History YMMV / BatmanEternal

* TheWoobie: Stephanie Brown was nearly killed by her father both directly and indirectly, and her mother has also sold her out to said father. By Issue 10 she's too scared to go home, so she sleeps in the library.
** Issue 13 implies she has may have spent at least some of her time hiding out at a friend's house. [[spoiler: Said house and her friend are blown to kingdom come in the same issue]].
** Until issue 20, she attempts to get word out by reporting on Cluemaster's activities onto a gossip blog, but no one believes her warnings and just laugh off her father's previous criminal activities. Eventually it seems the other users stop paying attention to her posts entirely when she tries using fake post titles to get attention, making her realize that now, she's completely alone. Its this realization that prompts her to finally don a costume and take down her father herself.

** For some fans who were initially disappointed with New52 Bat family stories, this series is a WinBackTheCrowd moment. Others, however, have found the art and writing quality to be wildly inconsistent, and do not like how each weekly issues jumps around from [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters character to character]] while tackling an [[FourLinesAllWaiting absurd number of subplots]].

* RomanticPlotTumor: The ShipTease between Jason and Barbara has been criticized for tainting what was otherwise interesting non-romantic character development between the two. It also made Jason and Barbara act wildly out of character. While the book on the subplot has seemingly been closed for the time being, there are still implications for a potential inter-Batfamily love triangle that fans do not want to see.

* RomanticPlotTumor: The ShipTease between Jason and Barbara has been criticized for tainting what was otherwise interesting non-romantic character development between the two. It also made Barbara act wildly out of character. While the book on the subplot has seemingly been closed for the time being, there are still implications for a potential inter-Batfamily love triangle that fans do not want to see.

* RomanticPlotTumor: The ShipTease between Jason and Barbara has been criticized for putting a damper on what was otherwise interesting non-romantic character development between the two. It also made Barbara act out of character at times. While the book on the subplot has seemingly been closed for the time being, there are still implications for a potential inter-Batfamily love triangle that fans do not want to see.

* WinBackTheCrowd: For people who were disappointed by the New 52 Batfamily comics.

* FashionVictimVillain: Cluemaster's outfit is as garish as ever, this time even earning a LampshadeHanging from Spoiler. To his credit it's nowhere near as eye-scarring as his pre-New 52 costume, but special mention must go to his '[=CluE=]' goggles.

* FashionVictimVillain: Cluemaster's outfit is as garish as ever, this time even earning a LampshadeHanging from Spoiler. To his credit it's nowhere near as eye-scarring as his pre-New 52 costume.

* {{HSQ}}: Very high. Given that we ''know'' it's going to end with Gotham is flames, the story starts shocking and only goes from there.

** Cluemaster cheerfully skips across the horizon for his whole appearance here. For one thing, he's ''way'' too quickly jumps to "gotta murder my daughter cause she caught me being a bad guy".

* MoralEventHorizon: Cluemaster cheerfully skips across the horizon for his whole appearance here. For one thing, he's ''way'' too quickly jumps to "gotta murder my daughter cause she caught me being a bad guy".

* ArcFatigue: A lot of the plot points move slowly thanks to so many plotlines being involved in the story, making it feel like some stories don't go anywhere; to compensate, the last few issues have decided to focus on one or two subplots at a time and develop those, then rotate between which story gets focused on.

* BrokenBase: There's a split between those who think Gordon ''should'' be locked up for the train accident and those who, like the Bat Family, see him as not responsible. Mainly, regardless of seeing a gun or not, Gordon still tried to shoot the gun out of the perp's hand, which as well as being a dangerous shot, also breaks police protocol and was just generally a risky move that he shouldn't have done. However, its pointed out that the fusebox being shot shouldn't have caused the accident (backed up by the trains apparently already having trouble before Gordon fired the shot) and that its possible that whatever messed with his mind also made him think making such a shot was a good idea.

** One of the subplots in particular is Julia Pennyworth's lack of respect for her father's choice of career. Every time it cuts back to her, she's repeating the same complaints about how her father turned back on a career in the secret service to 'babysit a playboy', and doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
* CreepyAwesome: Killer Croc is a pretty creepy looking being, due to his monsterous appearance and [[ImAHumanitarian habit of eating people]]. He's also the protector of the Underground, and will stop at ''nothing'' to protect the homeless vagrants who live there.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Harper Rowe has some strong similarities to pre-Flashpoint Stephanie Brown, ones that unfortunately become even more clearer and seem less original during part of Eternal's early plots. Both are girls from the wrong side of the street with loser fathers in Blackgate, and both become unwanted partners to Tim Drake before he accepted them. This is kind of justified, as Harper was originally conceived as a replacement ''for'' Stephanie and. Cassandra Cain.

** Issue 13 implies she has may have spent at least some of her time hiding out at a friend's house. [[spoiler: Said house and her friend are blown to kingdom come in the same issue]].

* TheWoobie: Stephanie Brown was nearly killed by her father both directly and indirectly, and her mother has also sold her out to said father. By Issue 10 she's too scared to go home, so she sleeps in the library.

* TheWoobie: Stephanie Brown was nearly killed by her father both directly and indirectly, and though she doesn't know it, her mother has also sold her out to said father.

* TheWoobie: Stephanie Brown was nearly killed by her father, and though she doesn't know it, her mother has also sold her out to said father.

** Issue 2 reintroduces [[spoiler: Carmine "the Roman" Falcone and the Cult's Deacon Blackfire]].

* CompleteMonster: Jack Forbes; if he has any redeeming features, we haven't seen them yet.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fan favorite Stephanie Brown returns to the DC here. But the first issue also features the return of Jason Bard.
** Seems to be the series' main appeal early on to doubters; issue 2 reintroduces [[spoiler: Carmine "the Roman" Falcone and the Cult's Deacon Blackfire.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fan favorite Stephanie Brown returns to the DC here. But the first issue also features the return of Jason Bard.