History YMMV / GailSimone

* CreatorWorship: Try criticizing her online. You will not survive. This has lessened in recent years, with her second Birds of Prey run and her ComicBook/New52 Batgirl run being received a lot more coolly than her earlier work; that the latter would have been particularly controversial regardless of writers has not helped matters. It came back with force when it was announced that she would write ''Uncanny X-Men''.

* CreatorWorship: Try criticizing her online. You will not survive. This has lessened in recent years, with her second Birds of Prey run and her ComicBook/New52 Batgirl run being received a lot more coolly than her earlier work; that the latter would have been particularly controversial regardless of writers has not helped matters. It came back with force when it was announced that she would write Uncanny X-men.

* CreatorWorship: Try criticizing her online. You will not survive. This has lessened in recent years, with her second Birds of Prey run and her ComicBook/New52 Batgirl run being received a lot more coolly than her earlier work; that the latter would have been particularly controversial regardless of writers has not helped matters.

* MomentOfAwesome: Starting in 2024, she will be the very first woman to headline Uncanny X-men.

* AwesomeMoments: Starting in 2024, she will be the very first woman to headline Uncanny X-men.

* NeverLiveItDown:
** She's the face of the anti-fridging movement on the internet, calling out the tendency for female characters to be brutalized to create quick drama for other characters, the namesake example being the unceremonious murder of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's love interest for drama. This, of course, means she's bombarded with whataboutery whenever a female character is harmed in her works or she doesn't have issue with the same in someone else's[[note]]For example, when she declared she was glad Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had killed off The Wasp[[/note]], regardless of the situation behind it.[[note]]Particularly, moments that get called out tend to be 'female character doesn't win a fight', when Gail was criticizing not just any instance of violence against female characters, but the tendency for (usually female) supporting characters to be portrayed as helpless victims and cheaply victimized so that the main (usually male) character can angst about it.[[/note]]
** Her brief firing and subsequent rehiring as writer of Batgirl. The circumstances surrounding both are still largely unknown, with Simone and DC giving very different accounts of how and why it happened. Speculation and rumor have, of course, provided further fuel for flame wars between fans and detractors.

* TheGadfly: Her Twitter feed can be a veritable goldmine of good-natured shitposting; her jabs at whether or not [[ComicBook/XMen Cyclops]] has heat vision, or "mistaking" {{Franchise/Transformers}} for Go-Bots are practically a RunningGag at this point. Her followers are more than happy to play along.

* MyRealDaddy: Gail is considered one of the best hero and villain rehabilitators, and the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey and Catman, amongst others, have become inextricably linked to her. She's particularly known for taking female characters initially created solely for [[MsFanservice fanservice]] and making them three-dimensional and worthy of respect. And SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} has declared her his mommy.

* TheGadfly: Her Twitter feed can be a veritable goldmine of good-natured shitposting; her jabs at whether or not [[ComicBook/XMen Cyclops]] has heat vision, or "mistaking" Franchise/Transformers for Go-Bots are practically a RunningGag at this point. Her followers are more than happy to play along.