History YMMV / VoltronTheThirdDimension

* RetroactiveRecognition: Billy West voiced this show's version of Pidge a little before getting his big break starring in ''WesternAnimation/Futurama''.

* {{Narm}}: Where to begin?
** After the ActionPrologue of the first episode, we meet up with Hunk and Pidge at a garage looking over emails. One of said emails asks Pidge to "sign his jpeg".
** Despite rarely fighting in space in the original series, almost all of Voltron's fights take place in space, as it was clear action scenes in cityscapes, or action scenes using gravity to show the heft of the machines were beyond the animation budget. The end result can sometimes look like two action figures being held aloft colliding into each other.
** The very first {{Robeast}} in the show, a [[MakeMyMonsterGrow super-sized and reprogrammed prison guard robot]] attacks Voltron with tranquilizers that look like stereotypical needles. With no explanation, the tranquilizers are shown as capable of incapacitating Voltron, a ''machine''. With no organic components.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general consensus of the series in terms of writing (not so much in [[UncannyValley animation.]])

* UncannyValley: Pretty much all the human and humanoid aliens fall under this with plastic looking skin and extremely awkward movements, a clear reflection of both the budget and time the series was made. A particularly bizarre looking example is Haggar, who never walks [[FogFeet but floats on a cloud]] so animators wouldn't have to animate her moving. The end result looks like she's paralyzed from the waist down.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad King Zarkon]], in his quest to conquer the universe, committed atrocities like razing Lance's village, and assassinating King Alfor of Arus with the help of the witch Haggar, who Zarkon then betrayed, turning her into a withered old crone bound to serve him and his much-maligned son, [[WellDoneSonGuy Prince Lotor]]. After his Fleet of Doom was vanquished by the Voltron Force, Zarkon [[CrocodileTears feigned repentance]], and [[HeelFaceMole became the Galaxy Alliance's Minister of Peace]]. Spending years plotting from the shadows, Zarkon eventually sprung Lotor from prison and, [[TheManBehindTheMan acting through him and Haggar]], restarted the conflict between the Galaxy Alliance and the Doom Empire. Zarkon's forces nearly ignite a war by interrupting a peace signing, leave eight billion people to die by sabotaging the Galaxy Alliance's attempt to save them from a supernova, and bring the Galaxy Alliance to its knees by forcing it to destroy Voltron under threat of wiping out all fifty billion inhabitants of the Troika Moons. With the Galaxy Alliance under his control, Zarkon becomes even more maniacal and ruthless, ordering the enslavement of dissidents, endangering the entire universe in order to get access to an extra dimensional power source, and betraying Haggar [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder again]] by banishing her to the Dream Dimension to try and make himself look good and garner support from the other members of the Galaxy Alliance.

* SnarkBait: Very rarely is the show bought up as anything BUT this.

** Despite rarely fighting in space in the original series, all of Voltron's fights take place in space, as it was clear action scenes in cityscapes, or action scenes using gravity to show the heft of the machines were beyond the animation budget. The end result can sometimes look like two action figures being held aloft colliding into each other.
** The very first {{Robeast}} in the show, a [[MakeMyMonsterGrow supersizsed and reprogrammed prison guard robot]] attacks Voltron with tranquilizers that look like stereotypical needles. With no explanation, the tranquilizers are shown as capable of incapacitating Voltron, a ''machine''. With no organic components.
* NarmCharm: Creator/TimCurry completely chews the scenery as Prince Lotor, a far cry from the original deadly serious [[{{Anime/GoLion}} Prince Sincline]] or the conflicted portrayal of Lotor in the US exclusive season of {{Anime/Voltron}}. However, his over-the-top acting in contrast to the Voltron Force's fairly one-dimensional personalities makes him one of the best parts of the show.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The idea of the lions being sentient, as well as a spiritual bond between lion and pilot, was hinted at very vaguely in the original {{Anime/Voltron}} but this is the first Voltron series to really examine it in depth. The idea of the spiritual bond between lion and pilot would carry over to every subsequent piece of Voltron media, including the [[WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender 2016 continuity reboot]].

* UncannyValley: Pretty much all the human and humanoid aliens fall under this with plastic looking skin and extremely awkward movements, a clear reflection of both the budget and time the series was made. A particularly bizarre looking example is Haggar, who never walks but floats on a cloud so animators wouldn't have to animate her moving. The end result looks like she's paralyzed from the waist down.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general consensus of the series in terms of writing (not so much in [[UncannyValley animation.]]

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general consensus of the series.

* NarmCharm: Creator/TimCurry completely chews the scenery as Prince Lotor, a far cry from the original Complete Monster [[{{Anime/GoLion}} Prince Sincline]] or the conflicted portrayal of Lotor in the US exclusive season of {{Anime/Voltron}}. However, his over-the-top acting in contrast to the Voltron Force's fairly one-dimensional personalities makes him one of the best parts of the show.

* NarmCharm: Creator/TimCurry completely chews the scenery as Prince Lotor, a far cry from the original CompleteMonster [[{{Anime/GoLion}} Prince Sincline]] or the conflicted portrayal of Lotor in the US exclusive season of {{Anime/Voltron}}. However, his over-the-top acting in contrast to the Voltron Force's fairly one-dimensional personalities makes him one of the best parts of the show.

** The very first {{Robeast}} in the new show, a [[MakeMyMonsterGrow supersizsed and reprogrammed prison guard robot]] attacks Voltron with tranquilizers that look like stereotypical needles. With no explanation, the tranquilizers are shown as capable of incapacitating Voltron, a ''machine''. With no organic components.

* UncannyValley: Pretty much all the human and humanoid aliens fall under this with plastic looking skin and extremely awkward movements, a clear reflection of both the budget and time the series was made.
** A particularly bizarre looking example is Haggar, who never walks but floats on a cloud so animators wouldn't have to animate her moving. The end result looks like she's paralyzed from the waist down.

* UncannyValley: Pretty much all the human and humanoid aliens fall under this with plastic looking skin and extremely awkward movements, a clear reflection of both the budget and time the series was made.

** After the ActionPrologue of the first episode, we meet up with Hunk and Pidge at a garage looking over emails. One of said emails asks if Pidge to "sign his jpeg".

* NarmCharm: Creator/TimCurry completely chews the scenery as Prince Lotor, a far cry from the original CompleteMonster [[{{Anime/GoLion}} Prince Sincline]] or the conflicted portrayal of Lotor in the US exclusive season of Anime/Voltron. However, his over-the-top acting in contrast to the Voltron Force's fairly one-dimensional personalities makes him one of the best parts of the show.

** Despite rarely fighting in space in the original series, all of Voltron's fights take place in space, as it was clear action scenes in cityscapes were beyond the animation budget.
* NarmCharm: Creator/TimCurry completely chews the scenery as Prince Lotor, making him one of the best parts of the show.

* SnarkBait: Very rarely is the show bought up as anything BUT this.

SnarkBait: Very rarely is the show bought up as anything BUT this.