Martian Successor Nadesico/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: The very obnoxious, if amusing, Admiral Munitake gets a surprisingly moving death scene when his time finally comes.
• Complete Monster: Haruki Kusakabe, the Jovian leader, is this in spades. Not only did he frame Shiratori for treason and had him killed to prolong the war, but he did all kinds of horrible experiments on Akito, Yurika and Lapis in The Movie.
• Ensemble Darkhorse (Ruri, who pretty much takes over The Movie entirely.)
  • Don't forget Gai Daigoji.
    • No joke--many people end up dropping Nadesico after Gai gets killed off.
• Fan Dumb (Lots of viewers treat it as a entirely serious and cynical show with a strong message against anime and fandom of any sort, apparently missing the part where Akito explicitly says it's perfectly fine to believe in justice, fall in love, and watch poorly-written anime. If anything, it's a criticism of obsessing over something to the point of it no longer being enjoyable, not that enjoying it to begin with is bad.)
  • If it's overly cynical about anything, it's the idea of Culture bringing forth peace ala Macross.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some people would like to forget The Movie ever existed.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the credits of the dub, Ruri's voice actress is listed simply as "Kira".
• What an Idiot! (Akito's reaction to Jun taking out an Aestivalis without a pilot suit)
• What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The manga written by Kia Asamiya. And not in a good way.
• Woolseyism (Several of the jokes are made much funnier by being delivered by the English language cast who had just done Evangelion. "You mean episode 26 wasn't the last episode?" is funny. Hearing Spike (Shinji) Spencer say it is hilarious. The Directors openly state that some parts were decided upon due to links with other ADV shows. Akito (Spike Spencer - Shinji in Eva) and Ryoko's (Tiffany Grant - Asuka in the same show) roles are the prime examples.)
  • Also a few other Woolseyisms, mostly to make sense of Izumi's lines.