Line #19 YMMV/AForce


1	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
2	** The portrayal of Loki has attracted some controversy, because she looks exactly like the Loki from Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's run on ''Thor'', who infamously was running around in Sif's stolen body. Some people dislike the reference to that story arc or even take it as that this Loki also had stolen Sif's body and as such shouldn't even be here. Others, especially fans of ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'', point out that Loki had gone through years of CharacterDevelopment since that story and actually became canonically genderfluid and can now easily take female form on their own.
3	** Generally speaking Loki's fandom can be divided into three big categories: [[StatusQuoIsGod Traditionalists]] ("Again with this? Loki is ''not'' a woman! At least she was evil. Good."), [[DracoInLeatherPants movie fangirls]] ("Loki as a woman is weird/Why would you reference JMS, but that family is so cute... ''NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!''"), and [[MysteryFiction trickster tale fans]] ("Well, this is an interesting setup. Really? ''That's'' your twist? facepalm"). An exercise in how to alienate everybody.
4	** The Arcadian version of Nico has gotten a mixed reception from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' fans; while many fans are happy to see a version of Nico that did not suffer through the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', some are put off by the implications that this Nico was never a Runaway.
5	*** A similar divide has popped up in the post-''Secret Wars'' series, wherein Nico has apparently left the Runaways and relocated to Japan to connect with previously-unmentioned cousins. Some fans welcome the notion of Nico having a family outside of the Runaways, while others think it's just a cheap and lazy way to avoid mentioning the other Runaways, and that the writers are desperately trying to play up how "exotic" Nico is to cover up the fact that she is the only non-Caucasian character in the current lineup.
6	* BrokenBase: ComicBook/MarvelZombies - you either think their attack was properly foreshadowed and gives the team good material for a grand finale or that they came out of nowhere and/or are derailing the plot from what it should be focusing on, to be about monsters who are already antagonists [[WolverinePublicity in five other books]].
7	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Many readers liked Loki's family best about this comic. Happens when the writer is very good at writing families not to mention puts together one consisting of a [[TheWoobie regular]] (Nico), an {{iron\|Woobie}} (America), and a {{jerkass woobie}} (Loki). [[spoiler:Which makes what happens later just more [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot baffling]].]]
8	* FauxSymbolism: Antimatter for some odd reason has a simplified [[https://stottilien.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/tree.gif kabbalistic tree of life]] as symbol (appears within a pattern like that, has a lot of them in its body like the stars on Singularity etc.). Why? Because why not, apparently.
9	* GrowingTheBeard: Almost everyone agrees that the series vastly improved after Kelly Thompson and Ben Caldwell took over.
10	* HarsherInHindsight: Throughout the post-Secret Wars series, Nico's time with A-Force shows her gradually recovering her sense of self-worth after the events of ''Avengers Arena'' and ''Avengers Undercover''. The 2017 ''Runaways'' series, however, reveals that her decision to walk out on the Runaways led to Klara and Molly being taken away by child services, which in turn led to the team disbanding.
11	** At one point Nico threatens to cut Medusa's hair with a special razor. Fast forward to the Inhumans TV adaptation where that is exactly what happens to Medusa.
12	* HoYay:
13	** While the comics mentions that Nico and America are Loki's wards, meaning she is their foster mother, it didn't stop some fans from getting different vibes from their relationship. It helps Loki and America shipping was already a thing [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers before]].
14	** The final issue of the ''Secret Wars'' edition decides to cram in one with ComicBook/SpiderGwen and Mary Jane.
15	* ObviousJudas: [[spoiler:Loki by virtue of being Loki]], even if it went against the character's current interpretation and everything set up about her in the first issues. Some hoped that maybe she'll have a good explanation why, at least... but what we got was bordering on [[InsaneTrollLogic word salad]].
16	* NightmareFuel: The town where people are getting turned into hideous bug creatures. Even most of the A-force team gets changed near the end!
17	* OlderThanTheyThink
18	** When announced, some fans complained about the book being all-female, on the grounds that the inverse wouldn't be accepted. Except... there ''have'' been all-male Avengers books. In particular, just about EVERY incarnation of [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheIlluminati The Illuminati]] has been wholly male. In fact, one such incarnation was going on ''at the same time'' in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''.
19	** This was not the first ongoing superhero team composed only by women. The ''ComicBook/FearlessDefenders'', released just two years before, had the same premise.
20	* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading:
21	** In the ''Secret Wars'' miniseries, a lot of fans initially thought America Chavez was Lady Loki's lover rather than her foster daughter.
22	** In the ANAD series, Singularity is supposed to come off as a surrogate little sister to Nico, but enough readers thought that there was something ''else'' between them that the editor had to step in and insist that Singularity is like a child and there are no plans to put her in a romantic relationship with Nico.
23	* RootingForTheEmpire: One of the major complaints about the ''Secret Wars'' miniseries was that it effectively forces audiences to root for a government that is collaborating with one of the Marvel Universe's biggest villains.
24	* TheScrappy: Singularity falls into this category for people who read the book for the EnsembleDarkhorse. Some will admit that this isn't the fault of the character as much as the story's destroying the one thing they read it for in order to build up this character and insistence on using even TheWoobie's pain to make her look better.
25	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
26	** A lot of readers were intrigued by the ''Secret Wars'' miniseries starting out with Loki being a foster mother to Nico Minoru and America Chavez, but this family is broken up over the course of the miniseries in order to give Nico a reason for wanting to protect Singularity.
27	** Also in ''Secret Wars'' the whole struggle over the Barony could have lead to a complex and morally grey plot about necessary evils and conflicting loyalties, which was thrown out for a perfectly black and white interpretation to prop up the story of Singularity learning about humanity. Mind you, this is what effectively lead to the RootingForTheEmpire example earlier.
28	* TheWoobie: Poor Arcadian Nico loses everyone she ever loved by the end of the ''Secret Wars'' series.
29	** Her mainstream counterpart isn't doing much better. Still dealing with the trauma from ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'', she's been separated from the other Runaways, her attempts to reach out to her surviving family in Japan are ruined by Antimatter, and her new team ends up getting divided by the events of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''.
30	* WTHCostumingDepartment: The unfortunate part of paying tribute to all the superheroines in Marvel history is that many heroines get their "classic" or "iconic" costumes. Some of these outfits really suck.
31	** Loki being given design from Joe Straczynski's Thor run, instead of one of her looks from ''Agent of Asgard''.
32	** Nico has always been NotWearingTights, instead preferring a [[ActionFashionista variety of her]] {{Goth}} outfits, so she gets a new one here. Some of her fans are not happy that it's a {{Stripperiffic}} one inspired by one of Jo Chen's notoriously-inaccurate ''Runaways'' covers.
33	*** Some of the post-''Secret Wars'' covers depict Nico wearing a ''cheongsam'' (a type of Chinese dress), which is a very strange costume choice for a character of explicitly Japanese descent. Thankfully, the series proper ultimately gave her a costume closer to her usual fashion sense.

Context YMMV / AForce