History YMMV / MazingerZ

** Satan Claus [=P10=], one of the two [[MonsterOfTheWeek Mechanical Beasts of the Week]], is an evil, mechanical Santa who attacks from a sled with missiles. Come WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, and we would see yet ''another'' evil robotic Santa, who also gets around in a flying sled, and although he doesn't exclusively attack with explosives, he has a notable preference for missiles!

* FandomRivarly: In Spain, fans of Mazinger Z heavily resent the tv series Orzowei for suddenly replacing Mazinger Z during it's original run.

* MemeticBadass: Boss is a semi-ironic one within the fandom, as fans like to exaggerate him and Boss Borot being a comic relief IronButtMonkey whose surprisingly reliable and regularly prone to saving the day in the nick of time to straight up being an unstoppable badass whose impossible to even hinder.

* CryForTheDevil: Neither the original manga penned by Creator/GoNagai nor the anime series went into the past and motivations of the villains. The manga penned by Creator/GosakuOta and published simultaneously with the tv show finally revealed what they were. In one of the last chapters, as Dr. Hell is making preparations for the FinalBattle, Dr. Hell begins to narrate what his early life was like. We learn during the flashback that [[spoiler:he was born in a very poor family. His mother never wanted to have a child, constantly stated his existence was a bother for her and beat him constantly as his father did nothing. No child wanted to play with him because he looked ugly and weird.]] Looking for a way out of it he turned to books. He became very intelligent, began to get excellent grades in school... and then [[spoiler:his teachers accused him of cheating and several of his classmates bullied him. He grew up without friends until he got to college, when he befriended someone who appreciated his intelligence and he fell in love with an exchange student. Shortly after he found out they were a couple and his frayed mind was already so paranoid he thought they were plotting against him to backstab him.]] After another unpleasant incident where he got beaten for a good deed [[spoiler:(a little girl slipped in front of him and he caught her, avoiding she hit the ground and got hurt. It was a well-meaning, innocent act. However her parents thought he was molesting her, and her father pummeled him)]] his mind finally snapped and he decided HumansAreBastards and one day he would wipe the world of idiots and everyone would have to kneel before him.

### Kouji baited Sayaka because he ''was'' a sexist jerk and not because he was uninterested in her. BelligerentSexualTension was an UnbuiltTrope back then: the anime series showed plenty of moments where Kouji cared for Sayaka, the Creator/GoNagai manga made it way more obvious he liked Sayaka, and in the Creator/GosakuOta manga they ''do'' kiss.

** Yuri, Sayaka's cousin, was an annnoying, cranky, demanding BrattyHalfPint. She acted like that because her parents were too MarriedToTheJob to take care of her. Also, she is an IllGirl in a wheelchair, and she refuses to undergo therapy to walk again because she is afraid everyone will leave her alone again.