Arenas

""As long as man has been, and before man, there has been other species in space, struggling to overrule the other. One race, however, is not interested in it's power to rule, but instead it's lust to see who is deserving, or rather to spectate the elite veteran species in the games of the gladiators. The testing grounds are known as the Arenas.""

- Opening Narration

""Every gladiator is a force captured to kill. All you must ask yourself, which one are you?""

- Opening text of some episodes.

Arenas is a video Fanfic series based on the Idverse, especially in Quake III Arena, created by Tritin Multimedia, and directed by Joe Goss, in 2008. It follows the story of Doom, the character, although not in his classic Space Marine suit, as he's selected by the Vadrigar and taken to the Quake tournament.

The characters appearing in this series are Doom, Ranger, Grunt, Mynx, Sarge, Visor, Gorre and Xaero.

The episodes can be watched here.

There are currently plans for a second season.

This Fanfic provides examples of:

 * Action Girl: Mynx.
 * A Day in the Limelight:
 * The introduction of both Ranger and Grunt, in "Warriors of Slipgate". There's no Doom in here.
 * Also, the story of Sarge. In "Last Stand", Doom and Visor are talking about him in the resting area, while Sarge's regenerating. Cue flashback scenes about Sarge and Visor's previous fights in the Human-Strogg war.
 * Amulet of Concentrated Awesome:.
 * An Axe to Grind: Ranger pulls out his axe.
 * Ascended Extra: Pretty much the entirety of the cast, which in the source, were just selectable characters for the player.
 * Ascended Fanfic:
 * The mods Defrag and Clan Arena have their own episodes in both "DeFrag" and "The Amulet".
 * The third-party map Wicked gets two episodes in the limelight in both "Scrimmage" and "The Amulet".
 * A-Team Firing: Doom wastes a lot of ammunition. Few shots actually hit the opponent. Case in point: "Doom's Deathmatch Birth", his first frag against Visor.
 * Big Bad:.
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * in "Worthy".
 * In "REBELLION!",.
 * Chainsaw Good: Doom uses one in "Chosen By The Vadrigar". And, of course, there's the Gauntlet.
 * Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Visor, justified as he's a Strogg.
 * Death Is Not Permanent
 * Demonic Possession: In "Chosen By The Vadrigar", after Doom's rescue,, his eyes turns red and he rebels. It seems like something possessed him. Which thing? We don't know.
 * The Faceless: Visor.
 * Flipping the Bird: From Doom to his superior in "Chosen By The Vadrigar".
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: Doom, frequently.
 * Gory Discretion Shot:.
 * Gun Fu
 * Lights Off, Somebody Dies: In the beginning of "Chosen By The Vadrigar", Doom is watching a movie, then the lights goes off and many of his companions bite the dust.
 * Mythology Gag: Considering the Idverse as a whole, there're plenty of these:
 * Some shots can be teleported and the jumppads can send the projectiles up, as a nod to Quake IV's multiplayer, which allows this.
 * in "Last Stand" is a throwback to the intro cutscene of Quake III Arena, where Sarge is decimating thousands of monsters with his chaingun.
 * in "REBELLION!" it's a throwback to the ending of the same game.
 * The amulet Ranger gives to Doom in "The Amulet" has the shape of the Quake logo.
 * At one point in "Chosen by the Vadrigar", Doom accesses a computer screen to see how many things came through the teleporter. Upon viewing the data for Phobos, the map screen that appears between levels in episode 1 of Doom shows up on the screen.
 * Neck Lift: Xaero in "DeFrag" and both of them does this to Doom.
 * Nostalgia Level: "Chosen By The Vadrigar" takes place in a remixed version of the first map of Doom. Fans of the game may recognize many stages, aside of those which came with the game itself:
 * "Doom's Deathmatch Birth" takes place in Temple of Retribution. (q3dm7)
 * "No Backing Down" takes place in Proving Grounds. (q3tourney2)
 * "Warriors of Slipgate" (both parts) takes place in The Longest Yard. (q3dm17)
 * "Scrimmage" takes place in Wicked. (q3jdm8)
 * "REBELLION!" takes place in The Camping Grounds. (q3dm6)

"Vadrigar: ."
 * Oh Crap: The first Cacodemon in "Chosen by the Vadrigar"'s green eye opens as far as it can upon hearing Doom revving the chainsaw. Hard to think a demon which is basically just a red ball of flesh would be capable of expressing this, but it does.
 * Quad Damage
 * Rocket Jump: As a Quake-inspired Fanfic, this was expected. At least one warrior do this in each episode, outside of "Chosen By The Vadrigar" and "Last Stand", for obvious reasons.
 * Schedule Slip: "REBELLION!" was going to be uploaded in May 1st. 2009. It ended up showing almost two months later.
 * Sequel Hook:


 * The Smurfette Principle: Mynx is the only woman in the first season.
 * SNK Boss: A rare non-videogame example played in-universe. Xaero can teleport while the other warriors can't, and has even more stamina and strength than any of the other warriors.
 * Take My Hand: In "No Backing Down", before Sarge, Doom takes his hand..
 * Talking Is a Free Action: Doom, most of the time.
 * We Hardly Knew Ye: Doom's companions in the pilot episode.
 * Wrestler in All of Us: Although the hand-to-hand combat seems out of place in a fanfic based on an old-school First-Person Shooter, there're plenty of moments where the warriors do throws and holds to their opponents.