History YMMV / GenerationX

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Johnston Coffin]], featured in four obscure issues, is wanted by ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a HellholePrison where he "[[WouldHurtAChild fixes]]" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. What really puts him over the line, though, are his "Special Children" - kids from his first HellholePrison in the '[=70s=], whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long, it's implied [[AndIMustScream in perpetual agony]], that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.

* BaseBreakibgCharacter: Quentin Quire being a member of the 2017 incarnation have divided fans with some not minding and others not happy given the fact that Quire was depicted as a {{Jerkass}} during Morrison era New X-Men and Aaron era Wolverine and the X-Men. Not helped by the fact that he's a BaseBreakingCharacter among longtime fans of the main X-titles.

* SeasonalRot: The LarryHama run on the book (which aimed for surreal but ended up with a series of {{Bizarro Episode}}s), as well as the writer who came after.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-was-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenMinorityCouple feel of it (they were the only white students) certainly didn't help either. Even worse was when the series ended and the arguing carried into ''Uncanny X-Men'' at the most inappropriate moments, such as the team's fight against ComicBook/AlphaFlight. Thankfully, the writer of the new title has explicitly stated we won't see this again in the new title.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-was-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenMinorityCouple feel of it (they were the only white students) certainly didn't help either. Even worse was when the series ended and the arguing carried into ''Uncanny X-Men'' at the most inappropriate moments, such as the team's fight against ComicBook/AlphaFlight.

* JumpingTheShark: Most readers tend to agree that the "resolution" of the M/Emplate/Penance plotline during Larry Hama's run[[note]]Penance was the real Monet, having been turned into Penance for making fun of Emplate, while Nicole and Claudette were merely impersonating Monet. Scott Lobdell originally meant to have Penance by a Yugoslavian girl named Yvette and for there to be no real Monet, merely the twins.[[/note]] hurt the book so bad that it never recovered.

* CompleteMonster: Johnston Coffin, featured in four obscure issues of ''GenerationX,'' is wanted by ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a HellholePrison where he "fixes" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. What really puts him over the line, though, are his "Special Children" - kids from his first HellholePrison in the '[=70s=], whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long, it's implied [[AndIMustScream in perpetual agony]], that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.

** Not quite. Hama's succesor [[NobleCauses Jay Faerber]] was actually rather well received in comparison.

* CompleteMonster: Johnston Coffin, featured in four obscure issues of ''GenerationX,'' is wanted by SHIELD for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a HellholePrison where he "fixes" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. What really puts him over the line, though, are his "Special Children" - kids from his first HellholePrison in the '[=70s=], whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long, it's implied [[AndIMustScream in perpetual agony]], that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-was-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenMinorityCouple feel of it (they were the only white students) certainly didn't help either. Even worse was when the series ended and the arguing carried into ''Uncanny X-Men'' at the most inappropriate moments, such as the team's fight against AlphaFlight.

* CompleteMonster: Johnston Coffin, featured in four obscure issues of ''GenerationX''. He's wanted by SHIELD for crimes against humanity, but instead somehow finds himself employed by the US Government. With the government's blessing, he builds a HellholePrison where he "fixes" disobedient teenagers, many of which had only said or thought something disobedient. What really puts him over the line, though, are his "Special Children" - kids from his first HellholePrison in the '[=70s=], whom he's wired up to huge cyborg bodies and uses as security. They've been that way so long, it's implied [[AndIMustScream in perpetual agony]], that their bodies have actually begun to rot. He also has half a human mounted on his wall, is implied to be a rapist, and carries around the skull of a child he shot in the head everywhere he goes.

* CompleteMonster: Minor villain Johnston Coffin, warden of a HellholePrison for teenagers who have only committed what amount to thought crimes. If that wasn't bad enough, there are his "Special Children," kids from his first HellholePrison from the '70s, whom he's wired up to cyborg bodies and kept around for thirty years until their bodies have literally begun to rot. [[AndIMustScream And they're still alive]].
** Adrienne Frost is also quite vile, and actually drove Emma to murder her due to her actions resulted in the death of her student

* SeasonalRot: The LarryHama run on the book (which aimed for surreal but ended up with a series of [[BLAMEpisode BLAM Episodes]]), as well as the writer who came after.

* {{Wangst}}: While generally [[BlessedWithSuck justified]], Chamber approached this at times.

* NightmareFuel: Everything about Johnston Coffin. His men can come for you at any time, simply for doing something like insulting the school principal, he'll lock you up for the rest of your life, and if he gets you, having your head squashed like a grape is only the ''second''-worst thing that can happen to you.

* CompleteMonster: Minor villain Johnston Coffin, warden of a HellholePrison for teenagers who have only committed what amount to thought crimes. If that wasn't bad enough, there are his "Special Children," kids from his first HellholePrison from the '70s, whom he's wired up to cyborg bodies and kept around for thirty years until their bodies have literally begun to rot.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-was-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenShipping feel of it (they were the only white students) certainly didn't help either. Even worse was when the series ended and the arguing carried into ''Uncanny X-Men'' at the most inappropriate moments, such as the team's fight against AlphaFlight.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-was-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenShipping feel of it (they were the only two white students) certainly didn't help either. Even worse was when the series ended and the arguing carried into ''Uncanny X-Men'' at the most inappropriate moments, such as the team's fight against AlphaFlight.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-was-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenShipping feel of it (they were the only two white students) certainly didn't help either.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Chamber and Husk's on-and-off-but-never-really-on-to-begin-with relationship. Chamber's {{Wangst}} and the TokenShipping feel of it (they were the only two white students) certainly didn't help either.