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** In the Jesse James vs Al Capone episode, during their melee/silent weapon test, a stiletto/switchblade goes up against a Bowie knife. Multiple things are off about this test. Their computer "expert" Max Geiger claims that with knives, size does matter. Not a few minutes later, he wants to test the Bowie knife to see if its SIZE IS OVERCOMPENSATION. Is knife size on a bell curve? Anyhow, the stiletto went up against one of their famous gel torsos. The Bowie knife? Against a skinned pig carcass. Two different test subjects, and yet they act as if that was conclusive. Now maybe they did the same test and didn't show it, but come on. Seeing a Bowie knife against a gel torso would have made the results more believable.
* Giving the Roman Centurion and Alexander the Great artillery weapons. The best part was the Centurion's Scorpion, which were often about 4 feet tall and designed to be fired by a full, multi-man crew (here with only one person) was compared to a small, bladed, frisby-like disk.
* And for some reason, "Intimidation" is a serious factor they consider tallying up a weapon's lethality, despite the fact that intimidation in a weapon design is nearly always achieved at the expense of practicality (Sure, a [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Bat'leth]] looks pretty sweet, but a trained fighter with an ordinary, boring Ka-Bar can ''easily'' take down someone wielding one). Plus, there's also the fact that a weapon's psychological effect on an opponent is not a measurable thing one can reliably depend on in a fight. When they say things like "Intimidation" or "Psychological effect," they're really saying "It looks cool."
* The upcoming Vampires vs. Zombies match. Um...what? At least the other fights had some semblance of reality, but this? Unless they're testing methods for ''killing'' them, there's no real way to have this matchup, since most fights with vampires and zombies are ''hand to hand'', without any weapons used by the monsters.
** While on the subject, which vampires VS which zombies? Bram Stokers [[Dracula]] VS Voodoo zombies? ''[[Underworld (Filmfilm)|Underworld]]'' VS [[Land of the Dead]]? [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Edward Cullen]] VS [[Twenty Eight28 Days Later|Rage virus]]? There is no way to do this and reach a conclusive result, even within the limits of pitting fictional monsters against each other, because either side could claim to have been unfairly matched up.
** If you're wondering, it was 30 Days of Night vs. [[World War Z]]. The two most random and unrealistic franchises being presented as indisputable canon.
** This episode deftly removes any and all doubt that ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'' is anything other than glorified Nerd Wankery over who's "[[Rule of Cool|cooler]]," without much regard for real science (that is, if the fucking "ballistic knife" thing didn't already convince you of that).
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