History YMMV / MetallicRouge

* AbandonShipping: Given the very premise of the series - that of two young women gradually bonding as they accomplish a herculean task together - and the chemistry Naomi and Rouge have with each other, not to mention the lengths Naomi goes to in her effort to rescue Rouge in episode 5, many people were hoping for there to be some romance between the two characters, not unlike the general fandom perception for Chisato and Takina in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''. Some people dropped the ship however when a character profile revealed that chronologically, Rouge is a ''ten-year old minor'' while Naomi is twenty-three (with it later revealed that [[OlderThanTheyLook she's actually 40]]). However, others have pointed out that Rouge is a literal robot, and how long she's existed doesn't translate to her being a literal 10 year old. Specially when she looks, acts and is treated (by both the narrative and characters) as an adult.

* AbandonShipping: Given the very premise of the series - that of two young women gradually bonding as they accomplish a herculean task together - and the chemistry Naomi and Rouge have with each other, not to mention the lengths Naomi goes to in her effort to rescue Rouge in episode 5, many people were hoping for there to be some romance between the two characters, not unlike the general fandom perception for Chisato and Takina in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''. Some people dropped the ship however when a character profile revealed that chronologically, Rouge is a ''ten-year old minor'' while Naomi is twenty-three. However, others have pointed out that Rouge is a literal robot, and how long she's existed doesn't translate to her being a literal 10 year old. Specially when she looks, acts and is treated (by both the narrative and characters) as an adult.

* AbandonShipping: Given the very premise of the series - that of two young women gradually bonding as they accomplish a herculean task together - and the chemistry Naomi and Rouge have with each other, not to mention the lengths Naomi goes to in her effort to rescue Rouge in episode 5, many people were hoping for there to be some romance between the two characters, not unlike the general fandom perception for Chisato and Takina in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''. Some people dropped the ship however when a character profile revealed that chronologically, Rouge is a ''ten-year old minor'' while Naomi is twenty-three. However, others have pointed out that Rouge is a literal robot, and how long she's existed doesn't doesn't translate to her being a literal 10 year old. Specially when she looks, acts and is treated (by both the narrative and characters) as an adult.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: If one gets past the MindScrew nature of the fifth episode, the basic narrative Rouge is being fed is that she shouldn't be killing the Immortal Nine because they simply want freedom. Indeed, much of the story up to that point showed that neans were a criminally repressed minority that frequently faced brutal crackdowns, unable to fight back because of their Asimov Code. Where this falls apart is that, of the Immortal Nine characters shown on screen, about half of them are unrepentant monsters. Rouge specifically calls out Afdal as a 'broken man,' but that doesn't exactly excuse the fact he was killing people due to JustFollowingOrders, or the fact he actively murdered people due to a nihilist streak. Later, we see Jill - really Sylvia - start ranting about how humanity placed a curse on her people and need to pay ''just as her actions get a nean killed to prove a point'' when there were several ways she could have resolved the situation without bringing humans to harm and getting the nean killed because he did nothing to protect them. Giallo ''especially'' brings the rest of the group down, due to being a dangerous rabble-rousing gangster murdering people and selling out his own kind for cheap laughs. While it's true most of the neans deserve justice for the horrific treatment visited upon them, the Immortal Nine in particular are made up of both some of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the most innocent neans and neans who really are a danger to themselves, others, and humanity.]] [[spoiler:One of the Nine calling Rouge out to be evil feels hollow due to the above cases against them, ''especially'' when she calls ''Rouge'' out for JustFollowingOrders when that was ''exactly'' what Afdal himself was doing.]]
** By far the worst of the Immortal Nine is Sylvia. At least Afdal and Giallo admit they aren't good people. Sylvia has the audacity to act as if her actions are righteous despite being overly, unnecessarily violent, to the point her actions ''directly get a nean ally killed'', which she immediately blames on ''humans.'' When approached by two guards with guns, Sylvia immediately kills them, getting her nean friend killed because he didn't stop her from causing harm to a human. It's at about this point we learn Sylvia has ''super speed,'' and could have just ran away, disarmed the soldiers, or intimidated them in some way. We then later learn Sylvia can ''fly,'' meaning she honestly had no reason to stick around as long as she did and get the other nean killed - it seems she opts to stay behind just to hurt more people.
*** Except the point wasn't that all of them are total innocent Cherubs. Saying that Silvia was the "worst" of them is also a huge stretch. Neans and the Nine are just people. They can be broken and messed up and damaged just like any other human, but they aren't Saturday Morning cartoon villains. The show is much more of a grey scale in the morality spectrum, and the point was to show Rouge start to question the things she was told and made to believe. It's about how she's growing as a person and not just seeing things as simple "black and white." This is made clear when it's shown that several characters she's trusted just want to maintain the status quo without caring that there is an entire class of people that are being marginalized and abused for the sake of status quo.

