History Characters / DeadliestWarrior

* SanityHasAdvantages: This is [[spoiler: played straight]] in Hernán Cort&eacutes VS Ivan the Terrible, and is one of the biggest reasons why Ivan [[spoiler: lost the fight]].

!!UsefulNotes/HernanCortes

* ForTheEvulz: During the sim, he doesn't let Cortéz's attack stop him from torturing and killing a peasant.

* SanityHasAdvantages: This is [[spoiler: played straight]] in Hernan Cortes VS Ivan the Terrible, and is one of the biggest reasons why Ivan [[spoiler: lost the fight]].

!!UsefulNotes/HernanCortez

* GoldFever: At the end of his match against Ivan, [[spoiler: Cortéz helps himself to the Tsar's purse after killing him.]]

* SanityHasAdvantages: This is [[spoiler: played straight]] in Hernan Cortéz VS Ivan the Terrible, and is one of the biggest reasons why Cortéz [[spoiler: won the fight]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The episode frames his career as a warrior as a desire for revenge for "the Blue Water massacre". In reality, Crazy Horse was simply one of the most famous commanders in a long-term war between the US Army and the various tribes of Plains Indians.

* BadassBoast: Crowd thrilling killer of ancient Rome.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Their experts certainly thought so. The katana was said to be a "two body blade", as it [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cut through two whole pig carcasses.]]

* [[JidaiGeki 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.

* ShieldsAreUseless: Viking shield fails to withstand kanabo strike.

* ShieldBash: [[spoiler: The most effective weapon against the Ninja, as the shield is so massive that the Ninja had few options in dodging, blocking or parrying it. The Samurai could also be killed by the shield, though it wasn't as relatively effective since the Samurai's armor was so strong.]]

* CombatPragmatist: Mentioned by the experts, but rather lacking of it on screen.

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Sadly. He never seems to seriously try to go stealthy during the simulated battle, and near the entirety of his offensive is full frontal.

* StuffBlowingUp: The first warrior (on the series, that is) to use an explosive weapon - in this case, a primitive grenade.

The Sicilian crime family who flourished in the 1920s New York. Appeared first in Episode 5 fighting against the Yakuza.

* BadassBoast: Fierce, unforgiving slayer of the south seas.

* MightyGlacier: The sheer size of his Claymore and his access to chainmail slows him down compared to the unarmoured and more agile Shaka/ [[spoiler:Wallace still wins.]]

* BackFromTheBrink: [[spoiler: In the battle simulation against the Tailban, four IRA fighters get wiped out in the ''first few seconds''. It all comes down to just ''one'' last IRA fighter somehow taking out the remaining Taliban fighters ''by himself'' and winning the battle for the IRA. It helps that one Talib got killed at the begnning of the fight and another got killed by FriendlyFire.]]

* BadassCrew: What the GSG-9 are trained to be; they completed their first ever deployment in under 7 minutes with no civilian casualties.
* LeeroyJenkins: In the simulated battle, the GSG-9 frequently wander into one ambush after another. [[spoiler:And it's even how the last SWAT Team member ends up finishing off the last GSG-9 member.]]

* TrueCompanions: James' gang is portrayed as this; J.W. Wiseman, one of his experts, had this to offer about them.

* TheMafia: The best known and most famous leader of the Chicago Outfit. Sam Giancana is the only one who can come even ''close'' to making this "arguable".

* BadassBoast: Swift moving slayer of the ancient Mexican empire.

* ImAHumanitarian: Invoked and subverted. They pretended to be cannibals to terrorize their enemies, but were just faking it.

* LesserOfTwoEvils: Despite being communist terrorists and having a history of committing warcrimes, the Viet Cong pale in comparison to their explicitly genocidal enemy; the Waffen-SS.

* GroinAttack[=/=]CripplingCastration: The "Bouncing Betty" landmine, named such because its secondary fuse system designed to propel a triggered mine a couple of feet off the ground before the primary explosion sent steel ball bearings every which way as deadly shrapnel. The height at detonation meant that any man unlucky enough to be in the blast zone, even if they didn't die immediately, was liable to have his genitals shredded by shrapnel. As a result, it earned a feared reputation among the Allied troops. When the DW crew tested it, well...

