Knightmare

"Will the pneumatic flipper give house robots their worst nightmare? Tossing and turning in its sleep? You bet! It can self-right, you see. And team member Lee Summers loves his judo. This could have a real kick."

- Jonathan Pearce introduces Knightmare

Knightmare was a wedge-shaped robot entered by Team Knightmare into Series 4 of Robot Wars. It underwent a weight increase and name change before entering into Robot Wars Extreme: Series 1 under the name Spirit of Knightmare. Both version of the robot were long wedge shaped robots with small, pneumatic front-flippers. The robot enjoyed mild success, reaching the Heat Final of Series 4 and coming in as a runner-up in one of the Extreme 1 Annihilators.

Knightmare
Knightmare was a wedge-shaped robot with a front flipper. The bodyshell was made from motorway roadsigns and parts from a bed, and the robot could travel at 10mph. The flipper was said to be able to serve as a srimech, though it showed very little range when used and was barely half the size of the robot's length. However, Knightmare was also able to run inverted, whereby it would act as a ramming wedge. The bottom of the robot featured a logo that read "Who needs a srimech?".

Spirit of Knightmare
Spirit of Knightmare's but retained nearly the identical measurements (it was only 10cm longer). Its top speed was 1.5mph slower than its predecessor, but it was 20kg heavier. Spirit of Knightmare was armed with a 9cm full width ramming cone, a 70cm wide pneumatic lifter, twin high speed blending discs, twin pneumatic piercers and four ramming spikes.

Like several other robots in Extreme Series 1, Spirit of Knightmare tried to enter Series 5 of Robot Wars but failed to qualify, despite defeating Chompalot in its qualifier battle.

Series 4
Knightmare was drawn against seeded Spawn Of Scutter and Banshee in round 1. It started off slowly, letting Spawn attack Banshee. Knightmare then got into the fight, bumping Spawn. Suddenly, Spawn used its flipping spike to topple Banshee. Shunt ripped Banshee's head off, before roasting the head on the flames. Banshee was then thrown by the Floor Flipper, as its horrific torture came to a close. Knightmare was through to round 2. Knightmare was then drawn against the 26th seed Plunderbird 4, Knightmare got away quickly trying to flip Plunderbird. It did this a few more times but never was able to flip Plunderbird. Knightmare then got stuck on top of Plunderbird and Refbot had to separate them both, Knightmare finally came in on a side attack and flipped Plunderbird 4 onto its side, immobilising it. The house robots then came in to do damage before Sir Killlalot put Plunderbird 4 in the pit of oblivion. Knightmare was then up against Spawn of Scutter in the heat final.

"They do! They'll be wanting to get down on their hands and knees and pray!"

- Team's reaction to being asked if they needed any last-minute prayers.

It was a quick start both robots rushing together. Spawn of Scutter got underneath Knightmare and pushed it into Shunt. Spawn of Scutter used its spike to propel Knightmare into the house robot. Knightmare was immobilised by the first attack and Shunt put it on the floor flipper, which flipped it over onto its back before the house robots attacked it doing a lot of damage. Finally, Killalot dropped Knightmare on the edge of the pit and then Shunt bulldozed it in.

Extreme 1
Spirit of Knightmare participated in a Mayhem qualifier battle against Judge Shred 2½ and Bulldog Breed 3 for a right to fight in the second Annihilator of the series. "Watch for the underside design when it gets flipped. It's rather comical!"

- Jonathan Pearce before the battle

Spirit of Knightmare got under Judge Shred at the start, but couldn't flip it. Spirit of Knightmare then got underneath Bulldog Breed, still failing to flip, instead just pushing Bulldog Breed 3 into Dead Metal's CPZ. But Bulldog Breed then escaped the House Robot's clutches. Spirit of Knightmare then suddenly broke down completely, it was counted out by Refbot before being axed by Shunt and placed on the Arena Floor Flipper.

However, Bulldog Breed 3, who then went on to flip over Judge Shred and win the Mayhem, broke down irreparably in Series 5 after fighting Hypno-Disc in the Heat Final. This meant that Spirit of Knightmare participated in the Annihilator instead.

"Our middle name is damage!"

- The team pre-match

In the Annihilator, Spirit of Knightmare went up against Disc-O-Inferno, Panic Attack, The Steel Avenger, Napalm and Fighting Torque. At the start of the first round, Spirit of Knightmare wedged under Napalm. Napalm was damaged by The Steel Avenger. Spirit of Knightmare then wedged under Fighting Torque before attacking Disc-O-Inferno. Disc-O-Inferno immobilised Fighting Torque, before Spirit of Knightmare pushed it into Matilda's flywheel. Disc-O-Inferno was immobilised in the impact, before Spirit of Knightmare was lifted by Panic Attack. However, Spirit of Knightmare qualified for the second round as Fighting Torque was eliminated after they were counted out for being smashed up and immobilised by The Steel Avenger and Disc-O-Inferno.

Naplam then withdrew from the second round due to the damage that it took in the first round, meaning Spirit of Knightmare was through to the third round of the annihilator, where in this battle, Spirit of Knightmare started by flipping The Steel Avenger. Spirit of Knightmare did the same again, before wedging underneath Panic Attack. Spirit of Knightmare was nearly put into the pit by the Second Wars champion, but escaped. Spirit of Knightmare then attacked Panic Attack, before flipping Steel Avenger on its side and then flipping Disc-O-Inferno onto it. The Steel Avenger never self-righted after this due to a failure of its srimechs, they were counted out and eliminated, putting Spirit of Knightmare through to the fourth round of the annihilator.

Panic Attack then withdrew from the Annihilator as well after being badly damaged, despite being given a lot of time for repairs. This left Spirit of Knightmare and Disc-O-Inferno to fight it out in the final. Spirit of Knightmare flipped its opponent twice, but Disc-O-Inferno damaged the flipper. Spirit of Knightmare pressed the pit release, before being hit repeatedly by its opponent. Spirit of Knightmare was counted out and placed on the floor flipper by Shunt before being pushed into the pit.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 4
 * Losses: 3

Series Record

 * Series 1-3: Did not enter
 * Series 4: Heat Final
 * Series 5: Failed to qualify (Spirit of Knightmare)
 * Series 6: Entered with Raging Reality
 * Series 7: Entered with Raging Knightmare
 * 2016 Series: Did not enter

Trivia

 * The original Knightmare was the only robot to fight a seed in every battle, and win at least once.
 * The Series 4 version of Knightmare is the only robot from Team Knightmare not to fight in an annihilator (Spirit of Knightmare fought in the Extreme 1 Annihilator, Raging Reality fought in the Extreme 2 Annihilator and Raging Knightmare fought in the Series 7 Annihilator).