YMMV / Origin Story

• Character Rerailment: Tony Stark and many of the Avengers get this, contrasting with what happened in Civil War, where they didn't have anyone point out to them how anti-constitutional their actions in enforcing the Superhuman Registration Act were.
• Designated Hero: Some critics of the story maintain that because of Alex's ruthless attitude toward those who threaten her loved ones and friends, she isn't actually a hero but a borderline villain. Alex's philosophy is pretty simple: threaten her, or even worse threaten those she loves and she takes you down as hard and as definitively as she can. And given that she's a Kryptonian, "hard and definitive" are pretty hard and definitive. It should be noted that she's not a bloodthirsty monster, though she may do a pretty good imitation of one on occasions. Its just that if you are a threat, she figures you've earned whatever pain is coming to you, not unlike Magneto or Wolverine. Nevertheless... Kryptonian Physical God powers and Buffy-verse-style cold-bloodedness? Stuff of nightmares, In-Universe and out.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: From the moment Phil Coulson appeared in the story, the writer began receiving demands that Alex Harris — a confirmed lesbian in a seriously committed monogamous relationship with another woman — hook up with him. According to the writer, the primary relationship between Alex and Louise has received zero comments aside from one troll who threatened to drop the story if "those damned lesbo carpet-munchers" (an exact quote) were removed from the story.
• Heartwarming Moments: Despite having just met the girl a couple minutes ago, Alternate!Joyce reassures Alex that Buffy and her friends will get her home.
• Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, the Avengers see Carol's disposal of Alex, the coup against Tony Stark, and the attempt to turn the Avengers into a "tool of policy" for the US Government means she passed the Moral Event Horizon at full speed and never once looked back.
  • All the SHIELD agents and the Avengers are absolutely disgusted when they learn that Karen Starr had been repeatedly raped by her father ever since she was eleven, until he murdered her four years later. Tony (still in his early "pro-Reg" phase, mind you) later says that Mr. Starr has been sent to prison for life and implies he easily expects the man to get shivved within a few years.
  • Alex willingly choking Squirrel Girl and insulted her EXISTENCE to her face as she was losing oxygen. Say what you want about Alex, but she crossed it.
• Tear Jerker: Alex's reaction to having been forcefully returned to the Buffyverse (now that she has a very good reason to stay on the Marvel Universe, and that is being married). Also, her seeing the Alternate version of Joyce Summers—which on this universe survived the aneurysm that killed her on "The Body", but left her pretty bad and this latter just being nice and trusting to Alex, which brings her to tears.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Right after the Scooby Gang get a What the Hell, Hero? speech regarding their cold treatment of Alex, they pick up books and start to research a way back. Two chapters later, we see Alex's arrival to the Marvelverse without any information of how long it took for the Gang to look into said spell or if they ever said they were sorry.