History Characters / RobotWarsChampionsAndGrandFinalists

* DropTheHammer: beta/Basher resembles Terrorhurtz with a large hammer replacing the axe.

* DropTheHammer: Storm 2 doesn't have a hammer, it ''is'' the hammer! (At least, according to the team.)

* DropTheHammer: Was armed with a pointy one during its early appearances.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Typhoon 2 had to withdraw from the Third World Championship at the last minute, allegedly due to the team only having one set of batteries, which they elected to use for their middleweight (which was the reigning champion for its division, so they chose to have it defend its title instead). Although, admittedly, whether they could've been a contender and settled the score with Storm 2 would've depended entirely on whether they could break through Tough as Nails.

** They were also meant to compete in the War of Independence event in The Fourth Wars, but the producers wound up replacing them with the much less impressive Detonator (an entry from Dartford Girls Grammar which was last seen in ''the first series'', with little to no upgrades) to make sure that at least one US competitor would win a battle.

* AcePilot: Both Ian and Joe qualified as ace pilots. Ian drove the robot in its Series 5 campaign, where it finished second, while Joe drove Bigger Brother during the Minor Meltdown event, and won.
* AntiClimax: The fight with Mauler [[{{Crossover}} during their visit to Battlebots]]. Bigger Brother simply reversed its armoured rear into Mauler, snapped one of the steel padlocks, and the imbalanced centrifuge did the rest. That said, the image of Mauler unbalancing itself and flipping became one of the most iconic scenes in the show's history; whenever a full-body spinner unbalanced itself, it was called by fans "the Mauler Dance".
* AwesomeButImpractical: After the failure of Orte, Ian Watts fixated on using teams of clusterbots, with a variety of different weapon arrangements. Clusterbots simply aren't a serious competitive option and Ian has managed only very limited success with them across multiple different competitions, but he perseveres all the same.

* CloudCuckoolander: Some people wonder if Ian Watts went a bit loopy after Orte got knocked out of Series 8 in one blow, as he seems to have become obsessed with clusterbots, entering them in ''Robot Wars'', ''Series/BattleBots'' and ''King of Bots'' despite [[AwesomeButImpractical a marked lack of success]]. He also started acting more than a bit eccentric, dressing himself and his team up in strange outfits (such as dressing as chefs with colanders worn as hats on ''King of Bots'').

* PutOnABus: Sadly, Or Te was apparently turned away from Series 9 after its poor showing the previous year, marking the first time since Series 2 that Ian Watts won't be taking part in the show.

-->'''Jonathan''': [''as Bigger Brother tosses 3 Stegs to Heaven around the arena like a leaf''] If you'd seen Bigger Brother before on Robot Wars, you'd have ''never'' guessed that this could happen! Never in a million lightyears!

* BadassDecay: It's the only champion never to reach another grand final. Their results slowly and steadily declined until they crashed out of the heats in Series 6 and 7.

* DidntSeeThatComing: The Series 7 version of the robot removed the self-righting mechanism and replaced it with an anti-hammer cushioned top that was designed in response to their brutal loss against Terrorhurtz in Series 6. The team's belief was that if they made the robot sufficiently difficult to get underneath, it wouldn't need a srimech. Admittedly this didn't come up in the main competition despite the huge number of high-powered flippers that series, albeit only because they went out in round 2 before they could fight any of them, but in the All-Stars competition they were proved spectacularly wrong by Dantomkia.
* FuzzballSpider: Panic Attack's spider mascot has a round grey body decorated with eight pointed legs and a large scowling face. Originally rather detailed despite the simplified shape in series 2, it was made far more cartoony for the next and every subsequent series after.

%%* RedEyesTakeWarning: Painted on the front.

* MechanicallyUnusualClass: Recyclopse actually had quite the most unusual front-hinged flipper in all of ''Robot Wars,'' despite being the ''first'' robot to even use this weapon- it had a long flat "tongue" at the bottom that slid out along the ground with the intention of sliding under other robots, then the front-hinged flipper would fire up from the tip of the tongue, pushing the victim over.
%* {{Oculothorax}}: Recyclopse resembled this.%How?

* RageQuit: In the incident famously known as [[http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Cassius#Garrod.27s_Protest 'Garrod's Protest']], Rex finally lost his temper with the incompetence of the ''Robot Wars'' production staff when an unsecured robot had inflicted a serious injury on a member of the crew, for the ''second'' year running, despite him personally warning them of the dangers of the lax precautions after one of their "health and safety staff" had criticised him over a triviality. This was his last appearance on the show, despite being one of the most successful and respected roboteers.

After Hypno-Disc, arguably the show's greatest uncrowned champion. Unquestionably one of the most consistent performers in the show's history, Firestorm was to front-hinged flippers what Chaos 2 was to rear-hinged ones, except that unlike Chaos 2 it was ''never'' equalled. After making an inauspicious debut in Series 2 with the bizarre and ineffective Groundhog, the team would go on to drive their striking red-and-yellow machine to great success, reaching five semifinals and three ''grand'' finals, resulting in no less than three 3rd-place finishes.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Groundhog, a bizarre-looking box on stiltlike legs tipped with "omniwheels" that supposedly allowed it to drive in any direction. While it at least made it through its Series 2 Gauntlet and Trial, it lost its only battle and was promptly forgotten when the team returned with Firestorm.

* MechanicallyUnusualClass: The only robot with a front-hinged flipper that could also toss robots out of the arena. Due to its design, it could drive an opponent against the arena wall and then use the reverse-wedge on its back end to rear up and push the opponent over the wall.

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Groundhog's [[https://youtu.be/mYhpuzj_Dsk?t=5s sole arena battle against Loco]] played this up for all its worth, complete with a shot of Loco [[BetweenMyLegs between Groundhogs' legs]], which was possible due to its unwieldy shape.

The [[EnsembleDarkHorse Cinderella Story]] of the 3rd Wars, Steg-O-Saw-Us was actually a reserve called in to replace another competitor that was forced to drop out, only to brute-force its way to the Grand Final with sheer smashing power. The team returned in Series 4 with Steg 2, a powerful flipper than was one of the best in the series, but sadly not good enough to beat ''the'' best, Chaos 2. Unfortunately, the team split up after that and although 2 of the members returned with 3 Stegs to Heaven, it failed to recapture their former glory.