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* And an entire anime series based on this--''Honji Dodge Danpei'' There's a bit of a pun in there--"Dodge" as pronounced in Japanese sounds like a word equivalent to "blockhead" or "doofus", which describes the personality of young Danpei.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', chapter 5-6.
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** The players on the heroes' team, however, are battle-hardened people with lethal superpowers themselves. The captain of the opposing team, Razor, is so powerful that he inflicts [[The Worf Effect]] by his mere presence and is the only person shown so far to genuinely put [[Monster Clown]] Hisoka on edge.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' had a chapter in its supplementary manga where Nanoha and Fate played dodgeball against [[Those Two Guys|Alisa and Suzuka]]. It ended with Fate getting knocked unconscious by a dodgeball thrown by the resident [[Shrinking Violet]], Suzuka.
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' has a dodgeball game where the attack is psychological - the child prodigy is so small that the other team keeps missing her on purpose because they think it's funny.
* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', one character inadvertently makes a [[Les Yay]] comment about the relationship of two other characters just before a dodgeball game. She gets taken out of the game - ''hard'' - by one of those two.
* In one of the ''[[Babymouse]]'' graphic novels, the plot revolves around the title character's dread of an upcoming dodgeball game in PE.▼
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* The second episode of ''[[Calvin at Camp]]'' is all about this.
== Film ==
▲== Film ==
* ''[[Chicken Little]]''. They even divide the teams into "popular" and "not popular".
* In both the original film and musical adaptation of ''[[Hairspray]]'', Tracey gets knocked out by a dodgeball. In the new movie, it's a throwaway gag, but in the original it's a major plot point: Link asks her out after it, and Penney and Seaweed bond when they rush over to help her.
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* ''[[Billy Madison]]'' did this when he's against the entire first grade class.
▲* In one of the ''[[Babymouse]]'' graphic novels, the plot revolves around the title character's dread of an upcoming dodgeball game in PE.
▲== Literature ==
* Partially subverted in the second ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' book ''The Sea Of Monsters'': At first Percy thinks that gym class is just going to be this but it turns out that the other team is actually made up of giant cannibals, so it actually ''is'' a fight to the death.
* Played with in ''Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully''. The main character dreads playing dodgeball against a boy named Patrick, who throws the ball hard, but when she actually gets hit, she realizes it doesn't hurt nearly as much as she thought.
▲== Live Action Television ==
* Comes up in an early ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode, where a gang of toughs (and Xander) get turned into hyena-people.
* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]''
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': undercover as a gym teacher, Dean forces the kids to play dodgeball. "The whistle makes me their God."
* This just showed up in ''[[The Middle]]'' last week.{{when|reason=That show ended in 2018 - if it aired 'last week', it had to have been a rerun. When was the episode originally aired?}}{{context|reason=Who played? Who was bullied?}}
* Appears in the first episode of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'', where the titular geeks get pummeled by the jocks on the other team.
* ''30 Rock,'' the episode "Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter," Liz goes to a Singles Dodgeball event to look for love and ends up pummeling a cute guy because she's too bitter to try to be nice.
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* [[Pair of Kings|Brady and Boomer]] were victims of this kind of bullying in flashbacks.
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* This shows up in ''[[FoxTrot]]'' and ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' as well.
▲== Video Games ==
* One stage of ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' features a one-on-one dodgeball game between average elementary schooler Torao and his [[Jerk Jock]] rival Ryu. Set to Tomoyasu Hotei's "Thrill", and with [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|needlessly awesome]] visuals out of a kung-fu movie.
* This is as good a reason as any for why gymn in ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' focuses on dodgeball and wrestling. (Well, that and game mechanics—winning a wrestling match improves your melee attacks, while helping the nerds beat the jocks at dodgeball improves your ranged attacks.)
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Paranatural]]'' had dodgeball [http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-5-page-27 banned] in the school district by pansy parents. So the coach figured they are going to play HITBALL instead.
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* Dodgeball becomes hell with Penny joins the game in V2 of ''[[RWBY Chibi]]''. what with her being a combat-ready [[Robot Girl]] with targeting systems and ultra-precise delivery.
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[South Park]]'': Pip becomes a Dodgeball savant when he gets pissed off over people calling him French.
▲** More specifically, that ''Simpsons'' episode isn't really dodgeball, it's just the teacher throwing the balls at the students sadistically. The same teacher seems to like throwing things at people in general, because he's shown later throwing rolls at Groundskeeper Willie after Willie got a job in a fancy restaurant (making Willie into a gentleman being the main plot of that episode).
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' had Dodgeball as a challenge for one episode, the characters are near death by the end of it.
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* ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' has the [[Emo Teen|Emo Kid]], and this happens to him a [[Up to Eleven|LOT]].
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants
* Happened in one episode of ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' as Timmy arrives at school after missing the bus and having to walk in the rain. He's greeted to gym class by his classmates holding dodgeballs in a game of "Drys vs Wets"
* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'': 'Bludgeonball! [[Blatant Lies|It's fun!]]
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