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* ''Fanfic/TheVioletDemon'': Whoever wins the grand championship of Areax's GladiatorGames is granted their freedom.
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* ''Fanfic/TheVioletDemon'': Whoever wins the grand championship of Areax's GladiatorGames is granted their freedom.
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* ''WebAnimation/SuperThings'': In "The Race Of The Century", [[BigBad Mr. King]] allows four captured heroes to participate in a car race against four of his minions, with the promise that if the heroes win they'll be freed. [[spoiler:The heroes do, in fact, win, but Mr. King reneges on his promise under the excuse that the heroes cheated (which they did ''technically'' do, although the villain racers cheated first and ''much'' more egregiously).]]
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* ''WebAnimation/SuperThings'': In "The Race Of The Century", [[BigBad Mr. King]] allows four captured heroes to participate in a car race against four of his minions, with the promise that if the heroes win they'll be freed. [[spoiler:The heroes do, in fact, win, but Mr. King reneges on his promise under the excuse that the heroes cheated (which they did ''technically'' do, although the villain racers cheated first and ''much'' more egregiously).]]
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--> '''Lawyer''': (very rapidly) "By asking me a question, you hereby acknowledge that any answer you recieve will be sufficient insomuch as that if you disagree with the answer, I am not obligated to provide you with a better one..."
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--> '''Lawyer''': (very rapidly) "By asking me a question, you hereby acknowledge that any answer you recieve receive will be sufficient insomuch as that if you disagree with the answer, I am not obligated to provide you with a better one..."
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* In ''Series/The100'', when people were riding out the second nuclear apocalypse in an underground bunker, they developed a system of justice in which people convicted of a crime were sentenced to gladiator combat with one simple rule: "Be the last." The winner could earn a pardon; the losers were dead. [[spoiler: It also helped with the [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty food supply]] situation.]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' episode "The Pit", prisoners of the Dogs are set free if they can win one hundred gladitorial fights in a row.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'' episode "The Pit", prisoners of the Dogs are set free if they can win one hundred gladitorial fights in a row.
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* ''Videogame/WeWhoAreAboutToDie:'' A staple in GladiatorGames, and thus a staple here. Aspirants with the Slave origin aim to gain enough Fame, and enough sway with the Patrons hosting the gladiatorial games, to be released from servitude. This is easier said than done, as their starts are ''rough'' and they must give away half their earnings, but they do have one advantage: The longer they survive, the more the crowd enjoys their presence (they have a thing for unlikely champions), so they get more Fame than usual.
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* ''Videogame/WeWhoAreAboutToDie:'' A staple in GladiatorGames, and thus a staple here. Aspirants with the Slave origin aim to gain enough Fame, and enough sway with the Patrons hosting the gladiatorial games, to be released from servitude. This is easier said than done, as their starts are ''rough'' and they must give away half their earnings, but they do have one advantage: The longer they survive, the more the crowd enjoys their presence (they have a thing for unlikely champions), so they get more Fame than usual. Criminal Scum Aspirants often seek the same, surviving long enough to get a pardon, but while they ''do'' have a better time (and don't need to give away their money) the crowd tends to dislike them.
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* ''Videogame/WeWhoAreAboutToDie:'' A staple in GladiatorGames, and thus a staple here. Aspirants with the Slave origin aim to gain enough Fame, and enough sway with the Patrons hosting the gladiatorial games, to be released from servitude. This is easier said than done, as their starts are ''rough'' and they must give away half their earnings, but they do have one advantage: The longer they survive, the more the crowd enjoys their presence (they have a thing for unlikely champions), so they get more Fame than usual.
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->''"Listen to me. Learn from me. I wasn't the best because I killed quickly, I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd, and you'll win your freedom."''
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->''"Listen to me. Learn from me. I wasn't the best because I killed quickly, I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd, and you'll [[TropeNamers win your freedom.freedom]]."''
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* Near the end of ''Film/Warcraft2016'', Anduin Lothar is challenged to [[DuelToTheDeath Mak'Gora]] by Warchief Blackhand. [[spoiler:After Lothar wins the duel by killing Blackhand, the Orcs allow him to leave on his gryphon, carrying the body of King Llane with him.]] [[BigBad Gul'dan]] demands that the Orcs kill him instead, but is told that Lothar has won his freedom through the victory in the Mak'Gora and that he would lose the Horde's support if he did anything to keep Lothar from leaving.
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* The very premise of the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book, ''Literature/TrialOfChampions''. Right in the opening paragraph, you were MadeASlave and purchased by Lord Carnuss, a ruthless overlord who puts you and forty fellow slaves through a series of GladiatorGames; should you win, you'll then be drafted into the titular annual Trial. Completing it earns you a chance to fight Carnuss to a DuelToTheDeath to avenge your fellow slaves, your final victory which leads to your freedom as well as a life of wealth and luxury.
