YMMV / Extraordinary X-Men

• Arc Fatigue: Whatever atrocity Cyclops committed that made him Persona Non Grata to the world and the X-Men. All of the X-Men books, as well as Uncanny Inhumans, have alluded to it without giving any hints whatsoever to the point that fans would rather they just spill it already instead of dancing around what exactly he did. It doesn't help that the way it's hidden is amazingly unnatural. Or that it was revealed he didn't actually do it. Making the entire thing feel like a waste of reader's time.
• Audience-Alienating Era: Not the title's fault per se, but it's emblematic of very contested direction the X-Men have been in since Avengers vs. X-Men (though some might say since House of M). Namely, the decline of their general influence in the Marvel Universe and in real life as Disney/Marvel focused more on the properties they owned complete rights to film-wise. The fans finally had enough and responded with low sales for this title and other X-Men titles and the series ended in 2017 with a very hyped new direction after Inhumans Vs Xmen.
• Base-Breaking Character: Storm is a big one in this series. Some think she is a good leader trying to make the best of a difficult situation and avoid any unnecessary conflict in an effort to preserve what remains of mutantkind. Others see her as the spineless figurehead of the Inhumans who should have attempted to destroy the Terrigen cloud ages ago and blame her indecisiveness for the poor position mutantkind has been left in to begin with.
• Broken Base:
  • As per usual, as it seems with the X-Books. This is either an awesome direction for the X-Men with Jeff Lemire writing or another way of shortchanging the franchise, especially with the Inhumans getting a promotional push and becoming more and more like the Suspiciously Similar Substitute for mutants.
  • Humberto Ramos' art. Even those who like his previous work are divided on his work here. The majority think he's half-assing it, his art doesn't suit the series, that it's just plain ugly and that he particularly struggles with any kind of action scene. Supporters say his work has more energy than most of the recent X-artists, and he is likely struggling to keep up with the double shipping of the series. Most of his designs have been praised, however.
• Fridge Logic: The Terrigen Mist is sterilizing mutants? Okay, but aren't mutants also born out of regular humans? Does that mean the Terrigen Mist is also sterilizing humans, and if so, doesn't that make the Inhumans the bad guys? Lemire just doesn't seem to care for any of this and hope we just go along with this. Plus, you would actually expect a shift in general public paranoia away from mutants (now very few in number again) and towards Inhumans (whose numbers are rapidly increasing). Especially since most new Inhumans were safely "normal" until the Terrigen Mists were released into the atmosphere.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Thanks to the whole "terrigen sterilises mutants" retcon, the events of Infinity can be seen quite differently. Instead of Black Bolt nobly sacrificing his people's home to try to halt Thanos, while at the same time starting a new Inhuman age... it's him sterilising mutants in order to save one person, Thanos' son Thane (which apparently ends incredibly badly, as Infinity says Thane turns into a bigger villain than Thanos), and essentially have his people replace mutants!
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The series takes place only four years from the end of the Decimination, the fallout of House of M where mutants went almost completely extinct. Now, after Avengers vs. X-Men where the mutant race was restored and with Brian Michael Bendis's three-year X-Men run being mostly free of mutants being completely downtrodden, this series brings back a status quo where mutants are endangered again.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Jean Grey. In All-New X-Men she was a Base-Breaking Character, but Lemire's portrayal is liked for being infinitely more likeable.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Brian Michael Bendis' X-Men run may have created a Broken Base, but it's generally praised for showing some of the X-Men being more proactive in saving mutants and also a lot of humans being comfortable with mutants and supporting mutant rights. The sudden shift to seeing mutants (once again) being on the brink of extinction and being hated and feared — to a level that's extreme, even for them — once more hasn't sat well with the fanbase at all. It's even more jarring when All-New Wolverine and All-New X-Men barely deal with the Terrigen or hatred of mutants.

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