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* In 2006, an infamously terrible fanfiction named ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' was written, by a hater of ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron (1984)]]'' that preferred ''Anime/VoltesV'' and had ''Voltes'' beat the crap out of ''Voltron''. In the same fic, Romelle states that [[BigBad Paul the Imjad]] (Team Voltron's benefactor) is a [[DevilInPlainSight villain]] and no one should trust him, but no one believes her until it's too late. Come ''Legendary Defender'', [[spoiler: Romelle calls out Lotor for being a DevilInPlainSight and exposes his true nature to Allura and Team Voltron, and they also don't believe her at first until they see his villainy with their own eyes.]]
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* In 2006, an infamously terrible fanfiction named ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' was written, by a hater of ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron (1984)]]'' that preferred ''Anime/VoltesV'' and had ''Voltes'' beat (1984)]]''. According to the crap out of ''Voltron''. In the same fic, Team Voltron is being manipulated by a mage named Paul The Imjad who pretends to be their friend but is actually using them. Romelle states that [[BigBad Paul the Imjad]] (Team Voltron's benefactor) he is a [[DevilInPlainSight villain]] and no one should trust him, but no one believes her until it's too late. Come ''Legendary Defender'', [[spoiler: Romelle calls out Lotor for being a DevilInPlainSight and exposes his true nature to Allura and Team Voltron, and they also don't believe her at first until they see his villainy with their own eyes.]]
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* In the Latin-American Spanish dub, Creator/EduardoGarza plays Matthew Holt... and in the LA-Spanish dub of the original ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' he played Pidge. Aka the character who, in this continuity, is Matt's sister Katie under a male identity.
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronTheThirdDimension'' had a joke in the pilot where [[VagueAge Lance said to Keith]]: "Tell them I'm your little brother." As of "Legendary Defender" Lance is officially a year ([[PlotRelevantAgeUp or three]]) younger than Keith.
* Lance demanding of Keith "how many Lions do you need?!!" turns out to be prophetic since as of Season 3, both Lance and Keith are up to two Lions so far -- Blue/Red and Red/Black respectively.
* It's very commonplace for fandom to [[JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters compare]] and make crossovers between Shiro and the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse version of ComicBook/BuckyBarnes (whom Joaquim Dos Santos acknowledged the similarities to) or [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} post-Red Hood Jason Todd]] (who shares his [[LockedIntoStrangeness shock of white hair]] and also happens to be an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Bucky). In Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Hood appears and is voiced by Creator/JoshKeaton. Meanwhile, the Bucky jokes got even funnier in season 3 when Shiro shows up looking SeriouslyScruffy and very similar to the Winter Soldier, and downright hilarious as of season 6 where Shiro's major subplot is directly lifted from the climax of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.
* Likewise, it's very common to compare Shiro to Creator/ChrisEvans' take on Captain America in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse due to his HeroicBuild, leadership, and overall personality as a supportive NiceGuy to his friends, with a great deal of fanart having been drawn of Shiro dressed in Captain America's uniform and similar. Shiro's voice actor Josh Keaton would go on to voice Captain America as Chris Evans' soundalike in ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021''.
* A lot of jokes were made comparing the Season 3 episode ''The Journey'' to the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', given that it's a somewhat {{darker|AndEdgier}}, slower-paced, and [[SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue visuals-heavier and dialogue-lighter]] episode than usual, involving a SeriouslyScruffy-looking Japanese guy (Shiro) fighting his way through robots, monsters, and a snowy death planet mostly by his lonesome, having to cauterize a bad wound, and occasionally interacting with a pair of quirky aliens. Due to ProductionLeadTime, the episode would've had to have been written before the airing of ''Samurai Jack'' earlier that year, making the similarities a funny coincidence.
* Could potentially count as HarsherInHindsight depending on what side of it you're on, but a lot of the "age discourse" when it came to the ShipToShipCombat between people who paired Keith with Lance vs Shiro became invalid with Season 6 [[spoiler:when Keith spends two years with Krolia in the Quantum Abyss, while Shiro, Lance, and the others remain the same age. In other words, not only is Keith a 20 year-old adult while Lance remains a teenager and minor at 17, but Keith now has an age gap with Lance.]]
