, who had been a tennis champion in the 1940s, believed that the female game in TheSeventies was inferior to the male game and that, even at 55, he could beat any female tennis player. To prove his point, he challenged Margaret Court, then the number-one-ranked female player in the world, and comprehensively defeated her in two sets before extending his challenge to all female tennis players. King, who had been the number-one-ranked female player the ''previous'' year, took him up on the challenge. Riggs entered the tennis court in a rickshaw drawn by scantily-clad female models, while King was carried in on a litter carried by muscle men, and when they met, Riggs gifted King a giant Sugar Daddy lollipop and King returned the favor with a squealing piglet. Unlike his match with Court, things did not go Riggs' way the second time around, with King dominating him in three sets in such a CurbStompBattle that some speculated that Riggs [[ThrowingTheFight threw the match]]. The match, later dramatized in the film ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes'', was a GenreTurningPoint for women's tennis, as its credibility as a legitimate sport was assured going forward.

** Heidi Lovelace becoming the first woman to win Chikara's Young Lion's cup in 2015, taking out two members of Colony Xtreme Force on the way, who still hadn't moved passed [[HeManWomanHater their misogyny]].
** In December 2015, Wrestling/PrincessKimberlee became the first woman to hold the Chikara Grand Championship - that's the promotion's top title, by the way - pinning Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}} to do so.

** 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 Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}} to do so.

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

** It should be noted though that most of the conflict of this episode was actually a ''[[SubvertedTrope subversion]]'' of this trope. While Peggy's attempt to stick it to a pig-headed P.E. coach is what kicks the plot in motion, most of the actual conflict comes from the fact that [[TheUnfairSex Bobby ends up stuck in a no-win situation because of it]]. If he loses to Connie, he'll be mocked by his classmates for losing to a girl. If he does win against her, he'll be branded as a girl beater and further shunned by them. Ultimately, it was Bobby and Connie working together that allowed them to figure a way out of it with their reputation intact.