History YMMV / SecretEmpire

** On a lesser note, Nick Spencer tweeted that Secret Empire #0 was the best selling comic for its month. People who follow comic sales had a field day with this, noting that both ''ComicBoom/{{Batman}}'' #21 and ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' #21 beat it, because ''Secret Empire'' won on a technicality, and not one that's hard to see at that -- the lenticular covers for those DC issues were considered different items, but added to the sales of the non-lenticular covers, ''both'' issues outsold ''Secret Empire''.

** Nick Spencer tweeted that Secret Empire #0 was the best selling comic for its month. People had a field day with this, noting that both ''ComicBoom/{{Batman}}'' #21 and ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' #21 beat it, because ''Secret Empire'' won on a technicality, and not one that's hard to see at that -- the lenticular covers for those DC issues were considered different items, but added to the sales of the non-lenticular covers, ''both'' issues outsold ''Secret Empire''.

** A variant cover featured ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Given that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor and has long opposed HYDRA for their connections to the Nazis, it's not really hard to see why several fans didn't take kindly to this. On the other hand, variant covers have little to no connection to the plot at hand. Furthermore, there are variant covers of select heroes like ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/CaptainMarvel, and ComicBook/BlackPanther, of all people, yet there was no backlash about them, especially Black Panther. Should be noted however that the Magneto cover and the Black Panther, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel covers belong to different variant series, with the Magneto cover being a part of a series that includes HYDRA villains who are a part of Cap's faction.

** Nick Spencer tweeted that Secret Empire #0 was the best selling comic for its month. People had a field day with this, noting that both ''ComicBoom/{{Batman}}'' #21 and ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' #21 beat it, because ''Secret Empire'' won on a technicality -- the lenticular covers for those DC issues were considered different items, but added to the sales of the non-lenticular covers, ''both'' outsold ''Secret Empire''.

** [[spoiler: The [=FCBD=] Secret Empire issue has been leaked and it ends with Hydra Cap lifting Mjolnir easily, as if deemed worthy by the Hammer.]]

** While this is more of a straight-forward superhero vs. supervillain slugfest than most {{Crisis Crossover}}s, the fact that it's prefaced by a massive alien invasion by the Chitauri on top of Steve Rogers' reveal as TheMole for HYDRA seems to be putting off people who are just tired of these stories.

** ''Secret Empire'' has been target of websites and fans for allegedly retconning the nature of the Marvel Universe and/or Steve Rogers at first. What many of the critics seem to miss is that the reveal is only done by [[spoiler: 2 people, Steve Rogers and Elisa Sinclair - already established to be UnreliableNarrator in the narrative since they're respectively manipulated by Kobik and a creation of Kobik. Nobody else in-universe acknowledges their view as true - not even Baron Zemo.

** ''Secret Empire'' has been target of websites and fans for allegedly retconning the nature of the Marvel Universe and/or Steve Rogers at first. What many of the critics seem to miss is that the reveal is only done by [[spoiler: 2 people, Steve Rogers and Elisa Sinclair - already established to be UnreliableNarrator in the narrative since they're respectively manipulated by Kobik and a creation of Kobik. Nobody else in-universe acknowledges their view as true - not even Baron Zemo. Of course, this is ''after'' what seemed to be a very aggressive retcon of Captain's heel turn since the head writer had been quoted saying that it was explicitly not mind-control, but ended up being a form of mental manipulation anyway.]]

** A variant cover featured ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Given that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor and has long opposed HYDRA for their connections to the Nazis, it's not really hard to see why several fans didn't take kindly to this. On the other hand, variant covers have little to no connection to the plot at hand. Furthermore, there are variant covers of select heroes like ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/CaptainMarvel, and ComicBook/BlackPanther, of all people, yet there was no backlash about them, especially Black Panther. Should be noted however that the Magneto cover and the Black Panther, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel covers belong to different variant series.

** A variant cover featured ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Given that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor and has long opposed HYDRA for their connections to the Nazis, it's not really hard to see why several fans didn't take kindly to this. On the other hand, variant covers have little to no connection to the plot at hand. Furthermore, there are variant covers of select heroes like ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/CaptainMarvel, and ComicBook/BlackPanther, of all people, yet there was no backlash about them, especially Black Panther.

** ''Secret Empire'' has been target of websites and fans for allegedly retconning the nature of the Marvel Universe and/or Steve Rogers. What many of the critics seem to miss is that the reveal is only done by [[spoiler: 2 people, Steve Rogers and Elisa Sinclair - already established to be UnreliableNarrator in the narrative since they're respectively manipulated by Kobik and a creation of Kobik. Nobody else in-universe acknowledges their view as true - not even Baron Zemo.]]

