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  • Adaptation Displacement: Most modern viewers know of this series primarily because of the professional wrestler it inspired.
  • Complete Monster (from the manga):
    • Empress Zara, the main villain for much of the story, is a vicious fanatic dedicated to restoring Emperor Drago from his prison. Attacking Hokkaido, Zara has countless innocents slaughtered, demanding her followers "bring her human suffering" before deciding to attack Tokyo to wipe it off the face of the map and kill every human there. Zara repeatedly spends the series ordering horrific massacres and atrocities, intending on utterly exterminating humanity to revive Drago and see the victory of evil itself.
    • Emperor Drago, the other main villain, previously wiped out almost all life on Earth. A pure evil monster, Drago celebrates his revival by killing Zara, gloating she should feel proud to feed his new strength, before deciding to exterminate all that lives to empower himself. Drago then faces off with Liger, gloating as he attempts to bring an apocalypse in which there will be no survivors, from where Drago will just move on to enslave and kill all else in his path.
  • Values Dissonance: Ken's habit of skirt-flipping nowadays wouldn't mesh well with modern viewer, as this is considered straight-up sexual harassment rather than him being just being a mischievous little kid, especially since he's supposed to be the hero. Moreover, it has become a lot more rare for anime/manga leads to be openly perverted, and has become more relegated to Butt-Monkey side characters.
    • The series has a lot of Fanservice, some of which goes well beyond panty shots, that could never be found on a modern anime aimed at younger viewers.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Despite being aimed towards young boys, this anime has a lot of violence and death (which even includes children). It's not even to mention the fanservice.

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