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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. If a parent does have a problem with it, it's usually the father.

-> ''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. ''[DumbassHasAPoint everyone stares at Knuckles in silence]'' What? Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.''

-> ''[[DiscussedTrope 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. ''[[[DumbassHasAPoint everyone stares at Knuckles in]] StunnedSilence]'' [[DefensiveWhat What?]] Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.''

* [[Webcomic/EightBitTheater Brian Clevinger's]] ''Webcomic/HowIKilledYourMaster'' has Fang Lin, most accomplished disciple of the Tiger Knuckle martial arts style, and all-around [[TheAce Ace]]. In her introduction, she wipes the floor with some [[{{mooks}} goons]] who have [[TheHero Liu Wong]] at their mercy, and in a flashback she handles Wong himself (an accomplished martial artist in his own right) [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]]. [[note]]Tiger Knuckle discipline is ''taught'' by a woman, Fang Lin's victory was helped along by Wong being an ArrogantKungFuGuy at that point in his life.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': The school baseball team rejects Patty from the school team just for being a girl, she forms her own team, with some other rejects and girls. In a game against the school team, Doug represents the game winning run for Patty's team after finally getting a hit... But what do you know, Roger makes the game winning catch from her at-bat and wins for the school. Patty then decides to [[OffTheTable turn down]] the school coach's offer to let her join the school team.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', the one where Penny plays on the school football team, single-handedly turns the homecoming game from a blowout loss into a game they have a chance to win... and drops the ball on the final play.

** Leela's Arcturan Kung-Fu master insists he would automatically win in a fight against Leela because "Girls lack the will of the warrior."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Billy and Irwin made a racing team and wouldn't allow Mandy in because she's a girl so she [[StartMyOwn started her own team]] with Grim, who was rejected from Billy and Irwin's for being a skeleton. [[DarkHorseVictory Pud'n won]].

-> [[DiscussedTrope 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. ''[[[DumbassHasAPoint everyone stares at Knuckles in]] StunnedSilence]'' [[DefensiveWhat What?]] Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.

-> [[DiscussedTrope 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. ''[[[DumbassHasAPoint everyone stares at Knuckles in]] StunnedSilence]'' [[DefensiveWhat What?]] Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.

-> '''Knuckles''': [[DiscussedTrope 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.]]
-> ''[everyone stares at Knuckles in StunnedSilence]''
-> '''Knuckles''': [[DefensiveWhat What?]] [[DumbassHasAPoint Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', "Eggman's Anti-Gravity Ray"

* PlayedForLaughs in Season 2 of ''Series/TheBoys2019''. The Vought publicity machine hypes up the superhero pairing of Stormfront, Starlight and Queen Maeve with the slogan "Girls Get It Done". This becomes a BrickJoke in the season finale when The Boys observe Stormfront getting beaten up by Starlight, Maeve, and Kimiko while the men watch from the sidelines [[BadassNormal because they don't have superpowers]].
-->'''Frenchie: Girls ''do'' get it done!

* Violette Morris, a French athlete and later Nazi collaborator, was an avid competitor during the 1910s to late 1920s. Among her many, many sporting accomplishments were being selected for the French national water polo team (there was no women's team at that time) and winning the national heavyweight boxing championship in 1923 as the only female competitior in a field of men.

-> '''Knuckles''': [[DefensiveWhat What?]] Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.

->''"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."''
-->-- '''Knuckles the Echidna''', ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''

* 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 by four shirtless muscle men in an homage to UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra|VII}}, 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.

A girl participates in an athletic competition to show that girls can be as good at it as the boys are. She then makes good by

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000," where we're supposed to root for the ''boys'' in the sled race while it's [[StrawFeminist the girls]] who act snotty and superior. Though their secret weapon (Cartman's massive extra weight) gets arrested for a hate crime, they wind up winning in the end, and the most annoying girl is implied to be [[DisproportionateRetribution eaten by a bear]]. Yay!

* In Wrestling/{{TNA}} there's been [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]](put [[Wrestling/BillyGunn Cute Kip]] on a stretcher among other things), ODB(who trained Cody Deaner) and Hamada...(who lost to Eric Young? She was at least offered a spot on World Elite). Before being picked up by TNA, Kong was in a middle of a campaign to get a Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA World Heavyweight Title shot, a campaign that saw her pin [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "Homecoming: Shot in the D'Arc". Joan of Arc disguises as a boy by [[PaperThinDisguise putting on a cap, t-shirt, and mustache]], and calling herself "John D'Arc" so she can play for the boy's basketball team, since they don't allow girls or animals. When her disguise is blown, Abe gives a speech on letting Joan take the last shot. She then hits a free-throw to score the school's first point against their competition, and win a bet principal Scudworth had made against their rival's principal... [[Subverted trope and then the team treats the Abe Lincoln clone as a hero for his speech]], leaving Joan feeling completely betrayed.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', "Shot in the Dark", where "John Dark" turns out to be the Joan of Arc clone in a cap and mustache. She hits a free-throw to score the school's first point against their competition and win a bet principal Scudworth had made against their rival's principal... and then the team treats the Abe Lincoln clone as a hero (on the grounds that his stirring speech convinced all in attendance to let her shoot in the first place), leaving Joan feeling completely betrayed.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', Rio beat an entire boy's soccer team ''by herself''.

* ''Series/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.

* 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, embarrassed the three clans, and almost provoked a civil war because she didn't choose a husband]].

* 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]].

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

* Season 3 of ''Series/YoungSheldon'' has Missy ask her dad to show her how to play baseball because she wanted to impress a boy she liked, only for the boy to not be interested in her. She continues playing ball with George just for the sake of it, until she decides that she wants to join the school baseball team. The coach doesn't want a girl on the team, but lets her try out when Meemaw rips him a new one (and impresses the coach so much that he asks Connie out). Missy ends up getting on the team and standing up for herself to anyone who dares to mock her for it.