History YMMV / Medabots

** On the[[FetishFuel robot]] side, you have Saintnurse, Oceana, Brass.

** The Tenryou family in the anime is actually quite different in the anime from the games. In the original games, for example, Chidori is rather stern with Ikki, enough to surprise anyone who only knows her through the anime.

* HoYay: Fans tend to ship Hikaru and Ikki... and often do not remember that Ikki is a [[{{Shotacon}} ten year old kid]] and that Hikaru is ''[[{{Squick}} in college]]''.

* BizarroEpisode: "Welcome to Ninja World" is a minor example, notable primarily for its ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''-art style (see ArtShift on the main page) and for Brass acting astonishingly OutOfCharacter, striking flashy poses right alongside Erika rather than being her much more restrained foil. Neither of these really serve as marks against the episode, though, they're just worth noting.

** Poor Oceana. The dub did not help by moving her first appearance (originally the eighth episode) all the way to the filler section... at least ''thirty'' episodes later. Especially after the ShipTease episodes about Metabee/Brass. Cue the fanbase treating her like a rabid whore who wants to steal Metabee from Brass, who is suffering for her "love".
** An interesting aversion could be Karin since she's dumped on Kouji to make way for Ikki/Erika or Ikki/Kikuhime.

** Ikki and Erika mock Henry for trying to sell them an old KBT model. And then, guess which model does Ikki buy in later?

** On the human side, there's Karin, and Erika, who has a significant moment of it near the end of the first season.

** Metabee/Oceana, Metabee/Brass (which may or may not be more popular than Ikki/Erika)... Metabee/Rokusho... and even Medabot [=OCs=] with other Medabot [=OCs=].

* ToyShip: Ikki & Erika, and Koji & Karin.

* CrazyAwesome: Mr. Referee, who is almost super-human and appears out from ''nowhere''; and Coach Mountain, who takes his teacher career to the extreme just to protect his students.
* CreepyAwesome: Beast Master (Robo Emperor) and God Emperor (Mega Empreror) are two of the most popular medabots in the Japanese fandom (according to a 2012 Japanese poll results held at [[http://ch.nicovideo.jp/video/ch1131 Nico Nico Douga]]. The first is NightmareFuel material, but the second is one of the most recurrent medabots used in the franchise.

* {{Fanon}}: Henry's BrokenAce status in the English dub made fans think in many interpretations about the reason he took his PhantomThief and his [[TheAce disguised medafighter]] identities. Most of them give him more angst than the Japanese version originally went for (which was partly changed in the dub, because it was getting "''too dark''"[[note]]Nelvana only cut the part where he mentions that he destroyed his Metabee's medal due to the circumstances[[/note]]).

** Coach Mountain is an interesting example as other characters in the show view him as this, though the fandom agrees.

* UglyCute: The thing with God Emperor could be a case of this. Compared to Beast Master, it's... more ''normal'' to like because of its non-nightmarish design (besides being a powerful medarot/weapon). Kirara as Lady Retort controls one of these in ''Medarot 2''.

** If she hadn't had such a feminine voice, it would have been hard to tell that ''Spirits'' Black Beetle is a female-frame Medabot. Hell, the Latin American dub even turned her into a guy. It's '''that''' confusing.

* SuperlativeDubbing: Arguably one of the best dubs for its time, and the target audience, of course.

* TheyJustDidntCare:
** Nelvana arguably pulled this in the English Dub. Some of the first 20 episodes were aired until MUCH later because they could just wanted to accelerate the action of the anime OR because they wanted to get into Rokusho's appearance, making a DubInducedPlotHole later.
** The whole finale of the original anime, with its AssPull resolution and the fact that Dr. Meta-Evil's giant robot is something no one should ever take seriously, especially after such awesome monsters like Robo-Emperor and Mega Emperor. It doesn't help that the whole Humongous Medabot idea is recycled from Meta-Evil's ''first'' attempt, with a much less impressive monster.
** The lack of continuity from the original anime to ''Spirits'', due to the change of animation studios when the latter was made. Even though ''Spirits'' is a {{Retool}} from the original ''Medabots'', barely anyone of the original anime staff made it through Creator/BeeTrain's production move to Creator/TransArts and Creator/ProductionIG[[note]](The original character designer only came back to direct the ED sequence, and it contains tiny cameos of the rest of the original cast, but that is it)[[/note]]. The English dub attempts to make some continuity but there are things that the viewer cannot simply ignore -- some people of the original cast disappeared from the series under unexplained reasons, and the aftermaths of the World Tournament's events are overpassed to just ''move on'' to the new plot.

