Gladiator games

Gladiator games refers to a series of games held in coliseums by the Romans where people are subject to fighting vicious creatures such as lions or powerful warriors for their freedom or for other purposes. Most of the time, gladiator games serve as a form of execution upon people who would lack the skill to withstand the creatures and warriors that they must fight in the arena.

In mainstream Smurfs media as well as in the time-traveling adventures that the Smurfs in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series undertake during The Lost Year, Brainy would be subject to fighting in the gladiator games held by the Gnoman emperor Julius Geezer in order to prevent Smurfette from being married to the emperor's son Nerdo.