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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The movie is inspired by the culture war in the 2020s over whether or not trans athletes should be allowed to compete against other women.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The movie is inspired by the culture war in the 2020s over whether or not trans women athletes should be allowed to compete against other women.in women's events.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: It goes without saying that men can't just put on a wig, say they're trans, and compete in women's sports no questions asked in RealLife. That sort of thing is put under ''intense'' scrutiny and the entire team would have gone through an intense vetting process that would have shot their plan dead on arrival. This is especially egregious because [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the film was originally going to be a documentary where they would have an actor pretend to be trans and catalog their rise to fame, but it didn't work for those very reasons]].
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: It goes without saying that men Men can't just put on a wig, say they're trans, and compete in women's sports no questions asked in RealLife. That sort of thing is put under ''intense'' intense scrutiny and the entire team would have gone through an intense a vetting process that would have shot their plan dead on arrival. This is especially egregious because [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the film was originally going to be a documentary where they would have an actor pretend to be trans and catalog their rise to fame, but it didn't work for those very reasons]].
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: It goes without saying that men can't just put on a wig, say they're trans, and compete in women's sports no questions asked in RealLife. That sort of thing is put under ''intense'' scrutiny and the entire team would have gone through an intense vetting process that would have shot their plan dead on arrival. This is especially egregious because [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the film was originally going to be a documentary where they would have an actor pretend to be trans and catalog their rise to fame, but it didn't work for those very reasons]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While he still goes along with the plan, David Cone rightfully points out that the team is pretending to be trans women to use their "innate strength" to essentially beat up women because they weren't good enough to go up against other men, making them come across as a bunch of bullies. [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong His teammates respond by silently mocking him for being a bleeding heart]].
* MenAreBetterThanWomen: The movie posits that the titular Ballers -- a bunch of men who had only ''just'' gotten back into sports, are past their prime, and had peaked in high school -- can beat any ''pro-athlete'' woman in sports effortlessly and that the only ones who could beat them are a team of black men who are doing the same scam as they are. While Rob tries to reassure his daughter that girls are better at some things than boys (like being empathetic and civilized and other non-athletic things), they are all {{Informed Attribute}}s.
* MenAreBetterThanWomen: The movie posits that the titular Ballers -- a bunch of men who had only ''just'' gotten back into sports, are past their prime, and had peaked in high school -- can beat any ''pro-athlete'' woman in sports effortlessly and that the only ones who could beat them are a team of black men who are doing the same scam as they are. While Rob tries to reassure his daughter that girls are better at some things than boys (like being empathetic and civilized and other non-athletic things), they are all {{Informed Attribute}}s.
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* RousingSpeech: The opening prologue has Rob giving an inspirational speech to his team, ending with the saying: "Winners are just losers who win".
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* RousingSpeech: The opening prologue has Rob giving an inspirational speech to his team, ending with the saying: "Winners "[[SecondPlaceIsForLosers Winners are just losers who win".win]]".
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The movie is inspired by the current culture war over whether or not trans athletes should be allowed to compete against other women.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The movie is inspired by the current culture war in the 2020s over whether or not trans athletes should be allowed to compete against other women.
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* DraggedIntoDrag: The film's core premise is similar to the crossdressing in ''Film/JuwannaMann'', with the added caveat that Coach Rob's players are pretending to be trans women and make very little effort to hide their masculine features.
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* DraggedIntoDrag: The film's core premise is similar to the crossdressing in ''Film/JuwannaMann'', with the added caveat that Coach Rob's protagonists are mediocre male basketball players are pretending who dress in drag and pretend to be trans women transwomen so that they can play in women's basketball and make very little effort to hide their masculine features.dominate.
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* BlackComedy: The entire film is an edgy spoof of the debate on transgenders competing in female sports.
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* BlackComedy: The entire film is an edgy spoof of the debate on transgenders transgender people competing in female sports.
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* BlackComedy: The entire film is an edgy spoof of the debate on transgenders competing in female sports.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The movie is inspired by the current culture war over whether or not trans athletes should be allowed to compete against other women.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob sees an opportunity to reunite his basketball team and have them be competitive despite their age and middling talent - by having them pretend to be trans women and competing in women's basketball.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's who has now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob sees an opportunity to reunite his basketball team and have them be competitive despite their age and middling talent - by having them pretend to be trans women and competing in women's basketball.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob sees an opportunity to reunite his basketball team and have them be competitive despite their age and middling talent - by identifying as women and competing in women's basketball.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob sees an opportunity to reunite his basketball team and have them be competitive despite their age and middling talent - by identifying as having them pretend to be trans women and competing in women's basketball.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob, seeing the oppurtunities of this, reunites with his old basketball team and have them pretend to be trans women and compete in women's basketball.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob, seeing the oppurtunities of this, reunites with Rob sees an opportunity to reunite his old basketball team and have them pretend to be trans competitive despite their age and middling talent - by identifying as women and compete competing in women's basketball.
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doesn't make sense, the characters in the film mention the biological fact that men have specific advantages over women, which in general is true. Not sure what 'transphobia' is being displayed - everything in the film is played for laughs
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* BrokenAesop: While a common conservative justification for the type of transphobia seen in ''Lady Ballers'' is to protect women's spaces, the film also promotes the idea that women are always physically inferior to men including at sports, which is both misogynistic and condescending and undermines the alleged "pro-woman" bent.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Anything to the left of the Daily Wire's political views is portrayed as a mocking stereotype. Character examples include the woman seen in the trailer dressed in pro-LGBTQ paraphernalia with a taser, and Matt Walsh's hippie character. A systemic example is the "woke" school attended by Coach Rob's daughter, which teaches her extensively about gender theory while leaving out actual history.
