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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Honoo no Sadame'', the opening theme. To have a taste, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMYc98uWIM here's]] the original version and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWz0LAlZ_wc here's]] the Operation Extend edition.
2** Also '''Tetsu no Lullaby'', the rocking opening of Pailsen Files.
3** The ''Armored Hunter Mellowlink'' gives us pure 80's goodness with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72PRJUiNO4 Soldier Blue]].
4* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Colonel Yoran Pailsen]] is a ruthless MadScientist who crafted an experiment on the world of Sunsa that involved [[WouldHurtAChild burning hundreds of children alive]] to determine who had a unique "survivalist" trait. Obsessed with creating the "perfect soldier", Pailsen directs his private unit, the Red Shoulder Battalion, to commit wartime atrocities and even fight to the death among themselves. In order to test his theories, Pailsen even manipulates the head of the military, Fedok Wockam, into starting a pointless battle that leaves 120 million people dead, obsessed with furthering his research no matter the human cost. That being said...
5** TheCuckoolanderWasRight: While his methods were ruthless, got a significant number of red-shoulders killed and racked up an additional body count of over 120 million... It turns out his "Abnormal Survivor" theory was right all along, and his heavy-handed process filtered one out and put him on the Red Shoulder Battalion.
6* CultClassic: As with most of Ryousuke Takahashi's opus, watching VOTOMS at least once in a lifetime is practically a must for any serious mecha fan. However, VOTOMS is a decently well known anime even outside mecha circles.
7* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite his horrific reputation, general nastiness, and [[spoiler: dying in his debut]], Pailsen proved popular enough to appear in two of the three pre-''Shining Heresy'' [=OVAs=] and having his own series named after him.
8* FanNickname: "Dead Chirico", for Chirico whenever he's unconscious. This comes from the horribly OffModel way he's drawn whenever that happens.
9* HilariousInHindsight: At one point, Chirico is described as someone who "couldn't die even if you killed him". Hopefully he never runs into one [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou Emiya]].
10** Chirico was doing 1440 noscopes on his Scopedog long before 360 noscopes were a thing in Call of Duty.
11** With the release of the [=iPhone 11 Pro=], [[https://twitter.com/macleod1997/status/1171571327875993601 fans have compared its camera layout with that of the Scopedog]].
12* MemeticBadass:Chirico. Taken up to eleven in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Jigoku-hen]]'' when he can kill ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEbAqyhujs8 anything]]'' [[CherryTapping with his pistol.]]
13* MemeticMutation: The aforementioned "dead Chirico" deal. JP fans also like to post, spoiler tagged, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_10_01_221420.png a specific frame of the TV series's OP]] and the word "museru" / "むせる" on message boards and forums.
14* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: Several.
15** The sound effects for the [=ATs=] [[RollerbladeGood rollerskate treads]] have an oddly orgasmic feel to it. VRRRREEEEEEEEEEE FWOWM.
16** The punching sounds if a Scopedog gets close enough for an uppercut. It even expends cartridges like a gun!
17** The when the Scopedog's scopes switch lens. It sounds much like a camera zooming in.
18** The oddly muffled machine gun fire used by the [=ATs=], plus the strange techno-ish explosion that follows.
19* MoralEventHorizon: Where do we begin?
20** The Secret Society deploys a platoon to attack on Lido, and also attempts to kill Chirico if he knows too much about the operation. And it doesn't help that when he was "saved" and arrested by Jean-Paul Rochina. He then interrogates Chirico with electroshock torture.
21** Kan Yu straight-up destroys the boat with unarmed civilians because he thinks that they are Veela spies.
22** ''Armored Hunter Mellowlink'', Vecker torturing Arity for his own pleasure.
23** We found out that the "traumatic" memory of Titania: [[spoiler: getting hurt in a car accident and her father repairing her as a Nextant. Even worse is that this was actually an intentional order given by Vyacheslav.]]
24* NightmareFuel: Wockam's [[MindRape interrogation]] of Pailsen.
25** Imagine if you're an unfortunate citizen living in Uoodo, you get caught by the bikers, then caught in the crossfire between the police, the army, the biker gang, and the main protagonist.
26** The video recordings of the Red Shoulders Chirico finds on the spaceship trip to Sunsa are this mixed with SoundtrackDissonance, with the triumphant march of the Red Shoulders being played over the heartwrenching screams of their victims getting killed.
27* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The Playstation 2 game is an extremely polished, well-paced action game that covers the entire series and ''Shining Heresy'', and allows you to use practically every AT featured in the series. It's also easy to pick up and play, with translation hardly being an issue if you know the story by watching the show
28* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
29** The Balarant faction in both the series and [=OVAs=] never gets explored beyond showing some masked mooks and the Fatty AT. The series guide even snarkily comments that they apparently have no use for any other mecha.
30** [[spoiler: Titania gets casually mortally wounded in ''Alone Again'' despite that the ending of ''Shining Heresy'' implied a progression of her character arc]].
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