It's just a cartoon, right? Wrong.
- Skullrook. It appears to be a huge, metallic, skull with hollowed-out eyesockets and fingernail-like teeth with two horns on the top. Even the creators find it creepy!Momoji Akino: "Skullrook is creepy. That name was chosen by me - "Skull" is derived from the body part, "Skull", and "Rook" is derived from "castle", hence "Skullrook". Seriously, I wonder why those guys who claim to be aristocrats board the ship even though it's so eerie..."
- In the first episode, the Boazanian saucers fell the Twin Towers. In Real Life, the casualties of 9/11 amassed well over 3,000. One can imagine how many were killed when the Boazanians destroyed it.
- The radio broadcast in the first episode mentions that the casualties of the invasion included three million fatalities in Italy, Buenos Aires being burned to the ground, and commmunication between London and the rest of the world being destroyed. Unlike Japan, none of those nations had a Super Robot to come to their aid and defend them, and it's likely that the citizens of those countries are either refugees or live in less-than-ideal conditions.
- The series takes place in 1990. That means that Italy had just been freshly rebuilt after being on the losing side of World War II, thanks to the Marshall Plan. Italy survived one war and was about to push itself into prosperity once more...only to be attacked again by the Boazanians and sustain three million deaths in terms of damages.
- One must imagine the number of Shell Shocked Veterans and war survivors who, having survived the atrocities of the Axis (and Mussolini's fascist empire), were re-traumatized due to the Boazanian Empire.
- Zaki's ship explodes while it's overloaded by power from Galgo's bite. Given how overloading renders aircraft immobile, there's a good chance the man was desperately trying to access his escape pods before the ship burst with him inside.
- Imagine being an average worker at Big Falcon. Your base is subject to constant terror attacks, you have to learn how to manoeuvre falling debris, you have to constantly be on high alert for Beast Knights, and the only people you can depend on to save you are five children.
- The Voltes team repeatedly have to make sacrifices to defeat some of the more powerful Beast Knights. In one episode, they subject themselves to electrocution so that they can have a winning chance at taking down the Monster of the Week.
- When Kentaro leads several Boazanian refugees to Earth, Zuhl intercepts him and destroys most of the flying saucers. Kentaro mentions that at first, there were twenty five saucers, but now there's only him and his Dwindling Party. Imagine all the Boazan slaves, happy to escape to a planet where they wouldn't be oppressed, only to face a cruel end. And considering how the Boazanian Empire seems to practice Unperson, Zuhl's crimes will likely never reach the light of day (apart from word of mouth from the survivors).
- Desraa appears to be based on the Japanese mythological creature Umibōzu
. It is a humanoid figure with pitch-black skin and a pair of wide, prominent eyes. Desraa braves each attack General Oka's Earth Defense Force throw at him and manages to sink a lot of his crew. Due to the fact that Voltes V was being repaired at the time, who knows how many casualties were racked up until the robot came to save the day...? - Belgan's appearance is eerie enough, with his Creepy Shadowed Undereyes and the fact that he never takes off his helmet, but he really crosses into Realism-Induced Horror when he creates a ring with the explicit purpose of controlling women. That also brings in the question of why he created that ring in the first place.
- Belgan is a Viler New Villain compared to Zuhl in many ways, the biggest being his unrepetant cruelty. To incite pestilence at Big Falcon, he personally has Nakamura's parents tortured, and their corpses displayed. He also has Bernard, the father of Nina's baby, subject to electric shock torture, and the poor man dies afterwards. It's also implied he created the ring to control Katherine.
- Belgan using the ring on Katherine is one thing, but it's another to use it on Megumi, who's underage.
- Imagine being Megumi's mother. You have to constantly worry about your underage daughter taking risks to death to protect the Earth, while your husband, who commands the Earth Invasion Force, dies in combat after being diagnosed with cancer. Megumi, your only daughter, at one point goes to a different planet to brave the final frontier of the war! Luckily, she comes back alive, and continues to be a force for justice with her friends.
- General Oka's death was inevitable due to his cancer, but for all the ways he could have died, he went out in front of his underage daughter. Imagine the turmoil Megumi will have in identifying his corpse amongst the debris, participating in the autopsy and having to live with the trauma of being the one to bring Daiand to him in the first place. No wonder she breaks down crying in the next episode.
- It's a good thing Kenichi had the foresight to send Hiyoshi to free the Boazanian slaves while the Voltes team occupied Heinel's castle, because a ten-year-old seeing Jangal commit Seppuku would have everlasting scars well into adulthood.
- Zambajil was prepared to have Belgan and Gurul face a Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands of Sodom and Gomorrah. Even though they were utmostly loyal to him, he still saw them as tools to use against the Earthlings. It just goes to show that even if Heinel was the perfect militaristic commander, he would never truly be welcomed by him.
