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A staple of the Sword and Sandal and Fantasy genres, firmly established by the novel Ben-Hur and its film adaptations (the 1959 one especially). The hero is enslaved and forced to work as a galley rower, while chained to his fellows. Necessary embellishments include: A coxswain with a drum beating out a steady rhythm A brutal first mate with a whip Dirty rowers seated two-by-two down either side of a narrow aisle, like an even-more-sadistic school bus A friendly Scary Black Man chained next to the hero, who will die heroically for the hero's freedom Showing a character as a galley slave is a quick-and-easy way to depict their suffering, as it combines all the bad parts of being a sailor with all the bad parts of slavery — that is to say, all of it. This drama makes slave galleys one of the rare Types of Naval Ships that occurs in media often enough to have its own trope, but historically, this trope is Newer Than They Think and belongs in the realm of Briefer Than They Think. The heyday of the slave galley lasted only for some 70 years - from the beginning of the 16th century to the Battle of Lepanto (1571), coinciding with the heyday of the Ottoman Empire for a few different reasons. Galley slaves were introduced only during the Renaissance (16th century) as cannons became the main weapon of galleys instead of ramming and boarding and less skill was required for rowers. Slave galleys were uncommon in the ancient world for various reasonsnote (see analysis page for details), making this trope an example of Artistic License – History. Some nations, such as Venice, never adopted galley slavery. Some, like Sweden and Russia, used conscript soldiers for galley crews. When being sent to the galleys is a punishment detail rather than a military necessity, compare Prisoner's Work and Working on the Chain Gang. Compare Gladiator Games, the alternative for a male slave in ancient times. Not to be confused with "Galley Slave", a story about a robot made for proof-reading galley copies of manuscripts. |
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Discussed in Eric. When Rincewind and Eric are transported back to the time of the Tsortean War and taken captive by the Tsorteans as enemy spies, the interrogator threatens to put them as rowers on a trireme. He says that if they cooperate, he can put in a good word so that they get to be on the top deck.note In Real Life, rowing at the bottom deck of a trireme was actually preferable; the oars necessarily got longer the higher the deck, meaning that more force was required. Later, he tells them that if they're trying to trick him, there is such a thing as quinquiremes. | |
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The Far Side: Parodied in a cartoon. The sailors are wondering why their ship is going around in circles all the time... which the reader can see is because they put all the big, muscular slaves on one side of the boat, with the other side being crewed entirely by skinny wimps. Another featured a galley slave complaining to the whipmaster about getting jabbed with a splinter. Yet another had a slave complain that it was his turn for the window seat. One had the drummer replaced by a bad entertainer on a piano. One had a list of the day's activities: Rowing, rowing, rowing, etc. with aerobics in the middle. |
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Ben Hur (1959) was the first film to popularize this trope. The title character spent a few years on a Roman slave galley. | |
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In The Sea Hawk, this happens to the hero when he is betrayed by his younger brother. He later returns the favor to said betrayer. | |
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Redwall: Legend of Luke, Mariel of Redwall, and Mossflower incorporate oar slaves for the pirates. More often than not the heroes will end up killing the ship's crew and freeing the slaves. Averted in some later books where the baddies hold slaves, but do not use them on the ships. |
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In the Simpsons episode "Kamp Krusty", in the scene where the kids at the camp are forced to sew cheap wallets for selling, Kearney keeps the beat on a drum in the background like in this type of scene. | |
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They aren't seen on-screen, but one NPC in Mount & Blade: Warband will buy prisoners for this purpose. He pays a flat rate of 50 Denars each, meaning basic units like recruits and bandits will sell for more than other Ransom Brokers will pay, but you get a lot less for high-tier units. | |
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Horrible Histories: S1E6 has "Things to remember when you're a Galley slave": a two-part parody of airline passenger announcements.note This is one of the show's rare slips, as the people rowing Roman galleys were almost always regular members of the Roman navy and not slaves. However, there were a few desperate occasions when slaves were pressed into service as rowers for a naval battle, with the promise of their freedom if the battle was won. One of them happened to be a battle mentioned in the sketch. | |
