History YMMV / TerraFormars

---> [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Man. I'm the only one who can handle your balls."]]

** [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama OBUNGA]], a hideously photoshopped [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obunga abomination]] of Obama's face to look like one of the roaches. Your guess is as good as ours.

* UnfortunateImplications: The design of the roaches can tilt more than a few heads, looking a bit like racist stereotypes of black people. That by itself could be excused as the creator attempting to mimic the look of homo erectus, but when combined with the ways [[https://kenpire.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/terra-formars-sideways-gun.jpg?w=1024&h=576 they hold guns]] and [[https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7loj5SvS0eIkAzVZdUmE5SzBWZS1szNIly326eBmb8oI6UDO2MbSP62kPVA sit in cars]] and things start to get more than a little uncomfortable. Also one of the heroes is named Adolf. This has not gone unnoticed by websites such as [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-most-racist-thing-you-seen-in-fiction.636958/page-8#post-46427119 Space Battles]] where [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-most-racist-thing-you-seen-in-fiction.636958/page-10#post-46490857 quite a few users]] have taken issue with this.

* AmericansHateTingle: The series is quite popular in Japan, but has no significant fanbase in the West.

* FanNickname:
** Johj: The cockroaches, due to their {{Starfish Language}}.
** Terra Censors: Due to the insane censorship in the anime.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 171 - [[spoiler: Rome was responsible for placing the roaches on Annex 1, and were the ones who gave information about Annex 1 and the M.O. Operation to the roaches, making them the true BigBad of the series. The name of the Russian President is Vladmir A. Smiles, the same last name as George Smiles from Bugs 1. The Chinese President is Liu Zhou, half-brother of Liu Yiwu.]]
** [[spoiler: Rome '''wants''' the roaches to come to earth, and is happy that a colony of them managed to get Bugs I operational and set up shop. What's worse is that the colony in Japan is ''not'' the first one that was detected, but is the only one that earth is taking any action against.]]
** Chapter 198. Expecting to see negotiations between China, Japan, and the United states due to the highly illegal and unethical actions of "We Are The Cosmos" on contested artificial islands, [[spoiler: even the press is shocked to see a Terraformar on the podium, an armed invasion fleet of terraformars into Japanese waters, using Blue Whales as ships, and both the "tin plated soldier" and the infant taken in chapter 197 are half-human hybrids between the terraformars and ordinary humans.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** Mixed with a Tearjerker, Marcos goes on an absolute rampage when we see him transform for the first time, smashing a roach's face in with a flying knee, then in a literal blink of an eye, dashing up to a roach to decapitate it with a mighty uppercut. So awesome that Viz used the clip to promote their dub.
** Adolf's fight with the roaches after he regains consciousness, especially the "[[FlippingTheBird Fuck you]]" he delivers before [[ShockAndAwe electrocuting]] them.
** Eva Frost pulls a BigDamnHeroes on Akari. Saving him from a Chinese warship, single handed, and does enough damage that the Chinese had to temporarily retreat!
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome:

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* {{Memetic Mutation}}:

** Chapter 48, page 9.
---> [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Man. I'm the only one who can handle your balls."]]

* UnfortunateImplications: The design of the roaches can tilt more than a few heads, looking a bit like racist stereotypes of black people. That by itself could be excused as the creator attempting to mimic the look of homo erectus, but when combined with the ways [[https://kenpire.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/terra-formars-sideways-gun.jpg?w=1024&h=576 they hold guns]] and [[https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7loj5SvS0eIkAzVZdUmE5SzBWZS1szNIly326eBmb8oI6UDO2MbSP62kPVA sit in cars]] and things start to get more than a little uncomfortable. Also one of the heroes is named Adolf.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' meets ''Manga/{{Gantz}}''.
** That or ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' meets ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''.

* UnfortunateImplications: The roaches' design. As shown in the cm, they're actually red-brown like actual roaches and and designed mainly after ''homo erectus''. However, due to the manga being black-and-white, the lack of color and stereotypical hip-hop body language makes them look more like large muscled humans in blackface with deformed heads and pitch black eyes.

* ArgentinaIsNaziland: The squads 3 to 6 of annex I include, each one, people from two parts of the world : an UNASA member and a region of the world without UNASA member. However, strangely, the sole case where the said part arent neighboring is the case of the squad 5, made of people from Germany and South America.

* AcceptableTargets: While all of the world's leaders (minus America and Japan)[[spoiler:are shown to have been doing sinister and counter-productive things in secret in their "human weapon race," China has taken the forefront as "the villains" in the series, completely derailing the mission for samples to cure the virus plauging Earth and getting many of their comrades killed all so that the Chinese Government could capture Akari and Michelle so they could make an army of elite super soldiers to bolster their military might against the rest of the world.]]

** China's real world track record and reputation does not help their case.

* OvershadowedByControversy:
** The TV broadcast got more attention for the ludicrous censorship than anything else. See {{Narm}}.
** More people online probably know of the series for the roaches' [[UnfortunateImplications physical resemblance to racist caricatures]] than for the actual plot.

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* OvershadowedByControversy: The TV broadcast got more attention for the ludicrous censorship than anything else. See {{Narm}}.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The TV broadcast got more attention for the ludicrous censorship than anything else. See {{Narm.}}

* UnfortunateImplications: The roaches bear an uncomfortable resemblance to racist, exaggerated caricatures of people of African descent. And when one of biggest weapons against them is a blue-eyed, blonde-haired white man [[spoiler: who is the product of several generations of eugenics]] and the black Earthling characters are either [[FlatCharacter inconsequential]] or, in Victoria Wood's case, an [[OpportunisticBastard opportunistic traitor]], it paints a rather unseemly picture.
** The fact that the majority of the Chinese characters are opportunistic schemers has also raised more than a few eyebrows, especially given the racism towards Chinese people that's still prevalent in Japan today.
** There's also the chapters involving Martian roaches infiltrating human society. Their preferred wardrobe and methods are eerily similar to the way certain "religions" are portrayed.