* As with the above, a lot of the ShipToShipCombat revolving around the ethics of former FanPreferredCouple Shiro/Allura, whose extreme fans were responsible for initiating and dictating the course of the show's notorious ShipToShipCombat[[note]]Early on they attacked rival ships for being either "pedophilic" or "heteronormative", pestering the staff about it and thus kicking off the "age discourse", only for both major points of attack to crash and burn spectacularly -- first with Allura being confirmed a teenager and thus pedophilic according to the rules they themselves set, and later with Shiro being confirmed gay[[/note]], versus other Shiro ships became completely moot given that it turns out Shiro is [[IncompatibleOrientation gay]].
* There is a rather bizarre series of NSFW fanarts (artist unknown) featuring Keith frenching a wolf, dating as far back as around the time the series debuted. Flash forward to the show's sixth season, and Keith now has an actual pet wolf.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'', ''Anime/GoLion'' was featured together with ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'', whose titular character was captured by aliens, given cybernetic upgrades, and [[spoiler:has an EvilTwin (sort of)]] just like Shiro.
***The game also happened to have [[spoiler:A ship that transformed into a ''gigantic'' mech]].
***Speaking of a lion mecha cyborg pilot, the ''[=GoLion=]'' crew also met [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Guy Shishioh]] in that game.
* One of the theories more commonly thrown around was that a sixth lion would be introduced so all the main characters could be Paladins and be part of Voltron. [[spoiler:Not only does Shiro become the captain of the Atlas but the Atlas also fuses with Voltron in the final season]].
* After the two years of ShipToShipCombat, in-fighting, and harassment campaigns that made Voltron shippers so infamous, the ''only'' ships that received canon confirmation for this show were Lotor/Allura (which ended poorly), Matt/N7 (an OffScreenRomance with a background character), [[spoiler:Allura/Lance (which ended in tragedy) and Shiro/Curtis, an extremely minor character in a LastMinuteHookup which itself came about as a last-minute AuthorsSavingThrow]]. In other words, absolutely ''nobody'' won.
** This also isn't the first cartoon some of Voltron's creators made that got tremendous flak for [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender controversial]] [[WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra canon ships]], over which LGBT representation was a major issue.
* As mentioned under FandomSpecificPlot, Altean Lance is a tremendously common fanfic trope, often with him being reimagined as a relative of Allura's, or replacing her role in the story entirely. In the finale, Lance [[spoiler:does acquire Altean markings on his face... but as a result of his romance with Allura, a plot element that such stories usually and often deliberately go out of their way to preclude]].
* Pre-release interviews for ''Voltron'' mentioned ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as an inspiration, citing its penchant for serial storytelling and political intrigue. A few months after the release of the frostily-received final eighth season of ''Voltron'' came the final, also numbered eighth, season of ''Game of Thrones'', which ''also'' earned itself a great deal of fan backlash and negativity despite a more positive reception from [[CriticalDissonance professional critics]]. Many of the criticisms leveled at both shows' final seasons were the same, including rushed pacing, plot holes and dropped plot points, nonsensical shifts and frequent bouts of [[IdiotBall idiocy]] in characters' behavior, and unsatisfying character epilogues.
** And on that note, ''Voltron'' was only the first of multiple highly popular series (another notable one being ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', though ''Game of Thrones'' was certainly the most notorious of them all) which concluded around the same relatively brief span of time on downer finales that were extremely disliked for relying on twists with zero buildup simply for shock value, giving rise to the multifandom {{meme|tic mutation}} of "[[AssPull subverting expectations]]". For people who were fans of several of these series, it's either [[BlackComedy darkly hilarious]] how so many shows could commit the same folly, [[HarsherInHindsight makes it worse]], or [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror softens the blow]].
