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* 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 2007[[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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