* NoYay: Given the very premise of the series - that of two young women gradually bonding as they accomplish a herculean task together - and the chemistry Naomi and Rouge have with each other, not to mention the lengths Naomi goes to in her effort to rescue Rouge in episode 5, many people were hoping for there to be some romance between the two characters, not unlike the general fandom perception for Chisato and Takina in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil''. These hopes died down almost immediately once it was made clear that, chronologically, Rouge is a ''ten-year old minor'' while Naomi is twenty-three.

** By far the worst of the Immortal Nine is Sylvia. At least Afdal and Giallo admit they aren't good people. Sylvia has the audacity to act as if her actions are righteous despite being overly, unnecessarily violent, to the point her actions ''directly get a nean ally killed'', which she immediately blames on ''humans.'' When approached by two guards with guns, Sylvia immediately kills them, getting her nean friend killed because he didn't stop her from causing harm to a human. It's at about this point we learn Sylvia has ''super speed,'' and could have just ran away, disarmed the soldiers, or intimidated them in some way. We then later learn Sylvia can ''fly,'' meaning she honestly had no reason to stick around as long as she did and get the other nean killed - it seems she opts to stay behind just to hurt more people.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: If one gets past the MindScrew nature of the fifth episode, the basic narrative Rouge is being fed is that she shouldn't be killing the Immortal Nine because they simply want freedom. Indeed, much of the story up to that point showed that neans were a criminally repressed minority that frequently faced brutal crackdowns, unable to fight back because of their Asimov Code. Where this falls apart is that, of the Immortal Nine characters shown on screen, about half of them are unrepentant monsters. Rouge specifically calls out Afdal as a 'broken man,' but that doesn't exactly excuse the fact he was killing people due to JustFollowingOrders, or the fact he actively murdered people due to a nihilist streak. Later, we see Jill - really Sylvia - start ranting about how humanity placed a curse on her people and need to pay ''just as her actions get a nean killed to prove a point'' when there were several ways she could have resolved the situation without bringing humans to harm and getting the nean killed because he did nothing to protect them. Jiallo ''especially'' brings the rest of the group down, due to being a dangerous rabble-rousing gangster murdering people and selling out his own kind for cheap laughs. While it's true most of the neans deserve justice for the horrific treatment visited upon them, the Immortal Nine in particular are made up of both some of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the most innocent neans and neans who really are a danger to themselves, others, and humanity.]] [[spoiler:One of the Nine calling Rouge out to be evil feels hollow due to the above cases against them, ''especially'' when she calls ''Rouge'' out for JustFollowingOrders when that was ''exactly'' what Afdal himself was doing.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: If one gets past the MindScrew nature of the fifth episode, the basic narrative Rouge is being fed is that she shouldn't be killing the Immortal Nine because they simply want freedom. Indeed, much of the story up to that point showed that neans were a criminally repressed minority that frequently faced brutal crackdowns, unable to fight back because of their Asimov Code. Where this falls apart is that, of the Immortal Nine characters shown on screen, about half of them are unrepentant monsters. Rouge specifically calls out Afdal as a 'broken man,' but that doesn't exactly excuse the fact he was killing people due to JustFollowingOrders, or the fact he actively murdered people due to a nihilist streak. Later, we see Jill - really Sylvia - start ranting about how humanity placed a curse on her people and need to pay ''just as her actions get a Nean killed to prove a point'' when there were several ways she could have resolved the situation without bringing humans to harm and getting the Nean killed because he did nothing to protect them. Jiallo ''especially'' brings the rest of the group down, due to being a dangerous rabble-rousing gangster murdering people and selling out his own kind for cheap laughs. While it's true most of the neans deserve justice for the horrific treatment visited upon them, the Immortal Nine in particular are made up of both some of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the most innocent neans and neans who really are a danger to themselves, others, and humanity.]] [[spoiler:One of the Nine calling Rouge out to be evil feels hollow due to the above cases against them, ''especially'' when she calls ''Rouge'' out for JustFollowingOrders when that was ''exactly'' what Afdal himself was doing.