History Main / BreakingTheGlassCeiling

** The main event of ''CHIKARA Cibernetico: The Animated Series'', November 12, 2011, was the Team Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}}[[note]]The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}})[=/=][[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Green Ant]][=/=]The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton)[=/=][[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]][=/=][[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)]][[/note]]-Team Donst[[note]]Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes (Ares[=/=]Tim Donst[=/=][[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]][=/=]Jakob Hammermeier[=/=]Wrestling/{{Tursas}})[=/=]Wrestling/TheBatiri (Obariyon[=/=]Kodama[=/=]Kobald)[[/note]] Torneo Cibernetico (an 8-on-8 elimination match that can have only person left.) Sara Del Rey became the first woman to win a Torneo Cibernetico, including eliminating half of the ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' team by herself, including eliminating the BDK's [[WrestlingMonster monster]] Tursas.

** The main event of ''CHIKARA Cibernetico: The Animated Series'', November 12, 2011, was the Team Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}}[[note]]The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}})[=/=][[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Green Ant]][=/=]The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton)[=/=][[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]][=/=][[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)]][[/note]]-Team Donst[[note]]Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes (Ares[=/=]Tim Donst[=/=][[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]][=/=]Jakob Hammermeier[=/=]Tursas)[=/=]Wrestling/TheBatiri (Obariyon[=/=]Kodama[=/=]Kobald)[[/note]] Torneo Cibernetico (an 8-on-8 elimination match that can have only person left.) Sara Del Rey became the first woman to win a Torneo Cibernetico, including eliminating half of the ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' team by herself, including eliminating the BDK's [[WrestlingMonster monster]] Tursas.

** The main event of ''CHIKARA Cibernetico: The Animated Series'', November 12, 2011, was the Team Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}}[[note]]The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}})[=/=][[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Green Ant]][=/=]The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton)[=/=][[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]][=/=][[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)]][[/note]]-Team Donst[[note]]Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Ares[=/=]Tim Donst[=/=][[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]][=/=]Jakob Hammermeier[=/=]Tursas)[=/=]Wrestling/TheBatiri (Obariyon[=/=]Kodama[=/=]Kobald)[[/note]] Torneo Cibernetico (an 8-on-8 elimination match that can have only person left.) Sara Del Rey became the first woman to win a Torneo Cibernetico, including eliminating half of the ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' team by herself, including eliminating the BDK's [[WrestlingMonster monster]] Tursas.

** During the "Pre-Show-A-Go-Go" before the 2014 SeasonFinale [=iPPV=] ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' on December 6, 2014, [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGByqXoUb5o&t=3s defeated]] Missile Assault Ant in the final of the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html CHIKARA Young Lions Cup]] Tournament, making her the first female Young Lions Cup Champion. She would go on to be the second-longest reigning YLC Champion after the inaugural Champion Hallowicked.

** At the 2015 SeasonFinale ''Top Banana'' on December 5, 2015, Crown and Court (Wrestling/PrincessKimberlee[=/=]Jervis Cottonbelly[=/=]Los Ice Creams (Ice Cream Jr. and El Hijo del Ice Cream) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwBgW6IRth0 defeated]] The Wrecking Crew (Max Smashmaster[=/=]Blaster ][=McMassive=][=/=]Flex Rumblecrunch[=/=]Jaka) in the finals of the season-long Challenge of the Immortals tournament when Kimberlee ''powerbombed'' [=McMassive=] off the top and pinned him with the Alligator Clutch. This gave all four Crown and Court members the three points needed to challenge for either the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html CHIKARA Grand Championship]] or the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas (tag team titles)]]. The main event was CHIKARA Grand Champion Hallowicked successfully defending the title against former Champions Wrestling/EddieKingston and Icarus in a [[MeleeATrois Triple Threat Match]]. After the match, Kimberlee ran to the ring and cashed in her title shot and proceeded to defeat Hallowicked for the title in under three minutes. Because Heidi was still the Young Lions Cup Champion at the time, this was the first time in a non-women's promotion that both singles titles were held by women.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', the Empire had a strong preference towards people who were both human and male. However, there were people who managed to overcome this prejudice and achieve high rank anyway.

