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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Averted, Kate falls for the lovable losers and eventually joins them.
* [[A Pirate 400 Years Too Late]]: Steve the Pirate.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Peter's phone call from the video store. "The following videos are now overdue: ''Drunken Hussies 3'', ''Backdoor Patrol 5'', and ''[[Mona Lisa Smile]]''."
* [[Babies Ever After]]: While only a supporting character, Amber is pregnant in the Average Joe's ad at the end of the movie.
* [[Berserk Button]]/[[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. ''Nobody''!"
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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: How do you argue with anyone who claims "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball"?
* [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates]]: Steve the Pirate.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Spare me" is said by both Peter in the beginning after watching Globo Gym's ad, and by White at the end after watching Average Joe's ad.
* [[Jerkass]]: White Goodman and ''how''. A prime example of one of Ben Stiller's few non-[[Butt Monkey]] characters.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: The Helsinki episode of 1919, when the last double-fault final-play elimination occurred.
** [[Blatant Lies|And I think we all remember how that turned out!]]
* [[The Obi
* [[On the Money]]
* [[Opposing Sports Team]]
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{{quote| '''White Goodman:''' "Spare me... I won that tournament... fuckin' [[Chuck Norris]]!"}}
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Patches' character is completely built around this.
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* [[Training From Hell]]: Patches O'Houlihan trains the team by tossing wrenches at them, making them run through traffic, a "pitching machine" that launches dodgeballs...
** "If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball!"
* [[The Triple]]: Dodgeball announcer Cotton McKnight is good at these. "It's an event greater than [[The World Cup]], [[Useful Notes/Baseball|World Series]], and [[World War II]] combined!" and "Tomorrow we separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, and the awkwardly feminine from the [[Canada, Eh?|possibly Canadian]]" -- culminating in "Ladies and gentlemen, I have BEEN to the Great Wall of China, I have SEEN the Pyramids of Egypt ... I've even seen a grown man satisfy a camel!"
* [[True Companions]]: The Average Joe's regulars.
* [[Underdogs Never Lose]]: Supposedly this movie was going to be a subversion (making the subtitle ''A True Underdog Story'' a lot more meaningful), but due to negative test audience reactions, [[Underdogs Never Lose]] is played straight.
** Seeing as this "alternate ending" ends abruptly and has no character resolution, this was more than likely a joke.
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** Probably because the film was also the subject of [http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12639668907950856677 a somewhat successful copyright-infringement lawsuit] by two writers of an unproduced screenplay about a dodgeball tournament with some [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/nyregion/22dodgeball.html interesting similarities] as well. They were allowed to proceed because the judge found that they could make a credible argument that that the screenwriter of ''[[Dodgeball]]'' had seen their script.
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