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== [[Comic Books]] == |
== [[Comic Books]] == |
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* In one [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] ''[[Captain America]]'' story, a player is murdered on field during a baseball game. Somewhat unbelievably, the game continues with Cap and Bucky subbing. |
* In one [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] ''[[Captain America]]'' story, a player is murdered on field during a baseball game. Somewhat unbelievably, the game continues with Cap and Bucky subbing. |
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* In the ''[[A Nightmare |
* In the ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]: Paranoid'' comic Freddy kills a boy attending a pep rally by causing him to explode in a mess of blood when he nods off. |
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== [[Film]] == |
== [[Film]] == |
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* ''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery'' |
* ''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery'' |
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* Aversion in ''[[ |
* Aversion in ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' - the Queen is going to be assassinated but Drebin and company save her in time. |
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* ''[[The Thin Man ( |
* ''[[The Thin Man (film)|The Shadow of the Thin Man]]''. Although it's with a horse race. |
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* The first reimagined ''[[Pink Panther]]'' film has the owner of the titular gem being killed at a soccer game. |
* The first reimagined ''[[Pink Panther]]'' film has the owner of the titular gem being killed at a soccer game. |
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* In the film ''[[Ronin]]'', {{spoiler|Gregor}}, while doing a money-for-''[[MacGuffin]]''-type trade, tries to buy security against a double-cross by having an accomplice threaten the figure-skating girlfriend of the Russian mobster he is making the switch with. {{spoiler|The Russian lets her die anyway, kills Gregor, and keeps the case.}} |
* In the film ''[[Ronin]]'', {{spoiler|Gregor}}, while doing a money-for-''[[MacGuffin]]''-type trade, tries to buy security against a double-cross by having an accomplice threaten the figure-skating girlfriend of the Russian mobster he is making the switch with. {{spoiler|The Russian lets her die anyway, kills Gregor, and keeps the case.}} |
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* Max Zorin and his thugs try to off [[James Bond ( |
* Max Zorin and his thugs try to off [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] during a horse race in ''[[A View to a Kill]]''. |
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* The main plot of ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'' culminates with [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] and Damon Wayans trying to stop a corrupt senator from getting assassinated at a football game. |
* The main plot of ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'' culminates with [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] and Damon Wayans trying to stop a corrupt senator from getting assassinated at a football game. |
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** The movie actually starts with a player (portrayed by Billy Blanks) who was high on PCP bringing a gun onto the field and shooting the oopposing defense's players on the way to the end-zone, shortly before killing himself. |
** The movie actually starts with a player (portrayed by Billy Blanks) who was high on PCP bringing a gun onto the field and shooting the oopposing defense's players on the way to the end-zone, shortly before killing himself. |
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* A variation comes at the end of ''Experiment in Terror'', where it's the bad guy who gets shot and killed by cops on a ballfield immediately after a game. |
* A variation comes at the end of ''Experiment in Terror'', where it's the bad guy who gets shot and killed by cops on a ballfield immediately after a game. |
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* A boy is cut in half with a chainsaw just outside a baseball field in ''Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness''. |
* A boy is cut in half with a chainsaw just outside a baseball field in ''Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness''. |
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* There are numerous sports-themed slasher films, such as ''The Catcher, [[ |
* There are numerous sports-themed slasher films, such as ''The Catcher, [[Gutterballs]], Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy'' and ''The Greenskeeper''. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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== [[Live Action TV]] == |
== [[Live Action TV]] == |
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* ''[[CSI New York]]'': A man dies after winning a million dollars via a basketball shot. |
* ''[[CSI New York]]'': A man dies after winning a million dollars via a basketball shot. |
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* ''[[Homicide Life On the Street]]'': A visiting fan is found beaten to death during an Orioles/Yankees game. |
* ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'': A visiting fan is found beaten to death during an Orioles/Yankees game. |
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== [[Radio]] == |
== [[Radio]] == |
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== [[Tabletop Games]] == |
== [[Tabletop Games]] == |
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* The opening fight of the ''[[ |
* The opening fight of the ''[[Feng Shui]]'' adventure "Murderer's Row" in the supplement "In Your Face Again" has the PCs trying to stop a hit attempt on a young girl by the Lotus at a baseball game. The girl turns out to be a [[MacGuffin Girl]] whose powers a whole lot of people (those who don't want her dead anyway) want to use for their own ends. |
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== [[Video Games]] == |
== [[Video Games]] == |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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* [[King of the Hill|Cotton Hill]] attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro while he was visiting New York and decided to take in an American Baseball game, a ballgame Hank wound up being born during in the women's restroom. |
* [[King of the Hill|Cotton Hill]] attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro while he was visiting New York and decided to take in an American Baseball game, a ballgame Hank wound up being born during in the women's restroom. |
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* One episode of ''[[ |
* One episode of ''[[Ben 10]]'' involves a conspiracy to eliminate the President of the United States and replace him with a robot duplicate. By ambushing him at the Little League World Series. By signing up a little league team comprised entirely of superhuman robots ([[Idiot Plot|under the names of famous dead MLB players]]) and winning the whole season. |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |