The Salute of the Jugger story
The film (also released as The Blood of Heroes) follows a group of itinerant Jugger ball players in a future post apocalyptic world.
9 total · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blood sports | major | The Jugger ball players, peasant girl Kidda most notably, enjoyed competing in their savage sport in which two armored teams of five attempting to score by placing a dog skull on the opposing team's goalpost. |
| mentor and protégé | major | The seasoned Juggle ball player Sallow took the ambitious peasant girl Kidda under his wing and taught her the ins and outs of this brutal game. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | The story is set in a barren world caused by wars waged in the 20th century and now forgotten, most live from hand to mouth in small settlements, scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, and trading in trinkets from the past. |
| sports | major | The film centers around a game, called Jugger or just The Game, which involves two armored teams of five attempting to score by placing a dog skull on the opposing team's goalpost. |
| the need to prove one's self | major | The ambitious peasant girl Kidda was determined to prove that she could be an elite Jugger ball player. |
| friendship | minor | Sallow crossed paths with his old friend and teammate Gonzo in Red City. |
| mother and daughter | minor | Kidda informed her mother that she was going join a band of itinerant Jugger ball players. |
| the desire for vengeance | minor | The Overlord of the Red City plotted to get back at Sallow over a past indiscretion he's committed with the Overlord's daughter. |
| underground city | minor | There was a league of nine underground cities, one of which Sallow's Jugger ball team visited. |