Forum:Robot Wars mistakes

After seeing some of Drop Zone's edits, I've noticed that throughout Robot Wars there have been numerous mistakes, whether it's spelling or image problems or something else entirely at least one has appeared in every series. I was tempted to make an article similar to that of the Ed, Edd N Eddy wiki where they made list mistakes that have occurred through each series (they use to have an article but it isn't there anymore, which is a shame but you can still see lists of mistakes on each episode article).

If you have spotted any mistakes please state what they are and even add a photo just in case. Diotoir the  son  of  nemesis  (talk) 19:18, March 26, 2016 (UTC)
 * Added some. I feel like there should be a section for just general mistakes, such as picture errors in the booths and general information being incorrect. --WolfwingandSlaveLeia (talk) 19:33, March 26, 2016 (UTC)
 * Aww Thanks man, appreciate it. I agree that there should be some sort of section dedicated for mistakes. I'm gonna create a category for images that feature mistakes. Diotoir  the  son  of  nemesis  (talk) 20:34, March 26, 2016 (UTC)
 * Added some more. I feel like there is so many mistakes that we could we do separate pages for each war. --WolfwingandSlaveLeia (talk) 09:35, March 27, 2016 (UTC) Edit: who was editing whilst I was editing?

I'm so proud that so many of you have helped on this page, thank you! Diotoir the  son  of  nemesis  (talk) 19:12, March 28, 2016 (UTC)
 * Have to ask, but for the 2016 mistakes should we add that Merlin wasn't put in the heat final and Tanto's weapon problem? --WolfwingandSlaveLeia (talk) 11:45, April 4, 2016 (UTC)

General

 * Jonathan Pearce frequently uses the term "armament" to describe armour when the term actually refers to weaponry.
 * Occasionally during Series 5 and Extreme 1, the team booths will not feature a picture of their robot in the background. Sometimes, it uses the image of their opponent, and sometimes it features a robot that isn't even participating in the current battle.
 * Starting from Extreme 1, due to the robots entering the arena being shown out of order, robots are seen entering the arena then seconds later they're still in the door way.

First Wars

 * Psychosprout was misspelled as Pyschosprout
 * REALI-T and Bodyhammer's placings were mistakenly reversed, putting Bodyhammer second and REALI-T fourth.
 * For the final three heats, the original format for the battles (1 vs 3, 2 vs 4) was removed.
 * In Heat D Jeremy Clarkson stated incorrectly that it featured lightweight robots.

Second Wars

 * It was constantly stated, even by the team themselves, that Killertron had reached the grand final of the First Wars when it fell at the Heat Final.
 * Charles Lavery from Team Joint Effort was incorrectly listed as the third member of the Phoenix team.
 * Mortis was stated to have scored 100 points in Pinball in the semi-finals, when in actuality it scored 75 points.

Third Wars

 * Robocow's statistics board featured a spelling error; the Notes section read "Has a wagging wooden tale", when tail would be the correct spelling.
 * Jonathan Pearce erroneously referred to Agent Orange's predecessor Spin Doctor as a finalist, despite not even reaching its heat final.
 * Craig Charles incorrectly introduced the Middleweight Melee as the first round of the Middleweight Championship
 * In a few Heats in the background on the TV monitors it reveals clips of Hypno-Disc and Chaos 2 entering the arena together.(hard to see in YouTube quality videos but on an old VHS of mine it clearly shows this in the Mortis heat).
 * After Sir Killalot gets set ablaze in the match between Napalm and Robopig in Heat G, Jonathan Pearce says "that's the first time we've seen that in Robot Wars history", this being incorrect as Sgt Bash set fire to Sir Killalot in Robo Doc's Gauntlet run in Series 2.
 * During the tour of the pits in Heat K, Philippa Forrester incorrectly introduced Axios as Axiom.
 * Robert Bettington of Team Cold Fusion had his named misspelled as "Robert Bittington" in the statistics card.
 * Prizephita's team members' names on its stat board were mistakenly shown as those from Rattus Rattus.

