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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Street Fighter (comics)|Street Fighter]]'' has it both ways; R. Mika's actual wrestling matches (i.e., the stuff that happens off panel) are scripted, while Zangief is baffled by the concept and has never heard of such a thing before. This has roots in ''[[Street Fighter|SF]]'' canon; the series takes place in the same world as the ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]'' games. Not only is wrestling real, but Zangief's old sparring partner Biff Slamkovich is upset that some people think it isn't.
* Both [[
* In [[Marvel Comics]], wrestling is usually depicted as real. There are two notable examples:
** When ''[[Spider-Man]]'' first got his powers, he entered a wrestling tournament and beat a wrestler by the name of Crusher Hogan. Interestingly enough, Crusher came back years later, publicly stated that wrestling was fake, and that he [[Blatant Lies|purposefully threw the fight to Spidey.]]
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* ''...AllTheMarbles'' portrayed women's professional wrestling as being real (outcome not predetermined, both participants trying to win).
* Any of the Mexican wrestling films of the sixties and seventies, starring real wrestlers like [[El Santo]], who have to use their wrestling skills to save the world.
* The first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' film also depicted wrestling as real as a direct adaptation of his origin story. In that world, Spider-Man beat a wrestler named ''Bonesaw McGraw'', played by [[Randy Savage]]. This is a not-entirely-realistic depiction of a practice known as "hooking", in which a wrestler who actually is a skilled fighter is advertised as taking on anyone who cares to try their luck with a large cash prize on the line, and proceeds to mop the floor with the rank amateurs who come gunning for the prize while making the matches look more even and dramatic than they really are in order to entice more suckers—err, contestants to step up, pay their entry fee, and try to win; it was so named because each actual wrestler involved would have a "hook", or a simple submission hold they could quickly execute to end a match in seconds if it stopped going his way. Not entirely realistic because, generally, steel cages aren't involved in shooting, nor do the marks (non-insider fans) have spider powers. Hooking isn't generally practiced in the post-[[Kayfabe]] era, but was done recently enough that some of its practitioners, the most prominent of which is [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler William Regal, are still active in the business today.
* ''Ready to Rumble'': [[Berserk Button|"Wrestling is]] ''[[Berserk Button|not]]'' [[Berserk Button|FAKE!!!"]]
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▲== Web Original ==
* The round-robin story ''[http://www.mtcffultra.com/ Magical Troubleshooting Crossover Fighting Federation ULTRA]'' starts with the premise "what if all our favorite anime (and other fiction) characters were the stars of a pro wrestling tournament ... and the fights were not staged. (Also, [[Ranma ½|Kasumi Tendo]] is God.)"
* Many e-feds (essentially a combination of professional wrestling RPing groups and story contests) consider it bad form to have your character treat wrestling as fake.
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* One of the early cartoons satirizing the sport was the 1951 [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''Bunny Hugged''. Bugs has to use his wits (and several conveniently available contraptions) to eventually upend the arrogant champion.
* ''[[Mucha Lucha|¡Mucha Lucha!]]'' is definitely on the "supernatural" side of things, with moves that involve shapeshifting among many others.
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]: Fast Forward'', Pro Wrestling has ''become'' a legit sport. However, being from the past, Raphael is unaware of this and treats it like
* Played with in ''[[Futurama]]'', where the Robot Wrestling League is completely scripted, but [[Kayfabe]] is still intact and very few people outside the industry realize that it's scripted. Bender then rebels when the script calls for him to start losing, so it becomes a real match—except Bender's massive, invulnerable opponent is being remote-controlled by a martial arts master, so Leela has to beat up the robot's controller. Leela wins her side of the fight, but Bender loses when the deactivated Destructor falls on him, pinning him to the mat for a three-count.
* The ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode "Wrestling Grandpa", being mostly from the babies' POV, has this trope in spades.
* In the [[DuckTales (2017)|2017 reboot of ''DuckTales'']], Pro Wrestling is ''not'' real, but this is because whoever invented it ripped off the concept from an ancient ritual (which is "as old as the world itself", according to Scrooge) used to prevent the Midguard Serpent from waking up and causing the apocalypse. This ritual is a lot like pro wrestling - right down to announcers, flashy costumes, and wrestlers with gimmicks identified as "face" and "heel" - but the fighting is indeed real. So much, it seems, that Scrooge is injured in the first match, [[It's Up to You|meaning his nephews have to take over...]]
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