Forced Prize Fight: Difference between revisions

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.

 

 

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The second episode of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' is based on this trope: Fujimiya Aya goes undercover as a participant in so-called Human Chess prizefights.

** Tiger and Del are professional duelists. They're both forced into duels with people they didn't think they'd have to fight, or don't want to fight, quite frequently.

* In ''[[The Hollows|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.

 

* ''[[The A-Team]]'' episode "Pros and Cons"

* ''[[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.

* ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|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.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', "Arena", "The Gamesters of Triskelion" and several others.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', "Tsunkatse". Includes the trainer-becomes-opponent bit. And a guest appearance from [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]! (fighting Seven Of Nine. No weight classes here!)

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode 908 ''Babylon''.

* Happened in an episode of ''[[La Femme Nikita]]'', when Nikita infiltrates a club that compels women to fight with [[Explosive Leash|pain collars]].

** 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 [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. One final gladiator comes out to finish the job, only Lucius Vorenus ''jumps into the ring'' and earns '''his''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' "The Coming Of Arthur", after Merlin and Arthur and,seperately, Gwaine are captured by slave traders. There's an attempt to make Merlin fight Gwaine, but Arthur steps in.

 

* Happens in the Xbox game ''[[Fable (video game)|Fable I]]''. 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.

** Exorbitant? you get three times that if you make it through the arena without leaving.

* ''[[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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