This film depicts all of this emperor's reign, from the death of Marcus Aurelius until his killing while fighting against the fictional hero, Livius. In the Best Picture winner Gladiator, a fictionalized Commodus serves as the main antagonist of the film.

Does the gladiator kill the emperor?

In The Fall of the Roman Empire a group of conspirators independent of Commodus, hoping to profit from Commodus's accession, arrange for Marcus Aurelius to be poisoned; in Gladiator Commodus himself murders his father by smothering him.

Which emperor did Maximus kill?

Petronius Maximus ( c. 397 – 31 May 455) was Roman emperor of the West for two and a half months in 455. A wealthy senator and a prominent aristocrat, he was instrumental in the murders of the Western Roman magister militum, Aëtius, and the Western Roman emperor, Valentinian III.