History Series / Gladiators2024

* OnSetInjury: [[invoked]] ''Gladiators'' is a very arduous, physical show, with plenty of scope for injury. If a contender is injured during filming, it's likely to be worked into the show and discussed at length. [[spoiler:In the very first episode both male contestants end up injured. Finley hurts his knee, abruptly ending one of his early challenges, and the commentary repeatedly questions whether he'll he able to continue. His rival Myles then injures his calf during the final Eliminator obstacle course run]].

** In "Collision" Gladiators hang from rings and swing back and forth, trying to knock the contenders below them off an unstable bridge. They mostly use body slams from the swings to accomplish this, but they'll also grapple with their legs if they get the chance.

** Nia Rutter, one of the female contenders in episode four, is blind in one eye after losing her vision as a child. When asked how she'll handle Gladiators coming at her from that side she replies that she handled raising four kids with one eye so she'll be fine. [[spoiler:After an incredibly close Eliminator she manages to overtake her opponent at the top of the Travelator and secure a place in the Quarter Finals.]]

* HandicappedBadass: The first episode introduces Fury, the first deaf British Gladiator. As usual, the show's profile screen intro does its best to immediately establish her as a very competent badass, even before she starts pummelling contenders. It helps that the performer behind the persona and {{kayfabe}} is Jodie Ounsley, a deaf athlete who competed internationally in jiu jitsu and rugby, and has repeatedly won the World Coal Carrying championship.

** In the third episode, [[spoiler:Giant wins "Duel" in seconds, saying that he knew ex-military contender Finlay would be challenging, so he couldn't risk giving him an opportunity. On the flip side, after {{heel}} Viper has to restart "Duel" after DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun, contender Ash repays him for cheating by immediately knocking him off his podium, winning the challenge. In the same episode, during the men’s "Gauntlet", Bionic absolutely batters Ash with an almighty shunt, sending him rolling head-over-heels from zone 4, right back to to start.]]

* GivingThemTheStrip: In season one, [[spoiler:when "The Wall" challenge makes its debut, two of the episode's four contenders successfully make it over the top of the wall despite the Gladiator catching up with them. In both cases, a frustrated Gladiator's left holding an empty shoe and the contender gets away. Bradley even gets in a good joke in at Legend's expense, quipping [[{{Pun}} "[the contestant] socked it to ya!"]]]].

* SoreLoser: The show's resident {{Heel}}s take losing badly.

** In the third episode, [[spoiler:Giant wins "Duel" in seconds, saying that he knew ex-military contender Finlay would be challenging, so he couldn't risk giving him an opportunity. On the flip side, after {{heel}} Viper has to restart "Duel" after DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun, contender Ash repays him for cheating by immediately knocking him off his podium, winning the challenge. In the same episode, during the men’s’ "Gauntlet", Bionic absolutely batters Ash with an almighty shunt, sending him rolling head-over-heels from zone 4, right back to to start.]]

** In the third episode, [[spoiler:Giant wins "Duel" in seconds, saying that he knew ex-military contender Finlay would be challenging, so he couldn't risk giving him an opportunity. On the flip side, after {{heel}} Viper has to restart "Duel" after DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun, contender Ash repays him for cheating by immediately knocking him off his podium, winning the challenge. In the same episode, during the men’s’ "Gauntlet", Bionic absolutely batters the approaching contender with an almighty shunt, sending him rolling head-over-heels from zone 4, right back to to start.]]

** In the third episode, [[spoiler:Giant wins "Duel" in seconds, saying that he knew ex-military contender Finlay would be challenging, so he couldn't risk giving him an opportunity. On the flip side, after {{heel}} Viper has to restart "Duel" after DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun, contender Ash repays him for cheating by immediately knocking him off his podium, winning the challenge]].

* TakingYouWithMe: Non-Death Example. The Gladiators aim in "The Edge" is to try and stop the contestant from crossing The Edge to score points. Sometimes, they invoke this tactic, by grabbing a hold of the contestant and jumping off with them.

* CheatersNeverProsper: In episode three, [[spoiler:when {{heel}} Viper tries DeliberatelyJumpingTheGun in "Duel", he's immediately reprimanded, the contender's RingOut is overturned, and the challenge is restarted. Viper is then immediately flattened in a CurbStompBattle as the contender gets some payback]].

* CheatersNeverProsper: Some of the Gladiators end up disqualified from certain events if they end up breaking the rules, [[spoiler: like Viper who gets disqualified from Collision for leaving his trapeze, and Steel in Gauntlet for holding a contestant for longer than the allotted time.]]

** A relatively subtle screen shake is added to reinforce some moments when Gladiators successfully tackle contestants.

** In the first episode, [[spoiler:Giant wins his podium "Duel" just two seconds into the contest, sending contender Myles flying before he lands a blow of his own]]. He does this again in the third episode [[spoiler:with contender Finlay, but states afterwards that Finlay gave him slightly more of a physical challenge.]]

The show is hosted by Creator/BradleyWalsh and Barney Walsh, a father and son team, who interview the contenders and Gladiators between the challenges.

It's a {{revival}} of ''Series/{{Gladiators}}'', which was itself an adaptation or ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.

* {{Revival}}: The show is a revival of ''Series/{{Gladiators}}'', which was itself an adaptation of Series/AmericanGladiators. There's a strong element of RevisitingTheRoots and it owes more to the original 1992 ''Series/{{Gladiators|1992}}'' series than to the Creator/SkyOne revival that followed it.

* TheQuietOne: Viper is one of the show's {{heel}}s, a brute with anger issues who barely speaks. When he does get to talk, it's mostly {{Hulkspeak}}.

* EliminatedFromTheRace: The episode's final challenge is the aptly named Eliminator, a head-to-head race between two competitors, with no Gladiators involved. Points from previous challenges convert into a time advantage - half a second per point. The first contestant across the line goes through to the next round. The fastest runner-up from the first round episodes also gets a place in the quarter finals. The other losers are eliminated.

* TakingYouWithMe: Non-Death Example. The Gladiators aim in "The Edge" is to try and stop the contestant from crossing The Edge to score points. Sometimes, they invoke this tactic of grabbing a hold of the contestant and jumping off with them.

** In the first episode, [[spoiler:Giant wins his podium "Duel" just two seconds into the contest, sending contender Myles flying before he lands a blow of his own]].
He does this again in the third episode [[spoiler:with contender Finlay, but states afterwards that Finlay gave him slightly more of a physical challenge.]]

* CheatersNeverProsper: Some of the Gladiators end up disqualified from certain events if they end up breaking the rules, like Viper who gets disqualified from Collision for leaving his trapeze, and Steel in Gauntlet for holding a contestant for longer than the allotted time.

* GivingThemTheStrip: In season one, [[spoiler:when "The Wall" challenge makes its debut, two of the episode's four contenders successfully make it over the top of the wall despite the Gladiator catching up with them. In both cases, a frustrated Gladiator's left holding an empty shoe and the contender gets away]].

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* CheatersNeverProsper