History YMMV / FullMetalPanic

* TheScrappy: Leonard Testarossa. Sure, he was made out to be a (relatively) "honorable," NobleDemon whose intentions, [[KnightTemplar extreme as they may be]], could be considered grander and more for the greater good than anything {{So|ciopathicHero}}usuke [[TheStoic would care for]]. However, his cockiness and InsufferableGenius, along with his superiority complex have earned him great ire among fandom. He ''especially'' gets flak after manhandling Kaname and {{brainwash|ed}}ing her, causing her to become an angsting DamselInDistress. And interestingly enough, being a PrettyBoy seemed to actually work ''against'' him, as numerous people have taken to despising him for being a SissyVillain, calling him "[[FanNickname Leotard]]". The funniest part is that he's ''supposed'' to be the
[[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic most sympathetic]] villain that the series has (seeing how Gauron and Gates are[[AxCrazy psychotic]], insane pedophiles), yet he appears to be the most hated.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler:Nami.]]

[[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic most sympathetic]] villain that the series has (seeing how Gauron and Gates are [[AxCrazy psychotic]], insane pedophiles), yet he appears to be the most hated.

TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler:Nami.]]

[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter]]: [[spoiler:Nami.]]

* InternetBackdraft: Fans often criticize the usage of CGI on the animated mecha in ''Invisible Victory''.

* TheScrappy: Leonard Testarossa. Sure, he was made out to be a (relatively) "honorable," NobleDemon whose intentions, [[KnightTemplar extreme as they may be]], could be considered grander and more for the greater good than anything {{So|ciopathicHero}}usuke [[TheStoic would care for]]. However, his cockiness and InsufferableGenius, along with his superiority complex have earned him great ire among fandom. He ''especially'' gets flak after manhandling Kaname and {{brainwash|ed}}ing her, causing her to become an angsting DamselInDistress. And interestingly enough, being a PrettyBoy seemed to actually work ''against'' him, as numerous people have taken to despising him for being a SissyVillain, calling him "[[FanNickname Leotard]]". The funniest part is that he's ''supposed'' to be the [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic most sympathetic]] villain that the series has (seeing how Gauron and Gates are [[AxCrazy psychotic]], insane pedophiles), yet he appears to be the most hated.

* CompleteMonster: It should not come as a surprise than, taking place in the fields of war, this anime stores people who fight and kill for a living, regardless of being good or bad. Even so, take a look at these two horrible fiends who manage to make a bunch of mercenaries look like saints in comparisson.

* CompleteMonster:

** Gauron almost shooting Kaname's teacher for calling him a coward.

** Gates taunting Yu Fan with the corpse of her sister.

** [[spoiler:Sousuke's new friend Nami being murdered by Kurama in an attempt to provoke him (which works {{WentHorriblyRight all too well}}), which results in a later firefight between the two that ends with Kurama dead and Sousuke's severely wounded with a gunshot to the abdomen.]]

** [[https://imgur.com/IDnQRA2 "The lone mecha fan, pictured here fighting against the tide of CG mechs, colorized 2018"]] [[labelnote:explaination]][[Manga/GoldenKamuy]] fans often relate to other Mecha (including FMP!'s) fans' dissonance to CGI-animated mecha instead of being traditionally-animated.[[/labelnote]]

* WTHCastingAgency: The proposed LiveActionAdaptation has Zac Efron attached to the project. Cue the inevitable fandom cry of "It's gonna suck!"
** Can you image how more disturbing will Gauron obsession with Sosuke be, when it will involve musical numbers with 9 meter tall mecha.
*** Efron is at the very least [[OneOfUs a fan of the series]], and he himself said that the movie probably won't happen.

''The Second Raid'' has "[[https://youtu.be/rFYyQ0J86p8 Shissou]]", a piece suspiciously similar to [[https://youtu.be/l8syGlAMTKA the theme]] from ''Series/{{Airwolf}}''.

* NightmareFuel: Gauron actually wanted to kill Sousuke when he was eleven and canonically wanted to rape his dead body. It also gets even creepier when one realizes that their countless encounters are most likely not entirely coincidence... and that Gauron is heavily implied to be stalking him, actively choosing missions / jobs that would put him in a position to see his "precious boy."

