Although many of these activities do result in injury, they are not nearly as dangerous as some made-up sports seen in movies and T.V. shows or read about in books. Imagine playing a racing game where the object was to run over as many people as possible; picture being in a fight where your opponent is trying to rip your skull out of your body. These are just some examples. What made up sport could you imagine playing, or not playing? While you think about that, here are 25 Fictional Sports That Would be Crazy Dangerous in Real Life The game looks fun to play in the comfort of your own home. Yet, if you were to find yourself driving one of these carts in real life, you would need great reflexes, and the ability to live after crashing into a wall. In Rollerball, the people skating have weapons and try to injure you very badly. It revolves around a game show, where convicted criminals try to outrun and outwit a team of bloodthirsty stalkers who are chasing after them with the intent to kill or maim them. If one were to play the version in the Percy Jackson stories, they would need to defend themselves against monsters hiding in the forest where the game is being played. First, there’s the fact that air benders are a made group of people from an anime show. Secondly, they have the power to manipulate the air to move how and where they want. Not only do you need to be able to beat your opponent who is going the same speed as you are, but you need to be able to have strong reflexes as you will likely crash and die if you are not quick enough. In the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde, croquet is a mass spectator sport that is extremely violent. The fans of the sport are bloodthirsty and obsessive and the players need to wear protective gear. When it was played in the episode “Dodgeball” seen in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, the game takes on a new level of fear. It appears as if the stronger players are more or less trying to annihilate the weaker team. If you were to play as Alice did in Wonderland, then you would have to worry about not angering the ruthless dictator known as The Queen of Hearts, who is your opponent, hates to lose or look foolish, and is eager to have your head removed. Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. Because you invent the rules as you go along, if a player had limited morals, they could make the game extremely unenjoyable for the other player. How would you play Calvinball? When you play ice hockey with Phineas and Ferb, you play the game on an obstacle course with polar bears, explosions, and a variety of traps that can probably kill you. In Star Wars: The Phantom Menance, podracing is played on different planets. The sport is primarily done by the aliens of the planets, except Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Darth Vader) who was the only human with enough skills, courtesy the Force, to race. Unless you can breathe underwater for extended periods of time, you won’t be able to play this game for very long. However, if the game from the show really was played in real life, then there would be a cadre of dangers one would have to face, including dangerous Pokemon, Team Rocket, explosions, etc. Ender’s Game is a science fiction book written by Orson Scott Card. It was also made into a movie with Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield. Young Ender is enrolled in Battle School in order to train and fight aliens known as the Formics. Most of the cadets are young children and they are trained as warriors. Most of their training is using various video game simulations. Ender is considered the most intelligent and capable soldier and, along with battling the Formics, he also has to deal with other students in the school who want to destroy him. In the end, Ender is told the simulation is real and he destroyed an entire alien race, who we discover was of no threat to the human population. There was also a wrestling match between a roided out Patrick and Sponge Bob; the wrestling itself was not food-related but the match did occur on hamburger buns. In the match, the two (at this point estranged friends) try to rip each other limb from limb with their newly acquired strength. Due to the fact they make up the game as they go, there are a variety of plays and rules that are as harmful as they are disgusting. (Watch the movie and you’ll know what we mean.) One example is Scorpion, who uses spears with chains in order to kill his enemies. Then you have Sub-Zero, who can freeze his foes. If you get a fatality in the game, that means you have gruesomely killed your rival. Of course, in the game, you can hit restart and, presto, you’re brought back to life. In the real world, not only would one person be dead but the other would probably be in prison for life, or on death row (unless they had a really good lawyer). There was also a remake of the film starring Jason Stratham that involved prisoners racing against and trying to kill each other. Due to the fact that you have to control the movements as he or she is already running, you need great hand-eye coordination and good reflexes. If this game was played in real life, there would be many casualties. The game was played by teenagers in the show, much to the concern of their parents. One part of the game involved running up a ramp, causing many of the players to fall and injure themselves. The game is also a spectator sport played in a large arena with a gigantic wall. Weapons for the players to use are tossed over the walls; they include bats, cricket mallets, ski poles, and basically anything that can be used to swing and hit someone with. In the movie, they have Skeet Surfing, which is surfing mixed with skeet shooting. We sincerely hope we don’t need to explain why that would be dangerous. Unless you have magical powers and can survive falling from the sky by either self-healing or a healing potion, then you’re likely to get badly hurt or killed playing this game. The Hunger Games book and movie involve a competition in which competitors know as “tributes” fight to the death in a battle royale for the amusement of wealthy capitalists. Whoever wins the game is provided with food and riches, and whoever loses … well … dies.
