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1	!!The Comic
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3	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: 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.
4	* BrokenBase:
5	** Is this comic a feminist work? Is Brian K. Vaughan a writer of feminist tendencies but who makes many mistakes when writing female characters? Is it really a sexist and misogynist comic to show how when men die civilization collapses and women are unable to agree and govern without fighting? (Although it should be noted that both situations are temporary.)
6	** The comic-book series has gotten a mixed reception from LGBT+ fans. On one end there 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.
7	* EpilepticTrees: ''Encouraged,'' WordOfGod has stated that the "truth" behind the {{gendercide}} is stated somewhere within the series, [[FanDislikedExplanation but has not confirmed which of the (many) theories is the correct one]].
8	* FanDislikedExplanation: Invoked by Yorick at least once, regarding the [[{{Gendercide}} sudden death of every man in the world]] besides himself and his pet monkey. There is an answer that's explained to the characters, but it's the "vaguely unsatisfying" one of the page quote (unsatisfying to both the readers and the characters) and the writers give it no more weight than any of the other explanations. Of the three reasons set up in the first issue (Yorick's ring, Dr. Mann's baby and 355 with the Amulet of Helene), none of them really lasts the course. Says [[WordOfGod series writer Brian K. Vaughan]] on the subject:
9	-->''I feel that there is a definitive explanation, but I like that people don't necessarily know what it is. In interviews we always said that we would tell people exactly what caused the plague. The thing was, we never said when we were going to tell. We weren't going to tell you when we were telling you, I should say. We might have told you in issue #3. There might have been something in the background that only a couple people caught. It might have been Dr. Mann's father's very detailed, scientific explanation. It might have been Alter's off-the-wall conspiracy theory. The real answer is somewhere in those 60 issues, but I prefer to let the reader decide which one they like rather than pushing it on them.''
10	* 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.
11	* GrowingTheBeard:
12	** The first two arcs were a bit light on the drama, which was a tad jarring considering how much could've been done with the premise. Things got interesting in the astronaut arc, which skyrocketed the intensity in a refreshingly unexpected way.
13	** Yorick, like Riker and Blackadder before him, has literally grown a beard by the start of that arc, although he shaves it off halfway through. Given how many other sci-fi references that series had, this may have been intentional.
14	* HardToAdaptWork: Part of why the adaptation took over a decade to get off the ground, only to crash and burn shortly after. 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.\
15	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.
16	* HarsherInHindsight: The Amazon’s killing transgender men is this with the rise of the TERF movement in the late new tens and new twenties.
17	* HilariousInHindsight: The story features a trans man in later issues who bears a striking resemblance to Cara Crocker.
18	* InferredHolocaust: Every male mammal dies, all at once. Humanity may or may not survive, but innumerable ecosystems must 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). This was remarked on midway through the series, when geneticist Dr. Mann remarks that with no males, all mammal species would eventually become extinct. However, a couple of women see rats long after they were supposed to have all died later on, and The DistantFinale shows Paris sixty years later, so clearly there was NoEndorHolocaust.
19	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Some readers can be forgiven for feeling this by [[spoiler: the story's ending, after spending 60 issues with our main protagonist only to see him old, broken and alone at the end, along with many of the more likeable characters dead. Not to mention [[ShrugOfGod we never find out what caused the plague]], so even that aspect of the story is unsatisfactorily resolved.]]
20	%%* TheWoobie:
21	%%** Yorick himself, at times. Also definitely
22	%%** Hero considering a lot of her past.

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