The Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56) is a spectacular system showing two galaxy clusters that have recently collided and passed through each other, with visible shock fronts in the hot X-ray-emitting gas and a spatial separation between the gas (revealed by X-rays) and the gravitational mass distribution (revealed by weak gravitational lensing). Lambda-CDM interprets this system as direct evidence for dark matter particles, claiming that the lensing mass peaks follow the collisionless galaxies and dark matter while lagging behind the shock-heated gas which experienced ram pressure and friction during the collision (Clowe 2006; Markevitch 2004). However, the Lambda-CDM interpretation struggles to explain several features: the shock velocities and temperatures require collision speeds of approximately 4,700 km/s which is at the extreme upper limit or beyond what the model predicts for cluster mergers in a universe with the observed matter density, the clean separation between gas and lensing mass is more dramatic than most simulations produce, and the system's overall dynamics suggest a more violent and energetic collision than typically expected from hierarchical structure formation in a dark matter-dominated universe.