Aluminum Christmas Trees: While it was poorly explained here, and the culprits tend to be ranchers rather than farmers, arsonists had set fire to the Amazon Rain Forest in bids to expand cattle ranges and kept doing so well after the release of "Future State"note Foreign industrial farmers do account for roughly 90% of Earth's deforestation, lumping in similar businesses whose activities lead to the similar results is understandable, but cattle arson is more the domain of local organized crime. Helicopter pads to avoid traffic jams, while not as prevalent as the comic would have you believe, really were put in place with funds meant for infrastructure. While Brazilian readers largely rejected the Yara Flor character fans were celebrating in the United States, many of her most vocal critics did begrudgingly admit to being a slightly moved by these two plot points that largely failed to resonate with fans in the USA.
Brazilian observers, even those who enjoyed Wonder Woman stories otherwise, mostly rejected Yara Flor as quickly as they heard/read the character's name. While some warmed up to her design upon realizing it was based on Suyane Moreira, a popular Cariri actress from Ceará, the way Yara Flor and her "supporting cast" were written had Brazilian readers so riled up against Warner Brothers that it was covered by The Brazilian Times newspaper. To these naysayers' bewilderment, Yara Flor is one of the most popular Future State characters among DC's regular readers in the English market. To the "primary" market the fact Diana is ultimately going to regain/retain her status as Wonder Woman is widely seen as a cop out, but to the "new" market Yara Flor supposedly represents the feeling varies from relief that the new character will be "going away" to the belief it is not good enough and that Flor never should have existed.
There is a break in the base among the English market regarding Yara Flor as well, but it is less about liking or disliking the character than it is about how she should be used. There are vocal Wonder Woman fans who preferred the golden and silver age Dianas who loved all life and were skittish about killing, even for food. These fans detest the more martial take on the character that started in "post crisis" DC and reached its apotheosis with the proudly lethal "Warrior Woman" of "New 52". There are others who think the "old" Wonder Woman takes were jokes and that "Warrior Woman" was a step in the right direction and were sadden when she "softened" to question first, kill second. These two camps argue about whether the role of "Warrior Woman" should be passed entirely to Flor so that "we" can get the "proper" Diana back or that Flor should be used to help push Diana even further away from her initial characterizations. It ended up moot, as Yara also "softens" as "Future State" progresses.
The new Wonder Woman, Yara Flor, quickly became one of the most popular characters of the event thanks to how entertainingly abrasive she is and for being a fresh Foil to the original Wonder Woman.
Similarly, Jess Chambers/Kid Quick, the Flash of the Future State Justice League and member of the Gender-flipped earth's Teen Titans. They're a rare representation of a non-binary character in comics, so they were already somewhat anticipated, but after appearing general census is they're a fun, entertaining character who perfectly fits in with the Flash Family's personality. Word they were going to return post-Future State was well-received, with the only concern being where to fit them among the rest of the Flash Family.
While initially received with some controversy due to how seemingly out of left field the creative decision was to make him the next Batman, Timothy "Jace" Fox earned plenty of good will from fans as well due to him being introduced as a sardoniclow-techcrimefighter wearing a cowl that covers his entire face who recaptures the street-level underdog aspect of Batman that hasn't been prominent since Bruce's Year One phase.
To a lesser degree than Jess Chambers, Bolt from Suicide Squad has been discussed fondly in regards to the new characters. She stands out as being a speedster with prosthetic limbs and being the Justice Squad's other Token Good Teammate due to her unwillingness to abandon her teammates and genuine disgust at how easily they can be killed.
Epileptic Trees: Quite a few fans believed that Peacekeeper-01, the new villain who leads the Private Military Contractors that have taken over Gotham City's law enforcement, is in reality Damian Wayne, with many pointing out that before the 5G plan was scrapped numerous comics, including Teen Titans and Legion Of Superheroes, implied Damian would become a terrible villain in the future. This theory was eventually Jossed after several comics showed Peacekeeper-01 without his helmet, in which he looks nothing like Damian.
Fanon Discontinuity: How fans of DC One Million feel about Black Adam’s story in Suicide Squad, due to blatant Character Shilling he gets at the expense of the setting. Superman One Million, specifically designed to be more powerful than a then "present" Superman Black Adam had to resort to trickery to beat, gets hit hard with The Worf Effect at the beginning and Justice Legion Alpha are left to seek Adam as their only hope, who, despite taking place in superheroic utopia, leaves them all in awe what a paradise far ahead of anything they’ve ever seen his planet is and has the future Wonder Woman for a girlfriend.
Inferred Holocaust: It's stated that Iae and Kuat had been forgotten but return to serving humanity as Yara Flor's reputation spreading causes people to remember them. All well and good except the "Future State" introduction shows each issue's place on the timeline and reveals it only took a couple of decades at most for these gods to be forgotten and remembered again, which raises the question of just what happened to all the people, not just those in Brazil, who know, even worship these two gods.
Future State: The Flash paints Wally West as a killer again, which fans feel is too soon after the Heroes in Crisis debacle. Moreover, fans were hoping that since DiDio is finally out, DC would treat the character (and others of Wally's generation, for that matter) fairly from here on out. Luckily, this was just a holdover from the original 5G plans, and DC returned Wally to being a hero again (alongside regaining his title as leader of the Flashes) after the regularly published Flash comic resumed.
