YMMV / The Pro

• Broken Aesop: In the foreword for the book, Garth Ennis says the point of the book was to point out how superheroes aren't needed. Except the titular character was only able to save the day by flying a nuke into space. Also, the Pro says the heroes are never in any real danger, only for the Lime to be killed a few pages later.
• Bile Fascination: The consensus of the people who like this story is that it's everything right (black, absurdist comedy) and everything wrong (the Anvilicious superhero hate) about Garth Ennis in a single package.
• Designated Hero: The titular heroine is much less scrupulous than the League of Honor and ultimately fails at being a better hero. In addition to being unnecessarily brutal towards the Noun and being treated as in the right when the League of Honor chew her out for being excessive in how harshly she treated the villain, this is highlighted when she gets even with one of her clients by having a bunch of prostitutes shove extremely painful objects up his ass and later tears off his whole jaw for attempting to shoot her son. It also doesn't help that she dismisses the League of Honor as being useless in spite of their leader saving the life of her child.
• Informed Wrongness: The heroes are attacked for not stopping 9/11 and for not being willing to destroy whole schools to take out one bad guy. But they point out they were busy with another crisis and the Pro does not counteract the Wonder Woman expy pointing out as vigilantes they have no right to decide to take a life.
• Karmic Overkill: The scumbag client who refused to pay the protagonist full price for her services and insulted her as well as subsequently threatening the life of her infant son did deserve to be punished for what he did, but many would see the respective punishments of having several increasingly painful objects shoved up his ass and having his jaw ripped off as gratuitous and excessive.
• Squick: The cover of the graphic novel is the Pro (a Power Girl look-alike) in a dirty, soiled superhero get-up. One of the very first things that happen in the comic is a Superman Substitute flying to save a plane with his pants down because he was being given head and in full display. It only gets worse from there.

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