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: If one gets past the MindScrew nature of the fifth episode, the basic narrative Rouge is being fed is that she shouldn't be killing the Immortal Nine because they simply want freedom. Indeed, much of the story up to that point showed that neans were a criminally repressed minority that frequently faced brutal crackdowns, unable to fight back because of their Asimov Code. Where this falls apart is that, of the Immortal Nine characters shown on screen, about half of them are unrepentant monsters. Rouge specifically calls out Afdal as a 'broken man,' but that doesn't exactly excuse the fact he was killing people due to JustFollowingOrders, or the fact he actively murdered people due to a nihilist streak. Later, we see Jill - really Sylvia - start ranting about how humanity placed a curse on her people and need to pay ''just as her actions get a Nean killed to prove a point'' when there were several ways she could have resolved the situation without bringing humans to harm and getting the Nean killed because he did nothing to protect them. Jiallo ''especially'' brings the rest of the group down, due to being a dangerous rabble-rousing gangster murdering people and selling out his own kind for cheap laughs. While it's true most of the neans deserve justice for the horrific treatment visited upon them, the Immortal Nine in particular are made up of both some of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the most innocent neans and neans who really are a danger to themselves, others, and humanity.]] [[spoiler:One of the Nine calling Rouge out to be evil feels hollow due to the above cases against them.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: If one gets past the MindScrew nature of the fifth episode, the basic narrative Rouge is being fed is that she shouldn't be killing the Immortal Nine because they simply want freedom. Indeed, much of the story up to that point showed that neans were a criminally repressed minority that frequently faced brutal crackdowns, unable to fight back because of their Asimov Code. Where this falls apart is that, of the Immortal Nine characters shown on screen, about half of them are unrepentant monsters. Rouge specifically calls out Afdal as a 'broken man,' but that doesn't exactly excuse the fact he was killing people due to JustFollowingOrders, or the fact he actively murdered people due to a nihilist streak. Jiallo ''especially'' brings the rest of the group down, due to being a dangerous rabble-rousing gangster murdering people and selling out his own kind for cheap laughs. While it's true most of the neans deserve justice for the horrific treatment visited upon them, the Immortal Nine in particular are made up of both some of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the most innocent neans and neans who really are a danger to themselves, others, and humanity.]] [[spoiler:One of the Nine calling Rouge out to be evil feels hollow due to the above cases against them.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: If one gets past the MindScrew nature of the fifth episode, the basic narrative Rouge is being fed is that she shouldn't be killing the Immortal Nine because they simply want freedom. Indeed, much of the story up to that point showed that neans were a criminally repressed minority that frequently faced brutal crackdowns, unable to fight back because of their Asimov Code. Where this falls apart is that, of the Immortal Nine characters shown on screen, about half of them are unrepentant monsters. Rouge specifically calls out Afdal as a 'broken man,' but that doesn't exactly excuse the fact he was killing people due to JustFollowingOrders, or the fact he actively murdered people due to a nihilist streak. Jiallo ''especially'' brings the rest of the group down, due to being a dangerous rabble-rousing gangster murdering people and selling out his own kind for cheap laughs. While it's true most of the neans deserve justice for the horrific treatment visited upon them, the Immortal Nine in particular are made up of both some of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the most innocent neans and neans who really are a danger to themselves, others, and humanity.]]

