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* ''LightNovel/TaishoBaseballGirls'' may be even ''more'' so, since it deals with an all-girl baseball team in ''1920s Japan''.

* The ending of ''Manga/GirlGotGame'' definitely counts, complete with the whole manga being about a the protagonist [[PersonAsVerb pulling]] a SweetPollyOliver.

* The second season of ''JossysGiants'' introduced the players' girlfriends, many of whom were footballers themselves and who at one point beat a boy's team.

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** The main reason why she wanted to become a D-Wheeler is after witnessing Yusei's duel with [[BikerBabe Sherry]] from very near, realizing that a Riding Duel is much more intense and "intimate" than Ground Duels. Considering Riding Duels are dominated by men, Sherry being able to defeat whole teams by herself in the [[TournamentArc WRGP]] is even more impressive, especially if you consider that the WRGP cannot be done with auto-pilots.

* 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

* Inverted and parodied mercilessly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Leela is offered the chance to be the first professional Blernsball player in history--but only because her [[{{Cyclops}} single eye]] makes her lack depth perception and thus inevitably bean whoever's up to bat against her pitching. Notably, when the Blernsball talent scout approaches Leela to sign her on, he politely and repeatedly makes it clear that's she awful and he will only be hiring her as a publicity stunt, which defies the chauvinism usually associated with this trope. Later, a genuinely-talented female Blernsball player named Jackie Anderson calls Leela out for the damage she's doing to women's attempts to play by reinforcing negative stereotypes; when the women face off in a final game, Jackie wins, but assures Leela that she ended up being a role model anyway...by encouraging girls to prove that they ''don't'' suck as much as she does.

* ''Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Subverted and deconstructed through the show's subtext. Utena herself seems to play this plot line straight (teenage girl who plays sports better than the boys, takes the masculine role of "Duelist" and explicitly wants to be a "[[KnightInShiningArmor Prince]]"). However, from the start she's already counted among Ohtori Academy's "elite" students (a fact that she ignores at every turn) and her flaunting of gender roles further cements her role as "special". Contrasted with the more "ordinary" [[MuggleBestFriend Wakaba]] and how dismissively she's treated during her [[ADayInTheLimelight brief stint in the sun]], Utena's role defiance is merely [[TheBeautifulElite the exception]] [[NeverBeAHero that proves]] [[StayInTheKitchen the rule]].

* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': The Billie Jean King episode shows Billie Jean working hard at playing tennis and eventually beating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, proving to the whole world that girls and boys can do the same things.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Katara's skill at waterbending did manage to impress Pakku, who believed that women shouldn't learn combat-bending, when she instigated a fight with him, but he still refused to teach her until he learns that Katara's grandmother is actually his long-lost love, whom he drove away with his attitude. After he accepts Katara as a student and sees her progress, he chides all his other students for not keeping up.

-> ''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 silence]'' What? Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.''

->'''Amy''': It all comes down to this one penalty kick. Can the young woman break the glass ceiling, and prove once and for all that a female can be just as good an athlete as a male?
->'''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.
->''[cue Stunned Silence]''
->'''Knuckles''': ...what? Just because I'm a [[DumbMuscle meathead]] doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.
->-- ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', "Eggman's Anti-Gravity Ray"

-->'''Amy''': It all comes down to this one penalty kick. Can the young woman break the glass ceiling, and prove once and for all that a female can be just as good an athlete as a male?
-->'''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.
-->''[cue Stunned Silence]''
-->'''Knuckles''': ...what? Just because I'm a [[DumbMuscle meathead]] doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', "Eggman's Anti-Gravity Ray"

-> ''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 silence]'' What? Just because I'm a meathead doesn't mean I'm not a feminist.''
-->-- '''Knuckles''', ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', "Eggman's Anti-Gravity Ray"

* Subtly deconstructed in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. A few years before the show, Pawnee's boy scout group refused to include a girl, so Leslie started her own group called the Pawnee Goddesses in order to prove that girls can be good outdoorsmen too. However in practice she ends up [[{{Hypocrite}} reinforcing the very stereotypes she's claiming to be opposing]], having her group never do any actual wilderness activities and instead having them laze about, doing stereotypically feminine things like "puppy parties" or pillow fights. She also [[NotSoDifferent tries to keep boys out of the club just like the boy scout group did to girls]], which the girls in her troop [[LampshadeHanging call her out on]]. When she does let boys in, they only join because in her club they get to screw around and play instead of doing work. When she makes Ron acknowledge that "GIRLS CAN DO IT TOO" it comes off less like an empowering victory and more like a somber, KickTheDog moment where she makes Ron feel like crap, and Leslie is visibly unhappy about it afterwards.

* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] 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]].

* Used at least twice in ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans''. Uniqua beats Pablo at Ping-Pong in "Blazing Paddles", and Tyrone at [[HorseOfADifferentColor dolphin]] racing in "The Great Dolphin Race".

* One episode of the NBC cop drama ''Life'' featured a suspect who had hidden important files on the hard drive of his UsefulNotes/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.

* Inverted and parodied mercilessly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', with Leela proving to be the worst Blernsball player in history. Then it's played straight when another female player beats Leela. She is hailed for being the first woman in the sport to be ''good at it.''
** Part of what makes the parody so effective is that when the Blernsball talent scout first approaches Leela to ask her to join a professional team, he politely makes it absolutely clear that she's ''not'' a good player, and that hiring her will strictly be a ratings stunt, which defies the chauvinism that usually appears with this trope.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Futurama}}'' when Leela tries her hand at "blernsball," an updated version of baseball that's become the Earth's favorite pastime in the year 3000. Since Leela [[{{Cyclops}} only has one eye]], she inevitably hits whoever's up to bat because of her lack of depth perception. A team owner offers her the chance to join, and Leela ecstatically dreams of being the first woman to play blernsball professionally--despite the owner ''repeatedly stating'' that she ISN'T good and specifically saying that he's only signing her on as a publicity stunt, points that Leela doesn't hear (or ignores) because she's too boastful about breaking the glass ceiling. It gets more serious later in the episode, when a genuinely-talented female blernsball player named [[MeaningfulName Jackie Anderson]] calls Leela out for the damage she's doing to women who want to play by reinforcing negative stereotypes about other female athletes. Jackie ends up facing off against Leela in a game (she's the second female professional blernsball player) and winning, then reveals that, in an odd way, Leela ended up being a role model to girls after all...by inspiring them to do better and show that they ''don't'' suck as much as she does.
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* The Ellen Bailey poem [[https://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_217.htm "The New Kid"]] describes a "new kid" who joins a neighborhood pickup baseball team and is instantly distinguished by skill and good sportsmanship, taking them to the championship and hitting a game-winning home run, and then reveals that the new kid is a girl.