** If she hadn't had such a feminine voice, it would have been hard to tell that ''Spirits''' Black Beetle is a female-frame Medabot. Hell, the Latin American dub even turned her into a guy. It's '''that''' confusing.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Baron ([[EvilerThanThou the Screws Gang's big boss]]) and his Medabot, Banisher, are made up to be fearsome opponents. The actual robattle ends as soon as Metabee shoots Banisher. Once. (His special ability is having a ''Strong Appearance'').
** If the games are to be believed, Banisher can only deal damage by counterattacking, and since Metabee headshot it (and Metabee is deceptively strong), he presumably dealt enough damage to knock him out. (Either that or the robot is just too weak to fight, and Baron instead tries to scare opponents into submission.)
** Baron is also an anticlimax boss in game as all he can do is counter attack, meaning he can only hurt you if you attack. You might get hit once, but if you have any sense you'll them spam Medaforce which bypasses counter while he stands there doing nothing but trying to counter.

** UglyCute: The thing with God Emperor could be a case of this. Compared to Beast Master, it's... more ''normal'' to like because of its non-nightmarish design (besides being a powerful medarot/weapon). Kirara as Lady Retort controls one of these in ''Medarot 2''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Lots of one-off and minor recurring characters. The stand-out human examples are Mr. Referee and Couch Mountain. Notable medabots examples include Warbandit, Arcbeetle, Oceana, Femjet and Drackonfly.

* MemeticBadass: Coach Mountain is an interesting example as other characters in the show view him as this, though the fandom agrees.
--> Erika: "I heard he used to be a strong man at the circus and could bench press elephants. I also heard he chiseled out the faces on Mount Rushmore with his ''bare hands''!"\\
Ikki: "''And'' he stopped an erupting volcano by plugging it with his butt!"

* UnfortunateName: For English speakers, "Ikki", due to the fact that it is pronounced as "icky" in the dub, a slang meaning "Gross". Many a kid chuckled whenever the trailers mentioned lines like "And the winner is... Ikki!"
** Granted, it's actually pronounced "Ee-Key", but the spelling made ''many'' a person think it was pronounced as "Icky".

** If she hadn't had such a feminine voice, it would have been hard to tell that ''Spirits''' Black Beetle is a female-frame Medabot.
*** Hell, the Latin American dub even turned her into a guy. It's '''that''' confusing.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Many fans either ignore ''Spirits'' or they just see it as a [[{{Retool}} retooled]] separate series (since some events did happen, and there are some of the same characters from the original... but everything else is just overpassed).

** The lack of continuity from the original anime to ''Spirits'', due to the change of animation studios when the latter was made. Even though the latter is a {{Retool}} from the former, barely anyone of the original anime staff made it through Creator/BeeTrain's production move to Creator/TransArts and Creator/ProductionIG[[note]](The original character designer only came back to direct the ED sequence, and it contains tiny cameos of the rest of the original cast, but that is it)[[/note]]. The English dub attempts to make some continuity but there are things that the viewer cannot simply ignore -- some people of the original cast disappeared from the series under unexplained reasons, and the aftermaths of the World Tournament's events are overpassed to just ''move on'' to the new plot.

