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Battle Bots is a popular show about fighting robots that was aired on [[Comedy Central]] for 5 seasons from 2000 until 2002, and later revived as a Youtube-exclusive series of episodes covering the 2009 collegiate tournament. The show is an American version of ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot
It was hosted in the first two seasons by Bil Dwyer and Sean Salisbury. In the third season Sean was replaced by Tim Green.
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* [[Boring but Practical]]: Wedges. Voltronic in particular screams this trope. Its weapon was a slow lifting arm that had small spikes pop out from the bottom when it grabbed something. It would then carry the opponent around, with them unable to retaliate because their wheels weren't touching anything. Voltronic won most of its fights by doing this, even after a rule was added stating robots could not "pin" another for more than 30 seconds: If the trapped robot could still move, they had to let go.
** In an arena where the most guaranteed win is to hold your opponent under a giant hammer, heavily-armored non-offensive designs seem a lot more attractive. It's no wonder that Biohazard, Diesector, and and Vlad all won multiple Nuts, while Mechavore and Surgeon general got none.
* [[Bullfight
* [[Catch
** "The box is locked, the lights are on: It's robot fightin' time!"
* [[Critical Existence
* [[
* [[Combat
* [[Combat
* [[Curb Stomp
** Arguably a CMOA for Zion, something a non-trivial number of bots can't say.
* [[Defeating the
** Specifically, Hazard had won 17 fights in a row and claimed three tournament trophies. 12 of its fights ended in KOs. It's quite fitting that its showdown with T-Minus was the last fight Hazard ever had.
*** Actually Hazard fought in Steel Conflict I after [[
* [[
* [[Double
* [[Drop the
** And '''The Pulverizer''', the most destructive obstacle in the arena. If the bot designer does not have a plan for getting away from the giant hammers, then you just know [[Boss Arena Idiocy|that's where they will end up]].
* [[Dueling
* [[Duel to the Death]]: Every single fight.
* [[Everything's Better with
* [[Explosive
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Several robots were quite revered despite losing almost all their televised battles. Examples include Mouser Mecha Catbot, Tentomushi, and The Mauler.
* [[Follow the
* [[Glass
* [[Glory
** This applies to a number of bots that did well in early seasons but whose designs became outdated later on, such as Backlash, Mauler, El Diablo, Deadblow, and a number of others. Later, even bots such as Biohazard would become subject to this in post-Battlebots tournaments, as fierce young teams with updated designs and more money began taking over the sport on the independent scene.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Son of Whyachi in Season 4 immediately [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYh3VzbKMM helicoptered] into the battle box wall before it could even get out of the starting square. Even its team was amused.
* [[Humongous
* [[Impaled with Extreme
* [[Improbable Weapon
* [[Joke
** Buddy Lee Don't Play In The Street was a toy radio-control fire truck with no weapons and a Cabbage Patch Kid on board. Amazingly, it did rather well.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KdMFBvdyR8 The Wacky
** At least the Wacky Compass's followup Son of Wacky was a decent robot. On the other hand, Stewbot, an RC toy truck with a trailer filled with ''LEGO bricks'', was not. It was no match for the Pulverizer.
*** Its a shame they don't have the full video of the fight online, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNcT2BC7W4 but this says enough].
** Also Crash Test Dummy, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBL0diT2ifk As seen
** [[SimCity|Will Wright'
* [[Lethal Joke
* [[Life or Limb
* [[Lightning
* [[Limited Sound
* [[Lovely
* [[Made of
* [[Man On
* [[Melee a
* [[Mighty
* [[My Name Is Inigo
* [[Names to Run Away From Really
** As well as Bio-Hazard, Diesector, Nightmare, Deadblow...
* [[No-Holds-Barred
* [[One Hit KO]]: Nightmare vs. Slam Job, as outlined above.
** Son of Whyachi vs. Nightmare
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: In Season 5's Lightweight tournament, Dr. Inferno Jr. lost one of its arms in its very first battle. It covered the broken tip with a wad of bandages and gauze, then went on to {{spoiler|win the whole darn tournament with half its weaponry!}}
* [[Opening
* [[Scenery
* [[Single-Stroke
* [[Spikes of
* [[Stone Wall]]: New Cruelty, Turtle, Iceberg, '''ZION''', if not in looks.
* [[Swiss Army
** Overkill's blade was originally intended to thwack bots into submission, either from above or from the side by spinning around and hitting them with it, but its most successful application has been as a "spinner killer". Particularly in the case of horizontal saw spinners, bots have cut through the blade only to find that in doing so, they've rendered their own weapon useless, allowing Overkill to dominate the rest of the fight by pushing them around. This has happened to MOE, Mechavore, Surgeon General, and Warhead, and is a big reason why Overkill has never lost by knockout.
* [[Technical
* [[Ten-Minute
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMq6Hw-oxSs El Diablo vs.
** Especially when Overkill beat Mechavore and Surgeon General during Season 4 by using the big blade to break their weapons. When the teeth on the blades hit the circles in Overkills blade it bent the tooth and stopped the blade.
* [[Took a Level in
** Megabyte, a full-body spinner from the heavyweight division, was eliminated early in the preliminary rounds of the fifth season tournament. After the show's run ended, its builders continued to work on it for non-televised tournaments in later years. A couple years after the end of Battlebots' run, Megabyte fought ''the'' Biohazard (who dominated during Battlebots' TV run and is often thought to be the "face" of American robot combat) and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifBLBYwxe2Q completely obliterated
*** Also note that Megabyte once entered a Superheavyweight tournament. Megabyte was not altered in any way aside from gaining the assistance of [[Mecha-Mooks|tiny wedge bots (called "Little Bites") that would provide distractions for opponents.]] Superheavyweights are more than 100 pounds heavier than the average heavyweight. Megabyte placed ''third.''
** Slam Job is another bot whose success in the box has increased significantly after Battlebots' TV run ended. Remembered mostly for being the victim of Nightmare's Crowning Moment Of Awesome, Slam Job is now known as one of the highest-ranked heavyweights on the independent circuit. It even has a victory over the aforementioned Megabyte.
* [[Victory
** Diesector in particular has an excellent victory dance that uses all his weapons to great effect. Bigger Brother and Little Sister also loved to do this.
* [[Uncancelled]]: It's supposed to be coming back sometime in the future... [[Development Hell|
** Only the College tournament, the High School and Professional [
** The 2009 College Tournament was to air on digital cable and satellite but was canceled at the last minute before airing even a single episode. One episode from this made it to Youtube's pay-per-view service, the rest are sitting in an editing room somewhere.
* [[What Could Have
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