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* 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)|
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