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The various warriors featured in the show:
== Tropes about Season 1 warriors ==
=== Apache ===
Appeared in the first episode fighting against the Gladiator.
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* [[Badass Boast]]: Japan's lightning-fast dealer of death.
* [[The Archer]]
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Their experts certainly thought so. The katana was said to be a "two body blade", as it [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Blade
* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: The Kanabo.
* [[Jidai Geki|Sengoku Period]]: The test was based on the samurai of this time frame, fighting more on foot than on horseback and wearing more practical gusoku type armor rather than a heavy and complex o-yoroi.
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* [[Badass Boast]]: The battlefield butcher from ancient Greece.
* [[Elite Army]]: As one of the smallest armies in Greece, their military power was second only to the Athenian Navy.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: One of the most noted things about the Spartans are how well their shields stand up against attacks.
* [[The Spartan Way]]: [[Captain Obvious|Trope Namers.]]
* [[Greco
* [[Peloponnesian War]]: Although most people know them from the Persian Wars, this was where they were most militarily successful and historically important.
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Mentioned by the experts.
* [[Eye Scream]]: The main purpose of the glass eggs.
* [[Highly
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: The blowgun anyways.
=== Pirate ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Murderous killer of the high seas.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: The pirate does this at the end of the re-enactment, removing the Knight's visor and blasting him right between the eyes with his pistol.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: The first warrior (on the series, that is) to use an explosive weapon - in this case, a primitive grenade.
* [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: Many pirates of the type and period described on the show were veterans of this war, either as naval officers/sailors or privateers.
=== Knight ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Sword-wielding slayer of the medieval age.
* [[Hundred Years' War]]: Based on the info given at the beginning of the episode, the Knight would have fought here.
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: {{spoiler|Averted. The pirate's more advanced technology (read: gunpowder) is cited as the reason the knight lost the matchup.}}
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The Sicilian crime family who flourished in the 1920s New York. Appeared first in Episode 5 fighting against the Yakuza.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Molotov Cocktail turned out to be one in the fight.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: The baseball bat may not have been the flashiest weapon (especially compared to the Yakuza's [[Fighting
* [[Badass Boast]]: Deadly enforcers on the mean streets of New York.
* [[Improvised Weapon User]]: Two of their weapons are [[Batter Up|baseball bat]] and icepick.
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* [[Cold War]]
* [[Gulf War]]: The technology and tactics displayed on the show were those of [[G Bs]] from around roughly this time.
* [[The War
=== Spetsnaz ===
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=== Shaolin Monk ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The ultimate kung-fu killing machine from China.
* [[Bare
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: The Twin Hooks, described as four killing tools in one.
* [[Thou Shall Not Kill]]: Unless in self-defense.
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** [[BFS]] called the Claymore.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: His war against the English was essentially this, according to the experts.
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* [[Violent Glaswegian]]
=== Shaka Zulu ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The fierce African warlord who built a Zulu army that killed two million enemies and transformed a continent.
* [[Blade
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
=== Irish Republican Army ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Unstoppable urban guerrilas, who waged a bloody, savage war for Irish independence.
* [[Fire
* [[Mad Bomber]]: Their nail bombs are one of their key advantages, and they really seem to like using them.
* [[Well
* [[The Troubles]]
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* [[Badass Boast]]: Hardline religious extremists who back their beliefs with bullets.
* [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan]]: Many of them "made their bones" resisting this.
* [[The War
== Tropes about Season 2 warriors ==
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* [[Badass Boast]]: The top-secret paramilitary arm of the German police known as the most lethal counter-terrorism squad in the world.
* [[Badass Crew]]: What the GSG-9 are trained to be; they completed their first ever deployment in under 7 minutes with no civilian casualties.
* [[The War
=== Attila the Hun ===
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* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[The Magnificent]]
* [[Greco
* [[Macedonian Succession Wars]]: His death set these off, and his tactics were emulated by everyone involved.
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* [[The American Civil War]]: Took part as a guerrilla in Missouri. Half of his weapons on the show were designed for this war as well.
* [[True Companions]]: James' gang is portrayed as this; J.W. Wiseman, one of his experts, had this to offer about them.
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=== Al Capone ===
* [[A
* [[Badass Boast]]: The ruthless gangster whose criminal empire bloodied the streets of Depression-era Chicago.
* [[Bad Boss]]
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* [[More Dakka]]
* [[The Mafia]]: Arguably the best known and most famous leader of the Chicago Outfit.
* [[World War
=== Aztec Jaguar ===
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=== Zande ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Ferocious barbarian of Central Africa.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Just take a look at the design of their weapons. "It's a symbol of masculinity!"
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Invoked and subverted. They pretended to be cannibals to terrorize their enemies, but were just faking it.
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=== Nazi Waffen-SS ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The fanatical shock troops who led Adolf Hitler's evil charge for world domination.
* [[Fire
* [[State Sec]]: There's a reason they're the trope image.
* [[World War II]]
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=== Medellin Cartel: ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Colombia's killer drug lords who built the world's largest cocaine empire.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: At the height of their power, the Cartel made up to $65 million a day; they put it to good use by paying off government officials.
* [[The Cartel]]: Of course.
* [[More Dakka]]
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* [[The Empire]]: Because history is written by the winners, and they were imperial troops.
* [[Spiked Wheels]]: What the Immortals' chariots become with the scythes attached.
* [[Greco
=== Celt ===
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* [[Hand Cannon]]: Vlad's special weapon is literally called this.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Impaled
* [[Irony]]: The same Turks who beat and tortured Vlad when he was a child fell by his hand when he was an adult.