** It is ''not'' difficult to see Rouge as an {{Expy}} of ''Videogame/MegaManZero''-era Zero, if the term 'nean' was replaced with 'reploid.' Like the Immortal Reploid, Rouge is a rather muted but determined crimson robot with a green energy sword and a friendlier handler who exists in a setting where 'reploids' are second-class citizens dealing with a troublesome civic crisis regarding their purpose and liberty. Borrowing a bit from ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' is that the neans Rouge is fighting are mavericks whose programming and capacity for free thought renders their Asimov Code moot, making them a danger to humans and other neans alike. Going even further, Rouge and the Immortal Nine fight like they're in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'', having super-powerful transformations that give them their gimmicks. If Viola was counted as a WarmUpBoss like the ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' series occasionally had, (such as [[VideoGame/MegaManZero1 Aztec Falcon]] or [[VideoGame/MegaManZX Giro]]) the show would even have the typical ''Mega Man'' structure of having eight boss mavericks across multiple stages to defeat.

** It is ''not'' difficult to see Rouge as an {{Expy}} of ''Videogame/MegaManZero''-era Zero, if the term 'nean' was replaced with 'reploid.' Like the Immortal Reploid, Rouge is a rather muted but determined crimson robot with a green energy sword and a friendlier handler who exists in a setting where 'reploids' are second-class citizens dealing with a troublesome civic crisis regarding their purpose and liberty. Borrowing a bit from ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' is that the neans Rouge is fighting are mavericks whose programming and capacity for free thought renders their Asimov Code moot, making them a danger to humans and other neans alike. Going even further, Rouge and the Immortal Nine fight like they're in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'', having super-powerful transformations that give them their gimmicks. If Viola was counted as a WarmUpBoss like the ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' series occasionally had, the show would even have the typical ''Mega Man'' structure of having eight boss mavericks across multiple stages to defeat.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Seemingly to the Franchise/BladeRunner franchise. Similar to the first film, the protagonist is tasked with hunting down rogue androids roaming around their respective settings. And like the second film, said protagonist is also a HunterOfHerOwnKind. Both stories are also dealing with themes of discrimination against androids ([[FantasticRacism racism]] in Blade Runner's case, indifference and subversion of AndroidsArePeopleToo in Metallic Rouge's). That's not even getting into the setting where the opening establishing shots of Rouge's first episode clearly takes inspiration from the downpour atmosphere of the Blade Runner franchise (just with less flying cars, holographic billboards, and neon lights). And while we never see it in person, Blade Runner 2049 alludes to Mars as an off-world colony; while Rouge setting takes place in a far-future terraformed Mars.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Seemingly to the Franchise/BladeRunner franchise. Similar to the first film, the protagonist is tasked with hunting down rogue androids roaming around their respective settings. And like the second film, said protagonist is also a HunterOfHerOwnKind. Both stories are also dealing with themes of discrimination against androids ([[FantasticRacism racism]] in Blade Runner's case, indifference and subversion of AndroidsArePeopleToo in Metallic Rouge's). That's not even getting into the setting where the opening establishing shots of Rouge's first episode clearly takes inspiration from the downpour atmosphere of the Blade Runner franchise. And while we never see it in person, Blade Runner 2049 alludes to Mars as an off-world colony; while Rouge setting takes place in a far-future terraformed Mars.