The "total Chrome" Shiny trend for the Violet Paradoxes kind of bugs me because in more than a couple cases I can see more appropriate themes that could go into the now-deliberate color schemes of Model Era shinies (will acknowledge a couple cases that work like Iron Thorns as Mecha Godzilla).
Most immediate to me is Iron Valiant. It draws on Gallade and Gardevoir, Pokemon whose clear design and even names in the Japanese version are meant to evoke Knight/Paladin imagery, with a devotion to the trainer and a heavy protective instinct and code of honor. Valiant by contrast is a ruthless killing machine focused on offense and with no qualms about cutting its opponents down, something I think is well represented by its losing the common factor of its bases in typing (Psychic) alongside this trait. So why not give it a dark/obsidian like color scheme to match a common archetype it could tie into: the Black Knight? The base forms I grant keeping them close to their original bases but the shinies are something you have room to go all out for.
Iron Jugulis also bothers me because it's SO close to being clever like Iron Thorns. Even if the original was just based on a Hydra/Yamata no Orochi, the immediate comparison I imagine many people draw is Ghidorah, certainly Mecha Ghidorah for the Paradox. The Shiny only applies the Chrome effect to the body, similar to the robotic Mecha Ghidorah torso in the Toho movies; despite this specific application to the shiny, they did not touch the heads themselves, when applying that effect to the center would make the reference spot-on. Even if the resemblance is by accident it still annoys me that it was one detail away from pulling it off accurately.
Most immediate to me is Iron Valiant. It draws on Gallade and Gardevoir, Pokemon whose clear design and even names in the Japanese version are meant to evoke Knight/Paladin imagery, with a devotion to the trainer and a heavy protective instinct and code of honor. Valiant by contrast is a ruthless killing machine focused on offense and with no qualms about cutting its opponents down, something I think is well represented by its losing the common factor of its bases in typing (Psychic) alongside this trait. So why not give it a dark/obsidian like color scheme to match a common archetype it could tie into: the Black Knight? The base forms I grant keeping them close to their original bases but the shinies are something you have room to go all out for.
Iron Jugulis also bothers me because it's SO close to being clever like Iron Thorns. Even if the original was just based on a Hydra/Yamata no Orochi, the immediate comparison I imagine many people draw is Ghidorah, certainly Mecha Ghidorah for the Paradox. The Shiny only applies the Chrome effect to the body, similar to the robotic Mecha Ghidorah torso in the Toho movies; despite this specific application to the shiny, they did not touch the heads themselves, when applying that effect to the center would make the reference spot-on. Even if the resemblance is by accident it still annoys me that it was one detail away from pulling it off accurately.