History YMMV / Irredeemable

* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoilers:The scientists that revealed the Plutonian unintentionally released the sound virus. While it's true they couldn't have known that he was unstable, did they seriously not think that Samsara wouldn't reveal the fact that he discovered it to the Plutonian, who's, ya know, his mentor?]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The fact that the 30-something Max Damage's "lover" is a 16 year old girl who he's waiting for to be legal (her codename ''literally'' being "Jailbait") has some readers completely revolted by the man, even beyond the actions that are portrayed as supposed to be bad by him.

** One possible interpretation for Qubit's quest to redeem the Plutonian (to the point of saving his life on occasions) is that he's in love with the Plutonian. As Qubit is an {{expy}} of the [[Series/DoctorWho Tenth Doctor]] who has always tried to redeem his arch-nemesis The Master (with whom he has ''a lot'' of FoeYay himself) in spite of the latter's lack of repentance, there is some ground. And on the flip side, Tony seems to take a particular delight in pushing Qubit and testing his moral boundaries.

*** Even then, Max was about to cross the line [[spoiler: by unleashing a supervirus that may have killed even him]] when the Plutonian showed up. Max thought the Plutonian was there to stop him before the Plutonian killed everyone in sight.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The fact that the 30-something Max Damage's "lover" is a 16 year old girl who he's waiting for to be legal (her codename ''literally'' being "Jailbait") has some readers completely revolted by the man, even beyond the actions that are portrayed as supposed to be bad by him.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** After [[spoiler:capturing the invulnerable, godlike Plutonian, tying him up in a straitjacket made from his own cloned skin and trapping him in a LotusEaterMachine]], what do the Vespa do with him? They release him to use as an asteroid miner.
** [[spoiler:Gilgamos killing Survivor due to thinking that it'd give his brother all of his power; unfortunately, Survivor was the ''source'' of the power, meaning that the last sibling is powerless. He probably wouldn't have done it had he known, but blindly jumping into this action and inadvertently killing the planet's ''only hope left'' lands him this entry.]]
** Did the supervillains in Inferno's hide-out really think that the Plutonian would reveal to them the thing that would kill him right away?
** Bette Noir early on in the series. She had [[spoiler:the one thing that might've be able to stop the Plutonian when he first began his rampage - a bullet created from a magical candle that cancelled out his powers.]] So why didn't she use it at the first available opportunity? Because [[spoiler:she came upon this information from having an affair with the Plutonian.]] In short, she let millions of innocents die all to [[spoiler:cover up this act of infidelity]].
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The fact that the 30-something Max Damage's "lover" is a 16 year old girl who he's waiting for to be legal (her name ''literally'' being "Jailbait") has some readers completely revolted by the man, even beyond the actions that are portrayed as supposed to be bad by him.

* FoeYay:

** Volt complaining about black men with electrical powers being a cliché was funny before ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' gave Electro a RaceLift. Now it's riotous.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''. While both series deconstruct the classic overpowered superhero, giving them existential crises regarding their own powers, ''One Punch Man'' is more comedic and deals with a superhero that doesn't care about heroism and is just bored from having no challenges to face, while ''Irredeemable'' is more cynical and the superhero in question gets tired of always having to save ungrateful people and then snaps, turning into a OmnicidalManiac.

* CryForTheDevil: As atrocious as his deeds are, it's hard not to feel terrible for how the Plutonian seemed to have the deck stack badly against him from the start, what with the circumstances of his "birth", a childhood spent being thrown around from one foster home to the next where everyone feared him, a FriendlessBackground, and just not having the right headspace to handle the responsibilities of superheroism.

** Max Damage, for many of the same reasons as the Plutonian, (who while rather pitiful quickly becomes [[CompleteMonster too evil to count as this.]]) with a good helping of SenseLossSadness added on to his own list of troubles. He becomes more of an IronWoobie as the series goes on, as he grows into more of a genuine hero.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Oh boy, is this story a dark one. Filled with [[MoralEventHorizon atrocities]] and [[HopeSpot Hope Spots]] galore. It's not so much that the characters are unsympathetic as it is that the state of the world is so bleak for so long, and every time a chance appears to turn it around, something or someone (usually Qubit) comes along to sabotage it that it just hurts to watch. The Plutonian's PlotArmor gets very annoying after a while even when multiple characters should've been able to end his reign of terror. By the very end, so much has happened that the idea that [[CrapsackWorld this world]] could ever go back to anything approaching normal seems almost absurd.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''. While both series deconstruct the classic overpowered superhero giving them existential crises regarding their own powers, ''One Punch Man'' is more comedic and deals with a superhero that doesn't care about heroism and is just bored from having no challenges to face, while ''Irredeemable'' is more cynical and the superhero in question gets tired of always having to save ungrateful people and then snaps, turning into a OmnicidalManiac.