* [[The Magnificent]]: in format, though it also doubles as a [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|name to run away from really fast]]
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=== Musketeer ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The king's ruthless personal guard and fierce defenders of France's borders.
* [[Cheese
* [[State Sec]]: Yes, they did exist. The French Musketeers (the kind examined on the show) was divided into two branches: one worked to guard the king, the other for the cardinal.
** Making them also an example of a [[Praetorian Guard]].
* [[Thirty Years' War]]
=== Comanche: ===
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=== Mongol ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The vicious Asian horse warriors who used pure savagery to conquer more territory in the 13th century than any empire in history.
* [[Blade
* [[Horse Archer]]
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* [[Cold War]]
* [[Gulf War]]
* [[The War
=== Israeli Commando ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Israel's top secret assassins, who fend off terrorists dedicated to destroying the Jewish nation.
* [[Badass Israeli]]: [[Captain Obvious|Do we really need to say it]]?
* [[Arab
== Tropes about Season 3 warriors ==
=== George Washington ===
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Became the first American President
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* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: scattershot
* [[The Stoic]]: {{spoiler|After winning, George calmly cleans his sword and stares off into the horizon.}}
* [[Seven Years' War]]: Washington made his warmaking bones in this war.
* [[The American Revolution]]
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* [[Napoleonic Wars]]
=== [[Joan of Arc]] ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The teenage French fighter whose battlefield heroics defeated England's superior army and ended the Hundred Years War.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: At the age of 17, Joan led the entire French army to win the Hundred Years War; without her, a British victory would've been inevitable.
* [[Pint
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: In [[Real Life]], she actually did not personally fight, but rather held on to the flag to keep herself from killing.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Warcry]]: How she managed to be [[Little Miss Badass]] while adhering to [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]].
* [[Fan Service Pack]]: In the game, she suddenly upgrades a couple cup sizes, gets a [[Form
* [[Hundred Years' War]]
=== William the Conqueror ===
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* [[Cold War]]
* [[Gulf War]]
* [[The War
* [[The Korean War]]: The situation described on the show would technically be a continuation of this.
=== North Korean Special Operations Force ===
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=== Saddam Hussein ===
* [[Cold
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: Or at least relative sanity anyways. His higher psychological health compared to [[Axe Crazy|Pol Pot]] was considered an X-factor advantage.
* Iran-[[Iraq War]]
* [[Gulf War]]
* [[The War
=== Pol Pot ===
* [[Axe Crazy]]
* [[Child Soldier]]: Pol Pot himself led the Khmer Rouge as an adult, but it was mentioned that the average age of his soldiers was 16.
* [[Cold
* [[You're Insane!]]: The show made it abundantly clear just how gonzo this guys plan was.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
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* [[Nice Hat]]
* {{spoiler|[[Underdogs Never Lose]]: Most of the x-factors were against him and even most of his weapons and tactics were rated lower than his opponent, yet he still came out on top.}}
* [[World War
=== Lawrence of Arabia ===
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Gatling Good]]: Actually a Vicker's. {{spoiler|Just, you know, not as good as a proper Gatling Gun.}}
* [[World War
=== Ivan the Terrible ===
* [[A God Am I]]: Believes he is the [[
* [[An Axe to Grind]]
* [[Axe Crazy]]
* [[Badass Boast]]: Russia's sadistic sixteenth century Tsar, who's murderous death squads built Europe's largest empire of its time.
* [[Bad Boss]]: {{spoiler|Used one of his own soldiers as a [[Bulletproof Human Shield|meat shield]]}} during the sim.
* [[Cold
* [[The Conqueror]]
* [[For the Evulz]]: During the sim he doesn't let Cortez's attack stop him from torturing and killing a peasant.
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* [[Badass Boast]]: The brutal Spanish explorer, who's conquistadors conquered the largest empire in North America of the sixteenth century.
* [[Badass Spaniard]]
* [[Cold
* [[The Conqueror|The Conquistador]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He looked positively disgusted when he saw Ivan torturing and killing a random peasant.
* [[Gold Fever]]: At the end of his match against Ivan, {{spoiler|Cortes helps himself to the Tsar's purse after killing him.}}
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Only in It For
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: This is {{spoiler|played straight}} in Hernan Cortes VS Ivan the Terrible, and is one of the biggest reasons why Cortes {{spoiler|won the fight}}.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: The Alabarda has a pike on top for thrusting, a hook on the back for dismounting mounted opponents/pulling invaders off ladders, and an axe head for cutting.
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* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|Technically lost the fight, but then the vampire gets infected...}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Cited as an actual X-Factor. They are physically incapable of feeling any human emotions, such as fear.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: [[Dawn of the Dead (
* [[The Virus]]: Stated as the reason the zombies need to feed on living flesh is to pass this on.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Their primary tactic is to swarm and overwelm the opponent by sheer numbers. This is why they decided to pit an entire horde of almost-200 zombies vs 3 vampires.
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* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Nobody was expecting a fantasy creature to appear in Deadliest Warrior.
* [[Last Stand]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|The final vampire can't escape because the sun is rising, and thus has to fight back against the remaining horde of Zombies.}} Does it end well? {{spoiler|Yes.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]}}: {{spoiler|If those 189 zombies were the extent of the zombie outbreak then the three vampires may have saved the world a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Cited as an actual X-Factor. As powerful as they are, they are still capable of feeling human emotions, like fear. Sure enough, the vampires {{spoiler|freeze up, stare, and then retreat upon seeing a comrade get torn to pieces and then eaten.}}
* [[One
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: [[
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|Technically won the fight, but then infection starts to set. Though the experts couldn't decide on rather becoming a Zombie Vampire was this trope or [[Cursed
* [[Rise
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Followed it in regards to the female vampire.
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