Fourth Wars

 * Just before the Heat B Final took place, Julia Reed erroneously addressed Pussycat's driver, David Gribble, as "Robert".
 * Destruct-A-Bubble's name is misspelled on the Sumo.
 * Mazakari was erroneously credited with Mortis' statistics during its introduction.
 * Killertron was said to have finished third in Series 2, when in fact it finished fourth. The third place play-off from that year in which it lost to Roadblock was even shown, but Jonathan Pearce mistakenly said that this was when Killertron was eliminated from the competition.
 * When Hammer and Tong was attacked by the house robots, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said "Dead Metal in the middle" when Shunt was clearly in the middle and Dead Metal was not even present in the battle.
 * In the Northern Annihilator, Suicidal Tendencies was credited as seed #31. It was in fact seed #32, with Centurion being the real seed #31.
 * Weld-Dor's status as a seed was not mentioned in its intro.
 * On Spawn of Scutter's statistics board, team member Luke Jackman was simply credited as "Luke".
 * Despite being seeded 11th, Wild Thing was never announced as a seed.
 * Kane Aston of the Behemoth team had his name misspelled in the statistics card as "Kane Ashton".
 * Both Jonathan Pearce and Julia Reed incorrectly stated that Steg-O-Saw-Us' run in Series 3 ended at the semi-final stage when it actually ended in the Grand Final. Jonathan repeated this mistake in the semi-final battle between Chaos 2 and Steg 2.
 * During Hypno-Disc's pinball warrior run, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said that Sgt. Bash was Shunt.
 * In the first melee of Heat G, Jonathan Pearce tells Kronic The Wedgehog to "get off the flipper" when Kronic was actually over the pit of oblivion at the time.
 * In the Northern Annihilator final, after Dominator 2 had broken down, Jonathan Pearce said it was on the floor flipper, when it was actually on the pit.
 * At the end of second round of the Southern Annihilator, Jonathan Pearce said "It's all happening in front of us in the Northern Annihilator" when it was actually the Southern Annihilator. The Northern Annihilator was the previous episode.
 * Shadow of Napalm was mistakenly referred to as Son of Napalm in the recap in the grand final.
 * At the start of the battle between Chaos 2 and Steg 2, Chaos 2 was on the right and Steg 2 was on the left, but after the Chaos 2 team introduced themselves, Steg 2 was on the right and after the Steg 2 introduced themselves, Steg 2 remained on the right and Chaos 2 was on the left.
 * At the start of the War of Independence battle between Mortis and Panic Attack, Mortis was on the left and Panic Attack was on the right, but seconds later, they had swapped places.
 * In the Tag Team Terror, X-Terminator 2 was mistakenly mentioned as coming from Hertford when it actually came from Hereford.
 * For some strange reason, the picture of Stinger did not appear at the bottom of the screen when Julia Reed introduced them in the pits in Heat J although it did in the second semi-final and Northern Annihilator.
 * Craig Charles mistakenly referred to Bigger Brother as Big Brother 2. It was also mistakenly listed as the name in the list of all the robots that competed in Series 4 at the start of the Grand Final. Similarly, Craig mistakenly referred to it as Bigger Brother 2 in the Tag Team Terror, although he referred to it as its proper name.
 * The Shunt camera was on Dead Metal in Heat H while Dead Metal was attacking Wheely Big Cheese and also on Sir Killalot in Heat K when Sir Killalot attacked Tiberius.

Fifth Wars

 * Juggernot 2's statistics board claimed it was armed with an axe, however, only Juggernot 2's predecessor featured an axe weapon.
 * Juggernot's official image is sideways on its stat board.
 * Shredder's official image is terribly cropped on its stat board. It also said its weapon was a spinning disc when it clearly had two spinning discs.
 * When introducing Plunderbird 5, Jonathan Pearce claimed it was "a tracked robot", when unlike the other Plunderbird machines, Plunderbird 5 had wheels.
 * S3 was continually referred to as a newcomer, despite the team fighting in two previous wars with Sting; Philippa Forrester claimed they were "rookies", Craig Charles called them "the new kids on the block" and S3 was even nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer Award.
 * Strangely, Thermidor 2's weakness on its statistics board was listed as "Experienced Competitors", a statement that would usually be considered a strength, instead of "Fragile Shell" as it had been during the first series of Robot Wars Extreme.
 * Jonathan Pearce claimed at the start of Heat J that Panic Attack won Series 3, when it actually won the series before, Series 2. However, he made the correct claim later in the episode.
 * Tiberius 2 was introduced as Tiberus 2.
 * After speaking to the 13 Black team, Craig Charles mistakenly called them Black 13.
 * When the "Most Promising Newcomer" Award nominations were listed, Crushtacean was misspelt Crushtacen
 * Before the Heat A second round match between Chaos 2 and Steel Avenger, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly stated that George Francis reached the Grand Final of Series 2.

