YMMV / Micronauts (Marvel Comics)

• Complete Monster: Baron Karza is the monstrous dictator who has terrorized the Microverse for thousands of years, and is the Arch-Enemy of the Micronauts. After a failed attempt to usurp control of Homeworld left him for dead, Karza murdered the entire monastery that saved his life, then used their technological secrets to massacre the Homeworld royal family and take control of their empire. As supreme leader of the Microverse, Karza instituted the dreadful "Body Banks" to turn millions of innocents into raw materials for harvesting to keep Karza and his followers alive for centuries, and took part in routine genocide against any planets that resisted his tyranny. Karza forced thousands of women into impregnation machines that drove them insane as they constantly churned out infants for Karza to brainwash into loyal slaves. Karza's pettiness even saw him trick a young woman into crippling herself for her sweetheart, only to ruin both their lives and make her sacrifice for naught, just for his own amusement. The most recurring thorn in the Micronauts' side who executed his own forces on the regular, butchered the billions of Homeworld inhabitants to transform them into abominable monstrosities, and reacted to defeat by trying to doom the entire Microverse to save his own skin, Baron Karza happily embraced his status as just a man out to be as evil as possible, even rejecting an offer of godhood when it would require he become benevolent.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Huntarr wasn't under any licensing restrictions barring him from usage as he was created by Bill Mantlo for Marvel Comics. Given his extensive character development and excellent relationship with the other Micronauts, the fact that he didn't return with Rann, Mari and Bug is puzzling.
  • The entire notion of the Microverse has been laying fallow for many years in Marvel: even if they have to write around trademarks, you'd think they'd take more advantage of this science-fiction setting existing literally just under the noses of their regular universe. Reed Richards is known to have the technology to shrink objects past the barrier: it's a surprise that he didn't employ it in Civil War as an alternative to the Negative Zone.
    • When Genis Vell and Rick Jones were sharing a body, they would swap places between Earth and the Microverse. Rick had had a similar arrangement with Mar Vell years earlier, except they swapped between Earth and the Negative Zone.
    • The Microverse was used to explain The Wasp's return from her apparent death in Secret Invasion. When she realized she was about to die, she reflexively shrank down further than she ever had before, popping out in the Microverse. It's a better explanation than most comic book resurrections, honestly.

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