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In Barbe-Rouge, Eric ends up as a galley slave after being framed for stealing the cargo of a ship (being the adopted son of a fearsome pirate helped). The conditions are hellish enough, but thanks to the help of his friend Baba (who happened to have been sent to the same galley) and a cabin boy he had helped earlier, he soon manages to not only lead a successful slave revolt, but to carry out the original mission of the galley. He and the other slaves get pardoned as a result. | |
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In The Hour of the Dragon, Conan is kidnapped and taken aboard a ship with galley slaves. He turns the tables on his captors, however, when he notices some old comrades among the galley slaves and convinces them to mutiny. | |
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Monsieur Vincent: Still in use in 17th century France, complete with slave drivers banging a drum and whipping the men on the oars. Vincent is so horrified by what he sees that he takes the place of a galley slave at an oar. | |
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Loved and Lost: After Prince Jewelius seizes the throne of Equestria, he legalizes slavery and sentences Applejack and Pinkie Pie to work as galley slaves. They're stuck in this situation for one week before the other discredited heroes free them. | |
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In Les Misérables, the main character is referred to as a galley slave ("galérien"), as was typical at the time, even though by that point the prisoners were no longer allowed to serve as actual galley slaves. However some translations seem to be slightly confused by this and have Valjean as an actual galley slave, as do some of the films. Valjean and those like him were more like enslaved dock workers/manual laborers. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: When Diana and her sky pirate foes led by Nifta are tossed back in time by an odd Clock Roach to maintain the Time Loop that has Nifta feeling like she's fought Diana before Diana ends up shackled on a slave galley, and she breaks her oar for a weapon and convinces the others slaves to revolt as well. | |
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The Smokers from Waterworld showed off their cruelty by forcing their crew to move their flagship - a supertanker - by muscle power. This is spectacularly stupid since the supertanker weighs 30,000 tons even before loading any cargo, but Scifi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale. | |
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100 Cupboards: The imperial navy uses these, with slaves regularly sold or traded between galleys. Several of the protagonists are transported on one, and James spends several hours on an oar before he and Monmouth manage to incite a slave rebellion. | |
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In The Long Ships, protagonist Orm and his companions are captured in Spain while on a viking trip, and spend two years as galley slaves. | |
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The Carol Burnett Show had at least two sketches involving galley slaves. | |
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Wulfrik: Averted: Wulfrik only takes volunteers to crew his longship, and actually has more candidates than seats so he has them fight a Duel to the Death and hire the winners (and when he's in a hurry, doesn't even bother with the first part). Shanghaing (or "bashing and stashing" as it's referred to) is looked down on. | |
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Downplayed in Golden Sun. Monsters attack the ship Isaac and his friends are on, and by the time you fight each wave off, one of the (voluntarily employed) rowers has been put out of commission. After each round, you have to pick one of the NPC passengers to press-gang into service as a replacement for the rest of the voyage, whether they like it or not. Choosing the "right" combination of replacements will actually unbalance the rowers, sending the ship off-course and getting you early access to the Bonus Dungeon. | |
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The Golden Crown: The time traveling Harry Hawkins is sold as a slave to Romans and finds himself on a ship heading who-knows-where. Lucky for him, pirates burn down the ship (after he grabs the key, and unlocks all the other rowers). | |
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World of the Five Gods: In The Curse of Chalion, Cazaril's backstory is revealed to contain two life-changing experiences/epiphanies during his 19 months as a rower on a Slave Galley (three if you count the circumstances of him ending up on there to begin with). He also fits the Scary Black Man slotnote (more scrawny, sunburned, stinking, and shaggy than anything; but scary enough) noted in the description insofar as a 'boy from a good family' dumped next to him was concerned. Greeting him as one would a lad sharing a tavern bench, sharing his water ration, teaching him, and in the end earning a near-fatal flogging defending him from a rapist. | |
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Solomon Kane: At least one story mentions that Kane spent some time as a Turkish galley slave. | |
