YMMV / Voltron Force

• Complete Monster:
  • Maahox, King Lotor's second-in-command, is a cyborg occultist who was exiled from his home planet of Calum for his experiments. After he and his partner Kala resurrect Lotor using Haggarium, Maahox betrays Kala by transforming her into a Robeast. While Maahox ostensibly serves Lotor, he is the one pulling the strings in their partnership and is the brains behind operations like draining the minds of the Baltons, nearly eradicating all life on Arus, and attempting to ignite a massive amount of volatile Haggarium just to see what would happen. When Sven gives him the Blue Lion in exchange for a cure for his and his infant son's Haggarium poisoning, Maahox reveals that there is no cure and that he intends to raise Sven's son as a test subject and Tyke Bomb. Eventually growing weary of Lotor, Maahox murders him and turns his castle into a massive Robeast whose power he tests by having it blow up Planet Doom. Declaring his intent to spread chaos and death throughout the universe simply for the sake of it, Maahox begins his rampage on Earth, leveling an entire city just to draw out the Voltron Force.
  • Sky Marshal Herbert Wade wanted nothing more than to be a member of the Voltron Force, but when the Lions rejected him due to sensing evil in his heart, Wade snapped and developed a pathological hatred of Voltron. After the Voltron Force toppled the Drule Empire, Wade forced the Lions to go berserk during a victory celebration, which turned everyone against them and caused them to be sealed away on the planet Arus. When the Voltron Force reassembles to combat the resurrected King Lotor, Wade usurps control of the Galaxy Alliance; while Wade publicly claims to have the Galaxy Alliance's best interests at heart, he privately confesses that he really only cares about money, power, and eliminating Voltron. Anyone who opposes Wade is condemned to the Void, a gulag whose inmates are routinely jettisoned into space for Wade's amusement. Along with enslaving, plundering, and razing worlds, Wade at one point hijacks Voltron, using it to try and destroy one of Earth's metropolises while ranting that its citizens all deserve to die for their veneration of Voltron. After being arrested, Wade is sprung from custody by the Kala Robeast, with which he willingly merges to create a monstrosity that poisons Daniel with Haggarium before nearly assimilating Voltron.
• Contested Sequel: Many fans are quite happy to forget this show existed, citing the poor animation, retcons from the original series, and unlikable cadets. However, it does have a small but vocal contingent of fans who cite the attempts at Adaptation Expansion of the mythos from the original series making it a worthy sequel to the original series. Said fans were none too pleased when WEP didn't attempt to make a second season following up on the cliffhanger which ended the first season and instead rebooted the series from the ground up.
• Moral Event Horizon: Sky Marshal Wade in "Wanted and Unwanted," when he deliberately opens the airlock so his prisoners will be sucked into space.
  • The same episode also revealed that Wade forced Cloak to build him stealth camouflage for his prison and promptly rewards him by using the very same technology to commit genocide on his planet.
  • Lampshaded in "Hungry for Voltron," as Lance and Keith decide to end things with Wade after he "crosses a line," presumably by trapping Allura and trying to kill her.
• Nightmare Fuel: A holographic projection of Sky Marshall Wade's face replacing Voltron's. The way he says that he'll "Form the head" doesn't help.
• Older Than They Think: Swapping mecha components for different forms actually goes all the way back to the classic Getter Robo.
  • Ironically, Albegas, the series WEP intended to adapt as the third "Gladiator" Voltron (until the backlash against the Vehicle Voltron forced them to drop the plans), was unpopular in Japan for being a copy of Getter.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus of the series is that it's better than The Third Dimension, but nowhere on par with the original series or the following reboot.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: One of the background tracks sounds a lot like "Enterprising Young Men" from the J.J. Abrams Star Trek (2009) reboot.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Dudley is a walking parody of this.
  Dudley (on his duplication of the Castle of Lions control room): It's not an exact replica, I got rid of that stupid holographic panel.
  Dudley (on Keith's blaster): I like this because it's a weapon that requires skill, not some lame wrist gadget where all you have to do is press a button.

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