History YMMV / NewXMen

* {{Fanon}}: According to Fantomex, the Weapon III project consisted of a series of experiments designed to transform regular animals into deadly bioweapons. Some fans believe that this would be a reference to ''ComicBook/WE3'', Grant Morrison's 2004 novel that follows a remarkably similar plot. Though the writer has neither confirmed or denied this theory, they have invited readers to entertain themselves with it.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Even though it may be riddled with ValuesDissonance and UnintentionallyUnsympathetic moments, Emma Frost was, at the time, considered a BreakoutCharacter and a sort of symbol of Grant Morrison's run. Many fans thought it was great innovation, to have the White Queen graduating to an AntiHero member of the X-Men. Except, Emma as edgy heroine was already done one decade early in ComicBook/GenerationX, and Cyclops being seduced by a edger, sexier telepathy and causing Jean Grey's jealousy *almost* happened in the early 90s, with Psylocke.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Even though it may be riddled with ValuesDissonance and UnintentionallyUnsympathetic moments, Emma Frost was, at the time, considered a BreakoutCharacter and a sort of symbol of Grant Morrison's run. Many fans thought it was great innovation, to have the White Queen graduating to an AntiHero member of the X-Men. Except... Emma as edgy heroine was already done one decade early in ComicBook/GenerationX, and Cyclops being seduced by a edger, sexier telepathy and causing Jean Grey's jealousy *almost* happened in the early 90s, with Psylocke.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Morrison's take on [[spoiler:Magneto]] is a radical departure from previous portrayals, since he is reduced to a drug-addled psychopath whose impulsiveness and lack of foresight cause even his own followers to turn against him. Since he lacks the charisma and intelligence that made him so popular throughout the years, most fans see him as one of the work's most significant flaws.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Par for the course for a Morrison series. Standouts include...
** A "psychic parasite" that's also Professor Xavier's stillborn (but not really) EvilTwin sister, who grew up as a blob on a sewer wall and looks like a five foot tall clone of the Professor with breasts.
** A 4 billion year-old sentient supercolony of bacteria masquerading as a self-help guru, who talks to a floating brain in a jar.
** An elderly Chinese military officer who creates clones of himself with his dandruff flakes and gets his kicks watching naked women wrestle each other covered in crude oil.
** A masked French thief whose best friend/lover is a talking FlyingSaucer who crawled out of his mouth when he was a child.
** A talking Scottish whale with psychic powers. Who's also a superhero, apparently.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: "Planet X" was subject to a well-known ([[ContinuitySnarl for being ridiculously confusing]]) one of these almost as soon as Morrison left Marvel. Morrison themself may have acknowledged that one of these would be necessary eventually, as within the story itself the only character who seems absolutely sure that "Magneto" is who he claims to be is [[SycophanticServant Toad]], along with a throwaway line from Wolverine explaining that "Magneto" was "under orders he didn't understand" to be used by future writers as some kind of backdoor.

* WinBackTheCrowd: One of the main goals of the series, as Morrison states in their outline for the run. After spending years as Marvel's most popular book (and one of the most lucrative superhero franchises on Earth), X-Men hit a bit of a DorkAge in the late 90s as editors began enforcing StatusQuoIsGod a little too much and falling back on old cliches to avoid losing a successful formula. With ''New X-Men'', Morrison sought to take advantage of the new interest sparked by [[Film/XMen1 the movie]] to bring the series to a wider audience while resurrecting the wild, experimental storytelling that made it popular in the first place. Though the run is polarizing amongst long-time fans, it revived dwindling interest in the X-mythos and saw a huge boost in sales.

** One of the series' major criticisms, especially in TheNewTens, is its general CriticalResearchFailure on the subjects of the Middle East and Islam. Several readers have also gone as far as to declare the run as Islamophobic in hindsight. Of course, the series was being written around the TurnOfTheMillennium, and we all know the world's general attitude towards Muslims during that time period...

** While she was subject to a myriad of CriticalResearchFailure and ValuesDissonance, Dust has been getting some well-deserved love as one of Marvel's first Muslim superheroes, with some even hoping for her to one day team up with fellow Muslim [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], which ultimately happened in ''ComicBook/Champions2019'', ending with Dust joining Kamala's team with Cyclops' blessing.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Dust is supposed to be from Afghanistan, but her outfit resembles an ''abaya'', which isn't commonly worn by Afghani women[[note]]It's likely they mistook it for a ''burqa'', which the Taliban had decreed women wore in public at the time in the country, and had made the news as part of the journalistic expositions on Afghanistan during UsefulNotes/{{the War on Terror}}[[/note]], and all of her dialogue is in Arabic, which is not a native language to Afghanistan, and thus not likely to be Dust's first language.
** "Pakistani" is not a language, Grant.