* DieForOurShip: Poor Oceana. The dub did not help by moving her first appearance, originally the eighth episode, all the way to the filler section... at least ''thirty'' episodes later. Especially after the {{ShipTease}} episodes about Metabee/Brass. Cue the fanbase treating her like a rabid whore who wants to steal Metabee from Brass, who is suffering for her "love". An interesting aversion could be Karin since she's dumped on Kouji to make way for Ikki/Erika or Ikki/Kikuhime.

* EvilIsCool: Hilariously subverted with Baron and Banisher, who look and sound unbelievably cool... but actually [[PaperTiger can't fight worth shit]].
** The Robo-Emperor however, plays this frighteningly straight.

* {{Fanon}}: Henry's BrokenAce status in the English dub made fans think in many interpretations about the reason he took his PhantomThief and his [[TheAce disguised medafighter]] identities. Most of them give him more angst than the Japanese version originally went for (which was changed in the dub, because it was getting "''too dark''").
* FanonDiscontinuity / SeasonalRot / InternetBackdraft: ''Medabots'' fans hate ''Spirits'' with a passion. Do not mention ''Spirits'' in a forum, [[ShmuckBait you will regret it forever]].
** The first ''Medabots'' had as one of its strong points, its pacing -- it managed to insert a lot of plot and character subplots in few episodes, and yet never felt (too) rushed. ''Spirits'', on the other hand, stuck with a single plotline (Kam's) through its entire run, and suffered dearly for it, as episodes had to constantly [[StatusQuoIsGod reinforce the status quo]] to stop the plotline from ending, thus advancing the plot ever so slowly for its 39 episodes. The exclusion of most of the original cast helped to make that more apparent -- with less characters, episodes had to focus exclusively on Ikki, Erika and, sometimes, new character Zuru, making stories less varied. ''Spirits'' did away with the first series' strengths, and played up its weaknesses.

* {{Moe}}: Karin on the human side, and Erika has a significant moment of it near the end of the first season; Saintnurse, Oceana, Brass, and others on the [[FetishFuel robot]] side.

** Also, some Medabots with their own owners... [[{{Squick}} Yeeeeesh.]] (Though there are fanarts depicting the medabots as humans... it doesn't help some owners are [[{{Squick}} 8-10 year old kids]]).

** Nelvana arguably pulled this in the English Dub. The airing of some of the first 20 episodes were pulled until MUCH later because they could just wanted to accelerate the action of the anime OR because they accelerated the appearance of Rokusho, making a DubInducedPlotHole later.

** Same situation would be applied to the continuity from ''Medarot'' to ''Spirits'' due to the change of animation studios when the latter was made. The fact that some people of the original cast disappeared from the series under unexplained reasons, not mentioning the events of the World Tournament... this is not easy to explain when you can pull a "they just moved on with their lives" card. Considering that not everyone of the original anime staff at Creator/BeeTrain moved on to Creator/TransArts and Creator/ProductionIG as well, it could possibly explain why some characters and story elements disappeared and only made it through as "cameos" for the ED animation sequence, which happened to be directed by the original anime characters' designer. But, since no ED sequences from any anime series is {{canon}} with their anime...

* ToyShip: Ikki & Erika and Koji & Karin.

* ValuesDissonance: In Phantom Renegade: Unmasked (season 1, episode 11), [[{{Paparazzi}} Seamus [=McRaker=]]] slanders Ikki because he believes Ikki is the Phantom Renegade. At the end of the episode, Ikki defeats Seamus in a Robattle and Erika publishes an article that [[ClearMyName clears Ikki's name]] but Seamus faces no legal comeuppance for slandering a child. What makes things even more stupid is that everyone believes Seamus' stories without giving Ikki the opportunity to explain himself. In fact, everyone ignores that Ikki is a kid while the Phantom Renegade has been proven to be an adult. AdultsAreUseless, indeed. The whole episode operates on RuleOfFunny.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The premise of the anime series at first could have got the attention of the kids who watched the series back in the days. However, it took several layers of building up the story, with its dark elements (the "Ten Days of Darkness", mostly) that you could really question yourself about its kids demography... something that became superlative from other similar {{Mon}} series out there in earlier 2000s.
* TheWoobie: Black Beetle.
** JerkassWoobie: Victor.

