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8	->'''Gordie Boggs:''' We’re going back to basics. To find our heart.\
9	'''Sasha:''' Can I come?\
10	'''Gordie Boggs:''' No, because you don’t have one.\
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13	''Ready to Rumble'' is a 2000 comedy film directed by Brian Robbins, and starring Creator/DavidArquette and Creator/ScottCaan.
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15	Gordie Boggs (Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Caan) are a pair of friends who believe that ProWrestlingIsReal. After they witness their favorite wrestler, Jimmy King (Creator/OliverPlatt) lose the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] to Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage ([[AsHimself Diamond Dallas Page]]), they decide to help their idol win back his title. HilarityEnsues.
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17	Compare with the WWF film ''Film/NoHoldsBarred''.
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20	!!Tropes used in ''Ready to Rumble'':
21	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Sean and Gordie get picked on by all the other residents (save for Wendy, one of the waitresses at a fast food restaurant, and Mrs. [=MacKenzie=], a kind old lady who swears a lot, both of whom are also wrestling fans) in their hometown for liking wrestling. [[spoiler: Eventually, those very same residents become wrestling fans themselves towards the end of the movie.]]
22	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Gordie's father while lecturing his son about why he shouldn't follow his dream to become a professional wrestler.
23	-->"Just cause it's your dream doesn't make it right or noble or whatever! [[Usefulnotes/CharlesManson Charlie Manson]] was following his dream! UsefulNotes/JosephStalin, Music/MichaelBolton, you get my point?"
24	* AsHimself: Many Wrestling/{{WCW}} wrestlers appear in the film as themselves, including Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage, Wrestling/RandySavage, Wrestling/BookerT, Wrestling/CurtHennig, [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid Vicious]], and Wrestling/{{Sting}}, as well as the official commentary team, referees, and the Nitro Girls.
25	* BerserkButton: The duo (''especially'' Gordie) tend to flip their shit when ever anyone says wrestling is fake.
26	* BigBad: Titus Sinclair.
27	* BigDamnHeroes: When Goldberg, Booker T, Billy Kidman, and Disco Inferno, with [[spoiler: Gordie]] shortly following by flying over the entrance ramp on a police motorcycle into the doors of the triple cage, run in to save King from Sinclair's goons. [[spoiler: Sting also follows by knocking Diamond Dallas Page off the top of the cage.]]
28	* BigNo: Gordie and Sean do one when Wrestling/BamBamBigelow, Wrestling/PerrySaturn, Juventud Guerrera, and Prince Iaukea execute the four post massacre on King, which leads him to losing the WCW Title to Diamond Dallas Page.
29	* BookEnds: The movie starts and ends at the Lusk Stop 'N Shop with Sean talking to three children about Jimmy King.
30	* CoolOldGuy: Sal Bandini.
31	* {{Expy}}:
32	** Four of the characters in this film are based on the following RealLife wrestling personalities.
33	*** Jimmy King => Wrestling/RicFlair and [[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "The King" Lawler]]
34	*** Titus Sinclair => Wrestling/EricBischoff and his WWF counterpart Wrestling/VinceMcMahon
35	*** Sal Bandini => Wrestling/LouThesz and Stu Hart
36	*** Sasha => Kimberly Page
37	*** Gordie has some similarities to Wrestling/{{Glacier}}, being born into a family of police officers and deciding to pursue wrestling instead. His wrestling gimmick of "The Law" also borrows from [[Wrestling/JacquesRougeau The Mountie]].
38	** Some events of the movie were also based on real-life events:
39	*** [[spoiler: Sinclair screwing King]] is based off the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, with a little bit of RealLifeWritesThePlot (see below).
40	*** [[spoiler: Diamond Dallas Page's bump through the Triple Cage]] is based off Wrestling/MickFoley's famous bump from his 1998 Hell in a Cell Match against Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
41	*** [[spoiler: King getting beat up by his own son Frankie]] is based off a similar storyline with Ric Flair and his turncoat son David.
42	* ExpyCoexistence: Even though Jimmy King is heavily based on Ric Flair, Gordie does an impression of Flair to impress Sasha, indicating that Ric Flair does exist in this universe.
43	* FatBastard: King's son Frankie.
44	* FinishingMove: Jimmy's is the "Crown", which looks like it ''hurts''. It is basically a top-rope double axe handle.
45	* FollowInMyFootsteps: Gordie is pressured by his father into becoming a police officer instead of following his dream to be a wrestler. [[spoiler: In the climax, Gordie manages to follow his dream while dressing up as a cop, and earning his father's respect.]]
46	* GroinAttack:
47	** Not an attack but when Gordie's father searches him, Sean clarifies that he's grabbing his nuts.
48	** King's wife Eugenia kicks him twice. As he ices his lap, she admits to trying to break his "diddly". King claims his penis is bruised and also that it feels like Richard Petty drove his stock car at high speed into his balls. The outtakes show this taking 7 shots.
49	** DDP and King trade brutal ones in the climax.
50	** Sal Bandini kicks King during training, and King claims treachery as he groans and cries in pain.
