History YMMV / DeadliestWarrior

* In the game, the new DLC warriors look set to become this.
** The Shaolin Monk has a just plain ridiculous damage output. A simple 3-hit combo can take half of the health from a ''knight in fullplate''.
** The Zande has a shield as a guerilla. When you can play a guerilla without even dodging... Not to mention that the [[FanNickname penis blades]] do pretty heavy damage.
** The Rajput doesn't look all that much on the surface, but he has a combo that is almost guaranteed to break an enemy's legs and another one that is although less likely, still likely to break an enemy's arm.

* Eagleland: The Washington vs. Napoleon episode is pretty shameless about it's "AMERICA F*** YEAH!" stance. Just listen to how Napoleon is described in the voiceovers.

* GrowingTheBeard: Season 3 seems to put more emphasis on comparing warrior battle tactics, with a new, apparently more accurate sim, which includes X-Factors by giving things like "Leadership" a numerical value. The show consults warrior experts to comment on battle tactics, and a weapons forger who actually makes accurate weapon reproductions. The battle simulations are also run 5,000 times as opposed to 1,000. This seems to address some complaints about the secrecy regarding the simulations and the amount of testing done.

** And now we have Vampires vs. Zombies. Really? No FurVsFang? How could you miss something so obvious?

* PanderingToTheBase: While not confirmed, it's likely the inclusion of Richard "Mack" Machowicz as a tactician specialist and data into the strategies and mentalities of the warriors being tested in the third season is meant to criticisms of the show being more "Deadliest Weapon" than "Deadliest Warrior".

* PanderingToTheBase: While not confirmed, it's likely the inclusion of Richard "Mack" Machowicz as a tactician specialist and data into the strategies and mentalities of the warriors being tested in the third season is meant to shut up FanDumb outcries of the show being more "Deadliest Weapon" than "Deadliest Warrior".

* UnfortunateImplications: the show's format of presenting opposing sides, combined with the natural tendency to pick one, means that one can end up cheering for the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]]. Yay?

* {{Narm}}: While some fights make sense (i.e. the pirate is trying to steal treasure, the knight is trying to prevent him), some have no basis and simply have one combatant charging at the other out of the blue. If you're looking for any actual ''reason'' for fights, this can completely take the tension out of what should be the dramatic climax of the show.
** Not to mention the fact that the Zande basically screamed OM NOM NOM when in battle. Terrifying back then. Now...[[NightmareRetardant not so much.]]
** Some of this may be intentional. It's hard to take the scene where the Shaolin Monk is just doing a sedate form, and hears the Maori's "KA MATE! KA MATE!" coming from the woods, goes to investigate, and finds a half-naked tribal warrior doing a tongue-waggling slap dance as anything but comedy. Especially given the deadpan, blinking "wut" face the monk makes.
** Another fine example of narm comes to us courtesy of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20540mcBjU0 Navy SEAL testing the Recon-1 knife.]] {{YMMV}} though, as the same incident is listed as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome above.
** And then there's the game, where winning with one of your arms chopped off causes your character to carry out your victory animation like it's still there, even if it involves BACKFLIPS. But then again, it's OnlyAFleshWound!

** TruthInTelevision combined with CombatPragmatist. It's a cheap way to ensure the sucker that steps on them gets an infection that'll require extensive medical treatment, instead of a simple puncture wound that could be dealt with by a field medic.

** The Zande has a shield as a guerilla. When you can play a guerilla without even dodging... Not to mention that the penis blades do pretty heavy damage.

* HeyItsThatGuy: One of the Maori specialists is Sauron / Witch-King / Gothmog / Random Orc from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. [[TheFaceless Though you probably won't recognize him]].
** [[PowerRangersTimeForce Wes and Eric]] are Alexander the Great and a random enemy soldier, respectively.
** It's no surprise that Terence Rotolo knows about Roman Centurions. [[DeadRising He's covered wars, y'know.]]
** One of the CIA actors looks suspiciously like Dennis Quaid.
** Garfield seems to be an IRA supporter.
* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The narrator is David Wenham, who played Faramir in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and Dilios/the narrator in ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]''. He is credited under the pseudonym Drew Skye, though.

** The Spartan, according to [[TheSpoonyOne Spoony's]] review of the game.