Rugby Is Slaughter: Difference between revisions

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== Anime & Manga ==

* In ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', Godai plays rugby with his old high school ~~team -- and~~ he ends up with two black eyes.

* In ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', Godai plays rugby with his old high school team—and he ends up with two black eyes.

* ''[[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 From Hell]] to a sissy team of rugby players. The ending result is... [[Hilarity Ensues|highly amusing]].

* 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.

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== Comics ==

* 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!"<br /><br />"The rules are simple. The ball can be brought beyond the other team's goal line by practically any means necessary. The use of weapons is prohibited, barring prior agreement."<br />** 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.

* 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!"

"The rules are simple. The ball can be brought beyond the other team's goal line by practically any means necessary. The use of weapons is prohibited, barring prior agreement."<br />** 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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* ''[[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 ~~getting--in~~ a very understated, ladylike ~~way--quite~~ worked up over the sight of all those big, strong, handsome, muscular men beating the stuffing out of one another.

* 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 getting—in a very understated, ladylike way—quite worked up over the sight of all those big, strong, handsome, muscular men beating the stuffing out of one another.