History Main / MuggleSportsSuperAthletes

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Superpowers, in the form of cybernetic implants and [[MagicalEnhancement adept powers]], have conquered practically every commercialized or olympic sport on the planet. UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} players using perfect-play brain computers to bat away balls thrown at supersonic speeds by a guy with a millions-nuyen robot arm is now the norm, as are transgenic dolphin-people in the olympic swimming pools or [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]] [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball linebackers]] hopped up on combat drugs. The only major exception to this is UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball, which [[TooQualifiedToApply has a blanket ban on modified players]] in order to maintain its traditional stronghold in developing countries whose players cannot afford that kind of modification. Comments on Jackpoint imply this has, if anything, only helped with its popularity.

* ''Tabletop/{{Shadowrun}}'': Superpowers, in the form of cybernetic implants and [[MagicalEnhancement adept powers]], have conquered practically every commercialized or olympic sport on the planet. UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} players using perfect-play brain computers to bat away balls thrown at supersonic speeds by a guy with a millions-nuyen robot arm is now the norm, as are transgenic dolphin-people in the olympic swimming pools or [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll]] [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball linebackers]] hopped up on combat drugs. The only major exception to this is UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball, which [[TooQualifiedToApply has a blanket ban on modified players]] in order to maintain its traditional stronghold in developing countries whose players cannot afford that kind of modification. Comments on Jackpoint imply this has, if anything, only helped with its popularity.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E90TheFugitive The Fugitive]]", while playing softball with Jenny and other neighborhood children, Ben uses his alien abilities to hit the ball over the fence with little to no effort.

[[caption-width-right:300:If you see the Man of Steel in the other dugout... just forfeit.]]

* ''FanFic/GirlDays'' plays with this during a high school baseball game, with [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma, Shampoo and Akane]] on the teams, leading to hijinks such as Shampoo throwing dozens of baseballs, only for Ranma to hit all of them, forcing the outfield to scramble for them all while Ranma ducks and dives out of tag out attempts. It then goes to Shampoo not having luck with a bat, so changes to one of her maces, only for Akane to embed the ball in it. “Strike two and a half?” The game eventually ends when Kodachi tries to interfere and catches the ball in her mouth, leading to an argument on whether or not it was an out. HilarityEnsues as more interference occurs and the game gets sidelined.

* ''Series/GetSmart''. In "Run Robot Run", KAOS has arranged for all the Free World athletes to have accidents so as to leave the field clear for the Iron Curtain to win. CONTROL's RidiculouslyHumanRobot Hymie takes their place, and HilarityEnsues as he effortlessly wins the Track and Field without even changing out of his suit, though there's a last-minute crisis when his battery runs down just before the finish line.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzajk7kciv4 Superhero Soccer]]'' features a game of soccer being played by figures such as Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, Franchise/SpiderMan, [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]], [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]], [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ken Masters]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], several [[ComicBook/XMen X-Men characters]], and more. All use their powers and abilities freely throughout the game.

** For the second task, they have to beat the best JavelinThrower in the world, a Persian. Said guy throws his javelin from Europe all the way to a Native American camp in UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica. Enters Obelix (who fell in a MagicPotion pot when he was a baby), who makes the javelin travel ''several times around the world'' without much effort and seemingly without end, with the poor Persian running for his life as he finds himself on the javelin's way (he even ends up running through the very Native American village he threw the javelin in, somehow).

* The 1952 ScienceFiction novel ''Literature/{{Limbo}}'' by Bernard Wolfe is about a post-WWIII world where people willingly amputate their limbs for [[ArtificialLimbs nuclear-powered prosthetics]]. The Olympic Games is still held but with cybernetic athletes. The United States, which has been winning every year, gets a nasty shock when it turns out the Eastbloc has been secretly developing more advanced prosthetics.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': The Cullens can only play baseball during a thunderstorm, because their superstrength means the crack of the bat sounds like thunder. They also gleefully use all their abilities to make the game exciting.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Dash wants to participate in sports, but his parents won't let him because he might publicly reveal his super speed. He eventually gets to go into track racing by the end of the movie, but deliberately ([[SecondPlaceIsForWinners and contentedly]]) places second to hide his powers.