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Moving Broken Aesop to this page because it is not YMMV. By the way, Take That is for when a work makes a job at another work.
* BrokenAesop: While a common conservative justification for the type of transphobia seen in ''Lady Ballers'' is to protect women's spaces, the film also promotes the idea that women are always physically inferior to men including at sports, which is both misogynistic and condescending and undermines the alleged "pro-woman" bent.
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* TakeThat: The movie mainly takes mean-spirited jabs towards trans women in women's sports, but doesn't waste a second without lampooning anything "woke" disliked by the Daily Wire's conservative audience such as Dylan Mulvaney, COVID-19 mask protocols, non-white races, ''cis'' women in sports,[[note]]by claiming that women are more physically inept than men and by making fun of women's sports' alleged lack of popularity,[[/note]] and the supposed "gender indoctrination" of children in schools.
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!!"Winners are just tropers who trope":
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!!"Winners are just tropers who trope":win":
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* TakeThat: The movie mainly takes mean-spirited jabs towards trans women in women's sports, but doesn't waste a second lampooning anything "woke" disliked by the Daily Wire's conservative audience such as Dylan Mulvaney, COVID-19 mask protocols, non-white races, ''cis'' women in sports,[[note]]by claiming that women are more physically inept than men and by making fun of women's sports' alleged lack of popularity,[[/note]] and the supposed "gender indoctrination" of children in schools.
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* TakeThat: The movie mainly takes mean-spirited jabs towards trans women in women's sports, but doesn't waste a second without lampooning anything "woke" disliked by the Daily Wire's conservative audience such as Dylan Mulvaney, COVID-19 mask protocols, non-white races, ''cis'' women in sports,[[note]]by claiming that women are more physically inept than men and by making fun of women's sports' alleged lack of popularity,[[/note]] and the supposed "gender indoctrination" of children in schools.
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* TakeThat: The movie mainly takes mean-spirited jabs towards trans women in women's sports, but doesn't waste a second lampooning issues disliked by the Daily Wire's conservative audience such as Dylan Mulvaney, COVID-19 mask protocols, non-white races, ''cis'' women in sports, and the supposed "gender indoctrination" of children in schools.
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* TakeThat: The movie mainly takes mean-spirited jabs towards trans women in women's sports, but doesn't waste a second lampooning issues anything "woke" disliked by the Daily Wire's conservative audience such as Dylan Mulvaney, COVID-19 mask protocols, non-white races, ''cis'' women in sports, sports,[[note]]by claiming that women are more physically inept than men and by making fun of women's sports' alleged lack of popularity,[[/note]] and the supposed "gender indoctrination" of children in schools.
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* DraggedIntoDrag: The film's core premise is similar to the crossdressing in ''Film/JuwannaMann'', with the added caveat that Coach Rob's players are pretending to be trans women and make very little effort to hide their masculine features.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's team if events are full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob, seeing the oppurtunities of this, reunites with his old basketball team and have them pretend to be trans women and compete in women's basketball.
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Alright, here is my attempt at troping this as neutrally as possible.
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''Lady Ballers'' is a 2023 sports comedy film [[DescendedCreator directed by and starring]] Jeremy Boreing.
Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's team if full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob, seeing the oppurtunities of this, reunites with his old basketball team and have them pretend to be trans women and compete in women's basketball.
It was released on December 1, 2023 on the streaming service [=DailyWire+=].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the opening prologue, a young Coach Rob says to his team "You're playing like girls out there", hinting as to what the team do later in the film.
* MistakenForGay: Or Mistaken for Trans in this case. As Rob gets turned down from joining the competition as the men's events are all full, Alex, wearing a wig, gets mistaken by the receptionist for a trans woman and she enters Alex into the women's tournament.
* RousingSpeech: The opening prologue has Rob giving an inspirational speech to his team, ending with the saying: "Winners are just losers who win".
* {{Slapstick}}: Much of the movie is composed of physical comedy especially during the basketball scenes, with either the main characters or the people they compete with getting hurt in humorous ways. Even outside of the sports scenes, there's plenty of this, like when Rob gets tased by a receptionist and then comedically hits his head on the desk.
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Coach Rob (Boreing) is a former basketball coach who's now become an estranged father, divorced from his wife, and generally feeling dissatisfied. After bumping into his old friend/student Alex (Daniel Considine), now a crossdresser, he is motivated to join a sports competition. After getting rejected as the men's team if full, Alex shows up still wearing a wig and gets mistaken for a trans woman, getting himself entered into the women's tournament and winning it with flying colors. Rob, seeing the oppurtunities of this, reunites with his old basketball team and have them pretend to be trans women and compete in women's basketball.
It was released on December 1, 2023 on the streaming service [=DailyWire+=].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the opening prologue, a young Coach Rob says to his team "You're playing like girls out there", hinting as to what the team do later in the film.
* MistakenForGay: Or Mistaken for Trans in this case. As Rob gets turned down from joining the competition as the men's events are all full, Alex, wearing a wig, gets mistaken by the receptionist for a trans woman and she enters Alex into the women's tournament.
* RousingSpeech: The opening prologue has Rob giving an inspirational speech to his team, ending with the saying: "Winners are just losers who win".
* {{Slapstick}}: Much of the movie is composed of physical comedy especially during the basketball scenes, with either the main characters or the people they compete with getting hurt in humorous ways. Even outside of the sports scenes, there's plenty of this, like when Rob gets tased by a receptionist and then comedically hits his head on the desk.
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