Everyone is armed with uniform sword and shield, with an extra sword belted to their waists so they have an option of dropping their shield and wielding dual swords instead or simply that they have an extra sword handy.
No one is wearing armor, simply loincloths. Fight is in a gladiator arena and to the death. Which team wins?
What, no Spartacus? His Slo-mo powers would come in handy. Sneak him in, go on.
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Again, save Boromir, not a single member of the LOTR crew takes a major injury in the entire series. Three of the four on the other crew proved all too well that they're indeed mortal.
That's because they fight low-level grunts. They're good at mowing down tons of easy troops. But put Aragorn up against a real foe like Lurtz and see how he does.
Also I haven't seen Conan but afaik the Gladiators never took a hit either.
Leonidas did take an injury or two when he died, I do believe. Unfortunately for the film incarnation of Achilles, he was taken down by a rather pansy-ish figure. Three of the four on their team bit the dust, three of the four on the LOTR crew survived with nary an issue worth speaking of.
Like I said, their luck powers are ridiculous, but they are what they are.
There is no such thing as luck powers. Within their own movies heroes survive all kinds of overwhelming offs but that doesn't mean anything in a versus forum fight.
Leonidas and pretty much every Spartan save Dilios(lost his eye), Astinos(beheaded) and his dad Artemis(speared through the gut, but still killed several more Persians before dying), was untouched in that whole movie. Leonidas had a small cut/scar over his eye, but that was it. And that was from trying to fight a 7+ft tall giant with strength even greater than his. He only got seriously injured when a wave of arrows hit him and all the other Spartans. Because they were impossibly outnumbered.
Achilles got shot with an arrow while he was focused on helping Briseis. Any of the Fellowship would fall victim to the same. And considering Achilles blocked arrows after they were fired without even looking when he was in battle. It can be argued that with his focus elsewhere, it allowed Paris to take him off guard.
Everyone who died on the Gladiator team had extenuating circumstances.
Maximus was unarmed and didn't expect to get poisoned by a ruler who was jealous of his popularity.
Achilles got sneak shotted while he was occupied with a woman.
And Leonidas was literally on a suicide mission, and got engulfed by arrows.
As for the Fellowship, they never fought anyone with any actual skill. Just a bunch of goons.
Achilles is invincible in combat for the most part.
And Leonidas has super strength as well as the ability to slow down time, lol. Also both were trained in combat since birth and were the best warriors of their respective peoples.
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