YMMV / Vixen: NYC

• Complete Monster: General Mustapha Maksai, Mari Jiwe's monstrous uncle, is undisputedly her greatest nemesis. Obsessed with the power of Anansi's totem, Maksai employs the vicious black market poacher Aku Kwesi to kidnap numerous girls throughout New York in search of its current wielder. Maksai's cruelty is unrivaled in his quest for power, as it's revealed he experimented on his own followers to create animal-human hybrids; Maksai preys on those with injuries and heals them by transplanting animal body parts, which will rot and kill his subjects without regular doses of his serum. After his initial death, Maksai's spirit survives in the totem, stealing power from Anansi himself as he works to possess Mari and get her to kill herself. Escaping, Maksai sadistically threatens to slaughter his own family and uses his newfound power to mutate hundreds throughout New York into suffering, monstrous slaves, setting them to drown the city in blood. Egotistical, unrepentant, and fully willing to snap the minds of hundreds to grasp what he believes to be his natural birthright, Maksai spitefully attempts to kill Mari on the verge of his defeat so that no one can ever again possess the power he believes is rightfully his.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many fans of the original character were unhappy with the changes with Vixen's origin, most notably her shift in national origin and being aged down. Due to the low number of superheroes from Africa, many saw it as a mistake to instead make her character African American.
• Unexpected Character: Chapter 18 features the appearance of Stella Maxwell, better known as Starlight from the Shadow Cabinet of Milestone Comics. It is unexpected due to the character not being used since 2010 and Milestone characters rarely appearing in other DC media.

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