More GladiaTroy shitposting as I work on a fic.
In Gladiator, Commodus is the cruel prince and shitty son for an emperor father who wishes he would be better ( despite he as parent did absolutely nothing for that to happen, but that is another issue). He craves for paternal approbation, but his father despises his lack of morals.
In Troy, Agamemnon is a tyranical king that seems to have no heirs. We see no prince in his palace of Mycenae.
They would be a happyly shitty cruel king dad and cruel prince son duo. Aga is the father that would love Commodus as he is.
After Spaniard reveals himself as Maximus Decimus Meridius.
Fun insane concept:
You can sort of fix both Troy and Gladiator if you do a swap stripping Achilles and Maximus from their socio-temporal contexts to make them switch places.
In one hand, Maximus has too much integrity to be a commander of Agamemnon. However, he is a humble man that knows how to serve the cause of an empire. If he teams up with Odysseus, he would do perfectly fine. Maybe even bring the best out of Agamemnon, that side of him that believes to be part of a bigger civilizatory mission.
Commodus won't handle a clash of egos against Achilles, that man would get the worst of him to the surface. He wouldn't even pretend to respect him, in the eyes of Achilles the son of the emperor is pathetic and he would make him very much aware of this at any given chance. If he has an oportunity to brag superiority before Commodus he would take it, he would laugh in his fucking face then go win one more battle like it's no big deal.
Achilles would humilliate Commodus just for funsies. The prince may have a psychotic break before even getting to kill his father.
#troy is fixed because with his noble spirit and humble manners maximus balances the shittiness of agamemnon#gladiator is fixed because with his huge ego and madman attitude achilles freaking destroys commodus#he would bring out the worst of him ... but what is he gonna do about it?#kill his relative? look how that turned out for hector! and it was an accident where he didn't make pat suffer#commodus would underestimate the madness of achilles and it would go terribly for him#troy 2004#gladiator 2000#achilles#maximus decimus meridius#agamemnon#commodus
Commodus from Gladiator is almost what you get if Paris would pick Hera.
#random thought I had but listen to me:#hera makes you an emperor-like king while aphrodite curses you with fucked up desires and athena strengthens your best general against you#lets not forget that given hector is alive that means that to get there you have also to get rid of the real heir#it's tecnically an usurpation#congratulations! now you are a coward king your soldiers will hate you and you got a thing for your sister#( commodus did all of that by himself being a deranged piece of shit#paris would receive the situation from the goddesses like a curse but still#similar scenario)#paris of troy#the judgement of paris#commodus#gladiator