History YMMV / TheBridgeHumanitysStand

* BetterThanCanon: The jointly made story for this universe's [[spoiler: original]] Gabara has been greatly praised by the readers as a straight upgrade from the movie version, turning arguably the least liked kaiju of the Showa era into a competent and terrifying villain, who was then succeeded by a likable AntiHero with a unique backstory.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Gabara, who's one of the least liked kaiju in the entire franchise, is turned into an ancient, Freddy Krugger-like demon who's a legit threat to Junior, and is then succeeded by an AntiHero with a genuinely sympathetic backstory and motives, making a lot of people like the character.[[/note]]

** In 2017, BlazingPhoenix17 went back over the fic and rewrote certain parts to fix plot holes and continuity errors. The chapter-by-chapter changes are documented in the author's notes.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Gabara, who's one of the least like kaiju in the entire franchise, is turned into an ancient, Freddy Krugger-like demon who's a legit threat to Junior, and is then succeeded by an AntiHero with a genuinely sympathetic backstory and motives, making a lot of people like the character.[[/note]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The justification the GDF gave for hitting both Godzilla Junior and Xenilla with Dimension Tide was that their BeamOWar would ignite the atmosphere and destroy the planet. Several years later, IDW comic's ''Comicbook/GodzillaInHell'' had Godzilla and Spacegodzilla destroy the world by, you guessed it, BeamOWar fight gone horribly wrong. Adding to the hilarity was a later clarification/retcon in a chapter published just after the comic, stating that such an idea is ridiculous and wouldn't work, the statement having been a lie. [[note]]Because we've seen BeamOWar fights between kaiju dozens of times with nothing bigger than a kiloton nuke sized explosion and "ignite the atmosphere" was a theory disproven long ago.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites. To make matters worse, some see her as an out of place character; though others still like she is an OC tied to a canon source given ''The Bridge'' showed humanoid-Kaiju splices were possible before her with Monster X. Still, some say that Tytanna is pretty much a good character, just innecesary.]]

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites. To make matters worse, some see her as an out of place character; though others still like she is an OC tied to a canon source given ''The Bridge'' showed humanoid-Kaiju splices were possible before her with Monster X.]]

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites To make matters worse, some see her as an out of place character; though others still like she is an OC tied to a canon source given ''The Bridge'' showed humanoid-Kaiju splices were possible before her with Monster X.]]
** The story itself is this somewhat for the larger fanbase of ''FanFic/TheBridge''. Camps that happily accept it, ignore it, aren't aware it's canon; or deem it FanDiscontinuity can all be found. The fact that it's reception is more mixed as The Bridge doesn't help.

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites To make matters worse, some see her as an out of place character; though others so like she is an OC tied to a canon source given ''The Bridge'' showed humanoid-Kaiju splices were possible before her with Monster X.]]

* BetterThanCanon: The jointly made story for this universe's [[spoiler: original]] Gabara has been greatly praised by the readers as a straight upgrade from the movie version, turning arguably the least liked kaiju of the Showa era into a competent and terrifying villain.

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites To make matters worse, some see her as an out of place character.]]
** The story itself is this somewhat for the larger fanbase of ''FanFic/TheBridge''. Camps that happily accept it, ignore it, aren't aware it's canon; or deem it FanDiscontinuity can all be found. The fact that it is not as good as The Bridge can´t help.

** The high number of original characters, kaiju, and mecha. Is it a neat expansion of the roster that gives the story more uniqueness; or is it coming at the cost of using canon elements and distancing the story from its roots?
** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites.]]
** The story itself is this somewhat for the larger fanbase of ''FanFic/TheBridge''. Camps that happily accept it, ignore it, aren't aware it's canon; or deem it FanDiscontinuity can all be found.

** The rational behind the GDF giving the go ahead to fire upon Solgell island with Dimension Tide. The justification Stacker Pentecost, the chairman of the GDF, gave in chapter 5 was that the battle between Godzilla Jr. and Xenilla would have released so much nuclear energy it would have ignited the atmosphere. This raised a few eyebrows as BeamOWar fights have happened all the time in the canon without issue and was seemingly lifted from real life concerns about the first atomic bomb testings, which was found to be false decades ago. Others didn't like the idea that the resident BigGood could be careless enough to nearly destroy the planet. Come chapter 14 and the other GDF council members ask Pentecost about it, and Stacker reveals he was lying about the atmospheric ignition and instead the plan was a big BatmanGambit on his part to make an increasingly hostile humanity realize not all kaiju were bad and total war wasn't the option.

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites, but she is sexy as hell.]]

** [[spoiler: Tytanna is a point of contention for a lot. Some want to give the character a chance to shine whereas others are very put off by her Fanservice roots at NSFW websites.]]

* BrokenBase: The high number of original characters, kaiju, and mecha. Is it a neat expansion of the roster that gives the story more uniqueness; or is it coming at the cost of using canon elements and distancing the story from its roots?

** One chapter featured the humans rather quickly and efficiently killing Megaguirus, and critically damaging her with ''conventional weapons''. Several fans complained that this was an insult to a character who could fight on par with Godzilla and demonstrated immunity to bullets before. Some even went as far as to say it low balled ''all'' the kaiju because none of the Toho or Daiei rosters were ever killed by conventional weapons. [= BlazingPhoenix17=] rewrote the chapter so she put up a ''much'' better fight, included the Super-X3 [[spoiler: , which pulls a HeroicSacrifice]], and a good reason was given for how the humans were able to pierce her armor by use of a super weapon and not normal jets.

** One chapter featured the humans rather quickly and efficiently killing Megaguirus, and critically damaging her with ''conventional weapons''. Several fans complained that this was an insult to a character who could fight on par with Godzilla and demonstrated immunity to bullets before. Some even went as far as to say it low balled ''all'' the kaiju because none of the Toho or Daiei rosters were ever killed by conventional weapons. [= BlazingPhoenix17=] rewrote the chapter so she put up a ''much'' better fight, included the Super-X3 [[spoiler: , which pulls a HeroicSacrifice]], and a good reason was given for how the humans were able to pierce her armor.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The rational behind the GDF giving the go ahead to fire upon Solgell island with Dimension Tide. The justification Stacker Pentecost, the chairman of the GDF, gave in chapter 5 was that the battle between Godzilla Jr. and Xenilla would have released so much nuclear energy it would have ignited the atmosphere. This raised a few eyebrows as BeamOWar fights have happened all the time in the canon without issue and was seemingly lifted from real life concerns about the first atomic bomb testings, which was found to be false decades ago. Others didn't like the idea that the resident BigGood could be careless enough to nearly destroy the planet. Come chapter 14 and the other GDF council members ask Pentecost about it, and Stacker reveals he was lying about the atmospheric ignition and instead the plan was a big BatmanGambit on his part to make an increasingly hostile humanity realize not all kaiju were bad and total war wasn't the option.