* ImprovedSecondAttempt: Ming and his people are just LizardFolk without any of the YellowPeril baggage that has been associated with the character ever since his inception back in 1934.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Not many fans took to this LighterAndSofter take on the ''Flash Gordon'' mythos in which the eponymous character was reimagined as a teenage gamer who rides around on a HoverBoard, with some even considering it to be the franchise's AudienceAlienatingEra.
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