* The episode where Coran contracts the Slipperies seemed prophetic after Netflix's ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' cartoon cast Rhys Darby as Neal the Eel, a criminal who can literally slip out of almost any trap.
*In 2006, an infamously terrible fanfiction named ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' was written, by a hater of ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron (1984)]]'' that preferred ''Anime/VoltesV'' and had ''Voltes'' beat the crap out of ''Voltron''. In the same fic, Romelle states that [[BigBad Paul the Imjad]] (Team Voltron's benefactor) is a [[DevilInPlainSight villain]] and no one should trust him, but no one believes her until it's too late. Come ''Legendary Defender'', [[spoiler: Romelle calls out Lotor for being a DevilInPlainSight and exposes his true nature to Allura and Team Voltron, and they also don't believe her at first until they see his villainy with their own eyes.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronTheThirdDimension'' had a joke in the pilot where [[VagueAge Lance said to Keith]]: "Tell them I'm your little brother." As of "Legendary Defender" Lance is officially a year ([[PlotRelevantAgeUp or three]]) younger than Keith.
* Lance demanding of Keith "how many Lions do you need?!!" turns out to be prophetic since as of Season 3, both Lance and Keith are up to two Lions so far -- Blue/Red and Red/Black respectively.
* It's very commonplace for fandom to [[JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters compare]] and make crossovers between Shiro and the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse version of ComicBook/BuckyBarnes (whom Joaquim Dos Santos acknowledged the similarities to) or [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} post-Red Hood Jason Todd]] (who shares his [[LockedIntoStrangeness shock of white hair]] and also happens to be an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Bucky). In Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Hood appears and is voiced by Creator/JoshKeaton. Meanwhile, the Bucky jokes got even funnier in season 3 when Shiro shows up looking SeriouslyScruffy and very similar to the Winter Soldier, and downright hilarious as of season 6 where Shiro's major subplot is directly lifted from the climax of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.
* Likewise, it's very common to compare Shiro to Creator/ChrisEvans' take on Captain America in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse due to his HeroicBuild, leadership, and overall personality as a supportive NiceGuy to his friends, with a great deal of fanart having been drawn of Shiro dressed in Captain America's uniform and similar. Shiro's voice actor Josh Keaton would go on to voice Captain America as Chris Evans' soundalike in ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021''.
* A lot of jokes were made comparing the Season 3 episode ''The Journey'' to the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', given that it's a somewhat {{darker|AndEdgier}}, slower-paced, and [[SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue visuals-heavier and dialogue-lighter]] episode than usual, involving a SeriouslyScruffy-looking Japanese guy (Shiro) fighting his way through robots, monsters, and a snowy death planet mostly by his lonesome, having to cauterize a bad wound, and occasionally interacting with a pair of quirky aliens. Due to ProductionLeadTime, the episode would've had to have been written before the airing of ''Samurai Jack'' earlier that year, making the similarities a funny coincidence.
* Could potentially count as HarsherInHindsight depending on what side of it you're on, but a lot of the "age discourse" when it came to the ShipToShipCombat between people who paired Keith with Lance vs Shiro became invalid with Season 6 [[spoiler:when Keith spends two years with Krolia in the Quantum Abyss, while Shiro, Lance, and the others remain the same age. In other words, not only is Keith a 20 year-old adult while Lance remains a teenager and minor at 17, but Keith now has an age gap with Lance.]]
* As with the above, a lot of the ShipToShipCombat revolving around the ethics of former FanPreferredCouple Shiro/Allura, whose extreme fans were responsible for initiating and dictating the course of the show's notorious ShipToShipCombat[[note]]Early on they attacked rival ships for being either "pedophilic" or "heteronormative", pestering the staff about it and thus kicking off the "age discourse", only for both major points of attack to crash and burn spectacularly -- first with Allura being confirmed a teenager and thus pedophilic according to the rules they themselves set, and later with Shiro being confirmed gay[[/note]], versus other Shiro ships became completely moot given that it turns out Shiro is [[IncompatibleOrientation gay]].