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The Adventures of Philibert, Captain Virgin: Count Clotindre's favorite method of disposing of someone is to send them "to the galleys", doubling as a Shout-Out to Ben Hur. One of his Black Squadron guards, Martin and Philibert end up there. | |
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The Magic Christian has a brief scene in which a modern cruise ship is revealed to be powered by topless female galley slaves driven by a whip-wielding stripperific Raquel Welch. Played for laughs. | |
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Many of these ply the waters in Pathfinder's Inner Sea region, but perhaps most iconic is the Burnt Saffron, an apparently cursed slave ship where unfortunate captives suffer under the lash of a sadistic gnoll first mate. | |
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The Crimson Shadow: This is where anyone the Huegoths capture ends up on. It's considered a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Erik the Viking also has a slave galley (chasing the heroes' boat). Here the brutal first mate is Japanese (with silly subtitles). | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: If a male character is enslaved, chances are he'll probably wind up chained to an oar in one of these. Jones notes that, since these galleys only ever seem to contain rows of chained-up slaves and nothing in the way of merchandise or soldiers, it's a bit difficult to understand why people keep building them. In fact, it's the only way to reach any Offshore Islands. Though an unpleasant experience, before long they'll be able to break out with a Large Man who they befriend, kill their owners and escape by swimming away. | |
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The Sea Hawk Thorpe and the other surviving crew of the Albatross are sentenced to this by the Inquisition. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: In "The Grim Grotto", as well as it's adaptation, the villain's submarine is powered by the labour of the snowscouts, whom they abducted in the previous book. | |
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The Trigan Empire. Trigo is usurped by his niece who, rather than kill her own relatives, does this trope instead. | |
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The Death Gate Cycle: Humans made prisoners by the Tribus elves of Arianus are often forced into flight harnesses to move the wings of the elves' flying ships, a very difficult and dangerous task. Later, after the human/elven war ends, the need to move galleys still remains and the elves resort to paying volunteer rowers instead — and a lot of former galley slaves, having built up quite a bit of practice and without many other career options, sign up for this job. The narration notes that, somewhat paradoxically, many become quite proud of their career, now that they are doing it by choice as paid professionals. | |
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In De Cape et de Crocs, our heroes are sent to a galley, with the requisite chains, drummers and slave uprising. Amusingly, the drummer wouldn't look out of place in a metal band, and is seen still beating away on his drum while on the lifeboat. Also, due to the Running Gag of referring to every ship as a galley, we get this exchange, as Don Lope and Armand have snuck onto the janissary's ship: | |
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The undead crew of the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl used galley oars for a speed advantage. Since the crew were immortal zombies, they could conceivably push to flank speed for hours at a stretch, and still be ready to fight when they caught their prey. | |
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The Thorgal volume "The Black Galley": Thorgal gets captured and becomes one of these. There's the drummer (who's a Scary Black Man) and the whip-man. | |
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Outcast, Rosemary Sutcliff's second and worst-researched Roman novel, has its protagonist Beric arrested and sentenced to row a Roman army transport galley on the Rhine. His oarmate is a dreamy artist with an Incurable Cough of Death, leaving Beric in the role of barbarian best friend. | |
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One of the "bad endings" of the Tunnels & Trolls solo adventure City of Terror, has your character end up as galley slave. "You learn to enjoy your life as a galley slave, it's not bad.. But it is HELL, when the captain wants to water-ski." | |
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One episode of Tiny Toon Adventures portrays its own animation staff this way, with Buster Bunny as the cruel drum-beating coxswain who beats up anyone who asks for more money. | |
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Brian McNeill's "A Far North Land" makes note of the Rev. John Knox having spent time as a galley slave (of the French) in the second verse. | |
