- Broken Base: It's either the best thing to happen to the franchise in years, and one of the best Lupin installments EVER...or it's an incomprehensible Mind Screw weighed down by Mythology Gags.
- Complete Monster: Mike Logan, aka the "Merchant of Death", is a greedy man whose viciousness contrasts the lighthearted nature of the film. Dying of cancer, Logan cowardly murdered his own terrified eight-year-old son to live on in the boy's body. Continuing his underground dealings, Logan aims to get his hands on a powerful superweapon to further enrich himself, seen in present keeping a drugged-up consort for his pleasure.
- Fanon Discontinuity: While Green Vs. Red wasn't considered bad, most of the fandom prefers to think of it as being an alternate canon due to how it implies that Lupin the Third is not a single man, but a title passed down throughout the years. Or that he wants to retire and picked a ramen shop-worker to take his place.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Three, actually. Lupin vanishing, and Zenigata, Jigen, et al. having to deal with a massive flood of copycats, with varying levels of ability, skill and authenticity? Awesome. A random guy off the street deciding to become Lupin, and then realizing he's running the risk of losing himself in the role? Also awesome. Lupin having a good old-fashioned Evil Twin face-off, except against his own Alternative Character Interpretations? Still awesome. Trying to do all three at once, while also shoehorning in a couple of B-plots involving Brain Uploading / Clone by Conversion, Giant Mecha, and a diamond that's also a nuke? Uh...
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