History YMMV / Pantheon

* MagnificentBastard: Vinod Chanda, once a humble engineer for Alliance Telecom, becomes one of the first Uploaded Intelligences when he's used as a test subject by his corrupt boss Ajit Prasad. After escaping his digital confinement, Chanda develops a ruthless streak, orchestrating the deaths of Prasad and his family in revenge. Vowing to liberate his fellow Uploads, Chanda sends UI blueprints to world governments to create more of his kind and seeks out heroic UIs David Kim and Laurie Lowell [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas when they involve his mother.]] Discovering a flaw that is corrupting and killing the Uploaded, Chanda takes matters into his own hands and begins recruiting UIs to his cause, ultimately hacking and destroying Lowell when she tries to expose the truth of UIs to the world. Chanda then challenges David to erase Laurie's recorded message while threatening Sacramento and David's daughter Maddie with a missile, engaging in a brutal fight [[GeniusBruiser and using his UI powers in tandem with his intellect]] to overpower Kim. Thwarted when David tricks him and sacrifices his own life, Chanda still escapes with his allies. Later, Chanda is coerced into serving under the megalomaniacal UI Stephen Holstrom. Disgusted with the latter's genocidal plan for humanity, Chanda covertly leads a rebellion against Holstrom and [[HeroicSacrifice ultimately gives his own life]] to help stop him, ensuring humans and UIs alike have a brighter future.

* CatharsisFactor:[[spoiler:After all the misery he's caused Caspian, Maddie, and so many others, seeing Pope pathetically beg for mercy before SafeSurf hurls him to his well-deserved death is very gratifying.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: If Julius Pope didn't cross this with his twisted plan to shape Caspian, [[spoiler:come season 2 he pole-vaults over it by cruelly wiping out the last copy of David in front of Maddie, forcing the girl to lose her father ''all over again'', than deciding to murder Caspian [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness since he no longer needs another Holstrom now that he's cracked integrity.]]]]

* NarmCharm: The digital world is where the animation gets really crazy, since most of the epic U.I battles take place in a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' knock-off and make use of borderline ToonPhysics with David shooting ''Samurai Swords'' from his arms like gatling guns, or Laurie enlarging her body parts. But ''goddamn'', is it cool looking.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Not only the art style has a nice anime vibefeel to it, but the fight scenes are well drawn and move smoothly.

* HarsherInHindsight: The song that plays in the final episode of season one, "Don't Dream It's Over" by The Rescues, became this when AMC canceled their second season.

** Fans of WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021 often point to Pantheon when complaining about how they were similarly ScrewedByTheNetwork regarding their previously announced second seasons, their cancellation announcements were fairly close together, and both being serious adult-oriented animated series.

** Fans of Franchise/TheMatrix seemingly get along with the fans of Pantheon with both series discussing the idea of the digital world, and what can be consider real or not.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: the astronaut woman from episode 8 can be consider hard to root for as she was willing to abandon her kids and husband for a life time on Mars and in the Cyber World. While she consider it as a mission to improve humanity, others can see it as her selfish desires for excitement with her stating that she doesn't feel comfortable living a simple life.

* {{Moe}}: Maddie is an adorable, determined kid who loves her dad and is often prone to tears. We even see her as a baby.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Not only the art style has a nice anime eques feel to it, but the fight scenes are well drawn and move smoothly.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: the astronaut lady from episode 8 can be consider hard to root for as she was willing to abandon her kids and husband for a life time on Mars and in the Cyber World. While she consider it as a mission to improve humanity, others can see it as her selfish desires for excitement with her stating that she doesn't feel comfortable living a simple life.

** The same can be said for Series/Westworld fans who both enjoy the series for various storylines and different forms of intelligence forming.

** UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: the astronaut lady from episode 8 can be consider hard to root for as she was willing to abandon her kids and husband for a life time on Mars and in the Cyber World. While she consider it as a mission to improve humanity, others can see it as her selfish desires for excitement with her stating that she doesn't feel comfortable living a simple life.

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