Dead Metal was one of the four original house robots in Robot Wars. It was designed to resemble a mechanical scorpion that had "reanimated from a junkyard". It was armed with a 3000rpm circular saw, and pneumatically driven pincers. Dead Metal appears in Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction (PC/Xbox) in addition to the other four Robot Wars video games. In this game it is possible to play as Dead Metal and the other house robots by entering a cheat code.