Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!/YMMV

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  • Characterization Marches On: The Hyperforce. Otto, Chiro, and Gibson in particular. Best touched down on in this review of the first episode.
  • Complete Monster: Mandarin. Look at the Moral Event Horizon entry below, for pity's sake! It's all him!
    • There was also that oneshot villain that obliterated an entire planet just to raise his score for a game.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: The theme used at the very end of the first season finale. Variations also include the music at the end of "I, Chiro". Even more epically, the music used when we first see Antauri as the silver monkey (complete with lightning crashing behind him) and all variations on that theme.
  • Ear Worm: The Theme Tune.
  • Epileptic Trees: In the Skeleton King's lair, Chiro finds a room full of his stuff, fan theories went a bit wild.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Chiro becoming monkey-ish after Antauri died in the second season finale? Well, Antauri might had possessed Chiro's body, and...
  • Jerkass Woobie: Clone Mandarin. C'mon, the guy gets his arm CUT OFF (on camera, no less!); is eaten alive by a giant worm-shaped incarnate of pure evil; starves, becomes undead, and eventually goes absolutely batshit insane in said worm; is later TORTURED for information for the whereabouts of his dead master's skull (again, on camera); and is then forced to become a pet-slave, which for someone with his pride, is a Fate Worse Than Death.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Mandarin crossed the horizon pre-series when he forced Nova into a freezing training room in order to "train her to survive harsh conditions" while continually lowering the heat and laughing at her. He only stopped when her Unstoppable Rage kicked in and blew him into a wall. It seems even more reprehensible when you take into account the fact that he did this before his Face Heel Turn, while he was still considered one of the good guys.
  • Nausea Fuel: CLOGGY. COLON. CREATURE.
    • Also, bug eating comes up at least once every other season. It's even the key to saving the day in one episode.
    • Chiro spends a good portion of "Belly Of The Beast" exploring the Dark One Worm's insides. He does not enjoy himself.
    • "Invasion of the Vreen" not only had Gibson eating a bug to save the day, but also when one of the Vreen was sliced in half and we had a view of its... err... parts. Gibson had the right to feel sickened by the sight.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Skeleton King creates this in-show for the team in In The Grip of Evil.
    • Oi, several episodes were Nightmare Fuel, Circus of Ooze anyone?
    • Pretty much half the final season. Lesse... Secret Society for starters. Then Fire of Hate/Soul of Evil. I mean, between Sprx, the resurrection ritual, and Skeleton King's new look? Good grief.
      • Don't forget Incident On Ranger 7, Ghosts of Shuggazoom, and Demon Of The Deep.
    • I, Chiro. Good grief, I, Chiro…
    • The Probe from Ghost in the Machinder.
    • The Skeleton King Droid. Relentless, brutal, and nigh invulnerable. And then there's that voice… * shudder*
    • OH GOOD GRIEF SKELETON KING! WITH THE TORTURE CHAMBER AND ALL THE MONKEYS RELEASING HORRIBLE SCREAMS!
    • Virus!Gibson was incredibly creepy in Thingy.
  • Paranoia Fuel: It is said that the Dark Ones implanted offspring in the cores of "countless" planets. Take a moment to think about the concept that the planet you live on could be housing an enormous evil monster bent on instigating a Zombie Apocalypse on every planet in the universe, and you would have absolutely no idea until it hatched.
  • Squick: The monkeys tastes seem to extend outside their species. Sprx-77 is by the far the worst offender with his egregious love for human women (he gets better, though). Otto is the same, though to a far, far lesser extent. And there was even one instance in which Nova fell in love with an anthropomorphic cat.
  • Too Good to Last: Want it to last longer? Air it on Cartoon Network. At least they know how to handle their shows better.
  • Troperiffic: The Robot is deliberately as generic as possible (yet still loaded up with hidden, cliché weapons in every inch of its body, more with physically impossible mountings than not), its ability to transform into smaller vehicles is not only physically impossible, it's usually only used to remind us that it's there, Chiro's named attacks are some of the most generic Supernatural Martial Arts moves (Elemental Punch, Elemental Kick, Kamehame Hadoken), the monkey team are like any other generic Color-Coded for Your Convenience Five-Man Band... except they're freaking MONKEYS... Yeah, I think this show is trying to F*ck with tropes for the sake of it.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: At least until you hear Sakko talk. Some countries decided otherwise, as mentioned.
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