* {{Fanon}}: Henry's BrokenAce status in the English dub made people think in many interpretations about the reason he took his PhantomThief and his disguised TheAce medafighter identities. Most of them give him more angst than the Japanese version originally went for (which was changed in the dub, because it was getting "''too dark''").

* FanonDiscontinuity / SeasonalRot / InternetBackdraft: Medabots fans hate ''Spirits'' with a passion. Do not mention ''Spirits'' in a forum, [[ShmuckBait you will regret it forever]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The Tenryou family in the anime is actually quite different in the anime from the games. In the original games, for example, Chidori is rather stern with Ikki, enough to surprise anyone who only knows her through the anime.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** The Tenryou family in the anime is actually quite different in the anime from the games. In the original games, for example, Chidori is rather stern with Ikki, enough to surprise anyone who only knows her through the anime.

** The dub had a surprisingly epic opening theme. An instrumental version would play during fight sequences.

* BizarroEpisode: "Welcome to Ninja World" is a minor example, notable primarily for its ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''-art style (see ArtShift on the main page) and for Brass acting astonishingly OutOfCharacter, striking flashy poses right alongside Arika rather than being her much more restrained foil. Neither of these really serve as marks against the episode, though, they're just worth noting.

* DieForOurShip: Poor Oceana. The dub did not help by moving her first appearance, originally the eighth episode, all the way to the filler section... at least ''thirty'' episodes later. Especially after the {{ShipTease}} episodes about Metabee/Brass. Cue the fanbase treating her like a rabid whore who wants to steal Metabee from Brass, who is suffering for her "love". An interesting aversion could be Karin since she's dumped on Kouji to make way for Ikki/Arika or Ikki/Kikuhime.

** The first ''Medabots'' had as one of its strong points, its pacing -- it managed to insert a lot of plot and character subplots in few episodes, and yet never felt (too) rushed. ''Spirits'', on the other hand, stuck with a single plotline (Kam's) through its entire run, and suffered dearly for it, as episodes had to constantly [[StatusQuoIsGod reinforce the status quo]] to stop the plotline from ending, thus advancing the plot ever so slowly for its 39 episodes. The exclusion of most of the original cast helped to make that more apparent -- with less characters, episodes had to focus exclusively on Ikki, Arika and, sometimes, new character Zuru, making stories less varied. ''Spirits'' did away with the first series' strengths, and played up its weaknesses.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the first episode, Henry tries to help Ikki out by selling him Medabots parts that are actually in his price range, which basically amount to a dusty box of untouched Metabee armor parts. In a stunning display of ingratitude, Ikki and Arika laugh at him for suggesting such lame and old parts, and for a moment you can see Henry trembling. [[spoiler: Henry once had a Metabee as his own partner, but he died prior to the events of the series. Those are his old Metabee's parts ''in that box'']].

** Ikki and Arika mock Henry for trying to sell them an old KBT model. And then, guess which model does Ikki buy in later?

--> Arika: "I heard he used to be a strong man at the circus and could bench press elephants. I also heard he chiseled out the faces on Mount Rushmore with his ''bare hands''!"\\

* ToyShip: Ikki & Arika and Koji & Karin.

* ValuesDissonance: In Phantom Renegade: Unmasked (season 1, episode 11), [[{{Paparazzi}} Seamus [=McRaker=]]] slanders Ikki because he believes Ikki is the Phantom Renegade. At the end of the episode, Ikki defeats Seamus in a Robattle and Arika publishes an article that [[ClearMyName clears Ikki's name]] but Seamus faces no legal comeuppance for slandering a child. What makes things even more stupid is that everyone believes Seamus' stories without giving Ikki the opportunity to explain himself. In fact, everyone ignores that Ikki is a kid while the Phantom Renegade has been proven to be an adult. AdultsAreUseless, indeed. The whole episode operates on RuleOfFunny.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people who know about Medabots at ''all'' only know about Nelvana's anime dub. It's rare to find someone who knows that it's actually a franchise that [[OlderThanTheyThink got started in 1997]] with a video game series. It's even rarer to find anyone who knows about the manga adaptation or the GBA games that got localizations (everything that made it to the west is a derivative of ''Medarot 2'', Ikki's premiere game -- the Medabots game is actually [[VideoGameRemake Medarot 2 CORE]]). The anime is actually a BroadStrokes adaptation of the first two video games and a few of the manga (mostly the ''Medarot 2'' manga and ''Medarotter Rintarou'', whose title character became a CanonImmigrant in the anime), and was released two years after the original game.