Likewise the Teen Titans miniseries was met with a similar reaction by readers and reviewers for killing off numerous members of the team, including Donna Troy and Miguel Montez, with numerous complaints about the fact this seems to be a common occurrence every time DC has a new event. The fact that miniseries also rehashes yet another traitor plot didn't exactly help win readers over either.
A lot of people also rolled their eyes at the reveal that Raven has once again turned evil.
Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain have their usual amount of this in Future State: Batgirls, but now it's turned up a notch with Stephanie repeatedly calling Cassandra "babe" and "gorgeous" and dialogue from Cassandra making it sound as if they were a couple at one point. The second issue continues the suggestive language between the two and even has Cassandra say that they "took a break".
In Future State: Wonder Woman, Yara Flor has a bit of this with her friend, Potira, and it's especially emphasized by how her journey to rescue her from the underworld is a Whole-Plot Reference to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, one of the most famous tragic love stories of all time.
So Okay, It's Average: A recurring complaint from readers is that most of the stories feel like mere setups for what's going to happen in later storylines and mostly served to break the momentum from Death Metal heading into Infinite Frontier. A few of the miniseries have elicited strong reception (The most talked about aspects of Future State including The Next Batman, Yara Flor and, on the bad side of things, The Flash) but as a whole it's hard to feel particularly strongly about any one series.
Tainted by the Preview: As noted, Future State: Flash didn't exactly make the best first impression when the Cover and Solicitation released hinted towards an evil Wally West destroying the Flash Family. Coming hot off the heels of Heroes in Crisis which became more infamous for the perceived character assassination of Wally West, not many were willing to give this series a chance.
Some were disappointed that for all the build-up in the comics, Luke Fox was not the new Batman in this timeline, but his brother Timothy was instead. It also didn't help that DC ruined the mystique surrounding who was behind the cowl by making an official announcement that Tim was the new Batman as John Ridley was clearly playing up the mystery while using Luke as a Red Herring.
Some fans were extremely confused at the lack of focus or a book on any of the Arrowfam during the event, especially since the event was similar to the cancelled Green Arrow and the Canaries. The only people to gain any focus were Emiko in Future State: Teen Titans who dies in the second issue and Lian in Future State: Catwoman in a limiting supporting role.
The Flash miniseries has been met with this reaction, due it to being yet another story that demonizes Wally West and tries to turn him into a murderer. This time, the reasoning is that Wally's been possessed by the Horseman of Famine so he's technically not to blame for his actions. That hasn't changed fans being sick of Wally again being thrust into the role of the bad guy while Barry Allen is left to agonize over stopping Wally while the rest of the Flashes suffer. It's rather painfully clear this story's another holdover of Dan Didio's reign, due to Didio's infamous dislike of Wally and repeated attempts to destroy him. Notably, while most of Future State's creative teams have been revealed as continuing their work in some form in DC Infinite Frontier, The Flash creative team is not returning (outside of the cover artist), indicating that even DC didn't want to continue this trend any further.
The ending doesn't make things that much better. With every Flash but Barry either dying or leaving and Iris leaving and never coming back Barry assembles an arsenal of weaponry derived from his Rogues Gallery. Transmitting a recording of everything he has ever discovered (which fails, meaning that none of his discoveries reach the wider world) he confronts Famine and, by extension, Wally. Famine then reveals during their fight that it feeds on hope, is basically using Barry as a hope battery due to his connection to Wally and then, somehow, shifts Barry out of phase with reality and forces him to become a ghost as he watches Famine take over Wally's body. Again. Cybeast finding Barry's ring, which still contains all of the information he tried and failed to broadcast, and realizing the Titans can use the info to help their mission is the only thing stopping it from being a complete downer, not that the Flash story technically not even finishing within the actual comic is something to write home about.
Teen Titans is not much better on that front. The storyline finds most of the team wiped out in a tragedy, again. Because the Titans were often used for shocking and graphic deaths in the past, this felt like beating a dead horse.
It’s safe to say no-one foresaw the reveal of the villains of the Justice League miniseries as the Hyperclan, the bad guys of the very first story arc of JLA (1997).
Timothy Fox, a character from the Pre-Crisis comics and whose only Post-Crisis appearance was in Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, was also a surprise, considering many people thought Luke Fox was a reimagining of the character.
The Woobie: Bolt and Conner Kent in Suicide Squad suffer the worst of Amanda Waller's manipulations and largely do not deserve her treatment. Bolt mentions she wanted to be a hero and is horrified by how callously Waller's willing to murder the Justice Squad, and is later tricked into murdering Lor-Zod. Conner meanwhile is degraded and dehumanized by Waller, who found him locked up at some point and told Conner that being a clone meant his very existence was a crime. While the second issue ends with Waller dying and revealing she was setting Conner up to be a true Superman on Earth-3, the years she's implied to have spent treating him like garbage makes it seem more like she subjected him to emotional abuse.
of "Future State"note . Helicopter pads to avoid traffic jams, while not as prevalent as the comic would have you believe, really were put in place with funds meant for infrastructure. While Brazilian readers largely rejected the Yara Flor character fans were celebrating in the United States, many of her most vocal critics did begrudgingly admit to being a slightly moved by these two plot points that largely failed to resonate with fans in the USA.