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It's always this way: The team has just made the finals of the big tournament, or the [[Fake Band]] has a big gig around the corner. However, the star team member just wrenched his back and is out of the Big Game, or the lead singer has come down with laryngitis.
Cue panic as the group scrambles to find a replacement (and this trope usually has a scene where the group is calling someone with a last name beginning with the letter Z). Down to their last hope, they bring in the love interest of one of the team members. She's the savior of their group...except she stinks...can't score to save her life, can't sing, can barely play tambourine. However, thanks to her [[
The team trudges on, thinking they'll get creamed in the Big Game or the contest...and they either do, but have fun doing it anyway, or they win in spite of her (or even ''because'' of her, bringing [[An Aesop|the Aesop]] with it).
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* ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'': The toons are taken out one by one by one, until finally Michael Jordan's publicist is in the game. When he gets squashed, it looks like they'll have to forfeit...until the miraculous entrance of Bill Murray! Who just fills out the five on the floor as Michael stretches for the winning basket.
* Played with in [[The Producers]]. When the star of [[Springtime for Hitler]] has a broken leg, the director fills in at the last minute. He turns the show into a roaring success, when it was supposed to fail, thus being useless by being too good.
** Not so much "too good" as [[So Bad
* In ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'', the villainous soccer team named...wait for it...'''Team Evil''' have used their doping-enhanced strength to injure several of the players on the good-guys team - the game's nearly over, but they're short one goalie, and they have to forfeit if they can't find a replacement. Cue the hero's love-interest entering to demonstrate that [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|her Kung Fu is stronger]], and win them the match.
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