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See also [[Snuff Film]]. [[Beastly Bloodsports]] is a subtrope involving animals.

== Anime and Manga ==

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* There are two crash race mini arcs in ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''.

* ''[[Bakusou Kyoudai Let's and Go (Manga)|Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!]]'' provides a A [[Lighter and Softer]] version as they're toying with toys rather than real people. The show starts up with a typical mini 4WD racing competitions, but later, there's a [[Big Bad]] and his team who introduce battle parts to be used in racing. ''Kids'' are encouraged to make their toys mini weapons to crash and destroy oppornent's cars. Since the plot has more than one of the heroes' machine trashed by these rules, and since they have a believe that [[Sliding Scale of Living Toys|their mini 4WDs have souls.]] They take it a [[Serious Business]].

* The Air Treks of ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'' initially began as a worldwide fad that was supposed to be inline skating taken [[Up to Eleven]]. It turned into the [[Blood Sport]] it is today right around the time people discovered you could use the skates to make [[Razor Wind]], [[Whip It Good|Thorn Whips]], [[Shock and Awe|Electrical]] [[Razor Floss|Spider Webs]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Sound Barriers]], [[Shockwave Stomp|Shockwave Stomps]], [[Time Master|Time Manipulation]], and [[Frickin Laser Beams]].

* The Air Treks of ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'' initially began as a worldwide fad that was supposed to be inline skating taken [[Up to Eleven]]. It turned into the [[Blood Sport]] it is today right around the time people discovered you could use the skates to make [[Razor Wind]], [[Whip It Good|Thorn Whips]], [[Shock and Awe|Electrical]] [[Razor Floss|Spider Webs]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Sound Barriers]], [[Shockwave Stomp|Shockwave Stomps]], [[Time Master|Time Manipulation]], and [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].

* While killing is explicitly forbidden in ''[[Dragonball]]'''s World Martial Arts Tournament, considering it's a full-contact fight between serious fighters who often have superhuman powers it's not surprising that severe injury does sometimes occur. It's somewhat telling that there even needs to ''be'' an explicit rule about not killing your opponent.

* ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' is a prison where the prisoners are forced to do insanely dangerous "events" like an obstacle race where you can be cut to ribbons, fall to your death or just fall into a pit of spikes. To make matters worse, the audiences watch and believe it is all "special effects". And then there's the Carnival of Corpses; where prisoners with [[Bloody Murder|Branches of Sin powers]] fight each other and sometimes are cheered to kill their defeated opponents. Oh, and the loser (if they live) gets a randomly selected body part (ranging from hair to [[Eye Scream|eyes]] to entire organs or limbs]]) removed while they're awake. If you don't participate and are on "Death Row", then you are killed by poison after 72 hours and can only buy antidote to keep living for another 72 hours with Cast Points; earned by surviving and winning the [[Blood Sport]] games.

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** Also used in a ritualized "war" between Megacity One and the Sovs, in which Judges from each side fight to the death in a televised contest.

* Another [[Two Thousand AD (Comic Book)|2000AD]] example would be Aeroball from ''[[Harlem Heroes]]'', which is described as a cross between football, basketball, boxing and Kung Fu. With jetpacks.

* In the 1980s, DC released [[The Outcasts]], a [[Five Man Band]] mini-series set in a [[Crapsack World|Northeastern megalopolis]] [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|of tomorrow]]. Two heroes of this were [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Slaughterbowl]] veterans.

* In the 1980s, DC released [[The Outcasts]], a [[Five-Man Band]] mini-series set in a [[Crapsack World|Northeastern megalopolis]] [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|of tomorrow]]. Two heroes of this were [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Slaughterbowl]] veterans.

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== Film ==

* ''[[Gladiator]]'', and any other film featuring [[Gladiator Games]].

* The [[B Movie]] ''[[Death Race 2000]]'' revolves around a cross-country race where contestants scored points for mowing down pedestrians.

* The [[B-Movie]] ''[[Death Race 2000]]'' revolves around a cross-country race where contestants scored points for mowing down pedestrians.

* Its remake, ''[[Death Race]]'', deals with a closed-circuit race on an island prison, where the competitors are death row inmates racing for their freedom. ''Death Race 2'', a prequel, shows how it began as a cage fight and how they brought cars into the formula to increase ratings.

* ''[[The Condemned]]'' is basically ''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Battle Royale]]'' with cameras, or ''[[Death Race]]'' (the recent one) sans racing.