History YMMV / YTheLastMan

* HardToAdaptWork: Part of why the forthcoming adaptation will have taken over a decade to get off the ground. For starters, the story is very complicated and jumps around between perspectives which is hard to translate to a film. When it was still in development, no one could crack compressing the story to fit within a movie's runtime while keeping it true to the spirit of the comics. This is why Vaughan and Guerra ultimately decided on optioning it for a show when the rights reverted back to them in 2015. They felt that television was a better medium for the story. There's also the fact that it's very much steeped in the geopolitical situation of the very early 2000s. Ensuing developments include more women being in high-ranking political offices/ heads of state, countries other than Israel allowing women in active combat, the rise of China, and the War on Terror. Disagreements over how to adapt the story are why the original showrunners left although Vaughan and Guerra are reported to have encouraged them to take liberties to represent the world of today and not 2002.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Victoria telling the truth about beating Bobby Fischer at a private chess match at 13, but being kept away from public competition just because of her gender? Or is she making it all up to boost her own legend and strengthen her power on her followers? Considering that Fischer did not play a competitive game between 1972 and 1992, and then immediately became a fugitive, this makes her claims very suspect.

* HarsherInHindsight: The Amazon’s killing transgenders is this with the rise of the TERF movement in the late new tens and new twenties.

%%** [[spoiler:Issue 10, or the ending]].
%%Do NOT add back any Complete Monster examples per the Cleanup Thread's decision.

* GeniusBonus:
** Agent 355's name is taken from the code-name of a real-life female spy, one who operated during the American Revolution and was a member of the Culper Ring spy network. The number 355 translates to "lady" in the code used by the Culper Ring and further emphasizes the comic's theme of gender.

* ValuesDissonance: While ground-breaking at the time of its release, some modern readers are uncomfortable with the comic's poorly researched depiction of trans men. In the comic, such characters are misgendered and depicted mostly as victims or sex objects. The 2021 show however, has gone out its way to rectify this by including transgender characters played by transgender actors.

** The comic-book series has gotten a mixed reception from LGBT+ fans. On one end are lesbians who appreciate a setting where lesbianism has become normalized. On the other hand, there are lesbians who dislike that this setting happens to be a CrapsackWorld, and that many of the "lesbians" are otherwise-straight women who who use actual lesbians and trans men as a substitute for cisgender men. And then there are transgender readers who utterly loathe the premise of a virus that kills or spares people based on the presence or absence of a Y chromosome, which is a concept that has yet to be seen in reality, and that they find utterly abhorrent.

** Yorick refers to Yorick from William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.

** Yorick's surname is Brown. One of the theories is that he survived the plague due to [[spoiler:exposure to Ampersand's fecal matter.]]

** Yorick's name starts with a Y - ironically, he survived a plague that killed all the mammals with the Y chromosome (apart from Yorick and Ampersand.)

* InferredHolocaust: Every male mammal dies, all at once. Humanity may or may not survive, but it seems to have utterly escaped the author that innumerable ecosystems would be devastated due to the sudden removal of pollinators, prey, and apex predators (mammals in general are not as essential to ecosystems as, for example, many insect species, so they wouldn't be outright destroyed). It is unsurprising that this was remarked midway through the series, when geneticist Dr. Mann remarks that with no males, all mammal species would eventually become extinct. However, later on, he implies that this may not be the case, when a couple of women see rats long after they were supposed to have all died. The DistantFinale shows Paris sixty years later, so clearly there was NoEndorHolocaust.

** Agent 355's name is taken from the code-name of a real-life female spy , one who operated during the American Revolution and was a member of the Culper Ring spy network. The number 355 translates to "lady" in the code used by the Culper Ring and further emphasizes the comic's theme of gender.