History Main / SuperRinger

** In another episode, Homer replaces Lisa with Serena Williams as his tennis partner. Then Marge replaces Bart with Venus Williams. Then Venus replaces Marge with Pete Sampras. Then Homer gets replaced by Andre Agassi. So the family gets to watch a world-class doubles match for free.

Compare/contrast with PutMeInCoach, where a previously-underestimated player shows her talents in the final stretch. A common subversion is for the ''SuperRinger'' to get injured or incapacitated forcing the team [[PutMeInCoach to rely on the underestimated player]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', Shenice is introduced as the SuperRinger on the girls' bowling team (it's legit in this case since it was a school team and she had just joined the school) where she proceeds to cream the boys until her parents show up and she [[ThrowingTheFight gutters the last ball]]. Turns out Shenice is a ''literal'' [[SuperHero Super]] Ringer, who also moonlights as the heroine Shebang.

* In the ''Film/{{MASH}}'' movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team -- or, in Radar's words, "Our ringer spotted their ringer."

* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', Gouenji and Tsurugi love doing this.

* Creator/AchievementHunter did this when they were challenged by Creator/{{Funhaus}} to a ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOaf2Tth08 match]], by swapping out [[TheLoad Gavin]] for another AH member (Caleb) who was good at Smite, then secretly replacing Geoff, Michael and Ryan with three other Smite playing Creator/RoosterTeeth employees as well (Jack had played the game enough to hold his own with the ringers so he kept playing). The ringers ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Jack]]) win handily.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF7I3jSPbyI Funhaus got their revenge]] when they faced Achievement Hunter in ''VidoeGame/{{Overwatch}}'' when they stealthily replaced their entire team with professional e-Sports team ''[=Cloud9=]'''s Overwatch division, who [[CurbStompBattle utterly demolished]] AH.

* CreatorAchievementHunter did this when they were challenged by Creator/{{Funhaus}} to a ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOaf2Tth08 match]], by swapping out [[TheLoad Gavin]] for another AH member (Caleb) who was good at Smite, then secretly replacing Geoff, Michael and Ryan with three other Smite playing Creator/RoosterTeeth employees as well (Jack had played the game enough to hold his own with the ringers so he kept playing). The ringers ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Jack]]) win handily.

* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', Goenji and Tsuruki love doing this.

* InazumaEleven, Goenji and Tsuruki love doing this.
* Averted in ''[[CaptainTsubasa Shin Captain Tsubasa]]'', Japan is curb-stomped by Humburg SV, with [[TheAce Tsubasa]] arriving late to the match. Despite the team's opinions, Hyuga and Matsuyama insist him staying on the bench since Tsubasa isn't even listed in the team's roster. This trope plays straight in the movies, however.

** In the Fourth War, Tohsaka managed to summon Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, who ([[BrilliantButLazy if he could be bothered to try]]) kill every other Heroic Spirit with zero difficulty. There's a reason Tohsaka greeted him with "Behold! We have won!"

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' the Einzbern family attempted this during the Third Holy Grail War. They subverted the Grail system in an attempt to summon [[GodOfEvil Angra Mainyu]], the Zoroastrian god of evil, as their Servant. Instead they summoned the origin of the god's myth, a man whose fellow villagers [[TheScapegoat declared he was the reason they sinned]] and was in no way capable of standing up to a Heroic Spirit.

* In ''Film/HorseFeathers'' Huxley College president Wagstaff Marx sends Ravelli to hire a couple of ringers for a big football game between Huxley and Dariwn Colleges. After Hilarity Ensuing, the ringers end up working for Darwin instead.

* Subverted in ''[[CaptainTsubasa Shin Captain Tsubasa]]'', Japan is curb-stomped by Humburg SV, with [[TheAce Tsubasa]] arriving late to the match. Despite the team's opinions, Hyuga and Matsuyama insist him staying on the bench mainly because Tsubasa isn't listed in the team's roster. This trope plays straight in the movies, however.

* Averted in ''[[CaptainTsubasa Shin Captain Tsubasa]]'', Japan is curb-stomped by Humburg SV, with [[TheAce Tsubasa]] arriving late to the match. Despite the team's opinions, Hyuga and Matsuyama insist him staying on the bench. This trope plays straight in the movies, however.

** The video game of the series, ''[[VideoGame/CaptainTsubasa Captain Tsubasa 3]]'' Hyuga, who has gone out for a special training, rejoins Japan Youth for the second half against Italy [[BigDamnHero right after Tsubasa gets seriously injured.]]

* InazumaEleven, Goenji and Tsuruki love this.

* Averted in ''[[CaptainTsubasa Shin Captain Tsubasa]]'', Japan is curb-stomped by Humburg SV, with [[TheAce Tsubasa]] arriving late to the match. Despite the team's opinions, Hyuga and Matsuyama insist Tsubasa staying on the bench. This trope plays straight in the movies, however.

* Averted in ''[[CaptainTsubasa Shin Captain Tsubasa'']], Japan is curb-stomped by Humburg SV, with [[TheAce Tsubasa]] arriving late to the match. Despite the team's opinions, Hyuga and Matsuyama insist Tsubasa staying on the bench. This trope plays straight in the movies, however.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' the Einzbern family attempted this during the Third Holy Grail War. They subverted the Grail system in an attempt to summon [[GodOfEvil Angra Mainyu]], the Zoroastrian god of evil, as their Servant. Instead they the origin of the god's myth, a man whose fellow villagers [[TheScapegoat declared he was the reason they sinned]] and was in no way capable of standing up to a Heroic Spirit.