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2	* AntiClimaxBoss: Prometheus, who had grown into one of the most brutal, intelligent, monstrous villains that the Justice League has ever faced ends up defeated by a single, ''normal '' arrow shot in his head, ''through his helmet''.
3	* AssPull:
4	** The offscreen fight between Green Lantern and Green Arrow with an army of supervillains. The comic acts like the villains were C-listers that they defeated easily - except the likes of Bizarro or Dr. Polaris are in the pile, not to mention other villains that can give the entire Justice League trouble on their own too, so it just comes across as downright ludicrous.
5	** Nearly ''everything'' Prometheus does in his GambitRoulette.
6	** Green Arrow single-handedly tracking Prometheus down to his interdimensional lair and instantly killing him with a single wooden arrow when Prometheus had been able to shrug off much more powerful attacks throughout the series.
7	* CriticalDissonance: Despite all of the backlash, the series still received Eisner Award nominations, including one for Best Writing.
8	* DesignatedHero: Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Ray Palmer, just about every "hero" in this story. They wish to reshape themselves into a proactive superhero team rather than a reactive one. Sounds like a stellar story idea on paper, so how do the JLA go about doing this? By pummeling, torturing, and even murdering supervillains, many of whom had done ''absolutely nothing'' to deserve it!
9	* DontShootTheMessage: Working to actively prevent crime and super villains isn't a bad idea in itself. It's the way the heroes go about it that undermines their point. For example, in the part of the story where Ray Palmer is interrogating Killer Moth on the death of his friend Mike Dante, he threatens to make Moth talk by shrinking, entering Moth's brain and beginning to grow inside his head. Palmer actually begins following through on that threat, and nearly succeeds before Killer Moth tells him about Prometheus. This is a tactic more associated with villainy than anything else; case in point, during ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'', Palmer's ex murders a friend of theirs, leaving him so emotionally scarred that he went into exile. How does said ex murder Palmer's friend? By ''shrinking, entering her skull and growing from inside!'' You read that right, Ray Palmer is torturing Killer Moth [[HeWhoFightsMonsters using the same method that killed his friend!]]
10	* FanNickname: ''Gay for Justice'' due to the lettering of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/im_gay_for_justice_v0_4cy1wcuw1jva1.jpg cover page]] and the heroes constantly screaming for "justice".
11	* FightSceneFailure: Prometheus easily defeating the Justice League is supposed to make him look awesome, but the fact that a villain with no powers easily defeats so many characters by throwing one gadget after another, barely moving while the heroes run at him one at a time, just makes the fight looks silly and the heroes look incompetent.
12	* KarmicOverkill: At the end of the story, Oliver kills Prometheus, a villain who, among other things, maimed Roy Harper, killed Roy's daughter Lian, and bombed Star City. This, on it's own, wouldn't be that damning, as Ollie ''has'' killed before, Prometheus more than deserved it, and even Roy admits ''he'' wanted to kill Prometheus before Ollie took the opportunity from him. After this however, Ollie hunts down and kills ''any'' villains who allied with Prometheus, even if they only did so because he was blackmailing them. For this, he is rebuked by his JLA teammates, his wife Dinah leaves him, and he is banished from Star City. The first is somewhat understandable, since his friends don't approve of his actions and his relationship with them was already strained at best. The second is more debatable, but he and Dinah ''already'' had preexisting issues beforehand. The ''last'' one is considered overkill, outright exiling him from his home for, from most civilian perspectives, killing ''villains'' that helped bomb said city, especially when the jury ''acquitted him'', but the judge arbitrarily overruled the verdict and ordered he be exiled.
13	* MemeticMutation:
14	** An unfortunate font choice made the title look more like "''Gay for Justice''" at a passing glance. Naturally, this caught on fast.
15	** "I'm Ray Palmer! ''Welcome to pain!"''
16	* MisBlamed:
17	** As noted on the [[Trivia/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice trivia]] page, while he did a fairly lackluster job overall, Lian Harper's death was not Creator/JamesRobinson's fault, although it's one of the first things people usually blame him for.
18	** A fair number of fans, and even people who aren't comic book readers, have conceded that Robinson's statement at San Diego Comic Con 2010 that he was inspired to cut off Roy Harper's arm as a tribute to Iraq War veterans by creating a superhero with a prosthetic that's not cybernetic was in very bad taste, regardless of whether or not it was honesty, a bald-faced lie, or something his editors told him to say. He contradicted this statement in the introduction of ''Cry's'' trade paperback, claiming that the editors told him that they wanted to put Roy in this direction. He also made absolutely no mention of his explanation at Comic Con.
19	* {{Narm}}:
20	** "Welcome to pain."
21	** The sheer number of times the word "justice" is used, especially "Together, we can be justice." Of course, it's obvious that the "justice" the heroes so desire is, in reality, {{Revenge}}; personal, violent, revenge.
22	** Prometheus' fight scenes. Watching him mow down the Justice League is laughable rather than [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome impressive]] because it's just so damn unlikely.
23	*** Keep in mind that when Creator/GrantMorrison wrote this version of Prometheus in their [[ComicBook/JLA1997 run on JLA]] he managed to successfully incapacitate Steel, Martian Manhunter, Huntress, and Batman, and through bravado and traps was able to force the Justice League into not attacking him, and the only thing that defeated him was Catwoman deciding that she wanted to rob the JLA that day and sneaking aboard. The difference between then and now is that Prometheus had to commit subterfuge and deception in order to even ''begin'' his plan in JLA, splitting them up so as to overpower them without reinforcement, whereas here the Leaguers run at him in a ''straight line'', with Prometheus not even moving from his spot.
24	** The font used for the title on the covers, when viewed at a certain distance, makes it read [[HaveAGayOldTime "Gay for Justice".]]
25	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: DC's story editor Ian Sattler said this in response to the outrage over Lian Harper's death: "I'm happy it upset people because it means that the story had some weight and emotion."
26	* TakeThatScrappy: One of the only decent things most readers could agree on was Robinson killing off Endless Winter, a villain from ''JSA Classified'' responsible for mutilating and murdering several characters to get their empowered organs, including the original Icemaiden, whom she had ''skinned alive''. Queer readers especially hated her for treating one of DC's few openly bisexual characters so horribly.
27	* TheUntwist: Green Arrow killing Prometheus is supposed to be shocking, but Ollie's killed before.

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