blood sports theme

also known as: bloodsports

There is a sport or entertainment that involves intentional bloodshed. Either animals or people are meant to be severely wounded during the activity.

Notes

Modern boxing and other sports that are violent but where the objective is neither to kill nor inflict serious injury, are classified as "combat sports" instead.

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StoryLevelMotivation
ldr2019e1x01 choice The story revolves around a combat league where mind-controlled reptilian beasts are made to battle each other in mortal combat.
ldr2019e4x07 choice The story follows Mei as she competes in a ritual death race between between gladiators and a stampede of Triceratops.
columbo1971e5x04 major That controversial physical contest or pseudo-sport (depending on how you view it) popular in Spanish culture countries, bullfighting, was at the center of the plot that Columbo had to unravel.
ds91x06 major The Hunters, an alien race, were hunting Tosk, another alien race, for sport.
futurama7x11 major Various people and robots enjoyed the staged slaughter of animals and robo-animals alike.
movie: Quintet (1979) major Quintet was a tournament that amounted to a fight for the survival of the fittest.
movie: The Salute of the Jugger (1989) 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.
tos2x17 major A trio of disembodied brains were abducting humanoids from across the galaxy and forcing them to fight in gladiatorial combat for their amusement.
ic1976e01a minor Marcellus arranged a games where he proposed to feature a battle between 50 Germans and 50 blacks from Morocco.
ic1976e03 minor The imperial family and their guests were shown looking on as gladiators battled at the games before a roaring crowd. Claudius remarked that the games had their origins in a religious rite.