** At the 2015 SeasonFinale ''Top Banana'' on December 5, 2015, Crown and Court (Princess Kimberlee[=/=]Jervis Cottonbelly[=/=]Los Ice Creams (Ice Cream Jr. and El Hijo del Ice Cream) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwBgW6IRth0 defeated]] The Wrecking Crew (Max Smashmaster[=/=]Blaster ][=McMassive=][=/=]Flex Rumblecrunch[=/=]Jaka) in the finals of the season-long Challenge of the Immortals tournament when Kimberlee ''powerbombed'' [=McMassive=] off the top and pinned him with the Alligator Clutch. This gave all four Crown and Court members the three points needed to challenge for either the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html CHIKARA Grand Championship]] or the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas (tag team titles)]]. The main event was CHIKARA Grand Champion Hallowicked successfully defending the title against former Champions Wrestling/EddieKingston and Icarus in a [[MeleeATrois Triple Threat Match]]. After the match, Kimberlee ran to the ring and cashed in her title shot and proceeded to defeat Hallowicked for the title in under three minutes. Because Heidi was still the Young Lions Cup Champion at the time, this was the first time in a non-women's promotion that both singles titles were held by women.

** At ''King of Trios 2016 Night III'', September 4, 2016, Team Sendai Girls (Cassandra Miyagi, Dash Chisako and Meiko Satomura) defeated Team JWP[[note]]Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling Project[[[/note]] (Command Bolshoi, Hanako Nakamori and Manami Katsu) in the finals to become the first ever Queen of Trios.

** The main event of ''CHIKARA Cibernetico: The Animated Series'', November 12, 2011, was the Team Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}}[[note]]The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}})[=/=][[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Green Ant]][=/=]The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton)[=/=][[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]][=/=][[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)]][[/note]]-Team Donst[[note]]Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Ares[=/=]Tim Donst[=/=][[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]][=/=]Jakob Hammermeier[=/=]Tursas)[=/=]The Batiri (Obariyon[=/=]Kodama[=/=]Kobald)[[/note]] Torneo Cibernetico (an 8-on-8 elimination match that can have only person left.) Sara Del Rey became the first woman to win a Torneo Cibernetico, including eliminating half of the ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' team by herself, including eliminating the BDK's [[WrestlingMonster monster]] Tursas.

** At ''The Eleventh Hour'', May 6, 2017, Solo Darling eliminated The Whisper to win the third Infinite Gauntlet match, which is CHIKARA's version of the Royal Rumble.

** The main event of ''CHIKARA Cibernetico: The Animated Series'', November 12, 2011, was the Team Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}}[[note]]The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}})[=/=]Green Ant[=/=]The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton)[=/=][[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey]][=/=][[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson)]][[/note]]-Team Donst[[note]]Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Ares[=/=]Tim Donst[=/=][[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]][=/=]Jakob Hammermeier[=/=]Tursas)[=/=]The Batiri (Obariyon[=/=]Kodama[=/=]Kobald)[[/note]] Torneo Cibernetico (an 8-on-8 elimination match that can have only person left.) Sara Del Rey became the first woman to win a Torneo Cibernetico, including eliminating half of the ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' team by herself, including eliminating the BDK's [[WrestlingMonster monster]] Tursas.

** During the "Pre-Show-A-Go-Go" before the 2014 SeasonFinale [=iPPV=] ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' on December 6, 2014, Wrestling/HeidiLovelace [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGByqXoUb5o&t=3s defeated]] Missile Assault Ant in the final of the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-yl.html CHIKARA Young Lions Cup]] Tournament, making her the first female Young Lions Cup Champion. She would go on to be the second-longest reigning YLC Champion after the inaugural Champion Hallowicked.

** The main event of ''CHIKARA Cibernetico: The Animated Series'', November 12, 2011, was the Team Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}}[[note]]The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}})[=/=]Green Ant[=/=]The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton)[=/=][[Wrestling/SaraDelRey "The Queen of Wrestling" Sara Del Rey[=/=]Wrestling/TheYoungBucks (Matt and Nick Jackson]])[[/note]]-Team Donst[[note]]Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Ares[=/=]Tim Donst[=/=][[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]][=/=]Jakob Hammermeier[=/=]Tursas)[=/=]The Batiri (Obariyon[=/=]Kodama[=/=]Kobald)[[/note]] Torneo Cibernetico (an 8-on-8 elimination match that can have only person left.) Sara Del Rey became the first woman to win a Torneo Cibernetico, including eliminating half of the ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' team by herself, including eliminating the BDK's [[WrestlingMonster monster]] Tursas.

