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Combatants are forced by the "powers that be" to brawl, box, or otherwise fight. Sometimes to the death. The Hero is sometimes caught up in it all or may deliberately go in undercover to expose the racket. Occurs most often in prison and prisoner-of-war settings. A common variation has our hero assigned to a trainer, in order to prepare him for his most deadly fight — when the fight commences, he discovers that his trainer is to be his opponent. See also: Deadly Game, Gladiator Games, The Boxing Episode, Hunting the Most Dangerous Game, David Versus Goliath, Achilles' Heel, Tournament Arc, Involuntary Battle to the Death, and possibly Combat by Champion. If prisoners are involved, it's a Condemned Contestant fighting to Win Your Freedom. May take place in The Thunderdome. Examples |
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The novel Hard Rain (not to be confused with the film, which is not related) has titular character (and hitman) John Rain go undercover in order to find a Fight Club like this. He winds up killing his opponent. | |
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Enter the Dragon: Subverted when Roper and Lee, both captured, are ordered to fight each other, but refuse. Roper is instead forced to fight against Han's giant bodyguard Bolo - Lee having previously fought and killed another of Han's bodyguards, O'Hara. | |
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Megas XLR features this trope in two episodes, wherein Coop must fight other robots and ultimately the promoter, Magnanimous (expertly voiced by character actor Bruce Campbell). | |
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In The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the clan leader Hamnpork ends up taken to a rat-coursing pit, and Darktan ends up organizing a rescue. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942) #177 features Wonder Woman and Supergirl forced to compete in a tournament to decide who will become the wife of Galactic Conqueror Klamos. | |
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Happened in a Samurai Jack episode when he was very much forced into fighting in "The Dome of Doom." Also occurred in another episode with a twist: Jack had been transformed into a chicken. |
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Angel, "The Ring". Also pops up at least once in the comics and one 'Buffy' tie-in novel. The tie-in writers seem to like making Buffy fight Angel. |
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Justice League: Both "The Cat and the Canary" and "Grudge Match" feature a secret underground super-powered fighting circuit run by the villainess Roulette. The latter episode resorts to mind control to effect Designated Girl Fights. The series also has "War World". |
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The 2009 Astro Boy film has one of these in the robot games. As you can probably guess, the titular boy ends up in them against his will. He (unwillingly) destroys almost every robot sent against him — until Zog shows up. Fortunately, Zog won't fight him either. | |
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During the Chuunin exams in Naruto, all the genin have to fight each other to advance. Naturally, several kids from the same village who get matched up are those with scores to settle. Everyone else gets paired with a foreigner, though some like Gaara would go on to have a lasting role in the series. | |
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Happens in the Modesty Blaise "Those About to Die" storyline. | |
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In the first Plissken film, Escape from New York, it's a more conventional boxing/wrestling match he's forced to participate in. | |
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Happened in an episode of La Femme Nikita, when Nikita infiltrates a club that compels women to fight with pain collars. | |
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In Spartacus, the titular character is forced to fight right near the beginning for the amusement of Crassus and his companions, despite Batiatus's attempt to save him from fighting. | |
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Archie Andrews is forced into a fight ring by the corrupt warden of his juvenile detention center in season 3 of Riverdale. | |
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Tower of God: Many tests that allow the Regulars to climb the Tower are tests designed to pit Regulars against Regulars. | |
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The second episode of Knight Hunters is based on this trope: Fujimiya Aya goes undercover as a participant in so-called Human Chess prizefights. | |
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Frisky Dingo: "Penultimate Fighting" has Killface and Barnaby (i.e. Xander Crews) forced to fight to the death to get Simon back. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has the quest "The House of Horrors" in Markarth, in which the player character and a Vigilant of Stendaar are locked in a house together by a Daedric Prince and forced to fight to the death. | |
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In The Dark Knight, it is implied that The Joker has the thugs of a crime boss he has just killed fight to the death with a broken pool cue, as he "only had one opening" in the gang he was forming. Being the Joker, it was almost certainly for his own amusement. A bit of fridge horror, it may have been to either make sure only the most ruthless and sociopathic of the thugs would join him, or to break the mind of the survivor so that he would be "appropriately" insane and thus fit in with the Joker's other men. Think about Batman's line about Thomas Schiff: "A paranoid schizophrenic, the kind of mind the Joker attracts." |
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In Princess of Mars, Tal Hajus has both John Carter and Tar Tarkas sentenced to the fighting pits and forces them to battle each other in Gladiator Games. | |
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Video game example (Subversion?): In Breath of Fire III, the main character is put into this situation, in the "win or die" version. He loses, but as he is the prize demanded by the winner, he is let off the hook. | |
