User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-25770073-20180411081419

Am I allowed to submit a House Robot? If so I nominate Dead Metal. As I current go through each UK Series, I noticed how useless Dead Metal is. People will say Cassius Chrome, Mr Psycho are SGT Bash are "useless" house robots but Dead Metal ALWAYS gets a free pass...but why? I'll go through each series and point out what Dead Metal was like over the years.

Series 1
 * Mostly had an ineffective saw (even the producers admit to this in the Ultimate Warrior) and the claws were perhaps quite damaging by (see Torque of the Devil) but aside from that it wasn't the best, however in its credit all the House Robots were meh in Series 1

Series 2
 * Is humiliated multiple times via a pit, competitor or it's own action. It saw does slightly more damage but still mostly ineffective while the other House Robots such as Shunt and Sir Killalot outclass it.

Series 3+4
 * Dead Metal receives a well needed upgrade and thanks to the types of robots around, Dead Metal managed to cut in and create sparks...not much when you compare it to Shunt axe, Sir Killalot's claw, SGT Bash's claw but better than Matilda at this time.

Series 5-7
 * Unfortunately for Dead Metal, Matilda gets an upgrade and three new House Robots are entered. Dead Metal's saw doesn't do much except create sparks and it utilise its claws more making it more of a SHOVE substitute.

Series 8-10
 * By this point almost EVERYONE agrees that Dead Metal was the most useless House Robot in the reboot, even Dead Metal fans thought this. It's only real attacks was against Crazy Coupe 88 and robots who were already dead. It seems the producers agreed as Dead Metal started appearing less and less as the reboot when on. In fact it was flipped TWICE unlike other House Robots and suffered the most damage from competitors.

Overall, Dead Metal had a bad start with a great middle and a bad end. It never really did all that much and yet people STILL insist it's "The best House Robot" and calls it the most useful when once you watch it in action, it doesn't do all that much except create sparks and look flashy...that's about it, not damaging and for the most part was more or less used as the "clean up" and only really attacked dead robots, because attacking live robots resulted in it getting heavily damaged or humiliated. Oh and it's funny how the fans throw hissy fits when Dead Metal get criticised (If you're on Shuntposting you'll see some beautiful reactions from its fans)