* AwesomeMusic: The dub had a surprisingly epic opening theme. An instrumental version would play during fight sequences.

* BizarroEpisode: "Welcome to Ninja World" is a minor example, notable primarily for its GurrenLagann art style (see Art Shift on the main page) and for Brass acting astonishingly OutOfCharacter, striking flashy poses right alongside Erika rather than being her much more restrained foil. Neither of these really serve as marks against the episode, though, they're just worth noting.
* CrazyAwesome: Mr. Referee and Coach Mountain.
* CreepyAwesome: Beast Master (Robo Emperor) and God Emperor (Mega Empreror) are two of the most popular medabots in the Japanese fandom (as of a recent 2012 Japanese poll results held at [[http://ch.nicovideo.jp/video/ch1131 Nico Nico Douga]]. The first is NightmareFuel material, but the second is one of the most recurrent medabots used in the franchise of the games.
** UglyCute: The thing with God Emperor could be a case of this. Compared to Beast Master, it's... more ''normal'' to like because of its design (besides being a powerful medarot/weapon). To the point that Kirara, in ''Medarot 2'', has one of these...

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Lots of one-off and minor recurring characters. The stand-out human examples are Mr. Referee and Couch Mountain. Notable Medabot examples include Warbandit, Arcbeetle, Oceana, Femjet and Drackonfly.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Episode 20 has Ikki in a race against time to either get enough points to represent Japan in the world tournement, or save his mother from the Rubberrobo Gang. He manages to save her, but Metabee's too busted up to fight another battle for the LastLousyPoint.. guess we'll get a lesson about how you should do the right thing even if you're not rewarded, and about not pushing your friend beyond his limit... nope, Ikki is a coward for not wanting to fight, [[WhatTheHellHero all his friends heckle him]] and he accepts. [[FlatWhat Say whaaa.?]]
* FanonDiscontinuity / SeasonalRot / InternetBackdraft: Medabot fans hate ''Spirits'' with a passion. Do not mention ''Spirits'' in a forum, [[ShmuckBait you will regret it forever]].

** Ikki and Arika mocks Henry for trying to sell them an old KBT model. And then, guess which model does Ikki buy in later?

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Medabots is an AffectionateParody of the {{Mons}} genre. You would be amazed at how many negative reviews of the series just don't ''get'' that.

** The whole finale of the original anime, with its asspull resolution and the fact that Dr. Meta-Evil's giant robot is something no one should ever take seriously, especially after such awesome monsters like Robo-Emperor and Mega Emperor. It doesn't help that the whole Humongous Medabot idea is recycled from Meta-Evil's ''first'' attempt, with a much less impressive monster.
** Same situation would be applied to the continuity from ''Medarot'' to ''Spirits'' due to the change of animation studios when the latter was made. The fact that some people of the original cast disappeared from the series under unexplained reasons, not mentioning the events of the World Tournament... this is not easy to explain when you can pull a "they just moved on with their lives" card. Considering that not everyone of the original anime staff at Bee Train moved on to Trans Arts and Production IG as well, it could possibly explain why some characters and story elements disappeared and only made it through as "cameos" for the ED animation sequence, which happened to be directed by the original anime characters' designer. But, since no ED sequences from any anime series is {{canon}} with their anime...