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Fallout 3 has one in The Pitt DLC: after getting captured by slavers and forced to scavenge steel ingots, the second primary quest of the DLC has you using all the equipment you gathered during your scavenge operation in pitfights against other slaves. The fight is to the death and at the beginning, the slavers dump several barrels of highly radioactive sludge into the pit to give you an additional incentive at winning quickly (before you reach 1000 rads and drop dead). There are three fights; winning the third will make the slavers impressed enough that you're freed from slavery and given all your stuff back. | |
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Stargate SG-1 episode 908, "Babylon". | |
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In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the prize is "graduation", i.e., "being able to leave high school/jail alive. The objective: kill your classmate without getting caught. | |
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One of the stories in the original run of Highlander comics has Duncan and many other immortals forced into this. Methos is the one to incite a breakout, and coming across a pile of dead Watchers only makes him madder, possibly due to his ties to the group in the past. | |
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The Confessions of Nat Turner: A drunk Nathaniel Francis, just about the most vicious and cruel slave master there is in 1831 Virginia, forces his slaves Will and Sam to fight each other for his own amusement, promising that if either refuses, he'll be whipped. Will and Sam have beaten the hell out of each other by the time Francis wanders off. Both slaves join Nat Turner's rebellion. | |
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The A-Team episode "Pros and Cons" | |
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In the Batman/Wildcat mini-series, members of Batman's Rogues Gallery are kidnapped and forced to fight one another in a series of cage matches. | |
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Akuma no Riddle is about eleven competing assassins, a target, and a protector, masquerading as a regular high school class. To win the game, an assassin needs to deliver a notice to the target to alert her of their assassination attempt, and complete the assassination within 48 hours after the notice is received, without at any point allowing anyone outside the class (including their teacher) to know about the game. Winning means being given anything they want, while losing permanently eliminates them from the competition via expulsion. It ends when the target is killed, or by the time the class graduates. | |
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The Teen Titans (2003) episode "Winner Take All" actually dupes Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy into fighting each other and other "heroes" for so-called fabulous prizes. It's actually a setup so the Villain of the Week can steal all the fighters' powers. | |
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Trail of Lightning: Protagonist Maggie is forced to enter Mosí's underground combat tournament to secure a magic item while investigating the rise of an army of monsters. | |
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Golgo 13: In "The Brutes' Banquet" 2 bloodsports followers have Golgo duel another assassin to see who wins. | |
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The M*A*S*H episode "Requiem For A Lightweight" has Trapper cajoled into a boxing match against a Marine in order to keep a cute nurse from being transferred. Another episode sees Frank Burns forcing two enlisted men to box. They dance around each other for a minute then both "accidentally" punch Burns in the face. He goes down hard. |
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In Rome, a bored Mark Antony forces two prostitutes to swordfight for him while dressed like amazons. He watches from his bed, insisting that they "really fight!" Similarly, Pullo is forced into the Gladiator arena as punishment for a murder. Totally disheartened, he refuses to even lift his sword and waits for execution. The other gladiators taunt him until they find his Berserk Button: taunting his old Legion. He promptly kills them, earning his Moment of Awesome. One final gladiator comes out to finish the job, only Lucius Vorenus jumps into the ring and earns his Moment of Awesome. |
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Some of the Superman/The Flash races are like this. Only the ones "for charity"; anytime the Flash really bothers to actually try, it's way too much of a Curb-Stomp Battle to count. |
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Ben 10 episode "Grudge Match" pits Ben against a more-than-willing-to-beat-the-snot-out-of-him Kevin, as well as other alien gladiators after being teleported from Earth. | |
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A major subplot of Snatch. involves first getting the Irish Travellers fighting machine Mickey into a fixed underground boxing match, and then forcing him to actually go along with the fix. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: "Arena", "The Gamesters of Triskelion", and several others. Homaged in the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before". |
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The concept behind the Dark Side Club in The DCU. | |
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The Brave and the Bold #118 has Batman and Wildcat forced to fight by The Joker under threat of him killing a special dog needed to extract a vaccine and cure a number of infected inmates. | |
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Similar to the Justice League example above, an episode of Birds of Prey (2002) had Huntress be captured and brainwashed into fighting other super-powered women. | |
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This happens in the Coliseum episodes of Kino's Journey, when Kino is forced to fight to amuse a country's insane despot. | |
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TRON: The Master Control Program forces other living programs who defy it to participate in video games — which, for a program, are battles to the death. | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch had a couple episodes where fans voted for a deathmatch between two celebrities that had no reason to dislike each other. The league then invoked this trope with the "Fan of Fandemonium" - a giant bladed ceiling fan that lowered down towards the ring if the two celebrities didn't hurry up and kill each other. | |
