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* CatharsisFactor: Tashi's '''volcanic''' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Patrick after he callously asks her to coach him instead of Art, believing the latter to be burned out. It's the first real BreakTheHaughty moment for him that spells out just how ''badly'' he's fucked up his relationship with both of them.
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* OneTrueThreesome: Plenty of fans prefer seeing the LoveTriangle as a polyamorous relationship.
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**If Tashi had never gotten injured, would she have ended up with Art, Patrick, or neither of them?
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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote: Explanation]] Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]

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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes Justin Kuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote: Explanation]] Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]
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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote:Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]

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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote:Song [[labelnote: Explanation]] Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]
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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote]] Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]

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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote]] Song [[labelnote:Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]

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** Does Tashi love Art? If so, how much? It's possible to read her anywhere on the spectrum between loving Art (for Lily's sake and the sake of their life together if nothing else) to thinking that she views him as a hindrance that she only married to get close to the big leagues, which were out of reach for her then.

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** Does Tashi love Art? If so, how much? It's possible to read her anywhere on the spectrum between loving Art (for Lily's sake and the sake of their life together if nothing else) to thinking that she views him as a hindrance that she only married to get close to the big leagues, which were out of reach for her then.then, and that she wishes she had stayed with Patrick.


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** "Are Celine Song and Creator/JustinKuritzkes looking for a third?"/"Who is the third person who tried to ruin their marriage?" [[labelnote]] Song and Kuritzkes are married. Kuritzkes wrote ''Challengers'', while Song wrote (and directed) ''Film/PastLives'', which is another romantic drama about a LoveTriangle that involves a married couple being derailed by a face from the past.[[/labelnote]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Many reviewers have agreed that this is one of [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and Atticus Ross's best soundtracks since ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', with pounding synths and beats that perfectly fit the back and forth play of the main trio's tennis matches. In particular, their track that plays during the finale, [[https://youtu.be/63k6AfvLsso "Match Point"]], perfectly encapsulates the tension breaking point that the entire film has been leading to.

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** Art's perspective on the LoveTriangle, and specifically on Tashi and Patrick after Tashi's injury. Tashi yells at Patrick to leave, which is understandable; she presumably felt she acted out during the match due to their argument. But then Art yells at Patrick to leave, too. Is he genuinely angry by Patrick's behavior, is he just backing up Tashi as she doesn't want him there, or is he cynically wrecking their relationship in order to make a move on Tashi himself?
** Does Tashi love Art? If so, how much? It's possible to read her anywhere on the spectrum between loving Art (for Lily's sake and the sake of their life together if nothing else) to thinking that she views him as a hindrance that she only married to get close to the big leagues, which were out of reach for her then.
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Many reviewers have agreed that this is one of [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and Atticus Ross's best soundtracks since ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', with pounding synths and beats that perfectly fit the back and forth play of the main trio's tennis matches. In particular, their track that plays during the finale, [[https://youtu.be/63k6AfvLsso "Match Point"]], perfectly encapsulates the tension breaking point that the entire film has been leading to.
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*** The Spider-Man to tennis player pipeline[[labelnote:Explanation]]By sheer chance, Creator/EmmaStone, who starred as Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', played real-life tennis champion Billie Jean King in ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes''. This is typically used as another coincidental connection between all three ''Spider-Man'' leading ladies, the other one being a well-publicized RomanceOnTheSet with their respective Spider-Man actor.[[/labelnote]]

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*** ** The Spider-Man to tennis player pipeline[[labelnote:Explanation]]By sheer chance, Creator/EmmaStone, who starred as Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', played real-life tennis champion Billie Jean King in ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes''. This is typically used as another coincidental connection between all three ''Spider-Man'' leading ladies, the other one being a well-publicized RomanceOnTheSet with their respective Spider-Man actor.[[/labelnote]]
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** The scene detailed under BestKnownForTheFanservice has also made the rounds of as a reaction image, of Tashi sitting on the bed smirking as Art and Patrick kiss either cheek.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The three-way kiss between Tashi, Art, and Patrick very quickly made the rounds on the Internet as soon as the first trailer dropped and gave the film ''a lot'' of attention, something its marketing was [[SexSells very eager to capitalize on]].

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Many reviewers have agreed that this is one of [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and Atticus Ross's best soundtracks since ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', with pounding synths and beats that perfectly fit the back and forth play of the main trio's tennis matches. In particular, their track that plays during the finale, [[https://youtu.be/63k6AfvLsso "Match Point"]], perfectly encapsulates the tension breaking point that the entire film has been leading to.
** Reznor's end credits theme, [[https://youtu.be/8USX2sqdTSg "Compress / Repress"]], is a hard hitting capper that sounds like something straight out of his SynthPop ''Music/PrettyHateMachine'' era.



