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Author: Arivne

Jun 26th 2011 at 2:46:23 AM

GladiatorGames includes the "humans fighting animals/monsters" variant, so any such examples (gladiators in an arena) should go there.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* [[GeorgeRRMartin George R. R. Martin]]'s Haviland Tuf short story "A Beast for Norn". The twelve Great Houses of the planet Lyronica use creatures native to their planet as combatants in gaming pits. Tuf disapproves of this cruelty to animals, so he sells each of the Houses an alien creature that annihilates the other Houses' creature in combat. He charges an ever-increasing outrageous fee for each creature, makes sure that each one has a serious side effect that will make it useless, and gives each House an extra creature that devastates its ecosystem. As a result, all of the Houses end up going bankrupt.
* HughLofting's novel ''The Voyages of DoctorDolittle''. While in the Capa Blanca Islands, Doctor Dolittle makes a wager with a powerful nobleman that the noble will end bullfighting in the islands if the Doctor can perform more tricks with a bull than any of the local matadors. He then [[TheDoctorDolittle talks to the bulls]] and convinces them to help him put on a show so that they won't have to die in the bullring any more.

[[AC:TabletopRPG]]
* ''Stormbringer'' supplement ''Demon Magic'', adventure "The Velvet Circle." The Rooster's Wail is a cockfighting establishment in the Velvet Circle. Anyone is allowed to pit their fighting bird against another for a small fee. The current champion is named Desert Spur and belongs to the arena's owner. An adventure seed has Desert Spur being stolen and the {{PC}}s being implicated in the crime.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* The 1952 BugsBunny short "Bully for Bugs" has him facing off against a strong, fast and smart bull in a rather unconventional bullfight. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA here]].