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* The very premise of the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book, ''Literature/TrialOfChampions''. Right in the opening paragraph, you were MadeASlave and purchased by Lord Carnuss, a ruthless overlord who puts you and forty fellow slaves through a series of GladiatorGames; should you win, you'll then be drafted into the titular annual Trial. Completing it earns you a chance to fight Carnuss to a DuelToTheDeath to avenge your fellow slaves, your final victory which leads to your freedom as well as a life of wealth and luxury.
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** Also [[UsefulNotes/AncientRome Roman]] [[GladiatorGames gladiators]] to an extent, though not all of them were forced to become gladiators in the first place. In the later years of the Roman Empire, professional gladiators became increasingly common, though slave gladiators never completely went away.
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** Also [[UsefulNotes/AncientRome [[AncientRome Roman]] [[GladiatorGames gladiators]] to an extent, though not all of them were forced to become gladiators in the first place. In the later years of the Roman Empire, professional gladiators became increasingly common, though slave gladiators never completely went away.
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* Historically TruthInTelevision. Unusually skillful and loyal slaves have often been rewarded with freedom.
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* Historically TruthInTelevision. Unusually skillful and loyal slaves (outside of chattel systems such as the trans-Atlantic one in the US, where this form of mobility never existed) have often been rewarded with freedom.
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* One of the primary arguments for chattel slavery being uniquely evil, even further beyond the MoralEventHorizon than any other form of slavery is the ''absence'' of this in ''any possible form at all,'' alongside generational slavery (e.g. people born to slaves become slaves, also with zero chance of freedom, as opposed to the children/family of an indentured servant being free), alongside race or caste defining who is enslaved and absolute dehumanization of the group (as opposed to being prisoners of a war with both sides as willing combatants or indentured servants paying off willingly incurred debts).
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* One of the primary arguments for chattel slavery being uniquely evil, even further beyond the MoralEventHorizon than any other form of slavery is the ''absence'' of this in ''any possible form at all,'' alongside generational slavery (e.g. people born to chattel slaves become slaves, also with zero chance of freedom, as opposed to the children/family of an indentured servant being free), alongside race or caste defining who is enslaved and absolute dehumanization of the group (as opposed to being prisoners of a war with both sides as willing combatants or indentured servants paying off willingly incurred debts).
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* One of the primary arguments for chattel slavery being uniquely evil, even further beyond the MoralEventHorizon than any other form of slavery is the ''absence'' of this in ''any possible form at all,'' alongside generational slavery (e.g. people born to slaves become slaves, also with zero chance of freedom, as opposed to the children/family of an indentured servant being free), alongside race or caste defining who is enslaved and absolute dehumanization of the group (as opposed to being prisoners of a war with both sides as willing combatants or indentured servants paying off willingly incurred debts).
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** The Coliseum in Uldah is another variant on this - gladiators who gain the favor of the Sultana or certain factions are appointed to military or royal guard positions. Specifically, this is how Raubahn became the general of the Immortal Flames.
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* ''VisualNovel/TogainuNoChi'': After being accused of murder and threatened with a life sentence, Akira agrees to join a bloodsport called Igura to challenge the game's undefeated champion, Il-Re. He is promised that if he kills Il-Re, the charge against him will be dropped. [[spoiler: He does not win.]]
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* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' - Stocke has to do this by trampling through a set of gladiators.
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* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'' - You ([[{{Dystopia}} and most people living in the Panopticons]]) have been sentenced to ''[[LongerThanLifeSentence one million years' imprisonment]]'', but you can work off that sentence by volunteering to take up arms against robotic monsters and other Panopticons.
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* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'': Two different quests in Libya deal with former gladiators who were promised freedom after winning a certain amount, only for their masters to renege because their fights earned so much money, at which point the gladiators made a break for it anyhow. In the first, the slave's owner doesn't even give a rat's ass about the escaped slave, just the fact he stole the man's favourite sword.
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* In ''Literature/MidnightTides'', book five of the ''LIterature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', the Drownings are a popular public spectacle in Letheras in which condemned criminals who couldn't pay the requiered fine to win their freedom can do so by trying to swim across the canal with a sack full of coins strapped to their back. The amount of coins depends on the crime. Since few ever manage to make it across, wagers are usually made about things like the distance, number of strokes or the manner of drowning. [[note]]The sacks of coins have ropes attached to allow for them to be pulled back out of the canal, while the bodies get dumped right back in.[[/note]]
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* In ''Literature/MidnightTides'', book five of the ''LIterature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', the Drownings are a popular public spectacle in Letheras in which condemned criminals who couldn't pay the requiered required fine to win their freedom can do so by trying to swim across the canal with a sack full of coins strapped to their back. The amount of coins depends on the crime. Since few ever manage to make it across, wagers are usually made about things like the distance, number of strokes or the manner of drowning. [[note]]The sacks of coins have ropes attached to allow for them to be pulled back out of the canal, while the bodies get dumped right back in.[[/note]]
