History YMMV / ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS

* 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...
** 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.

** 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 squadron.

** The oddly muffled machine gun fire used by the ATs, plus the strange techno-ish explosion that follows.

* MemeticMutation: The aforementioned "dead Chirico" deal. JP fans also like to post, spoiler tagged, a specific frame of the TV series's OP and the word "museru" / "むせる" on message boards and forums.

* MemeticMutation: The aforementioned "dead Chirico" deal

* MemeticBadass:Chirico. Taken UpToEleven in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Jigoku-hen]]'' when he can kill ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEbAqyhujs8 anything]]'' [[CherryTapping with his pistol.]]

** The oddly muffled machine gun fire used by the ATs, plus the strangely techno explosion that follows.

** The Secret Society deploys a platoon to attack on Lido, and also attempting to kill Chirico if he knew too much about the operation. And it doesn't help that when he was saved and arrested by the Gilgamesh Federation, especially Jean-Paul Rochina interrogates Chirico with torture.
** Kan Yu straightened up destroys the boat with an unarmed civilians because he think that they are Veela spies.
** ''Armored Hunter Mellowlink'', Vecker and his man beat and torturing Arity for their own pleasure.
** We found out that the "traumatic" memory of Teitania [[spoiler:getting hurt in a car accident and him repairing her as a Nextant was actually an intentional order to Vyacheslav's soldiers.]]
* NightmareFuel: Wockam [[MindRape interrogation]] of Pailsen.
** Imagine if you're an unfortunate citizen lived in Uoodo, you get caught by the biker, caught in the crossfire between the police, the army, the biker gang, and the main protagonist.
* 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.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Balarant faction in both the tv show and [=OVAs=] never gets explored beyond showing some masked mooks and the Fatty AT.
** [[spoiler: Teitania gets casually mortally wounded in Alone Again despite that the ending of Shining Heresy implied a progression of her character arc]].

* 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.
** Also Tetsu no Lullaby, the rocking opening of Pailsen Files.
** The Spin-off Mellowlink gives us pure 80's goodness with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72PRJUiNO4 Soldier Blue]].

* 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.

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound effects for the [=ATs=] [[RollerbladeGood rollerskate treads]] have an oddly orgasmic feel to it. VRRRREEEEEEEEEEE FWOWM.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Honoo no Sadame, the opening theme. To have a taste, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKA_6yplQ2I here's]] the original version and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWz0LAlZ_wc here's]] the Operation Extend edition.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Balarant faction in both the tv show and OVAs never gets explored beyond showing some masked mooks and the Fatty AT.

* 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.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Surprisingly averted with the Playstation 2 game which 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.

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound effects for the [=ATs=] [[RollerbladeGood rollerskate threads]] have an oddly orgasmic feel to it. VRRRREEEEEEEEEEE FWOWM.

* 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.

** Kan Yu straightened up destroys the boat with an unarmed civilians because think that they are Veela spies.

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** The Secret Society deploys a platoon to attack on Lido, and also attempting to kill Chirico if he knew too much about the operation. And it doesn't help that the Gilgamesh Federation, especially

** The Secret Society deploys a platoon to attack on Lido, and also attempting to kill Chirico if he knew too much about the operation.

* MagnificentBastard: Pailsen
** [[spoiler: Jean Paul Rochina]].
** [[spoiler: Chirico in the last episodes of the TV series]].

We found out that the "traumatic" memory of Teitania [[spoiler:getting hurt in a car accident and him repairing her as a Nextant was actually an intentional order to Vyacheslav's soldiers.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: We found out that the "traumatic" memory of Teitania [[spoiler:getting hurt in a car accident and him repairing her as a Nextant was actually an intentional order to Vyacheslav's soldiers.]]

* {{Flanderization}}: In the original series Chirico is a talented, if traumatized, special forces soldier with a helping of luck who loses as much as he wins. Come the [=OVAs=], he is a nigh immortal reality warper who simply cannot be killed no matter how ridiculous the odds.

** Chirico was doing 1080 noscopes on his Scopedog before 360 noscopes were a thing in Call of Duty.

** Also Tetsu no Lullaby, the opening of Pailsen Files.