Sixth Wars

 * For some strange reason Jonathan Pearce kept stating that Cyrax was purple when it was clearly blue.
 * When introducing Shredder, Jonathan Pearce claimed it had "beaten good machines such as Mousetrap in the past", when not only did Shredder lose to Mousetrap, but the robot and the team had not won a battle at that point. He later correctly said that Shredder lost to Mousetrap, during the Round 2 battle against The Alien. The recap of Shredder's loss to Mousetrap was even shown after the battle.
 * Terror-Bull was twice labelled as a new robot in Heat G, its previous appearance in Series 4 being completely ignored.
 * An editing error in the first battle of said heat showed Dead Metal in two different CPZs.
 * Hypno-Disc's seed was not stated when entering the arena.
 * Razer's stat board incorrectly referred the vertical crusher as a spike.
 * In the second round battle between Dominator 2 and S.M.I.D.S.Y. in Heat J, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said "just seen there, Chris Hall" when the camera actually showed Paul Tolliday at the controls. Pearce repeats this mistake in the semi-final first round match between Dominator 2 and Bigger Brother by saying "Chris Hall at the controls of Dominator 2".
 * Craig Charles misquoted Chaos 2 as the 4th seed while interviewing the Dantomkia team after their loss to Razer.
 * An editing error in the Losers' Melee in Semi-Final 2 showed Mr Psycho and Sir Killalot in the same CPZ.

Seventh Wars

 * After the second melee in Heat B, the board displaying the results wrongly showed that Killerkat, rather than Gyrobot, had qualified along with Jackson Wallop.
 * Lightning's statistics board incorrectly displayed its specifications from the time of Robot Wars Extreme: Series 2.
 * Leveller 2's statistics board featured a spelling error, causing it to be known as 'Leveler 2'.
 * Stuart McDonald did not state Bulldog Breed's seed when it entered the arena, though Jonathan Pearce did mention it.
 * When ever it appeared, Jonathan Pearce would state that Growler was the fastest House Robot. In actual fact, Cassius Chrome was the fastest House Robot.
 * Just before activate was called in the second melee of Heat D, the participating robots from the first melee were shown instead.
 * Jonathan Pearce incorrectly states in the Series 7 All Stars special that Pussycat reached five heat finals - this fact being incorrect not only for the robot itself, but also for Team Cold Fusion in general, as they did not reach the heat final in Series 2, did not enter in Series 6, and were knocked out by M2 in the second round of The Seventh Wars.
 * During the third round 1 battle in the Third World Championship, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said Tornado defeated Razer to win The Seventh Wars when it was actually the Sixth Wars (Typhoon 2 won The Seventh Wars and Razer did not even enter The Seventh Wars).
 * Andrew Marchant from Tornado mistakenly called Raging Knightmare Raging Reality.
 * Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said Atomic reached the Heat Final in Series 3 and lost to Hypno-Disc in Series 4 when it actually reached the Heat Final in Series 4 and lost to Hypno-Disc in Series 5.
 * At the end of Heat C, when it shows you who is competing in the next episode, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said 13 Black was seeded 3rd when it was actually seeded 7th. Similarly, in the World Championship qualifier in Heat O, he said it was seeded 13th.
 * During its first round heat battle, Pussycat was stated to have been with Robot Wars since the very first day - this fact only being incorrect for the robot itself, but also for Team Cold Fusion in general, as none of the original members stated after the first four wars and Pussycat did not enter the first 2 wars, rather it was Bodyhammer.
 * When Mighty Mouse entered the arena for its first round melee in Heat J, Jonathan Pearce stated that they had "previously fought in the tag team, but never alone", which is incorrect, as Trevor Wright's machine reached the second round of The Sixth Wars.
 * G2 was referred to as "Cheese 2" in the Featherweight Championship due to a scripting error.
 * Jayne Middlemiss incorrectly says in the pre-match interview with X-Terminator that the team have competed in Robot Wars since the Fourth Wars. Oddly, the team acknowledges her statement.
 * In Heat F, Stuart McDonald incorrectly pronounces Tsunami.
 * In Heat H, Stuart McDonald incorrectly pronounces Mega Hurts LT.

