Gauntlet

Page link needs disambiguation badly!

On All The Tropes,  could refer to:

Tropes

 * Throwing Down the Gauntlet
 * Fumbling the Gauntlet, where somebody unintentionally throws down the gauntlet.
 * Run the Gauntlet, where a superhero fights all of their usual opponents one at a time. (What is called "run the gauntlet" in Real Life is covered here at Death Course.)
 * Trojan Gauntlet, where somebody has to metaphorically run the gauntlet (Real Life meaning) in order to obtain birth control.

Comic Books

 * Infinity Gauntlet, a six-issue limited series by Marvel Comics.

Film

 * The Gauntlet, Clint Eastwood's own Deconstruction of the Cowboy Cop image.

Video Games

 * The Gauntlet video game series:
 * Gauntlet (1985 video game), the original game in the Gauntlet series
 * Gauntlet II, released in 1986, added more monsters and hazards and allowed all players to pick any of the four classes. It was also the last to be released in arcades for a while; Gauntlet III (1991) was only for home systems, and Gauntlet IV was simply the first game's Sega Genesis port with a number bump due to some extra features.
 * Gauntlet Legends hit arcades in 1998, and home consoles in '99. It had an air of the Continuity Reboot about it; the Hack and Slash nature was left unchanged, and there were still four players, but the levels were quite different, and had Weak, Strong and Turbo attacks available, the latter being a Limit Break that charged every time you used one of the other two attacks. It also added persistent characters: when you started (or joined) a game, you could enter your initials, and it would then load up the characters that that particular machine had stored for those initials. Therefore, you could play for a while, have your character level up a bit, but if you had to leave, you could then come back later and have your character the same level as it was before (the console releases just used save cards).
 * Gauntlet Dark Legacy (2001, 2002) was largely an expansion pack, though it added many things: more classes and twice as many levels, as well as adding a world and final boss after the final boss of the original game. It got marginally worse reviews because almost nothing else was changed (PS 1 graphics on the PlayStation 2, come on), but for a modern consumer looking to experience this franchise, it's one of your best bets.
 * Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows was a console-exclusive 2005 release. Despite adding online support for Co-Op Multiplayer, it was not well-received due to its obvious Excuse Plot and shallow gameplay (which is saying something in a Hack and Slash title) and had become the series' Franchise Killer until...
 * Gauntlet (2014 video game), another Continuity Reboot, this one released for Microsoft Windows, then later re-released for Windows and PS4 as Gauntlet: Slayer Edition. The game's plot was simple, but serviceable: the heroes are tasked by Morak, the creator of the Gauntlet, with finding three shards of the cursed sword Tyrfing in exchange for riches and power unimaginable. Along with this campaign, there was an "Endless" mode similar to the arcade Gauntlet.

Web Original

 * Pro Gamer Gauntlet