* AwesomeButImpractical: Played with via the chariot scythes. They look nice, and [[spoiler: tore through two pig carcasses, but was deemed to lack true killing power and lost the edge to the Celt's burda club. However, it still got over 100 kills]].

* LaughablyEvil: He gets presented as this in the simulation, namely by shooting out Sun Tzu's teapot with an EvilLaugh and [[spoiler:mockingly saluting his foe's corpse after impaling him]].

* BadassBoast: The ruthless Chinese warmonger who revolutionary "Art of War" led to the massacre of millions.

* BadassBoast: The merciless 14th century weapons innovators who launched China's greatest dynasty.

* HorseArcher: Naturally, what they are most famous for. Ironically, it loses the edge to the Comanche bow, due to being less suitable to one-on-one long-ranged combat.

* LargeAndInCharge: The leader of the continental army, listed at 6'3", about 200 pounds - bigger than today's average American male, practically a giant in the late 18th century.

* WorthyOpponent: The experts note that in real-life, Napoleon had a great deal of respect for Washington as a fellow tactical genius and fellow enemy of the British.

* TheNapoleon: The experts mentioned how 5'6" was actually about normal height for a European man of that time period but he comes off looking like this anyway because he's paired with the freakishly tall Washington and his own taller-than-average bodyguards.

* FanservicePack: In the game, she suddenly upgrades a couple cup sizes, gets a [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting breastplate]], and [[CombatStilettos marches around in heels]].

* WoundedGazelleWarcry: How she managed to be LittleMissBadass while adhering to ThouShaltNotKill. She herself didn't take up arms, but took to the battlefield to motivate the troops with her presence.

* RockBeatsLaser: [[spoiler:{{Averted|Trope}}. William ''loses'' to Joan of Arc in part because his equipment is no match for a teenage girl equipped with weapons and armor literally centuries ahead of him. He puts up a good fight though.]]

* BadassBoast: "America's premiere light infantry division who would lead a massive counter attack."

* ImprobableAimingSkills: At one point during the battle simulation, Saddam manages to take out one of Pol Pot's men (who was on the ground) with a pistol shot from a second story window.

* UnderdogsNeverLose: [[spoiler: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.
* VocalDissonance: His [[spoiler:victory cry]] is notably less energetic and fierce than every other warrior we've seen. This carries over from real life: he was actually a soft-spoken man with a rather posh speech pattern and an oddly-squeaky voice.

* BadassBoast: Russia's sadistic sixteenth century Tsar, who's murderous death squads built Europe's largest empire of its time.
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Used one of his own soldiers as a [[BulletproofHumanShield meat shield]] and shoved another off a horse so he could ride it]] during the sim.

* ColdBloodedTorture: With such variety and such a hands on approach as to be his own TortureTechnician

* ForTheEvulz: During the sim he doesn't let Cortez's attack stop him from torturing and killing a peasant.

* PowerBornOfMadness: How else does a 51 year old man with a bad back kill his healthy adult son?
* SanityHasAdvantages: This is [[spoiler:played straight]] in Hernan Cortes VS Ivan the Terrible, and is one of the biggest reasons why Ivan [[spoiler:lost the fight]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: His methods are simple compared to the others, but effective

* GoldFever: At the end of his match against Ivan, [[spoiler: Cortes helps himself to the Tsar's purse after killing him.]]

* SanityHasAdvantages: 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]].

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] One of the Legionnaires is a black man who does get killed in the battle simulation. However, he's the ''third'' casualty, not the first. And to his credit, he does manage to take out one Gurkha before getting killed himself.

* BadassBoast: Unstoppable urban guerrilas, who waged a bloody, savage war for Irish independence.

* ArcherArchetype: Subverted. The Apache is an archer, but is presented as a hot-headed BloodKnight.

* BadassNative

* DropTheHammer

* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* TheStrategist

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Nest of Bees.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ''The Nest of Bees''.

* StateSec: 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 PraetorianGuard.