** At the 2015 SeasonFinale ''Top Banana'' on December 5, 2015, Crown and Court (Princess Kimberlee[=/=]Jervis Cottonbelly[=/=]Los Ice Creams (Ice Cream Jr. and El Hijo del Ice Cream) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwBgW6IRth0 defeated]] The Wrecking Crew (Max Smashmaster[=/=]Blaster ][=McMassive=][=/=]Flex Rumblecrunch[=/=]Jaka) in the finals of the season-long Challenge of the Immortals tournament when Kimberlee ''powerbombed'' [=McMassive=] off the top and pinned him with the Alligator Clutch This gave all four Crown and Court members the three points needed to challenge for either the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html CHIKARA Grand Championship]] or the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-t.html CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas (tag team titles)]]. The main event was CHIKARA Grand Champion Hallowicked successfully defending the title against former Champions Wrestling/EddieKingston and Icarus in a [[MeleeATrois Triple Threat Match]]. After the match, Kimberlee ran to the ring and cashed in her title shot and proceeded to defeat Hallowicked for the title in under three minutes. Because Heidi was still the Young Lions Cup Champion at the time, this was the first time in a non-women's promotion that both singles titles were held by women.

** ''Wrestling/DarrenYoung'' became the first openly gay WWE superstar to compete in the WWE.
** In 1998, Jacqueline became the first African-American female to win the WWE Women's Championship, and in 2016, she became the first African-American woman to be inducted to the WWE hall of fame.
** ''Wrestling/{{Chyna}}'' became the first woman to hold the Intercontinental Championship in October 1999. Months before, she was the first of three women in WWE history to compete in the Royal Rumble match. Beth Phoenix (in 2010) and Kharma (in 2012) were the second and third females respectively.

** ''Wrestling/{{Carmella}}'' won the first ever women's Money in the Bank Ladder match, in which the winner is guaranteed a title shot for the Women's Championship anytime that they want. [[spoiler: James Elisworth actually won it for her]].
** The 2018 addition of the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' with feature the first ever Women's Royal Rumble Match.

* ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'' : Kiru Athmaza is the first woman ever to become one of the Emperor's Nohechari, his personal bodyguards.

* In Disney/{{Mulan}}, Mulan at the end is asked by [[spoiler:the Emperor to join his Council. It's downplayed because she refuses the offer because she wants to go home]], but even the job offer itself is groundbreaking because up until now the Council was reserved for men.

* In ''Film/{{Bright}}'', Nick Jakoby is the first orc police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department, in an alternate Earth where orcs and elves live alongside regular humans.

** ''Discworld/MenAtArms'' sees the Night Watch admit three new officers, each of whom is a "first": Cuddy (first dwarf), Detritus (first troll), and Angua (first woman [[spoiler:and also first [[DiscriminateAndSwitch werewolf]]]]). They were explicitly added to the Watch in the name of diversity, since the city is itself increasingly diverse, but Commander Vimes doesn't approve (although his prejudices add up to [[HatesEveryoneEqually disliking everyone equally]], and he's also annoyed at having the decision pushed on him rather than being allowed to decide for himself).

* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Ray Holt is the first gay man to reach the rank of captain. While the fact that he's both gay and black has exposed him to a fair bit of prejudice, his "rarity value" can still cause him problems even when people ''aren't'' being hostile - his long, unwanted spell in Public Relations was at least partly because the department thought he was a good way to show off their strides towards diversity.

* In ''Series/NecessaryRoughness'', Rex Evans becomes the first openly-gay football player in the NFL (this was before Michael Sam came to prominence in real life.) Fortunately, his buddy TK supports him, if only because TK is an AttentionWhore who realizes that being an ally will boost his profile.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JaneAndTheDragon'', the titular character is in training to become the kingdom's first female knight (having won the right to train as a squire by rescuing a prince from a dragon).

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** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Worf and Ro are respectively the first Klingon and first Bajoran in Starfleet (although Worf was brought up by humans).

* In ''Literature/NickolaiOfTheNorth'', Nickolai’s mother Ella becomes the first woman to compete in the elf kingdom’s sleigh races and the first woman to win them. Other elves are skeptical about her at first, but when she wins, they cheer for her heartily.

** In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay, Dorfl is not only the first golem to join the Watch, he's also the first to be able to choose to do so, as Carrot freed him from his ServantRace status by including his bill of sale along with his chem. What is more important to the rest of the world is that he's the first ever golem to have a voice, as he was rebuilt with a mouth. The religious community are particularly unhappy with it, as [[BoltOfDivineRetribution their usual trump-card argument]] is entirely ineffective on a golem made of clay.

* DjangoUnchained: Dr. Schultz, in his plan to get Django's lover back from Calvin Candie's house, suggests Django to pretend to be a black slaver (the story is set in DeepSouth before the AmericanCivilWar, so finding a black man in that role would have been decidedly unusual).