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The premise of the anime series at first could have got the attraction of the kids who watched the series back in the days. However, it took several layers of constructing the story, with its dark elements (the "Ten Days of Darkness", mostly) that you could really question yourself about its kids demography... something that became superlative from other similar {{Mon}} series out there in earlier 2000s.

* CharacterDerailment: You want reasons to hate Medabot Spirits? We've got reasons to hate Medabot Spirits.
** The Screws gang, one of the few holdovers from [[PutOnABus the original cast]], are demoted to the new GoldfishPoopGang. Sam and the guys are constantly -- constantly -- giving some kind of aid to Kam in exchange for new parts for Peppercat, and [[AesopAmnesia repeatedly do so]] no matter ''how'' many times Kam and his Kilobots screw them over (a high-power battery fries Peppercat from the inside, flying parts that Peppercat can't figure out how to control, Peppercat falls afoul of ''TheVirus'' from a Kilobot, etc.).
** Ikki trips over this, too, especially in the early episodes. Kam gets bored and decides to draw Ikki and Metabee out of hiding by picking fights with innocent Medabots and then shattering their medals (which is what normal people call ''[[VileVillainSaccharineShow murder]]''). Ikki and Metabee are bound by a promise to Nae not to fight with the Kilobots, so they sit in the bushes and hide. This is the same kid who once almost ''[[BerserkButton physically attacked]]'' Victor, a full-grown bodybuilder, just for suggesting he would break Warbandit's medal.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the first episode, Henry tries to help Ikki out by selling him Medabots parts that are actually in his price range, which basically amount to a dusty box of untouched Metabee armor parts. In a stunning display of ingratitude, Ikki and Arika laugh at him for suggesting such lame and old parts, and for a moment you can see Henry trembling. [[spoiler: Henry once had a Metabee as his own partner, but he died prior to the events of the series]].

* HarsherInHindsight: In the first episode, Henry tries to help Ikki out by selling him Medabots parts that are actually in his price range, which basically amount to a dusty box of untouched Metabee armor parts. In a stunning display of ingratitude, Ikki and Arika laugh at him at suggesting such lame and old parts, and for a moment you can see Henry trembling. [[spoiler: Henry once had a Metabee as his own partner, but he died prior to the events of the series]].

* HoYay: Fans almost often tend to ship Hikaru and Ikki... People often do not remember that Ikki is an [[{{Shotacon}} 8 year old kid]] and that Hikaru is in his late-teens. Too much {{squick}}. However, it's a bit of a popular ship...

** Metabee/Oceana, Metabee/Brass... Metabee/Rokusho... and even Medabot [=OCs=] with other Medabot [=OCs=].

* TheyJustDidntCare: Nelvana arguably pulled this in the English Dub. The airing of some of the first 20 episodes were pulled until MUCH later because they could just wanted to accelerate the action of the anime OR because they accelerated the appareance of Rokusho, making a DubInducedPlotHole later.
** Same situation would be applied to the continuity from ''Medarot'' to ''Spirits'' due to the change of animation studios when the latter was made. The fact that some people of the original cast dissapeared from the series under unexplained reasons, not mentioning the events of the World Tournament... this is not easy to explain when you can pull a "they just moved on with their lives" card. Considering that not everyone of the original anime staff at Bee Train moved on to Trans Arts and Production IG as well, it could possibly explain why some characters and story elements dissapeared and only made it through as "cameos" for the ED animation sequence, which happened to be directed by the original anime characters' designer. But, since no ED sequences from any anime series is {{canon}} with their anime...
** The whole finale of the original anime, with its asspull resolution and the fact that Dr. Meta-Evil's giant robot is something no one should ever take seriously, especially after such awesome monsters like Robo-Emperor and Mega Emperor.

* {{Moe}}: Karin on the human side; Saintnurse, Oceana, Brass, and others on the [[FetishFuel robot]] side.