** After [[spoiler:capturing the invulnerable, godlike Plutonian in a straitjacket cloned from his own skin and trapping him in a LotusEaterMachine]], what do the Vespa do with him? They release him to use as an asteroid miner.

** Bette Noir, she had [[spoiler: The one thing that might be able to stop the Plutonian, a bullet made of a MagiTek candle that depowers him.]] What momentous reason did she keep this knowledge secret while Tony was out killing off the world? [[spoiler: She slept with him once, Bette Noir sacrificed, possibly billions of lives, to keep an extramarital affair secret and understandaby Gilgamos leaves her for good after he finds out the reason why she did not tell him even though he had centuires of experience to know when someone is cheating on him.]]

** Bette Noir, she had [[spoiler: The one thing that might be able to stop the Plutonian, a bullet made of a MagiTek candle that depowers him.]] What momentous reason did she keep this knowledge secret while Tony was out killing off the world? [[spoiler: She slept with him once, Bette Noir sacrificed, possibly billions of lives, to keep an extramarital affair secret and understandbly Gilgamos leaves her for good after he finds out the reason why she did not tell him even though he had centuires of experience to know when someone is cheating on him.]]

** Bette Noir, she had [[spoiler: The one thing that might be able to stop the Plutonian, a bullet made of a MagiTek candle that depowers him.]] What momentous reason did she keep this knowledge secret while Tony was out killing off the world? [[spoiler: She slept with him once, Bette Noir sacrificed, possibly billions of lives, to keep an extramarital affair secret.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Oh boy, is this story a dark one. Filled with [[MoralEventHorizon atrocities]] and [[HopeSpot Hope Spots]] galore. It's not so much that the characters are unsympathetic as it is that state of the world is so bleak for so long, and every time a chance appears to turn it around, something or someone (usually Qubit) comes along to sabotage it that it just hurts to watch. The Plutonian's PlotArmor gets very annoying after a while even when multiple characters should've been able to end his reign of terror. By the very end, so much has happened that the idea that [[CrapsackWorld this world]] could ever go back to anything approaching normal seems almost absurd.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Oh boy, is this story a dark one. Filled with [[MoralEventHorizon atrocities]] and [[HopeSpot Hope Spots]] galore. It's not so much that the characters are unsympathetic as it is that state of the world is so bleak for so long, and every time a chance appears to turn it around, something or someone (usually Qubit) comes along to sabotage it that it just hurts to watch. The Plutonian's PlotArmor gets very annoying after a while even when multiple characters should've been able to end his reign of terror. The idea that [[CrapsackWorld this world]] could ever go back to anything approaching normal seems almost absurd.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Oh boy, is this story a dark one. Filled with [[MoralEvenHorizon atrocities]] and HopeSpots galore. It's not so much that the characters are unsympathetic as it is that state of the world is so bleak for so long, and every time a chance appears to turn it around, something or someone (usually Qubit) comes along to sabotage it that it just hurts to watch. The Plutonian's PlotArmor gets very annoying after a while even when multiple characters should've been able to end his reign of terror. The idea that [[CrapsackWorld this world]] could ever go back to anything approaching normal seems almost absurd.

** Alana: Is she a kind woman who suffered from the dangers of dating a man like the Plutonian (who also played her for a fool using his Dan Hartigan persona) and justifiably got angry at him for keeping her in the dark about his human disguise? A reformed BitchInSheepsClothing [[GoldDigger who took advantage of the prestige that came from dating Tony]] and was petty enough to out Tony's secret identity even if her anger was warranted? Alana is shown to blame herself for the Plutonian's rampage since she tattled his secret identity so either one can fit with this.

** Alana: Is she a kind woman who suffered from the dangers of dating a man like the Plutonian (who also played her for a fool using his Dan Hartigan persona) and justifiably got angry at him for keeping her in the dark about his human disguise? A reformed BitchInSheepsClothing who took advantage of the prestige that came from dating Tony and was petty enough to out Tony's secret identity even if her anger was warranted? Alana is shown to blame herself for the Plutonian's rampage since she tattled his secret identity so either one can fit with this.

