The Jet Alone episode illustrates that said unfeeling machine with unlimited energy wouldn't actually be as useful as it's typically portrayed as in most mecha shows since it can be easily sabotaged by rival factions, would be surrounded by bureaucracy that makes it next to impossible to get anything done in a crisis, and its vaunted unlimited energy source can be just as much of a danger as the enemy the mecha was created to fight. Plus, a simple machine has limits that would make it useless against creatures with powers that border on reality warping.

Which is not to say he's doing so without reason- his plan is to kill a lot of innocent people in order to draw out the son of an extremely important figure in the invading army and take him hostage . He just doesn't care who gets hurt in the process

It's later revealed that the creatures the kids have been fighting are actually human pilots from parallel universes, specifically the battles are contests to determine which of the selected universes would be erased from existence. So the pilots have to choose between either winning the battles and dying or losing the battles and dooming their universes (and thus also dying)

And then they throw in the fact that the Super Robot they must use is fueled by the pilot's Life Force , meaning they're all dead even if they win, and we start crossing into Diabolus ex Machina territory.

the Incubators noble goal is ultimately revealed to be self-serving , as theyre willing to resurrect the witch system that brought so much pain and suffering just because they find the new system too "inefficient" to save the universe

Madoka becoming a Magical Girl , and using a Cosmic Retcon to become a god and make it so that Magical Girls will not become witches (the aforementioned fuck you). Although Magical Girls will have to fight demons/wraiths instead of witches, and may still perish as a result (Sayaka ends up doing so anyway), they are no longer doomed and Madoka would take anyone who manages to die in combat to an equivalent of a magical girl Valhalla. Thus, the situation is better than before but still capable of providing tension and drama

the Magical Girl she used to be, Nagisa Momoe, was a child when she became one, thus also deconstructing the Token Mini-Moe at the same time

is a time traveler who became close friends with Madoka in a previous timeline. After Madoka's death during the battle against Walpurgisnacht, she wished for the power to save her life and has been stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop ever since. This lead to her transforming from a Shrinking Violet into a cold and distant Dark Magical Girl obsessed with saving her best friend

In Episode 6, an enemy from one of the earlier episodes returns and VIOLENTLY MURDERS most of the thieves , with Chiko, Twenty Faces, and Ken left as the only survivors

no body swapping even occured. Mari has a Split Personality due to childhood trauma and hallucinates that she is Isao, a guy she barely knows but has seen from afar at a store.

Furthermore, being a NEET with only minor hand-to-hand combat skills in a world full of powerful people means he's too weak and unskilled to fight anyone himself. His power doesn't lend itself to combat and he isn't skilled enough in magic to use it effectively. note He does gain some potent magical abilities later in the web novel, but they're such a double-edged sword that he can't use them often. As a result he has to rely on his wits and people that are stronger than him to make it out of battles alive (and this typically only happens after he's gone through several loops of dying first).

As a result he has to rely on his wits and people that are stronger than him to make it out of battles alive (and this typically only happens after he's gone through several loops of dying first). What may very well be the biggest, most unsubtle but most important example of this comes with Subaru's massively tear inducing self induced "The Reason You Suck" Speech, where he comes to the conclusion that no matter how hard he tries, he's not be the hero that he thought he was due to being trapped in another world, in how all his goofy moments where he comes across as a complete moron and a self serving jerk are the only way to mask how empty he feels inside, how he has, and I quote, "no character", essentially becoming a massive Take That! at the idea that being a NEET in another world and having gained some sort of power makes your life automatically awesome as a result. The speech in question:

Subaru: Before I got into the situation that led me to all of you, do you have any idea what I did? I did nothing. I've never done a single thing. I had all that time, all that freedom... I could have done anything, but I never did a thing! And this is the result! What I am now is the result! All of my powerlessness, all of my incompetence, is the product of my rotten character. That's right. I have no character. Even when I thought I could live here, nothing changed. At heart, I'm just a small, cowardly, filthy piece of trash, who's always worried about how others see me. And nothing... Nothing about me has changed! ...I absolutely hate myself...