** "This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey Spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Art and Patrick invite Tashi to their hotel room when they first meet her, but they later sit in resignation that she might not show up. When she does knock at the door, the two then rush to put on clothes and clean their room, all while Tashi can hear them outside the room and giggle over the noise.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Art and Patrick invite Tashi to their hotel room when they first meet her, but they later sit in resignation that she might not show up. When she does knock at the door, the two then rush to put on clothes and clean their room, all while Tashi can hear them outside the room and giggle over the noise.
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** "Three tickets to ''Challengers''." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Used as a caption to a photo of three people, typically from another film that had a love triangle. ''Especially'' ''Film/PastLives'', a similarly themed film written by the spouse of the writer of ''Challengers''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "Three tickets to ''Challengers''." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Used as a caption to a photo of three people, typically from another film that had a love triangle. ''Especially'' ''Film/PastLives'', a similarly themed film written by the spouse of the writer of ''Challengers''.[[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]]
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** "Three tickets to ''Challengers''. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Used as a caption to a photo of three people, typically from another film that had a love triangle. ''Especially'' ''Film/PastLives'', a similarly themed film written by the spouse of the writer of ''Challengers''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "Three tickets to ''Challengers''. " [[labelnote:Explanation]]Used as a caption to a photo of three people, typically from another film that had a love triangle. ''Especially'' ''Film/PastLives'', a similarly themed film written by the spouse of the writer of ''Challengers''.[[/labelnote]]
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*** The Spider-Man to tennis player pipeline[[labelnote:Explanation]]By sheer chance, Creator/EmmaStone, who starred as Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', played real-life tennis champion Billie Jean King in ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes''. This is typically used as another coincidental connection between all three ''Spider-Man'' leading ladies, the other one being a well-publicized RomanceOnTheSet with their respective Spider-Man actor.[[/labelnote]]

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*** The Spider-Man to tennis player pipeline[[labelnote:Explanation]]By sheer chance, Creator/EmmaStone, who starred as Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', played real-life tennis champion Billie Jean King in ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes''. This is typically used as another coincidental connection between all three ''Spider-Man'' leading ladies, the other one being a well-publicized RomanceOnTheSet with their respective Spider-Man actor.[[/labelnote]]
** "Three tickets to ''Challengers''. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Used as a caption to a photo of three people, typically from another film that had a love triangle. ''Especially'' ''Film/PastLives'', a similarly themed film written by the spouse of the writer of ''Challengers''.
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** "The girls played tennis". [[labelnote:Explanation]] Zendaya plays MJ in Spider-Man, and here plays a tennis champion. Creator/KirstenDunst ''also'' played MJ in a previous iteration of Spider-Man, and starred in ''Film/{{Wimbledon}}''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "The girls played tennis". [[labelnote:Explanation]] Zendaya plays MJ in Spider-Man, and here plays a tennis champion. Creator/KirstenDunst ''also'' played MJ in a previous iteration of Spider-Man, and starred in ''Film/{{Wimbledon}}''.[[/labelnote]]
*** The Spider-Man to tennis player pipeline[[labelnote:Explanation]]By sheer chance, Creator/EmmaStone, who starred as Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'', played real-life tennis champion Billie Jean King in ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes''. This is typically used as another coincidental connection between all three ''Spider-Man'' leading ladies, the other one being a well-publicized RomanceOnTheSet with their respective Spider-Man actor.
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** "The girls played tennis". [[labelnote:Explanation]] Zendaya plays MJ in Spider-Man, and here plays a tennis champion. Creator/KirstenDunst ''also'' played MJ in a previous iteration of Spider-Man, and starred in ''Film/{{Wimbledon}}''.[[/note]]

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** "The girls played tennis". [[labelnote:Explanation]] Zendaya plays MJ in Spider-Man, and here plays a tennis champion. Creator/KirstenDunst ''also'' played MJ in a previous iteration of Spider-Man, and starred in ''Film/{{Wimbledon}}''.[[/note]][[/labelnote]]

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* MemeticMutation: "This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]

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"This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]]
** "The girls played tennis". [[labelnote:Explanation]] Zendaya plays MJ in Spider-Man, and here plays a tennis champion. Creator/KirstenDunst ''also'' played MJ in a previous iteration of Spider-Man, and starred in ''Film/{{Wimbledon}}''.[[/note]]

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** "This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/Spider-ManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "This is Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''WesternAnimation/Spider-ManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]
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** "This is Tom Holland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse''.[[/labelnote]]

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** "This is Tom Holland's Creator/TomHolland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse''.''WesternAnimation/Spider-ManAcrossTheSpiderVerse''.[[/labelnote]]
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** "This is Tom Holland's canon event". [[labelnote:Explanation]]The trailer features a scene of Tashi (played by Zendaya) simultaneously making out with Art and Patrick. Zendaya was previously known for playing MJ in the MCU's take on Spider-Man, and for actually dating spidey actor Tom Holland in real life to boot. This inevitably led to the internet classifying the aforementioned scene from the trailer as a "canon event", referencing the phenomenon from ''Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse''.[[/labelnote]]

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