AWOOGA!
Do you feel the power of the Gladiators?
Can you face the challenge of the champions?
Do you have the courage of a hero?
Do you have the will and the skill?
Do you have the speed, the strength, the heart to be a winner?
It's not for beginners.
Deep down in your soul.
Are you a Gladiator?
—The lyrics for the opening theme of the show
Can you face the challenge of the champions?
Do you have the courage of a hero?
Do you have the will and the skill?
Do you have the speed, the strength, the heart to be a winner?
It's not for beginners.
Deep down in your soul.
Are you a Gladiator?
—The lyrics for the opening theme of the show
Gladiators is a British Game Show with physical challenges, mostly pitting contestants ("Contenders") against the titular "Gladiators" - a squad of athletes and bodybuilders.
- Gladiators (1992) is the original ITV version.
- Gladiators (2024) is the BBC revival.
Tropes for these versions can be found on their own pages.
The 2008-09 version provides examples of:
Sky's Gladiators
- Hotter and Sexier: Skimpier outfits and stuff taking place over water...
- Heel: Wolf wannabe/Expy Oblivion, now seen in TNA as Brutus Magnus — where he is more often than not a Heel. Tornado too.
- Ms. Fanservice: Inferno. Really, any female gladiator that isn't Battleaxe, who still counts to a lesser degree.
- Mr. Fanservice: Spartan
- Hulk Speak: Goliath
- For safety reasons, do not attempt to recreate any of the events you have seen on “Gladiators”.