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The final dare in Nerve involves Vee and Ian each being given a gun. The first one to shoot the other wins. | |
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Duckman did a Whole-Plot Reference to Star Trek: The Original Series, with the eponymous character as Kirk and King Chicken as Khan Chicken. After various assorted references, the two are made to riff on "Arena" by a god-like alien named Kardassian (voiced by James Doohan). Duckman struggles worse than Kirk, but he wins the fight because Khan has "a rare, incredibly contrived" sulfur allergy. However, he won't kill his defeated enemy, citing humanity's innate and unique compassion. Kardassian notes they do have the capacity to put their differences aside and unite against a common enemy, so he judges them as the most dangerous species in the galaxy and blows up the Earth. | |
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The Punisher went through this once. While chasing a mob goon across rooftops, both of them end up crashing into a ring where they're forced to team up to survive. At the end of the story, the thug thinks he has won Frank's respect, but the next day, Frank tracks him down and kills him. | |
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Occurs in the first episode of Lost Girl after Bo discovers her Fae background. | |
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In Cavewoman: Oasis, Meriem is abducted and forced to fight in Gladiator Games in an arena called the 'Bowl of Bones'. | |
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Happens in the Xbox game Fable. In which, at the end of the Tournament Arc, you have the option of killing your character's childhood friend after besting her in combat in exchange for exorbitant amounts of money. | |
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Unleashed (aka Danny the Dog): Danny (played by Jet Li) is entered into such a tournament by the gangster who essentially owns him. | |
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And War World was also based on a storyline in Superman comics. | |
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The Hunger Games is this with a twist — the fight to the death involves children aged 12 to 18, and it's also televised nationwide as a mandatory-viewing Reality Show. | |
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Escape from L.A.: In a variation, Snake Plissken, an unbeatable dirty fighter, has to win a steel-cage basketball game in order to escape. The danger coming from the fact that if he doesn't make enough goals, he gets shot to pieces. Notably, the game is impossible: it requires scoring 25 points (standard basketball rules apply), crossing the court each time, in 60 seconds. Which makes the fact that Snake succeeds all the more badass. The last shot is full-court, and Kurt Russell actually made the shot in real life. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Luis is forced to enter a cage match and take a dive in order to pay off his mother's debts. | |
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There's the trainer variation in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, where Jack Rakan turns out to be the final match out of the Ostia tournament. It was almost going to be used in the Mahora Fest, but then Evangeline got knocked out by Setsuna. But she MEANT for that to happen. | |
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Tokyo ESP: In Part 2 of the series, Espers are forced into fights via tournament to the death or knock-down. The protagonist herself enters into it to save as many as she can as an agent of the CIA. | |
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In Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison, the protagonist, having transformed into a mink in order to spy on the Big Bad, is caught and entered into a fighting competition with other small mammals. When one of her opponents turns out to be a transformed human himself, they coordinate an escape together. | |
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Max must participate in one against Blaster in the eponymous Thunderdome in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | |
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Many of the contestants in Sprint Vector were kidnapped and forced to participate in deadly obstacle-course races. | |
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tsunkatse", which includes the trainer-becomes-opponent bit and a guest appearance from The Rock! (Fighting Seven Of Nine. No weight classes here!) | |
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In #3 of the Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Robyn Hood ongoing series, Robyn and Red are captured by a gang of supernatural creatures and forced to battle each other in a barbed wire cage match. | |
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Merlin (2008): In "The Coming of Arthur", after Merlin and Arthur and, separately, Gwaine are captured by slave traders. There's an attempt to make Merlin fight Gwaine, but Arthur steps in. Later, at the end of season 4, Gwaine is forced by Morgana to fight increasingly larger groups of Helios' men in order to get (very little) food for himself, Gaius, and Elyan. |
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The Sentinel: a prison warden has prisoners fight each other at night. Anyone who knows is either part of the scheme or knows that they will be killed if they tell others. | |
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Similar to the Justice League Unlimited examples below, the Roulette storylines in JSA and JLA Classified. And War World was also based on a storyline in Superman comics. |
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Cobra Kai shows this as part of John Kreese's backstory. Kreese's team were POWs in Vietnam and forced to fight each other to the death for the entertainment of their captors. When Terry Silver is picked to fight the commander, Kreese volunteers in Silver's place. He wins, but it becomes his Moral Event Horizon moment when he has the opportunity to save the commander and chooses to kill him instead. | |
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