* There is a rather bizarre series of NSFW fanarts (artist unknown) featuring Keith frenching a wolf, dating as far back as around the time the series debuted. Flash forward to the show's sixth season, and Keith now has an actual pet wolf.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'', ''Anime/GoLion'' was featured together with ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'', whose titular character was captured by aliens, given cybernetic upgrades, and [[spoiler:has an EvilTwin (sort of)]] just like Shiro.
***The game also happened to have [[spoiler:A ship that transformed into a ''gigantic'' mech]].
***Speaking of a lion mecha cyborg pilot, the ''[=GoLion=]'' crew also met [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Guy Shishioh]] in that game.
* One of the theories more commonly thrown around was that a sixth lion would be introduced so all the main characters could be Paladins and be part of Voltron. [[spoiler:Not only does Shiro become the captain of the Atlas but the Atlas also fuses with Voltron in the final season]].
* After the two years of ShipToShipCombat, in-fighting, and harassment campaigns that made Voltron shippers so infamous, the ''only'' ships that received canon confirmation for this show were Lotor/Allura (which ended poorly), Matt/N7 (an OffScreenRomance with a background character), [[spoiler:Allura/Lance (which ended in tragedy) and Shiro/Curtis, an extremely minor character in a LastMinuteHookup which itself came about as a last-minute AuthorsSavingThrow]]. In other words, absolutely ''nobody'' won.
** This also isn't the first cartoon some of Voltron's creators made that got tremendous flak for [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender controversial]] [[WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra canon ships]], over which LGBT representation was a major issue.
* As mentioned under FandomSpecificPlot, Altean Lance is a tremendously common fanfic trope, often with him being reimagined as a relative of Allura's, or replacing her role in the story entirely. In the finale, Lance [[spoiler:does acquire Altean markings on his face... but as a result of his romance with Allura, a plot element that such stories usually and often deliberately go out of their way to preclude]].
* Pre-release interviews for ''Voltron'' mentioned ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as an inspiration, citing its penchant for serial storytelling and political intrigue. A few months after the release of the frostily-received final eighth season of ''Voltron'' came the final, also numbered eighth, season of ''Game of Thrones'', which ''also'' earned itself a great deal of fan backlash and negativity despite a more positive reception from [[CriticalDissonance professional critics]]. Many of the criticisms leveled at both shows' final seasons were the same, including rushed pacing, plot holes and dropped plot points, nonsensical shifts and frequent bouts of [[IdiotBall idiocy]] in characters' behavior, and unsatisfying character epilogues.
** And on that note, ''Voltron'' was only the first of multiple highly popular series (another notable one being ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', though ''Game of Thrones'' was certainly the most notorious of them all) which concluded around the same relatively brief span of time on downer finales that were extremely disliked for relying on twists with zero buildup simply for shock value, giving rise to the multifandom {{meme|tic mutation}} of "[[AssPull subverting expectations]]". For people who were fans of several of these series, it's either [[BlackComedy darkly hilarious]] how so many shows could commit the same folly, [[HarsherInHindsight makes it worse]], or [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror softens the blow]].
* The episode where Coran contracts the Slipperies seemed prophetic after Netflix's ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' cartoon cast Rhys Darby as Neal the Eel, a criminal who can literally slip out of almost any trap.
*In 2006, an infamously terrible fanfiction named ''Fanfic/VoltesVVersusVoltronTheGodaikinWars'' was written, by a hater of ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron (1984)]]'' that preferred ''Anime/VoltesV'' and had ''Voltes'' beat the crap out of ''Voltron''. In the same fic, Romelle states that [[BigBad Paul the Imjad]] (Team Voltron's benefactor) is a [[DevilInPlainSight villain]] and no one should trust him, but no one believes her until it's too late. Come ''Legendary Defender'', [[spoiler: Romelle calls out Lotor for being a DevilInPlainSight and exposes his true nature to Allura and Team Voltron, and they also don't believe her at first until they see his villainy with their own eyes.]]