*** The difference is the Magneto cover is part of the Hydra's Secret Weapons series, a series of covers that also includes Superior Spider-Ock, a confirmed Hydra agent for the series.

** ''Secret Empire'' has been target of websites and fans for allegedly retconning the nature of the Marvel Universe and/or Steve Rogers. What many of the critics seem to miss is that the reveal is only done by [[spoiler: 2 people, Steve Rogers and Elisa Sinclair - already stablished to be UnreliableNarrator in the narrative since they're respectively manipulated by Kobik and a creation of Kobik. Nobody else in-universe acknowledges their view as true - not even Baron Zemo.]]
** A variant cover featured ComicBook/{{Magneto}} wearing HYDRA colors. Given that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor and has long opposed HYDRA for their connections to the Nazis, it's not really hard to see why several fans didn't take kindly to this.

* InternetBackdraft: Secret Empire has been target of websites and fans for allegedly retconning the nature of the Marvel Universe and/or Steve Rogers.
** What many of the critics seem to miss is that the reveal is only done by [[spoiler: 2 people, Steve Rogers and Elisa Sinclair - already stablished to be UnreliableNarrator in the narrative since they're respectively manipulated by Kobik and a creation of Kobik. Nobody else in-universe acknowledges their view as true - not even Baron Zemo.]]

* InternetBackdraft: Secret Empire has been target of websites and fans for allegedly retconning the nature of the Marvel Universe.

** What many of the critics seem to miss is that the reveal is only done by 2 people, Steve Rogers and Elisa Sinclair - already stablished to be UnreliableNarrator in the narrative since they're respectively manipulated by Kobik and a creation of Kobik. Nobody else in-universe acknowledges their view as true - not even Baron Zemo.

** Connected to the TheReveal, some websites such as Bleeding Cool have cultivated this trope further by essentially claiming that the universe we know has always been false, that Steve was always EvilAllAlong and that the Nazis had actually won WWII, which has really put off readers even further.

* InternetBackdraft: Many fans and critics have chastised ''Secret Empire'' for revealing that the universe up until now is a lie and the Nazis actually won WWII. It got even more heated when the book was released on the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Defied. Nick Spencer says the Cap in this story is a straight-up bad guy, not a misunderstood hero.

** Connected to the TheReveal, some websites such as Bleeding Cool have cultivated this trope further by essentially claiming that the universe we know has always been false, that Steve was always EvilAllAlong and that the Nazis had actually won WWII, which has really put off readers even further.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While this is more of a straight-forward superhero vs. supervillain slugfest than most {{Crisis Crossover}}s, the fact that it's prefaced by a massive alien invasion by the Chitauri on top of Steve Rogers' reveal as TheMole for HYDRA seems to be putting off people who are just tired of these stories.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While this is more of a straight-forward superhero vs. supervillain slugfest than most {{Crisis Crossover}}s, the fact that it's prefaced by a massive alien invasion by the Chitauri on top of Steve Rogers' reveal as TheMole for HYDRA seems to be putting off people who are just tired of these stories.
* InternetBackdraft: Having Steve Rogers, the poster-boy of American values created by two Jewish men during World War II, align himself with HYDRA, an organization with historic Nazi ties, has resulted in some... heated discussions online. The first installment, Issue #0, only made things worse:[[spoiler: implying the Allies lost World War 2 or that they had to resort to the Cosmic Cube to make it so that they won, and pre-Cosmic Cube Cap was ''also'' part of Hydra.]]
** [[spoiler: This should be taken with a grain of salt however as this likely is part of the new history that Kobik gave Steve when she made him part of HYDRA.]]

* InternetBackdraft: Having Steve Rogers, the poster-boy of American values created by two Jewish men during World War II, align himself with HYDRA, an organization with historic Nazi ties, has resulted in some... heated discussions online. The first installment, Issue #0, only made things worse:[[spoiler: implying the Allies lost World War 2 or that they had to resort to the Cosmic Cube to make it so that they won, and pre-Cosmic Cube Cap was ''also'' part of Hydra.]]

* InternetBackdraft: Having Steve Rogers, the poster-boy of American values created by two Jewish men during World War II, align himself with HYDRA, an organization with historic Nazi ties, has resulted in some... heated discussions online. The first installment, Issue #0, only made things worse: the Allies lost World War 2, and pre-Cosmic Cube Cap was ''also'' part of Hydra.

* InternetBackdraft: Having Steve Rogers, the poster-boy of American values created by two Jewish men during World War II, align himself with HYDRA, an organization with historic Nazi ties, has resulted in some... heated discussions online.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While this is more of a straight-forward superhero vs. supervillain slugfest than most {{Crisis Crossover}}s, the fact that it's prefaced by a massive alien invasion by the Chitauri on top of Steve Rogers' reveal as TheMole for HYDRA seems to be putting off people who are just tired of these stories.