- Anvilicious: Um, OK, censorship bad?
- Broken Base: Fans are split as to whether the album's poppier sound was for the better or not.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Just try listening to "Mr. Roboto" now, while disregarding the Bad Future rock opera's storyline, and considering the basic stifled-human-or-mindless-bot uncertainty it centers on. Then consider that, for all the singer's protests that they are human, the name revealed at the end became well-known as a graffiti tag, i.e. a generic alias. It's actually the perfect song for internet trolls!
- Speaking of "Mr. Roboto", one of the lyrics reads "The time has come at last, to throw away this mask". Flash forward to 2017, and a certain JRPG seems to take that to heart.
- Production-Related Period Piece: "Mr. Roboto". When you hear the song separate from the album, the lyrics make less sense than they're supposed to without the rest of the songs and the liner notes to explain them.
- Random Events Plot: A big criticism of the album is that the "story" is very half-baked (arguably unfinished) and the songs don't really have anything to do with it. Aside from "Mr. Roboto", you could make very minor changes to the lyrics and fans would think it's just another Styx album.
- So Bad, It's Good: The Killroy Was Here mini-movie shown prior to concerts, with every band member proving to be a terrible actor and cheesy dialogue galore.
- Values Dissonance: Nightmare-inducing appearances aside, the Roboto face masks are based on racist caricatures of Japanese people (with very slanted eyes and three small pegs on their "mouths" resembling buck teeth), which, while still acceptable during the 1980s, is frowned upon in today's society. Stage performances made it even worse, with the Robotos doing a lot of cross-armed bowing.
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