History YMMV / DCFutureState

** Timothy Fox, a character from the Pre-Crisis comics and who's only Post-Crisis appearance was in ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive'', was also a surprise, considering many people thought Luke Fox was a reimagining of the character.
* TheWoobie: Bolt and Conner Kent in ''Suicide Squad'' suffer the worst at Amanda Waller's manipulations and largely do not deserve her treatment. Bolt mentions she wanted to be a hero and is horrified by how callously Waller's willing to murder the Justice Squad, and is later [[spoiler:tricked into murdering Lor-Zod.]] Conner meanwhile is degraded and dehumanized by Waller, who found him locked up at some point and told Conner that being a clone meant his very existence was a crime. [[spoiler:While the second issue ends with Waller dying and revealing she was setting Conner up to be a true Superman on Earth-3, the years she's implied to have spent treating him like garbage makes it seem more like she subjected him to emotional abuse.]]

** The ending doesn't make things that much better. [[spoiler:With every Flash but Barry either dying or leaving and Iris leaving and never coming back Barry assembles an arsonal of weaponry derived from his RoguesGallery. Transmitting a recording of everything he has ever discovered (which fails, meaning that none of his discoveries reach the wider world) he confronts Famine and, by extension, Wally. Famine then reveals during their fight that it feeds on hope, is basically using Barry as a hope battery due to his connection to Wally and then, somehow, shifts Barry out of phase with reality and forces him to become a ghost as he watches Famine take over Wally's body. Again. Cybeast finding Barry's ring, which still contains all of the information he tried and failed to broadcast, and realizing the Titans can use the info to help their mission is the only thing stopping it from being a complete downer, not that the Flash story technically not even finishing ''within the actual comic'' is something to write home about.]]

** ''Future State: Teen Titans'' teased a future where Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg got together to create a SuperheroSchool dedicated to training the newest generation of Teen Titans into the heroes of tomorrow. A concept that many readers agreed could be a fun setup to explore in its own right. But instead, the creative team chose to go with another depressing BadFuture narrative that rehashes the same plotlines this franchise has already beaten into the ground to the point of becoming a ClicheStorm.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: While it was poorly explained here, and the culprits tend to be ranchers rather than farmers, arsonists ''had'' set fire to the Amazon Rain Forest in bids to expand cattle ranges and kept doing so [[https://phys.org/news/2023-09-arson-amazon-reforestation-ashes.html well after the release]] of "Future State". Helicopter pads to avoid traffic jams, while not as prevalent as the comic would have you believe, really were put in place with funds meant for infrastructure. While Brazilian readers largely rejected the Yara Flor character fans were celebrating in the United States, many of her most vocal critics did begrudgingly admit to being a slightly moved by these two plot points that largely failed to resonate with fans in the USA.

* FanonDiscontinuity: How fans of ComicBook/DCOneMillion feel about Black Adam’s story in Suicide Squad, due to blatant CharacterShilling he gets at the expense of the setting. Superman One Million, the most powerful version of Superman to ever exist, gets hit hard with WorfEffect at the beginning and Justice Legion Alpha are left to seek Adam as their only hope, who, despite taking place in superheroic utopia, leaves them all in awe what a paradise far ahead of anything they’ve ever seen his planet is and has the future Wonder Woman for a girlfriend.