History YMMV / Runaways

** When the Runaways look up supervillains who could be Victor's father, they consider ComicBook/{{Galactus}}. Four years later we meet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galacta Galacta]].

* CompleteMonster (''ComicBook/CivilWar: ComicBook/YoungAvengers & ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' (also includes ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion: Who Do You Trust'''s "Master of the Cube")): [[WardensAreEvil The unnamed warden]] of the "[[HellholePrison Cube]]" is a government-licensed TortureTechnician who admits, since a child, he's always had an obsession with playing private, sadistic games. Now able to exert his childhood fantasies over a classified superhuman prison facility, the warden subjects many hundreds of prisoners to paranoia agents and torture for his own glorification. When some of the Young Avengers and the Runaways fall into his hands, the warden is positively gleeful that their unique physiology means he'll be able to effectively torture them for days. The warden's prize accomplishment is what he does to Noh-Varr; after cutting him off from the Kree hivemind, the warden "[[MindRape stomped around in his head]]" until Noh-Varr becomes a conditioned killer, still [[AndIMustScream somewhat aware of what the warden is forcing him to do]].

** By the time Vaughan's run was ending, the fallout from ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' was just ramping up. Vaughun's final issue has Iron Man and a legion of "Cape-Killers" ready to bring in the kids as unregistered felons. How do our young heroes get away? Who knows -- next issue (Whedon's first), they're in New York, having traveled the entire United States ''completely offscreen'' with absolutely no mention of what happened in-between.

** Nico[=/=]Karolina[=/=]Xavin brings together Nico and K's on-again, off-again tension and Karolina and Xavin's OfficialCouple status. The closest the actual series gets to this is Xavin offering to shapeshift into Nico for Karolina.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Several. Some like to pretend ''Runaways'' ended when Vaughan left, others at the end of Whedon's run, some discontinue everything from the start of Vol. 3 (to the point that there have been instances of people skipping it and calling Battleworld series and 2017 series third and fourth Runaways volumes) and a pretty large part would like to pretend there is no such thing as ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''.

** The last issue written by Vaughan and drawn by Alphona has entire staff working on the book answering the question of where they think the Runaways will be ten years from now. One of the comments was that at this rate they'll be all dead, except for Molly. It's been over 10 years since then, and it seems the Runaways are often treated as CListFodder, considering [[ComicBook/AvengersArena later events]].

* AcceptableTargets:
** Hoo boy, Vaughan has something against characters wearing glasses. First, there's Victor Stein who looks like a douche right off the bat for abusing Chase, and this was before being revealed to be a supervillain alongside the other parents. Then there's Alex betraying the team and dying minutes later. Next there was Pusher-man, a pimp and drug dealer who initially intended to kill Chase and make a sex-slave out of Nico. Then there was Lotus, an unwitting pawn to Geoffry Wilder, who then later becomes a captive to an angry Chase. Then there was an elderly shopkeeper named Walters who turns into a giant red demon monster smashing up dozens of buildings. The only glasses wearing character who is wholly good is Gert, and she dies!
** For Whedon, it's the Punisher; it's blatantly clear he utterly dislikes the character, to the point that Frank's characterization borders on Flanderization. Frank might be a ruthless killer of criminals, but Whedon amended that to him having no problem with murdering ''teenagers'' (including a twelve year old), under the assumption that they were as bad as their parents.

** The vampire arc from the original series hinges on the notion of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' being the first thing anyone thinks of when they think of vampires. BTVS ended about a year later, and people are more likely to associate vampires today with ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

** Then there's the time they had a heart-to-heart while Vic was naked...after Chase shrieked about how [[FanService Victor's nudity]] was "[[LampshadeHanging gratuitous]]."

* IdiotPlot:
** Fully justified in the case of the original series - both the Runaways and the Pride make some very dumb mistakes because they're fighting their family.
** The plot of "Homeschooling" could have been averted entirely if Victor hadn't decided to hack some stranger's computer. And most of the subsequent drama could have been avoided if the Runaways had kept Chase and Klara separated until one or the other had calmed down. It's even highlighted in the TPB, which has a back-up story where Molly suffers a concussion and the first decision the team makes is to isolate her.

* JerkassWoobie: Intentionally or not, Xavin can come across as particularly mean. But, on there very first appearance it's heavily implied that their parents never let them have any friends and then when they get to Earth they face a whole other plethora of issues, including a gender identity crisis, before eventually [[spoiler:being hauled of to space jail in the place of their lover]]. Poor Xavin.

See ''YMMV/RainbowRowellsRunaways'' for tropes on the 2017 relaunch by Creator/RainbowRowell.

** ''ComicBook/{{Runaways 2015}}'' was similarly divisive - many fans are unhappy that the new InNameOnly miniseries featured an almost entirely new lineup made up of characters like Bucky and Amadeus Cho, who could have easily supported their own series, with Molly Hayes as the only announced holdover from the original series, while other fans defend the reboot as being perfectly good in its own right.

** Through they didn't meet, recently ''ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider'' and ''[[Comicbook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]]'' joined in.

** Everybody's jokes about how in ten years Molly or Victor will assemble a new team and the rest of the Runaways will be on some sort of Avengers team became pretty funny when in 2013, Victor actually did joined ''ComicBook/AvengersAI''. Adrian Alphona even joked that one of the members will be a Security Daemon in search of the meaning of life. Victor's team has Doombot with exactly that motivation -- who would later ''join'' the Runaways in the [[ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways 2017 series]].

** Nico also considers [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Electro]], saying he doesn't fit the "pure evil" description, but who knows what a guy could do in the next ten years. Since then Electro TookALevelInBadass [[ComicBook/BrandNewDay at least]] [[Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan twice]].

* IAmNotShazam: "Runaways" was NOT originally the name of the team. During Vaghun's run, the book was called ''Runaways'' because they ''are'' runaways. The kids themselves did not have an official team name, usually being referred to as either "The Pride's kids" or "Those kids in L.A.," depending on the character. Later writers retconned this into making it their team name -- a fact [[LampshadeHanging bemoaned]] by one of the characters in the [[ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways 2017 revival]]:

** By the time Vaughan's run was ending, the fallout from ''[[ComicBook/CivilWar Civil War]]'' was just ramping up. Vaughun's final issue has Iron Man and a legion of "Cape-Killers" ready to bring in the kids as unregistered felons. How do our young heroes get away? Who knows -- next issue (Whedon's first), they're in New York, having traveled the entire United States ''completely offscreen'' with absolutely no mention of what happened in-between.
** Moore's first issue is no better -- after traveling to New York off-screen, the kids proceed to go all the way back to LA the same way. No mention is ever made of what the kids actually ''did'' during the months they were out on the road, and they have little involvement in the events of [[ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative the 50-State Initiative]] or ''[[ComicBook/DarkReign Dark Reign]]'' -- which is odd, as you'd think a group of characters who practically ''embody'' teenage rebellion against corrupt authority figures would be all over that.