* HorseArcher

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%%* WoundedGazelleWarcry: How she managed to be LittleMissBadass while adhering to ThouShaltNotKill.

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%%* LargeAndInCharge

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%%* TheChessmaster

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%%* AxeCrazy

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%%* KnightTemplar
%%* TheMagnificent

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%%* DoomedHometown: Crazy Horse's ongoing motivation.
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%%* InjunCountry

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* BigBrotherInstinct: When Al Capone is delivering a No-Holds-BarredBeatdown on Jesse, Frank delivers the killing shot with his Winchester to save him.

* BladeOnAStick: The Naginata.

* BladeOnAStick: The Ikwla spear, so named for the sound it made while stabbing someone and being removed.

* BladeOnAStick: The Glaive.

* AssKickingEqualsAuthority: Became the first American President

* BadassNative

* {{Mayincatec}}

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* HorseArcher

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* TheConqueror
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter

** WoundedGazelleWarcry: How she managed to be LittleMissBadass while adhering to ThouShaltNotKill.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* LargeAndInCharge

* {{Eagleland}}
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous

* DirtyCommunists

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled[=/=]DoNotGoGentle: To paraphrase his own words, "better to do the wrong thing than nothing at all".
** AttackAttackAttack: The aforementioned "wrong thing".
* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* TheChessmaster

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* AxeCrazy

* TheConqueror

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* KnightTemplar
* TheMagnificent

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* [[DoomedHometown Doomed Homeland]]: Crazy Horse's ongoing motivation.
** RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* InjunCountry

* {{Bandito}}

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

** RapeAsBackstory[=/=]RapeAsDrama: A possible interpretation of his sister being attacked.

** ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: They love to portray themselves as this

* ZombieApocalypse

* [[spoiler: NiceJobFixingItVillain]]: [[spoiler: If those 189 zombies were the extent of the zombie outbreak then the three vampires may have saved the world a ZombieApocalypse.]]
* OhCrap: 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.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[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 CursedWithAwesome.]]
** [[spoiler:Probably the first. The resulting zombie-vampire would still have the vampire's weakness to sunlight but not the brains to avoid it, so would last until it tried to chase something in the dawning day. Final score: double KO. Which is probably for the best from mankind's perspective.]]

* LargeHam

* NiceGuy

** Which laps into CriticalResearchFailure as anyone who's read the book knows that he states that war is only meant to be have as a last resort and to obtain the least amount of deaths as possible. Of course, [[GeneralRipper other Chinese commanders who weren't as humane]] would use his tactics and kill, literally millions. Quick trivia quiz: What was the bloodiest(in terms of lost lives) war to occur in the first half of the 1860s? It's not what you [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar probably think]]. However, China's Taiping Rebellion, which started a decade prior to the US Civil War and lasted until 1864, had a death toll almost 20 times that of the American Civil War.

* RoyalRapier: Their main WeaponOfChoice in melee combat.

* BoringButPractical: The [[BatterUp baseball bat]] may not have been the flashiest weapon (especially compared to the Yakuza's [[FightingWithChucks nunchaku]]), but it was perfectly legal to carry, and pretty effective, too. [[spoiler: A smart swing from one of the experts visibly snapped several of a test pig's vertebrae.]]

* FightingWithChucks
** [[spoiler: AwesomeButImpractical: In comparison to the Mafia's baseball bat, which won against it in the simulation.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Well, it's actually a tomahawk.

* AnAxeToGrind

* AnAxeToGrind: Boasts a smaller one that actually proves to be one of Zulu's better weapons.

* AnAxeToGrind

* AwesomeMcCoolname: His birth name "Temujin" roughly translates to "ComicBook/IronMan".

* AwesomeMcCoolname: ''His middle name is Thor.''

* AwesomeMccoolname: The Chinese name for the Ming landmine trap translates to "Underground Sky Soaring Thunder."

* KnifeNut: the expert showed that some Apaches are able to carry 20 KNIVES.

* NiceHat

* NiceHat

* ProngsOfPoseidon: Uses the trident & net as a mid-range weapon.