Extreme 1

 * Ahead of the Challenge Belt battle between Behemoth and Steel Avenger, Steel Avenger was stated to have gone out in round 1 in both of the previous wars (Series 3 and 4), when in reality it went out in round 2 and the heat final respectively.
 * During the first Tag Team Terror Semi-Final, when Cerberus and Suicidal Tendencies were dueling, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly said Suicidal Tendencies was Steel Avenger.
 * King B Powerworks was referred to as King B3. It was only referred by its proper name a few times.
 * The stats for Sir Killalot in the Challenge Belt battle between Tornado and Wild Thing were shown as those from the American series.
 * Before the Mayhem battle, Jonathan Pearce claimed Killertron was "twice a Grand Finalist", when it only reached one.
 * Flensburger Power was pronounced as Flensburg Power.
 * Before the last first round Tag Team Terror battle, Steve Merrill from Sir Chromalot said "We're going to do damage to Steel Lego and Suicidal Meccano." However, when Julia Reed interviewed the Steel Avenger and Suicidal Tendencies teams, she said he called them Steel Meccano and Suicidal Lego.
 * During the second Annihilator, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly refers to Disc-O-Inferno as Hypno-Disc.
 * During the All-Stars semi final clash between Chaos 2 and Tornado, Jonathan Pearce says "could this be a first ever defeat for Chaos 2?" when it had previously been defeated by Razer in the quarter-finals of TheFirst World Championship, as well as being knocked out in the first round of the Northern Annihilator in Series 4.
 * During the World Championship, Jonathan Pearce kept stating that events that would happen later in the episode happend in the First World Championship; He claimed that Chaos 2 went out in round 1, when it reached the quarter-finals in the First World Championship, that Diotoir fell in round 1, when it reached the Semi-Finals, that Firestorm fell in Round 1, when it never actually competed, and that Tornado reached the semi-final when it hadn't even entered Robot Wars at the time.
 * Philipper was misspelt as Philliper on its statistics board.

Extreme 2

 * Graham Bone stated during the All-Stars that Firestorm had never fought Bigger Brother, when it was the second meeting between the two robots.
 * When Hypno-disc enters the arena, Jonathan Pearce claimed they had twice reached the Grand Final, when they had actually reached three Grand Finals.
 * Before both of Dominator 2's All Star battles, Jonathan Pearce incorrectly says that Paul Tolliday is present in the team booth, when in reality, Chris Hall is.
 * In the fourth battle in the Minor Meltdown, Jonathan Pearce said Bigger Brother had beaten good machines like Hypno-Disc and Razer. It actually beat Hypno-Disc but lost to Razer in the Series 5 Grand Final.
 * Sir Chromalot was mispronounced as Sir Chompalot.
 * Firestorm 4 was shown with the United Kingdom flag instead of an English flag.
 * Both Mini Morg and Velocirippa weren't introduced correctly in the Tag Team Terror - Mini Morg was merely mentioned by name and Velocirippa was glossed over.
 * In the Annihilator, Jonathan Pearce mistakenly said Thermidor II had never been beyond the heats when it actually reached the semi-finals in Series 4.
 * In the University Challenge, C.V. was labeled as a newcomer despite appearing in the first series of Robot Wars Extreme. It might have been due to its name change.
 * Pulverizer was shown behind the Irish flag, instead of the Dutch flag after losing to Razer.