* CompleteMonster: [[BewareTheSuperman The Plutonian]] was once a superhero who only saved lives for the [[AttentionWhore adoration it brought him]]. However, his [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond inability to handle any form of criticism]] led to him snapping and becoming the most evil being the world had ever known. Starting his evil campaign by painfully lobotomizing his teenage sidekick, Plutonian later massacred the population of Sky City, numbering in the millions, to keep a mistake he made from going public. After hunting down his former teammates and brutally murdering them and their entire families, [[WouldHurtAChild children and babies included]], Plutonian annihilates the country of Singapore solely because an ambassador from said country lied to him. Seemingly locked away forever on an alien planet, Plutonian [[RedemptionRejection rejects an alien's attempts to redeem him]] and leads a breakout with a group of psychotic criminals. Returning to Earth, Plutonian carves his own insignia into the U.S.A., killing thousands of people, slaughters entire cities and uses dozens of superheroes as ammo to fling into space. After trying to murder the last remaining superheroes, Plutonian is fully willing to let the entire Earth perish due to radiation poisoning just to spite his nemesis, Qubit, only saving the planet because his own life is on the line. Though having many possible [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and sympathetic moments throughout the story, it is slowly revealed that Plutonian was ultimately nothing more than a [[PsychopathicManchild childish sociopath]] who would kill innumerable innocents just because he wasn't universally loved by all, while [[ItsAllAboutMe caring for no one but himself]].

* AcceptableTargets: A major story arc in ''Incorruptable'' has Max beating up "The Diamonds", a group of Plutonian-worshipping white supremacists.

* CompleteMonster: [[BewareTheSuperman The Plutonian]] was once a superhero who only saved lives for the [[AttentionWhore adoration it brought him]]. However, his [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond inability to handle any form of criticism]] led to him snapping and becoming the most evil being the world had ever known. Starting his evil campaign by painfully lobotomizing his teenage sidekick, Plutonian later massacred the population of Sky City, numbering in the millions, to keep a mistake he made from going public. After hunting down his former teammates and brutally murdering them and their entire families, [[WouldHurtAChild children and babies included]], Plutonian annihilates the country of Singapore solely because an ambassador from said country lied to him. Seemingly locked away forever on an alien planet, Plutonian [[RedemptionRejection rejects an alien's attempts to redeem him]] and leads a breakout with a group of psychotic criminals. Returning to Earth, Plutonian carves his own insignia into the U.S.A., killing thousands of people; slaughters entire cities; and uses dozens of superheroes as ammo to fling into space. After trying to murder the last remaining superheroes, Plutonian is fully willing to let the entire Earth perish due to radiation poisoning just to spite his nemesis, Qubit, only saving the planet because his own life is on the line. Though having many possible [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and sympathetic moments throughout the story, it is slowly revealed that Plutonian was ultimately nothing more than a [[PsychopathicManchild childish sociopath]] who would kill innumerable innocents just because he wasn't universally loved by all, while [[ItsAllAboutMe caring for no one but himself]].

** Max Damage, for the same reasons as Plutonian, with a good helping of SenseLossSadness added on to his own list of troubles. He becomes more of an IronWoobie as the series goes on, as he grows into more of a genuine hero.

* AcceptableTargets: A major story arc in ''Incorruptable'' has Max beating up "The Diamonds", a group of Plutonian-worshiping white supremacists.

* CryForTheDevil: As atrocious his deeds are, it's hard not to feel terrible for how Plutonian seemed to have the deck stack badly against him from the start, what with the circumstances of his "birth", a childhood spent being thrown around from one foster home to the next where everyone feared him, a FriendlessBackground, and just not having the right headspace to handle the responsibilities of superheroism.
* FoeYay: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Modeus both hated the Plutonian ''and'' loved him, leading to him building robotic ''sex dolls'' and trying to destroy everything that might be competition, [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2371273.html?#cutid1 among other things]].]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Volt complaining about black men with electrical powers being a cliché was funny before ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' gave Electro a RaceLift. Now it's riotous.

** In a scene of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Batman has a nightmare where Superman goes evil and acts much like Plutonian.
** The Plutonian's back story in general becomes this when not only would there be a film adaptation of the comic but [[Film/{{Brightburn}} there would be one similar to his own]].
* JerkassWoobie