* FridgeBrilliance: In the dub, Hikaru had renamed himself as ''Henry'' [[spoiler:after the "Ten Days of Darkness" incident]], but in the original version this doesn't happen. However, if you think about this, the kids react with an "ah, what a coincidence" expression because of the mention of the name of "Hikaru Agata". That is, because at the first time Hikaru interacts with Ikki, he is just another clerk and is called "Combi-nii-chan", and later when he starts assuming his "BigBrotherMentor" role, the kids start calling him "Hikaru-nii-chan". So, when [[spoiler:Joe Swihan revealed that Uchuu Medarotter X was Hikaru Agata]], the kids never knew Hikaru's last name. [[spoiler:Until, of course, Ikki started putting the pieces of the puzzle together to find out that their friendly convenience store clerk have ''always'' been Agata.]] It's also mentioned there wasn't any record left from the event, perhaps making it impossible to research a photo of "Hikaru Agata", besides the fact that there could be other people going with that name in Japan, as well.
* FridgeHorror: In episode 25, whenever Dr. Meta-Evil's henchman fails him, he turns them into teddy bears. Can you imagine what it's like to stay as an inanimate object, [[AndIMustScream for who knows how long?]]

* NightmareFuel: The Robo-Emperor, anyone? The thing looks less like a medabot than a feral, mechanical, fully-armed Lamia. Or was clearly inspired by an [[Anime/{{NeonGenesisEvangelion}} EVA]].
** In Episode 51, [[spoiler: Metabee experiences a dream state, during which he battles in a war against Rokusho and an army of Zorins. He becomes splattered with oil. Think what the human equivalent of that is...]]
*** In the same episode, [[spoiler: Brass dies in the dream state. IN A KID'S SHOW.]]
** In the manga, Medaforce basically [[http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq291/KaoruArika/Random%20STILL%20Loved/medaforce.jpg boils]] the armor of a medabot when it [[http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq291/KaoruArika/Random%20STILL%20Loved/medaforce2.jpg manifests]]... yeah, it's exactly not an [[BodyHorror image]] that one can ignore. And also becomes a mindless AxCrazy robot.
*** Oil is splattered when a medabot is shot... or [[http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq291/KaoruArika/Random%20STILL%20Loved/a34567.jpg sliced]]
*** [[spoiler: Metabee when is [[http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq291/KaoruArika/Random%20STILL%20Loved/a96854.jpg partially destroyed]] in Medarot 1. Poor Hikaru...]]
** [[EnfantTerrible The Ankle Biters]] and [[FluffyTheTerrible Churly]][[KillerTeddyBear bear]]. HOT DAMN.
** Even ''Spirits'' has an episode that invokes this: just imagine that there could be a medabots junkyard full of zombies with a ''cute'' female medabot as their leader, who is way too damaged and her eyes look like are 'tearing' blood (or oil). [[BodyHorror Yeaaaahhh...]]

* AdaptationDisplacement: Few people ignore that the whole series is a franchise, that is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than it looks]] (15 years as of 2012), that it was originated from a videogame (that wasn't exported until the VideoGameRemake of Medarot 2 for GBA... in 2002/03). Or that the manga that came out is basically an adaptation of the videogames. The anime series took elements from both the videogames and few others of the manga (mostly, the Medarot 2 adaptation)... and yet, the first thing that come to mind to people is the anime series, that was done ''2'' years later the original release of Medarot for GB... (especially without a simple research on the net in these days...)

* AssPull: Suspected of the series finale, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:medabot medals are alien [[BrainInAJar brains in a jar]], whose fighting nearly caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
** It's a bit more complicated than that. Since the series is based on certain events from the videogames (M1-M2 by the time of writing and airing the anime), they do reveal [[spoiler: pretty much that the medals are older than humanity and are from alien origin, but when they were discovered, Hushi and Akihabara started to use them as mind and soul for the robots they were bulding (or at least what it appeared to be in the manga adaptations).]] Of course, there is not denial that this could have been worked much better than what was shown in the first place.
** There's also the fact about Brandon. A character who only appeared in two episodes with minimal screen time, suddenly shows up in the season finale. [[spoiler: Only to reveal that he was actually an alien.]]