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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Give blood: Play rugby.''|'''T-shirt slogan'''}}
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For this reason, much media depicts Rugby as an agonizing slaughterhouse masquerading as a sport. The truth of the matter is that both American football and rugby are about equally as dangerous to the players per minute of the match played. The risks, and if truth be told type of fitness needed, are different. If rugby gets mentioned in fiction, however, there is a good chance that someone is going home in agony.
This depiction is not confined to American media either. Nations where rugby is played a lot tend to compare it to other football codes and often come to the same impressions. Furthermore, the global rugby community seems to revel in their sport's reputation, taking perverse joy in the fact that the very mention of its name is enough to make football ([[The Beautiful Game|association]] and [[
There are elements of truth in this. In every single rugby game, players have to leave the field because of an injury. There is even a system concerning bleeding players - they have to leave the field immediately to be replaced by a teammate, but the original player can return for 10 minutes without it counting as a substitution.
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Compare [[Blood Sport]]. For information on the game, see [[Rugby League]] or [[Rugby Union]] (yes, there are two different versions).
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', Godai plays rugby with his old high school
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!|Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]'' has the hilarious Rugby episode (pictured above) -- which is something of a subversion due to the clear indication that it was excessive violence. Sōsuke gives [[Training
* The rugby-centered manga ''No Side'' starts with the main character dying by breaking his neck against the goalpost. Then he comes back to the sport as a girl. Later chapters use war images and much violence.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' at one point features a set of demons with a sports theme, one of them called Rugby. It's teased whether he picked the name because of the human sport, or whether humans named the sport after him. At one point he says he likes the game because it's basically organized violence.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Parodied with ''[[Asterix|Asterix in Britain]]'': a rugby game is made more "interesting" when it turns out that the players' drink has been spiked with [[Super Serum|magic potion]]. It was already pretty violent without the potion. Obelix enthusiastically comments, "We must import this fun game in Gaul!"
== Comics ==▼
** Downplayed slightly in the [[Animated Adaptation]], when the referee gives a penalty for unnecessary roughness... for someone jumping up and down repeatedly on another player's head.
* ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' - Lagaffe briefly gives rugby a try but gives up after getting repeatedly and violently tackled.
* France has (at least) two comic series on rugby: one is about a rural village team (where rugby is [[Serious Business]]) and the other is on France's national team, and is titled ''Barbarians''. Yeah.
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* Wal's dreams of rugby glory in ''[[Footrot Flats]]'' always end with him a bloodied heap being trampled into the mud.
* [[Warren Ellis]]'s word on rugby:
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* In the [[British Comics|British]] [[Anthology Comic]] '''[[The Beano]]''' playing Rugby, beating up over the top tough rugby players or just scaring them by being there is a common gag used in comic strips especially [[Minnie The Minx]]. This gag is used to show how tough the characters are.
* ''[[Monty
▲* ''[[Monty Pythons Meaning of Life]]'' has a scene with a pretty brutal game of rugby, and to emphases the violence of it all, it leads into a scene in a war zone. As if it weren't bad enough, it's a game being played by students of a private school against their teachers, and the kids are being brutally roughed up. One of the professors watching the game even trips a student has he runs by so he can be tackled.
* Actually averted in ''[[Invictus]]'': the worst any player gets is a hamstring injury, and it heals up in time for the World Cup.
* The opening scene of ''The Four Feathers'' has the junior officers from two British regiments playing rugby. In the rain. And the mud. And the sweet young English girls in their white linen leg-of-mutton-sleeved dresses standing on the sidelines under their umbrellas obviously
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Tuppy Glossop finds this out to his cost in "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" in the [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]] book ''Very Good, Jeeves''.
* We're not sure about [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|rugby]], but [[Ciaphas Cain|scrumball]] apparently is.
* Though he went to Rugby, the school where the sport was codified, Harry [[Flashman]] stayed well away from the game due to this trope.
** He did feature in the game in ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', but he and his chum Speedicut both took great care to look as though they were playing really enthusiastically while avoiding any risk of getting hurt.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In a ''[[Friends]]'' episode, Ross plays rugby to impress Emily, and ends up in agony.
** Joey tries to explain the sport to him.
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'''Ross:''' And is a "hum" kinda like a "scruddle"? Heh.
'''Joey:''' Heh heh. Ross, these guys are gonna ''kill'' you. }}
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Giles comments about gridiron as it compares to rugby:
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'''Giles:''' Rugged. American football. Heh.
'''Jenny:''' And that's funny because?
'''Giles:''' No! Heh. I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby. }}
* [[Harry Enfield and Chums]]: In the ''Upper class drunks'' sketch
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'''[[Martin Clunes|Drunk#2:]]''' Bloody Good! Three Tries, two conversions and twenty two hospitalisations. }}
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==▼
* The satiric TV show ''
▲== Puppet Shows ==
▲* The satiric TV show ''~Les Guignols de l'info~'' depicts rugby players as senseless brutes whose training consists in bashing down brick walls and drinking fresh blood.
** A particular example come to mind : a French team had to figh-play against the "All-black" known for being quite good. The strategy include Military support and they don't expect every player to survive.
** In another episode, former French coach Bernard Laporte said "The first rugby game was a wedding in Brive (that's a french city), the ball only came 30 years later".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Blood Bowl]]'' is basically when the races of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' go play a mix of rugby and
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▲* ''[[Blood Bowl]]'' is basically when the races of ''[[Warhammer]]'' go play a mix of rugby and american football. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Given the name...]]
* In the ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' universe, where all sports from Deathball to Ballet are unified in the same league with the teams choosing which to play, Rugby is not on the list because it is too dangerous.
* The "[http://buxompiratewench.comicgenesis.com/d/20090316.html Rule Brittannia]" arcs of ''[[Witchprickers]]'' concern an extremely brutal sport known as "Scrumby", all that has been revealed about it is that the death toll is extremely high and it's popular everywhere but America.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* Mr. Barken plays Rugby in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. In one episode he gets glued to Ron and, well, Barken enjoys himself...
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Back during the 2007 Rugby World Cup, one French player (Sébastien Chabal), nicknamed "The Caveman" when playing in England, went through [[Memetic Mutation]] as a hairy violent lunatic who [[Eats Babies|ate babies]] and wore a [[Badass Beard]].
* [[Truth in Television]] for anyone in the UK who wasn't built like an eleven-year-old brick shithouse and had to face down a squadron of their classmates who were in enforced physical education lessons.
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