2016 Series
TBA

Videogames
This does not include glitches, designs on the other hand do count
 * In four of its appearances, Pussycat is either mis-programmed or designed incorrectly.
 * In Robot Wars: Metal Mayhem's credits, Mentorn Barraclough Carey is misspelt as Mentron Baraclough Carey. This mistake was also repeated in Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction with it being misspelt as Mentorn Baraclough Carey.
 * In Metal Mayhem, the original Thermador is known as Thermidor II.
 * In Metal Mayhem, Diotoir and Sir Chromalot are two dimensional only.
 * In Metal Mayhem, Crasha Gnasha is purple despite the fact that the real-life version and the menu artwork are blue.
 * For some reason, a screenshot of Ultor is featured on the back of the Metal Mayhem box, even though it does not appear in the game.
 * In Metal Mayhem, Chaos 2's weapon is listed as a "Pneumatic Axe", when it should read as a "Rear-hinged Flipper" or merely "Flipper".
 * In Arenas of Destruction, Terrorhurtz' decal is 1012 when it should be Hz12.
 * For some reason, Coopertron, a super heavyweight in Arenas of Destruction, is allowed to compete in heavyweight competitions Robot Wars Championship and the Assault. Another error allows Mortis to compete in the axe-exclusive Hamburg Heavyweight tournament even though it has a lifting arm.
 * In Arenas of Destruction and Extreme Destruction's credits, Panic Attack member Christian Bridge has his name in brackets. This could be due to him joining the team via winning the competition in the Robot Wars Magazine.
 * In the Arenas of Destruction's credits, Diotoir member Peter Redmond is misspelt as Peter Redmodn.
 * In Arenas of Destruction, Firestorm 2 is known simply as Firestorm.
 * In Robot Wars Extreme Destruction two C02 cans from the series 4 Tornado are easily visible despite it having the spinner from series 5.
 * In Extreme Destruction, Spanners is not invertible. This despite the fact that fully recreating Spanners via the workshop gives the robot the ability to do so.
 * In Extreme Destruction, Firestorm has two intros - the first intro is from Arenas of Destruction and the second intro is for Firestorm 3.
 * The Robot Wars arena in Extreme Destruction incorrectly shows 4 house robots in the CPZs, a working Drop Zone and the series 4 Floor Flipper. The arena should have two house robots, a non-functional Drop Zone and the series 5 Floor Flipper.

