Commodus

* Virgin
* Chad

### Aliases

C\*mmodusLucius Aelius Aurelius C\*mmodus Augustus Herculeus Romanus Exsuperatorius Amazonius Invictus Felix Pius (by himself)

Cummodus

### Relatives

Marcus Aurelius ( Father)Faustina (Mother)

Lucilla (Sister)

Lucius (Nephew)

Lucius Verus (Uncle)

Antoninus Pius (Adoptive grandfather)

Hadrian (Adoptive great-grandfather)

Trajan (Great-great-great-uncle)

## Physical description

### Species

Virgin ( in The Five Good Emperors)Chad (in The Severan Dynasty)

### Eye color

black (Virgin)Indigo

Commodus (161-192) was the son of Marcus Aurelius. He succeeded his father as Augustus after he killed him and blatantly lied that he died of natural causes and usurped Maximus who was the true heir. He is often regarded as one of the Roman Empire's worst emperors since he brought Rome to decadence, leading to the Crisis of Third Century.

## In "Unbiased History"

### **"The Five Good Emperors"**

Commodus was one of a set of twins that Faustina gave birth to, being the one to survive. Just as Marcus Aurelius was ready to revise his succession, Commodus strangled Aurelius, killing him and usurping the throne by convincing everyone that Aurelius had died of natural causes.

As emperor, he ordered the execution of Maximus and his family, though only the family was killed. He then gave the lands that his father back to the Germs, abandoning the conquests to return to his life of degeneracy, being conspired against as soon as he arrived. As a way to combat this, he purged the Senate... of those that were competent and good, replacing them with incompetent mooks. He was dedicated to making the lives of everyone miserable, like those of Pertinax and Septimius Severus.

While the empire was revolting, he threw games non-stop, LARPing as Hercules reborn, beating up crippled soldiers and crushing midgets in the Colosseum. After the revolts were crushed by those like Pertinax, Pescennius, and Clodius, he elected twenty-five new consuls, including Severus, into the Senate. In his arrogance while Rome burned, he renamed the city as Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana, the citizens as Commodians, and the calendar after his twelve self-given names.

Commodus ordered a reenactment of the Battle of Zama in the Colosseum, only for the Punic side to win easily. He came down to congratulate the winner, only to see a vengeful Maximus under the helm. He threatened his nephew's life after failing to have Maximus killed again, learning of yet another plot against him. After Maximus' friends were slaughtered, he stabbed him before his fight with him, where he pulled out a hidden dagger, which would be reversed and put into his neck instead, killing him before Maximus' death.

### **"The Severan Dynasty"**

In the flashback, Commodus is portrayed as a Chad instead of a Virgin, with his father dying of the Antonine Plague. He was a perfect athlete whose excellence made the Senate and Praetorians super-jealous of him. After puking out the poison given to him by his lover, he was strangled in his bath by his wrestling mate, Narcissus.

Dovahhatty then reveals it all as a fake, saying "the historian Ridley Scott already debunked all this garbage."

## "Trivia"

* Unbiased History's Version of Commodus is a mix of the real life Emperor Commodus and the character seen in the 2000 Film "Gladiator", interpreted by Joaquin Phoenix.
* Like much of Unbiased History's take on historical figures, Commodus' portrayals is bit historically accurate or as its opposite
	+ In his virgin form, in real life, Commodus did liken himself with Hercules and killed many peoples during gladitorial events which authored by himself. He also neglected his empire's duty and instead went to enjoy excessive entertainments with empire's richness, which outraged the Romans.
	+ In his "Chad" form, how he succeeded and he died is historically correct. He didn't choke his father to death as he died peacefully near Vindobona.