I always felt weird that Sergeant Metallic was in a commanding position...

[Geraldo]

It seemed off to me that organic lifeforms had to take orders from an android, whose judgement was the result of computer processing.

A cyborg, I could understand; but a complete scrap of metal? Very weird to place such a thing in a commanding rank (a Sergeant can boss around Corporals and Privates) rather than placing it as an officer's bodyguard or pawn to back up the weaker soldiers in the lower floors of Muscle Tower.

[Darkprince410]

While he has that rank, it may be the equivalent of just being honorary and not something that he actually ever operated on (i.e. gave orders to underlings), and perhaps just a title given to him to make other soldiers able to accept working around him more readily.

[Jord]

In fiction especially, robots are believed to not make any errors. His lack of emotion is a weapon so he could not be swayed by external causes/the good guys. So I san see that being an advantage, especially in Dragon Ball where bad guys constantly repent.

[Seekeroftruth]

It seemed off to me that organic lifeforms had to take orders from an android, whose judgement was the result of computer processing.

A cyborg, I could understand; but a complete scrap of metal? Very weird to place such a thing in a commanding rank (a Sergeant can boss around Corporals and Privates) rather than placing it as an officer's bodyguard or pawn to back up the weaker soldiers in the lower floors of Muscle Tower.

You realize humans are just crappier versions of robots, right?

[Lionel]

It's hard to say as while Metallic did seem to have the reasoning capabilities and respect for command structure to guard a floor of the tower, we see very little of his interaction with others from his faction. The only artificial beings that had any kind of command post or function was #20 and he was an organic model, a cyborg. The other androids we hear and see like #16 and #19 had personalities and self-awareness but they seemed driven by core behavioural impulses too like the death of Goku.

[FoolsGil]

I felt it was weird that he acted and was treated to be far different from Eighter, and other Androids. Did Toriyama first make Metallic as an Arnold joke, then realized he liked the robot concept more than he thought?