I gotta admit, the Big Fire guys seem kinda like a joke as a threat. They get a horrible kicking whenever they show up.

I admittedly havn't seen Giant Robo myself, but what makes these guys significantly more of a threat than J. Random Psicop, or a Dark Jedi, or whatever? I get that they all have these wierd unique abilities, but it doesn't seem to help them much against the IPO people, who mostly have wierd abilities too, and apparently better ones as well.

The Big Fire flunkies seem to actually get more done than their leaders; they're at least able to make giant robots appear and cause property damage in Zeta Cygni.