Sports

Games involving physical activity where most typically two teams challenge each other on a field or in an arena. Popular sports include baseball and softball, football (American or otherwise), basketball, hockey, tennis, and golf. The first three are perhaps the most played in American fiction as they have relevance in the lives of both adults and children. In all of fiction, sports certainly have a large presence with many roles, UnTrashes, and plots centering around them. However, they're almost entirely discussed in familiar franchises. Characters in an adventurous franchise are too busy and travel too often to sit down and play soccer.

Sports are where roles like the Jock and Athlete feel at home while less physically built roles like the Nerd are hardly seen on the field. The Main is taken out here, often with some other members of the Main Cast, during sport-centered plots like Play Ball or Parent Conquers the Sport. They may not be particularly good at the game and are frequently on the losing team. Sports movies of old are known for giving the team coach a moment to sit down with their players and deliver a long, emotional speech of encouragement when they're met with their most trying times. This has reached the point of being both lampshaded and parodied by later franchises for how it's almost a necessity for any movie of the genre. The Enemy Team in sport settings is also rather predictable: an all-around skilled line-up of tough players who easily give their opponents a hard time. They're often the Undefeated Enemy the Main Team has the misfortune of taking on to win the tournament or championship at hand. The Enemy Team has to be this way so the practically guaranteed victory of the Main Team will feel more deserved.