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* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Early in his career, Morgan is captured and spends time as an enslaved gladiator. He earns his title leading his fellow gladiators to freedom.

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* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord|DCComics}}'': Early in his career, Morgan is captured and spends time as an enslaved gladiator. He earns his title leading his fellow gladiators to freedom.
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* ''Literature/TennisShoesAdventures'': Harry starts one in ''The Sacred Quest'', when he rescues Marcos and Gidgiddonihah.

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* ''Literature/TennisShoesAdventures'': ''Literature/TennisShoesAdventureSeries'': Harry starts one in ''The Sacred Quest'', when he rescues Marcos and Gidgiddonihah.
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* ''Comicbook/TheWarlord'' (Travis Morgan). Early in his career he was captured and spent time as an enslaved gladiator. He earned his title leading his fellow gladiators to freedom.

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* ''Comicbook/TheWarlord'' (Travis Morgan). ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Early in his career he was career, Morgan is captured and spent spends time as an enslaved gladiator. He earned earns his title leading his fellow gladiators to freedom.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheDornianHeresy'', Angron's backstory as the leader of one of these is almost how it is in the canon ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' universe. However, Horus Lupercal was able to convince the Emperor that teleporting Angron to his flagship and leaving his comrades to be slaughtered would only make Angron resent his father. Instead, the Emperor and the Luna Wolves supported Angron's revolt, making the slavers flee instead of fighting.
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* In ''Literature/RakuinNoMonshou'', Orba discovers a revolt being planned for a major festival where the gladiators intend to kill the Emperor and the nobility. Unknown to the gladiators, their backer is a noble who plans to seize power during the chaos before killing the rebels. Orba blackmails the gladiators into obeying him and uses the failed revolt to expose the noble.
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* ''WebComic/GurralTheSmasher'': The main character, Gurral, was genetically engineered by the alien Arena Lords to be the ultimate gladiator monster and blackmailed into fighting to sate his addiction to the mineral Impervium, but grows tired of fighting for them and eventually rebels, escaping to Earth.
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* Subverted in the ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' novels. Ampris uses her fame, traveling and combat experience as a gladiator to lay the foundations for the Abiru Freedom Network, but her fellow gladiators never find out about her activities or go on to play any role in the rebellion. By the time the Freedom Network in a position to make a difference in the third book, Ampris is no longer a gladiator and her old team doesn't make any appearance in the story.

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* Subverted in the ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' novels. Ampris uses her fame, traveling and combat experience as a gladiator to lay the foundations for the Abiru Freedom Network, but her fellow gladiators never find out about her activities or go on to play any role in the rebellion. By the time the Freedom Network is in a position to make a difference in the third book, Ampris is no longer a gladiator and her old team doesn't make any appearance in the story.
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* Subverted in the ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' novels. Ampris uses her fame, traveling and combat experience as a gladiator to lay the foundations for the Abiru Freedom Network, but her fellow gladiators never find out about her activities or go on to play any role in the rebellion. By the time the Freedom Network in a position to make a difference in the third book, Ampris is no longer a gladiator and her old team plays role in the story.

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* Subverted in the ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' novels. Ampris uses her fame, traveling and combat experience as a gladiator to lay the foundations for the Abiru Freedom Network, but her fellow gladiators never find out about her activities or go on to play any role in the rebellion. By the time the Freedom Network in a position to make a difference in the third book, Ampris is no longer a gladiator and her old team plays role doesn't make any appearance in the story.
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* Subverted in the ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' novels. Ampris uses her fame, traveling and combat experience as a gladiator to lay the foundations for the Abiru Freedom Network, but her fellow gladiators never find out about her activities or go on to play any role in the rebellion. By the time the Freedom Network in a position to make a difference in the third book, Ampris is no longer a gladiator and her old team plays role in the story.
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* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': At the end of the first book, the characters are being held as prisoners in Tummuz Orgmeen where they're made to fight enemy soldiers. When their side wins (not without losses) against all odds, the city authorities give them the chance to join their side. After they refuse, they're ordered killed and attacked, but manage to fight out of the arena, sparking a slave revolt and eventually winning.
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-->-- '''Everyone''', ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''

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-->-- '''Everyone''', '''[[IAmSpartacus Everyone]]''', ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''
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The book does not say they revolt, only escape.
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* The inevitable consequence of a lead character being enslaved as a gladiator according to ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland''.

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