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| 2 | * {{Anvilicious}}: Um, OK, censorship bad? |
| 3 | * BrokenBase: Fans are split as to whether the album's poppier sound was for the better or not. |
| 4 | * HilariousInHindsight: Just try listening to "Mr. Roboto" now, while disregarding the BadFuture rock opera's storyline, and considering the basic stifled-human-or-mindless-bot uncertainty it centers on. Then consider that, for all the singer's protests that they ''are'' human, the name revealed at the end became well-known as a graffiti tag, i.e. a generic alias. It's actually the perfect song for ''internet trolls''! |
| 5 | ** Speaking of "Mr. Roboto", one of the lyrics reads "The time has come at last, to throw away this mask". Flash forward to 2017, and [[VideoGame/Persona5 a certain JRPG seems to take that to heart]]. |
| 6 | * ProductionRelatedPeriodPiece: "Mr. Roboto". When you hear the song separate from the album, the lyrics make less sense than they're supposed to without the rest of the songs and the liner notes to explain them. |
| 7 | * RandomEventsPlot: A big criticism of the album is that the "story" is very half-baked (arguably unfinished) and the songs don't really have anything to do with it. Aside from "Mr. Roboto", you could make very minor changes to the lyrics and fans would think it's just another Styx album. |
| 8 | * SoBadItsGood: The ''Killroy Was Here'' mini-movie shown prior to concerts, with every band member proving to be a terrible actor and cheesy dialogue galore. |
| 9 | * ValuesDissonance: [[NightmareFuel Nightmare-inducing appearances]] aside, the Roboto face masks are based on racist caricatures of Japanese people (with very slanted eyes and three small pegs on their "mouths" resembling buck teeth), which, while still acceptable during the 1980s, is frowned upon in today's society. Stage performances made it even ''worse'', with the Robotos doing a lot of cross-armed bowing. |
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