When I was a kid I would have beaten another child to death if it meant getting the SDF-1 Macross. But because I lived near Pawtuckett RI all I ever saw was Hasbro toys (GI Joe/Transformers) because that's what 'fell off the truck'.
Eh, the Zentradi really aren't evil per se. Even in Robotech they were able to live together with humans. During the events of Macross Frontier, Zentradi are shown to live among humans in space colonies, switching between macronized and micronized forms.