Outlawed / YMMV - TV Tropes

I Knew It!: Cyclops^note made a surprise appearance and proclaimed that the Champions are under the protection of Krakoa. Although everybody liked the moment, some fans suspected that the Quiet Council would have little reason to interfere: the Kamala Law did not involve Krakoa or any mutant, and if Krakoa interfered with U.S.' internal politics then the U.S. would have a justified reason to do the same with Krakoa. As it turned out, Cyclops was effectively acting on his own and not as an emissary of the mutant nation, and only said so to stall the C.R.A.D.L.E. agents for a moment and allow the Champions to escape.
It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: There was a lot of eye-rolling at how blatantly scenes from Civil War (2006) were essentially reused in the intro issue of Outlawed. From Viv going nuclear in a near-replication of the Stamford Incident, to the alarmingly fast passing of a Superhero Registration Act, to Captain America's support for the superheroes, Outlawed feels like much of the same with the serial numbers filed off. And as usual, some villain is gonna take advantage of the situation and get away with it for the umpteenth time.
- To some degree, the character themselves seems to be aware they are in a Here We Go Again! scenario. For example with Speedball present in the story or Carol Danvers being called out for her actions during the extremely controversial Civil War 2 event.
  - In Champions #3 Silhouette even says that it's just the Super Hero Registration Act all over again.
- And if that wasn't bad enough, Knull invaded Earth and Kamala's Law hadn't been repealed at the time!
Tainted by the Preview: The cancelled new New Warriors earned scorn and mockery from both the right-wing and left-wing political sides of the Internet when its lineup was revealed by Marvel's website and the trailer. It was meant to reflect modern sensibilities, but the concepts were widely considered "cringy", such as Screentime being a "meme-obsessed" hero who got his powers from "experimental internet gas". However, Snowflake (who is non-binary) and Safespace in particular received the brunt of the hatred, as even though the intent was to reclaim derogatory terms used by the alt-right, it was seen simply as insulting and more belonging to a parody made by said alt-right.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man was not included in the Senate hearing and was considered a missed opportunity seeing as how he was the original torch bearer for solo teen heroes in the Marvel Universe and could have offered a potential nuanced opinion on the law.
- The Runaways have been excluded from this event, despite playing roles in both Civil War (where they were rounded up by the "cape-killers") and Civil War II (where Nico Minoru found herself being pursued by Carol Danvers after Ulysses predicted that she would kill someone.) While their absence is understood to be a result of the series having been on hiatus while Outlawed was being planned, a lot of fans still see it as a missed opportunity, especially since C.R.A.D.L.E. is exactly the sort of thing the Runaways would have fought against in the past.
- The story is straightforwardly good vs. evil with C.R.A.D.L.E being a fascist government agency out to capture kid heroes that aren't even breaking the flaw before throwing them in re-education camps. Given that child heroes would be a terrible idea in the real world, it seems like they could have easily done the story with more nuance.
Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Outlawed opens with the apparent death of fan-favorite Viv Vision, the hospitalization of Kamala Khan, and the passage of a new law against teenage vigilantism that's also being exploited to harass minority teenagers. The Champions are now in disarray; the New Warriors have become government stooges, which is massively out-of-character for them considering how they were victimized during the events of Civil War (2006), which saw the passage of a similar law and led to similar exploitation from Norman Osborn.

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