51	* HateSink: The convenience store clerk constantly insults Sean and Gordie, and tossing the kids' bikes on to the curb. [[spoiler: He gets his comeuppance at the end by being thrown his own glass door by Jimmy King, Gordie, and Goldberg.]]
52	%%* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Sasha does this to Gordie.]]
53	* ICallHimMrHappy: King calls his testicles "balls". Gordie calls his "nuts".
54	* IRejectYourReality: Gordie and Sean simply refuse to accept the idea wrestling isn't 100 percent real.
55	-->'''King''': You guys know it's all a show, right?
56	-->'''Gordie''': Greatest show on Earth.
57	* IWarnedYou: Sean tries to warn Sasha [[spoiler: (who tries to make amends with Gordie, only for him to brush her off for snitching on them to Sinclair and getting Sal Bandini injured)]] to not hang around the ring during the triple cage match. She brushes him off, and gets smacked in the face with a ladder being swung around wildly, while Sean tells her what she could've done to avoid that injury:
58	-->'''Sean''': Sasha...
59	-->'''Sasha''': Shut up, Sean!
60	-->'''Sean''': Sasha, you shouldn't --
61	-->''WHAM! (Sasha gets whacked in the face with a ladder)''
62	-->'''Sean''': -- stand so close to the ring when there's a ladder match going on.
63	%%* IdiotHero: Sean and Gordie.
64	* {{Jerkass}}:
65	** The shopkeeper at the beginning of the movie. [[spoiler: He gets his comeuppance at the end of the movie when Gordie, King, and Goldberg throw him through his own glass door.]]
66	** Gordie's father originally qualifies as this, but he eventually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold after [[spoiler: watching his son on TV during the triple cage match at the end of the movie.]]
67	%%* KindheartedSimpleton: Gordie.
68	%%* LargeHam: Gordie.
69	* LoserProtagonist: Gordie and Sean? Shitty jobs?[[note]]Literally, they're in the septic business[[/note]] Check. Hopelessly stupid? Check. Bad luck with women? Check. Humiliated at every turn? Check.
70	* MeanBoss: Titus Sinclair, the head booker of WCW.
71	%%* TheMole: [[spoiler: Sasha]].
72	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
73	** Sal Bandini appears to based on legendary real-life trainer Stu Hart.
74	** The lead Nitro Girl Sasha is based on Diamond Dallas Page's valet and former spouse, Kimberly Page.
75	** Jimmy King is based on Wrestling/JerryLawler and, to a lesser extent, Wrestling/RicFlair; with the scene in which King is betrayed by his son Frankie being drawn from a real-life incident between Flair and his son David.
76	* ObligatorySwearing: This movie has some pretty strong profanity for a PG-13 film, such as multiple uses of the word "pussy" (but being used as a euphemism for "wuss" instead of female genitalia.)
77	* PrecisionFStrike: Sinclair to [[spoiler: Sting]] of all people.
78	--> '''Sinclair''': I will kill you if you fuck this up.
79	* ProWrestlingIsReal: As stated above, the two main characters believe so, but while this seems to be subverted early on, the movie isn't very clear on it.
80	-->'''Gordie''': [[SeriousBusiness Wrestling's NOT FAAAAAAAAKE!!!]]
81	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The scenario of [[spoiler: King getting screwed by Sinclair]] was actually based on a real life issue between Eric Bischoff and Ric Flair. In April 1998, Flair was fired from WCW for allegedly no-showing a taping of ''Thunder''. By the end of the year, Flair was back in WCW after filing a lawsuit against Bischoff.
82	* RebuiltPedestal: Gordie and Sean discover that their hero is a drunken scumbag who left his wife and son (and had another wife and two illegitimate children on the side) and made off with his parents' mobile home, and attempt to reform him. They succeed.
83	* SmugSnake: Sinclair.
84	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The film's plot is drawn from two real-life incidents. The first involved the firing of Wrestling/RicFlair from WCW by Wrestling/EricBischoff for allegedly no-showing the taping for the April 16th 1998 edition of WCW Thunder, followed by a wrongful dismissal lawsuit by Flair which ended in him back on the roster by the end of the year. The second is the nigh-infamous Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, in which then-WWF World Champion Wrestling/BretHart lost his title to long-time rival Wrestling/ShawnMichaels during the 1997 Survivor Series, after Wrestling/VinceMcMahon conspired with a number of in-ring and behind-the-scenes personnel to end the match prematurely while Hart was put in his own submission finisher by Michaels.
85	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: After King regains the WCW Title, Sinclair has one at the end before Gordie and Sean throw him into the crowd to get ripped to pieces ("What are you talking about? I made wrestling! ME! I MADE THEM ALL!!!")]]
86	* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Gordie to his policeman father, and King to his parents.]]
87	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: It's never revealed what happened to Sasha after getting knocked out, or if Gordie even accepted to apology.]]
88	* TheWorstSeatInTheHouse: Gordie and Sean get BOTH nosebleed seats and a column underneath them when they are at ''Nitro'' in Cheyenne.

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