* AccidentalInnuendo: Happens InUniverse in ''Fumoffu'' episode 8, when Tessa says she's in the "water business"; though she's obviously referring to her being a submarine captain, the term is Japanese slang for prostitution. The English version handles this by changing it to "getting wet is my business!" (which is also lampshaded as a poor choice of words by Kaname)

** One word: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXf3kwjKQ0 POOONYYYYY!!!]]
** Episode 3 of ''Fumoffu'' has an interesting case when Sousuke envisions Kaname being tortured. The visual is of her being tickled with feathers, but because it's heavily pixelated, the viewer's imagination is entirely likely to fill in the details of something much, much worse.

** The ending song of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whm9gc0hmk "Kimi Ni Fuku Kaze"]] sounds VERY similar to Music/{{Santana}} and Music/MichelleBranch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKLnmMacEB4 "The Game of Love."]]
** "Tokku Yarou" is also used in ''Fumoffu'' for the next episode preview. ''The Second Raid'' switches it out for "[[https://youtu.be/rFYyQ0J86p8 Shissou]]", a piece suspiciously similar to [[https://youtu.be/l8syGlAMTKA the theme]] from ''Series/{{Airwolf}}''.

** Mr. Gates (aka Mister Kallium), Gauron's successor and head of Amalgam's Execution Squad, is [[AxCrazy even crazier]] than his predecessor. In his first appearance, he shoves a man out of a helicopter for questioning his predictions about how a battle may have progressed, has all his former allies slaughtered, then has a FreakOut and kills the men who did it. He later tries to ambush the heroes and kill them, using an attack in a public place as a way to draw them out. He's a truly warped sexual predator as well; he's heavily implied to be taking advantage of teenage girls Yu Fan and Yu Lan, admits to being [[ILoveTheDead a necrophiliac,]] and is seen masturbating to images of kittens and squirrels. A spectacularly BadBoss, he drowns one of his men in a pool for bringing him bad news. In the Season 2 finale, after Leonard Tesstarossa has killed one of the twins, Gates uses her corpse as part of a puppet show to taunt the surviving twin, whom he then murders, before making his final assault on Mithril.

** Seina getting Kugayama to pilot the Behemoth by telling the kid, who thinks she's his sister, that she'll be nothing to her if he doesn't.

* TheScrappy: Leonard Tessarossa. Sure, he was made out to be a (relatively) "honorable," NobleDemon whose intentions, [[KnightTemplar extreme as they may be]], could be considered grander and more for the greater good than anything {{So|ciopathicHero}}usuke [[TheStoic would care for]]. However, his cockiness and InsufferableGenius, along with his superiority complex have earned him great ire among fandom. He ''especially'' gets flak after manhandling Kaname and {{brainwash|ed}}ing her, causing her to become an angsting DamselInDistress. And interestingly enough, being a PrettyBoy seemed to actually work ''against'' him, as numerous people have taken to despising him for being a SissyVillain, calling him "[[FanNickname Leotard]]". The funniest part is that he's ''supposed'' to be the [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic most sympathetic]] villain that the series has (seeing how Gauron and Gates are [[AxCrazy psychotic]], insane pedophiles), yet he appears to be the most hated.

* LesYay (Mao has actually groped Tessa's breasts and spends an inordinate amount of time with her, often while inebriated, naked, and in a sexually charged mood.)

*** StoicWoobie: Sousuke, particularly when considering his backstory.
*** JerkassWoobie: Xia Yu Fan and Xia Yu Lan.

** Tessa gets this to an extent, as fans are split between loving her for being an adorable klutz with some great moments of badass, and hating the inappropriate, borderline-stalkerish way she persues Sosuke.
*** ''The Second Raid'' only made things worse; the storyline kicks off with Tessa ending Sosuke's bodyguard mission, denying him permission to explain or say goodbye to his friends, and then reaming him out in a debriefing, seemingly entirely because of her jealousy towards Kaname and frustration at Sosuke's lack of response -- all of which leads to Sosuke suffering a HeroicBSOD and subsequently deserting Mithril briefly.

* TheWoobie: Believe it or not, one of the background stories turns ''Sousuke'' into this.
** More like an StoicWoobie actually.