Book/magazines
The Ultimate Guide makes the following errors:
 * The quickest battle at the time is stated to be Evolution and Spawn Again, at 19.1 seconds, when the record at the time was Cerberus vs Griffon from Series 3. Even though they could have been counting the total time before 'cease' was called, it then goes on to state that Wheely Big Cheese vs Axe Awe was 12 seconds long, and that battle involved an immediate immobilisation.
 * S3's former incarnation is said to be Triterobot, despite it mentioning that it was Mousetrap's original incarnation, and its battle history is in Mousetrap's column (with the robot also being incorrectly put down as 'Tri-Terra-Bot' on both counts). S3's true former incarnation was Sting, although this is not mentioned at all.
 * In S.M.I.D.S.Y.'s battle history, it states it was beaten in Round 2 in The Third Wars by Dreadnaut (also misspelled 'Dreadnought'), when it was beaten in Round 1 by Rattus Rattus.
 * The results for The Fourth Wars: Sumo Basho are incomplete and partially incorrect. The only robots shown are Maverick, Diotoir, Firestorm 2, S.M.I.D.S.Y., Spawn of Scutter, X-Terminator, Scorpion, Razer and Bigger Brother. In addition, it states Spawn of Scutter won the tournament (Panic Attack won it yet it isn't even mentioned in the time list), and Scorpion, Razer, Spawn of Scutter and Bigger Brother's times are all incorrect.
 * In the Robot Wars Extreme: Series 1 results, it says Spirit of Knightmare won Annihilator 2 when Disc-O-Inferno did, and Anty B won the Antweight Melee when Combat Ant did (ironically, Anty B would go on to win the antweight competition in the next series of Extreme).
 * The weapon stats for 101's, Chaos 2's and S.M.I.D.S.Y.'S profiles are wrong - 101's and Chaos 2's weapon stats say "Vertically Mounted Flywheel" whilst S.M.I.D.S.Y.'s reads "Axe and Lifter". Chaos 2 in reality had a flipper, S.M.I.D.S.Y. had jaws (that could act as a lifter somewhat) and a disc and 101 had a spear which had a sensor.
 * Kronic 2's former incarnation is said to be Wedgehog although in fact the two robots were built by different teams.
 * Atomic is said to have flipped Reactor out of the arena in the qualifiers. Robots were never allowed to flip each other OotA in the qualifiers due to safety concerns.
 * The Series 4 heats F and M are in the wrong place. The guide says Wild Thing and Sir Chromalot were in Heat F and Tornado and Gemini in Heat M, when it is the other way round - this mistake is repeated in the Sir Chromalot profile. In reality, according to the seed distribution, the listing in the Ultimate Guide would be the consistent place, despite not being the reality.
 * It states that Growler weighs 420kg and Mr. Psycho weighs 600kg when Growler and Mr. Psycho actually weighed 375kg and 750kg respectively.
 * ORAC's Revenge is incorrectly named DRAC's Revenge in the Series 3 guide.
 * In the Series 3 guide, Thermador is spelt with an "I" in place of the "A". This error also appears in Thermidor 2's Battle History and in its Former Incarnations.
 * In the War Of Independence it states that Ming 3 took part, despite the fact that Ming 2 took part. Ming 3 hadn't been made yet.
 * Behemoth's weapons stat only has Pneumatic Scoop as the weapon, saying nothing about the axe.
 * In the House Robots section, it states that Sergeant Bash has a Rear-mounted Cutting Disc even though it was deactivated and was only for show in the Third Series.
 * In Mini Morg's History, it says that they lost in round one to Kat 3 in the Fifth Wars. Later, in the Worst Moment section it says that they lost to Kater Killer. In real life they lost to Kat 3, although Kater Killer was made by the same team.
 * In the second bout of Heat N of the Fourth Wars where the combatants were Millennium Bug, X-Terminator, and Judge Shred II, it states that Millennium was fighting, not Millennium Bug.
 * It misspells Panzer Wraith as "Panzerwrath".
 * It calls The Parthian Shot "The Parthian Scott".
 * Demon Duck is simply reduced to "Demon".
 * Corporal Punishment is misspelled "Corp Punishment" in the Internet Insurrection report.
 * Firestorm is credited as having scored 185 points in the Series 4 Pinball Tournament when it only scored 135 points.
 * In the results section, The Semi-finals of the Fourth Wars have the wrong robots listed. Spawn of Scutter, Panic Attack, Stinger and Mousetrap are said to have fought in Semi Final 1, whilst Pussycat, Thermidor 2, Firestorm 2 and Dominator 2 are said to have fought in Semi Final 2. In reality, it was the other way around.
 * Pussycat is stated as reaching the Extreme 1 All-Stars Semi-Finals when it actually reached the All-Stars Quarter-Finals.
 * The Longest Running Grudge is said to be between Pussycat and Razer, when that had only lasted two fights (the second of which was only acted out for entertainment purposes), even though grudges such as the one between Panic Attack and Firestorm or King Buxton and Team 101 had lasted more fights (They had both fought each other three times).
 * In Thermidor 2's Best Moment, it incorrectly states that Thermidor 2 threw Behemoth and Stinger out of the arena in the Tag Team Tournament when this actually occured in the Mayhem battles.
 * Major Tom's Extreme Series 1 information is not listed.
 * Crasha Gnasha is incorrectly listed as Crash Gnasha in the Series 3 results.
 * Tiberius 2 is misspelt as Tiberious 2 in the Series 5 results.
 * Destruct-A-Bubble is misspelt as Distruct-A-Bubble in the Series 4 results.
 * The Series 4 results also incorrectly states Big Brother competed in Heat J when it was actually Bigger Brother who competed in Heat J.
 * In the Extreme Series 1 results, King B Powerworks is credited as King B3.
 * It mistakenly says Razer and Gemini both won the Series 4 Best Design Award when in real life, only Gemini won the award.
 * It does not mention Roadblock's successor Beast of Bodmin despite the former having a profile.

Toys

 * In each of its appearances, Hypno-Disc is shown with its series 3 disc.