History Characters / RobotWarsOtherUKAndInternationalRobots

* AnimalMotifs: Foxic's name is a cross between VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog and a fox.

* MagicHair: The "hair" seen in Series 2 and 4 was made of Kevlar, and was intended to gum up chainsaws and spinning discs. "Intended" being the operative word, as the only thing it did gum up was Razer's wheel, much to the team's chagrin, as they had to spend a significant chunk of their repair time digging it out. Ian Lewis even refered to it as "Milly-Ann bug's SecretWeapon".

* DoingItForTheArt: John Frizell, Terror Turtle's team captain, focuses more on aesthetics, [[GreenAesop environmental friendliness]], and entertainment value in his robot building, rather than constructing a machine to win. Terror Turtle certainly was an amusing looking machine made from recycled materials, and its record speaks for itself.

* [[ManOnFire Old Woman on Fire]]: Surely it wasn't a coincidence that both of its battles saw it going into the arena with [[FireBreathingWeapon Sgt. Bash]]?
* NeverMessWithGranny: [[AvertedTrope Heh, not really.]]

* [[ManOnFire Bot On Fire]]: During less-important bouts the team would add intentionally-flammable doodads to the robot with the intention of getting them set on fire during the battle for the audience's entertainment. Although the robot was designed to withstand the flames, they still opted to remove them for more significant battles, such as the Season 2 Grand Final.

* TierInducedScrappy: Drillzilla was reportedly heavily disliked [[InUniverse by the other roboteers,]] as its shufflebot mechanism combined with the walkerbot weight advantage was considered to be borderline cheating.

-->'''Philippa:''' Oh. That concludes that interview.

* MagicHair: The "hair" seen in Series 2 and 4 was made of Kevlar, and was intended to gum up chainsaws and spinning discs. "Intended" being the operative word, as the only thing it did gum up was Razer's wheel, much to the team's chagrin, as they had to spend a significant chunk of their repair time digging it out. Ian Lewis even refereed to it as "Milly-Ann bug's SecretWeapon".

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* TurtlePower: Well, not really.

* AwesomeMcCoolname

* AnAxeToGrind: Arnold A. Terminegger had an overhead axe added for Extreme 1.

* MagicHair: The "hair" seen in Series 2 and 4 was made of Kevlar, and was intended to gum up chainsaws and spinning discs. "Intended" being the word as the only thing it did gum up was Razer's wheel, much to the chagrin of the later's team who had to spend a significant chunk of the repair time digging it out. Ian Lewis even refereed to it as "Milly-Ann bug's SecretWeapon".

* SirVerbaLot

* [[ManOnFire Old Woman on Fire]]: Surely, it wasn't a coincidence that both of its battles saw it going into the arena with [[FireBreathingWeapon Sgt. Bash]]?

%% * AnimalMotifs: Hmm...

* AnAxeToGrind: A pretty ineffectual one, often compared to a toothpick. Comengetorix' Series 6 axe was better, managing to punch through Hydra's armour (though it still lost).

* StartMyOwn: Jonathan Pillai left the Stinger team after their [[EpicFail ill-fated]] Series 3 run to create Infernal Contraption as a sort of SpiritualSuccessor to Stinger, giving it a powered weapon between the wheels rather than making it a thwackbot. Unfortunately this meant [[ThePeteBest he missed Stinger's epic Series 4 run]] where they went all the way up to ''the Grand Final'' (and nearly beat Chaos 2!), while Infernal Contraption never really accomplished anything.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Jim Struts, a pair of bulky, underweaponed walkers, were succeeded by Arnold A. Terminegger, a far more compact robot with conventional wheels and actual weapons.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: None of Adam Clark's machines was anything like the last.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sadly, Steve Merrill, who was the heart and soul of the team, passed away from complications relating to bowel cancer in 2011. All remaining models of Sir Chromalot passed into the possession of his former teammate, Ray Tait.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In Series 3 Vercingetorix had various Latin phrases scrawled on its casing, one of which, "Julius, futue te ipsum", literally translates to "Julius, go [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] yourself". This was completely uncensored, presumably because the producers had no idea what it meant.

* MagicHair: The "hair" seen in Series 2 and 4 was made of Kevlar, and was intended to gum up chainsaws and spinning discs.

* TookALevelInBadass: The robot never did very well, but it definitely ended the show a lot more powerful than it started (its early exit from Series 7 was due to being drawn against Dantomkia in the second round). Its flywheel was actually really destructive.

** In terms of the main competition, their first entry, an invertible lifter named Vindicare, failed to qualify for Series 4. Its successor, a vertical crusher named TX-108, failed to qualify for Series 5 through 7 (after its Wild Card Warrior fight in Extreme was not broadcast due to its poor quality), was rebuilt as Apex and submitted for Series 8... and ''again'' failed to qualify. After swapping Apex's crusher for a [[SpectacularSpinning honking great spinner]], Apex ''finally'' qualified for Series 9 and 10, but in the former it couldn't spin its weapon up fast enough and suffered a OneHitKill from Pulsar, and in the latter it lost in the Redemption Round [[TrashTheSet in horrifying fashion]].

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Slicer's rotating drum was not actually terribly damaging (the teeth were too close together to catch on and tear off armour the way a flywheel would and it wasn't fast enough to hit like a modern drum spinner), so what it actually did was add a lot of upward kick to Slicer's ramming attacks, allowing them to ram opponents hard enough to knock them over. The drum ''helped'' but it didn't eviscerate opponents like, say, Series 7 X-Terminator could and for the most part Slicer was effectively a well-driven rambot.

* LeftStuckAfterAttack: As noted above, Spikasaurus ended up skewering Killerhurtz on its long spikes, couldn't get them back out again, and Killalot had to come in and separate the two.

** In terms of the main competition, their first entry, an invertible lifter named Vindicare, failed to qualify for Series 4. Its successor, a vertical crusher named TX-108, failed to qualify for Series 5 through 7, was rebuilt as Apex and submitted for Series 8... and ''again'' failed to qualify. After swapping Apex's crusher for a [[SpectacularSpinning honking great spinner]], Apex ''finally'' qualified for Series 9 and 10, but in the former it couldn't spin its weapon up fast enough and suffered a OneHitKill from Pulsar, and in the latter it lost in the Redemption Round [[TrashTheSet in horrifying fashion]].