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Big Karnak have a stage set on a slave ship cruising on the Nile. The ship is filled with rowing slaves who ignores you, and can't be harmed while you fight off mooks on the decks and masts. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Romans", the heroes are separated while visiting Nero's Rome, and Ian ends up enslaved and working a galley. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix at the Olympic Games, the Gauls hire a ship to transport them to Rome only to find the ship they hired is a galley, where they're expected to do the rowing. The ship's captain explains that these are the "deck games and sport" promised. He then confirms that it's usually a slave ship: "You got the better deal, normally rowers are chained and whipped!" Asterix the Gladiator, when being transported to Rome as a prisoner of Odius Asparagus on board the latter's galley, Cacofonix offers to lift the galley slaves' spirits with a song. The slaves consider his singing to be even worse than getting whipped, and promise to put extra effort into the rowing if Cacofonix shuts up. Similarly, the Phoenician merchant who shows up from time to time uses "business associates who didn't read the contract very well" to row his ship. And in Asterix the Legionary, the troop Asterix and Obelix signed up in are the rowers (see the Real Life section below). The voyage ends up quite pleasant, driving the captain nuts by countering his orders (heading straight for the pirate ship, for instance). He also tells the drummer to beat faster... only to be told the little Gaul has already requested it. And in Asterix and Obelix All at Sea, the drummer thing is subverted when the pirates end up in command of a Roman galley. They ask their (not very) Scary Black Man Baba to be the drummer, at which point he pulls off a high-speed drum solo before being replaced with a standard drummer. |
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Conan the Barbarian: In The Hour of the Dragon, Conan is kidnapped and taken aboard a ship with galley slaves. He turns the tables on his captors, however, when he notices some old comrades among the galley slaves and convinces them to mutiny. It happened again/beforehand in the City of Skulls, where he escapes with his friend Juma by breaking off part of an oar and beating his slavers to death with them. |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: Commander Badass, time traveling super-soldier from the future, tells Jared about a time he and his family/squad were press-ganged into service on board a Viking slave galley. He mentions this off-hand to explain how he finally got his Heroic Build, and provides no further context. | |
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Time Machine Series: In The Mystery of Atlantis, the hero can end up as a galley slave at one point. Being a time-traveller, he simply time travels out of there while everyone are hanging their heads down out of fatigue. In Sword of the Samurai, the time traveler can wind up getting conscripted into rowing for a Mongol ship heading to invade Japan. All the Japanese galley slaves start cheering when they see the original Kamikaze is about to wreck the Mongol fleet. The hero quickly makes an emergency jump in time before he can be caught up in the deadly typhoon. |
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Up Pompeii: Lurcio has a Have We Met? moment with another slave, Gorgo. Lurcio doesn't recognize him at first, and the other guy only realizes when he sees the back of his head. He sat behind him in the galley, so that's all he saw of him for all those years, but he would recognize the back of that bonce anywhere after that. | |
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Primal (2019): In the season 2 The Colossaeus three-parter, the titular Colossaeus is a gigantic warship whose oars are pulled by an enslaved race of giants. The Colossaeus's queen spared one, the only one who fought back when her soldiers invaded their pacifistic village, to be a battle thrall instead. When he rebels, he frees all the oarsmen, and inspired by his example they soon demonstrate the only thing keeping them in chains was their own aversion to fighting back. | |
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Master of Chaos begins like this. Unusually, the hero went into slavery voluntarily, as a discreet way of gaining entry to the local Wretched Hive. | |
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We see one of theses in an episode of The Story Keepers when the characters get stuck on a Roman ship. When the ship is attacked and starts sinking the slaves have to be released from their chains before they drown. | |
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In The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, the boys and the romantic lead end up as these. This eventually causes steering issues. | |
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Gor: One of the few roles a male slave could live and die in. Captain Bosk made it a practice to free slaves of captured vessels, which made them more motivated rowers, and fighters when necessary, out of gratitude and aversion to re-enslavement. | |
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The Goon Show had fun with this in "The Histories of Pliny the Elder". | |
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In The Duchess of Malfi, Bosola spent some years in the galleys, the last punishment for serious crimes before execution, for murder. This may explain his initial attitude. | |
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