The Gladiator

**The Gladiator**, also known as the **Pirate General** is one of the two main antagonists (alongside General Thrawn) of *The Great War*.

He served as the main antagonist of Season 1 and The Great War: Movie 2, the central antagonist of Season 2, and the secondary antagonist of The Great War: The Movie. He also serves as the overarching antagonist of Zach's Bounty.

The Gladiator is a calculated, charismatic general of the *Lubyanka Terrorist Group*. In the 90s, Merringdam, his home country was invaded, causing The Gladiator to retaliate and strategicly fight back from different fronts along with his "terrorist" group, taking complete control of Northern Merringdam, and using it as his military sector.

He is the archenemy of Merrick and Zach, due to their constant battles for years and never really getting the upper hand on eachother. He is also the reason why Russell joined the Terrorist Group due to bailing him out of the american prison and manipulating him for years.

## Background

The Gladiator was born in 1961 and in 1985 he joined the Merringdam Liberation Force, until realizing their morale was too good to be true, causing him to break off and make his own group to directly combat the american forces invading their land. In 1990, he led the raid on an american prison, breaking Comander Russell out of it and manipulating him to join his military group.

In the early 2000s, The Gladiator took a more relaxed role in the war, never participating in combat, but moreso becoming a source of propaganda and was the main motivation for the terrorists to take back Merringdam. In 2015-2020, He was also seen as the mentor of Gavin who used his advice to take over certain sectors of Merringdam closer to the coast.

In 2021, The Gladiator soon became a force in combat, utilizing his dual wield swords and leading the terrorist group into battle.

## Biography

### Season 1

The Gladiator is first seen alongside his second in command, Comander Russell, and the bounty hunter Jango Sharan, capturing the Special Forces team after their successful killing of Fett Sundara. He tortures them for a little bit, before getting information about Han's compound. Due to this, he gets all the information he needs and has Russell invade the compound and lets Jango keep them as prisonors.

After the special forces escape Jango's custody, The Gladiator and Jango meet in an alleyway, and Gladiator, mad at Jango, decides to fire him from working with his terrorist group. He then goes to meet with crime lord Xiloun Exedous alongside Russell to inact a military alliance, and when it goes to plan, they leave with some bodyguards but are ambushed by the same special forces alongside USMC but The Gladiator is able to escape.

After Omar's death, Russell goes on a rampage throughout the capital city to find the killer, Zach, and the two fight ontop of a roof, ending up in a stalemate with Zach fleeing the area. Gladiator rescues Russell and scolds him for his failure to get revenge on Omar.

Later, The Gladiator is present alongside his henchmen Charat Volkov as he works on very early devolopments of the Nano-Chemicals. The two talk over future plans and The Gladiator leaves to go raid a village with Arash Armadillo and Russell, where they completely burn it to the ground. They are later met by Admiral Thrawn and Xiloun, where Thrawn congratulates the trio on their victory. Thrawn then later proposes to "advance" the terrorist group into The Order, where Gladiator reluctantly agrees.

Gladiator is finally seen in the season finale standing behind Thrawn as he makes a speech to all residents of Merringdam, where he warns all Military to leave the country, or dire consequences will be held.

### Season 2

The Gladiator is first seen inside Thrawn's decorated throne room with Xiloun, watching over a CCTV as Russell is leading troops into battle. The Gladiator is astonished by Russell's clear skill in leadership.

After that, he is seen in the throne room once more as Thrawn executes the HVT on live television. Later, he is seen walking through the corridor with Xiloun where he shows his distaste for Thrawn. Rather then telling this to Thrawn. Xiloun keeps this to himself.

Later, The Gladiator captures Lukas Richards, the defector of The Order and brings him to a high-security base where he tortures him endlessly. Special Forces attack the base to rescue him, in which The Gladiator manages to flee leaving them a pre-recorded message and a series of explosions.

At the caves where Russell was killed, The Gladiator buries his body and expresses sadness towards his death. Due to Thrawn being the reason he was there in the first place, The Gladiator plans to kill Thrawn himself, and goes to Thrawn's throne room, where he attempts to poison him. This fails however, and Thrawn doesn't realize he was about to be poisoned.

At the citadel attack, The Gladiator stepped in to defend the assault, but was saved by Xiloun in a near death situation, having almost been killed by the marines. He later escaped to Throne's base of operations where the assault became imminent after their locations were put on the radar.

In the Season Finale, in the commotion of all the fighting, The Gladiator decided this would be his chance to kill Thrawn once and for all. He took his signature sword and he and Thrawn brawled in the latters throne room, where The Gladiator won and prepared to kill him, but when a tank shell was sent right through the window, he dived to cover, seemingly dying, but Thrawn was killed and he escaped before the marines got inside the wreckage, leaving to Moscow to meet with his new associate: Charat Volkov.

### The Great War: The Movie

The Gladiator is not seen much in the movie, doing most of his masterminding in the shadows.

During the debrief when the special forces plan to go after Arash Armadillo, he is first mentioned by Zach following a recent spark of activity on the radar, and he correctly infers this is The Gladiators movements, carrying suspicious cargo across the globe, finding him at Trabzon Airfield with Arash.

At the airfield, he and Arash trade some weapons in which The Gladiator succesfuly ships down to Kraus Mactavish down in Berlin, who plans to deal them with Volkov, but before they can wrap up the meeting, the special forces ambush them but The Gladiator is able to flee, while Arash is subsequently found and killed before he can leave on his cargo plane.

In Berlin, The Gladiator is mentioned once again in the debrief to go after Volkov, but is not actually seen at all.

He is later seen closer to the films climax talking with Volkov who had fled Berlin and had been working on his nano-chemicals in his labratory in Moscow. He tells him its time to launch the chemicals, but Volkov mentions it's not quite done yet. Gladiator is agitated, but understands.

Close to the ending of the film, When a joint task force invades Volkov's lab, Volkov desperately calls him for help, and Gladiator arrives with an extraction team. He heads to the lower levels of the lab and goes to the cells, where he finds Merrick trying to get Cal out of his cell. He shoots and kills Merrick and leaves Cal bleeding out on the floor, and when he sees Volkov fall off the roof through the window, he takes this as a cue to leave the area. However, before Volkov died, he was succesful in releasing the nano-chemical bomb, decimating all of Europe.

### The Great War: The Movie 2

The Gladiator will be playing an unkown role in the upcoming final movie, likely the main antagonist though.