History UsefulNotes / RollerDerby

* The new Creator/{{Ubisoft}} game ''Roller Champions'' is basically a slicked-up, futuristic take on roller derby akin to ''Knockout City'' or ''VideoGame/RocketLeague''. New rules include a 7-minute time for matches, three player teams, and possession of a ball to be thrown into a goal; the ball must be brought through different gates around the track as to "unlock" the goal. If the other team takes possession, they must do the same (as when a change in possession occurs it resets your gate progress). If you don't throw the ball into the goal once it's been unlocked and instead keep passing through the gates, this'll make the goal worth more (for a maximum of five points, which if scored becomes an InstantWinCondition).

** Many people's choices of equipment can verge on this, especially the ongoing (and somewhat open-ended) question of 10 vs. 45 degree trucks. Also, the question of skateboard-style helmets (like the Triple8 Brainsaver or S-ONE Lifer) vs. hockey helmets. Expect any given skater to have strong and detailed opinions about her gear and why she has what she has.

* '''Jammer''': Jammers wear a panty with a star on it. The jammer is the skater who scores by lapping other skaters. A complete successful scoring pass by a jammer normally scores four points. [[note]]Until the end of 2018, if the opposing jammer was also lapped or in the penalty box, five points were scored.[[/note]] If the jammer passes the star panty to the pivot, the jammer becomes a blocker, rather than a replacement pivot. Popular and prominent jammers include Bonnie Thunders of Gotham Girls Roller Derby, Second Hand Smoke of the Minnesota [=RollerGirls=], Jackie Daniels of the Texas Rollergirls (formerly of Windy City) and Scald Eagle of Rose City Rollers.

* Three ''Literature/InCryptid'' short stories by Creator/SeananMcGuire feature Antimony, the younger sister of Verity and Alex Price, aka "Final Girl": "Blocked" (2013), "Bad Dream Girl" (2014), and "Jammed" (2015). The first story, rather significantly, blends the rules of flat and banked track derby but happen on a flat track; later ones are written more like flat track derby (Antimony's league, the Silver Screams, plays in the former Northwestern Division of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association as of "Bad Dream Girl," which was presumably written before the regional division structure was replaced by the current ranked division structure; while it seems to stand in for the Rose City Rollers, its theme is very different).

->''"That's five big roller derby points for Wiki/TVTropes!"'' - John Maddening

* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' has Motorball, which is the above-mentioned Rollerball ''[[UpToEleven on steroids]]'' -- with cyborgs of various shapes and forms and countless ways to tear each other apart when chasing the ball.

* "Speed Demons" in ''Comicbook/{{Tammy}} & Comicbook/{{Jinty}} Special 2019'' is about a roller derby player that turns to BlackMagic in order to win and ends up with demonic skates.

* The new Creator/{{Ubisoft}} game ''Roller Champions'' is basically a slicked-up, futuristic take on roller derby akin to ''VideoGame/KnockoutCity'' or ''VideoGame/RocketLeague''. New rules include a 7-minute time for matches, three player teams, and possession of a ball to be thrown into a goal; the ball must be brought through different gates around the track as to "unlock" the goal. If the other team takes possession, they must do the same (as when a change in possession occurs it resets your gate progress). If you don't throw the ball into the goal once it's been unlocked and instead keep passing through the gates, this'll make the goal worth more (for a maximum of five points, which if scored becomes an InstantWinCondition).

At its most basic, roller derby is a contact sport played on an oval track by 10 players on quad-style roller skates (the kind with wheels positioned like on a car), 5 on a team, in discrete plays of two minutes or less called "jams." During a jam, both teams have the opportunity to score points by having one player on each team race each other in an attempt to repeatedly lap everyone on the other team, while the remaining players attempt to stop the other team's scoring player and assist their own. Jams are played during defined periods, the most common period lengths and numbers are 4 10-minute periods (the original game as defined by Leo Seltzer and Damon Runyon), 2 20-minute periods (the original WFTDA game length) or 2 30-minute periods (most rule books as of 2015).

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has the episode "[=LGBSteve=]". After watching a roller derby match, Hayley wants to join the team, but is a terrible skater. Steve is a great skater, and when standing next to some other [[ButchLesbian boyish-looking girls]], looks like one of them (it helps he's [[WhoWearsShortShorts wearing short denim cutoffs]]). He gets to join under the name "Stevie Wonderbra" and is made the Jammer, and Hayley is given [[TheUnfavorite a bunch of leftover symbols and numbers]] and primarily serves to trip members of the opposing team. And yes, all the skaters [[LesbianJock start making out with each-other the moment there's a crash]]. The other team members quickly realize "Stevie" is a boy ("You've [[RagingStiffie had a boner for the last two weeks]]") but let him continue, thinking he's [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} a lesbian girl trapped in a boy's body]]. Hayley gets [[ButtMonkey kicked off the team]] for pantsing Steve in front of the rest of the team.

* TightsUnderShorts: Unless you want to get rink rash (hint: You don't).

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Derby Wives