YMMV / X-Men: Gold

• Fan Nickname: Runaway Pryde after Kitty leaves Colossus at the altar.
• Fridge Logic:
  • It doesn't make sense for any of the X-Men to actually be convicted for assaulting policemen, even with convincing illusions, as a cursory examination would reveal there were no active duty officers suffering relevant injuries, let alone even present. Unless Mesmero went through the trouble of mind controlling everyone involved with the law and justice department, which seems like a massive oversight after decades of psychics being common knowledge, it's unlikely that ruse would actually hold water.
  • Mutants are compared to undocumented immigrants, specifically with the government proposal to deport mutants. Though mutants are almost always drawn parallel to ongoing conversations about discrimination, this one just didn't make sense because of the massive leaps of Artistic License – Law needed for someone to seriously consider deporting American-born citizens. In specific, there is nowhere to deport them to in the first place.
• Growing the Beard: The "Kitty goes to Washington" story, since it introduces the two driving forces of the series (the possibility of Kitty and Colossus tying the knot, and the X-Men's political quest to overturn the Mutant Deportation Act).
• Narm:
  • The wedding of Gambit and Rogue, namely that Rogue is called "Anna Marie" during the ceremony. Yes, even at an official, legally binding, religious wedding, they don't give her a surname. It's just awkward.
  • For a similar reason as Batman #50, Kitty walking out of the wedding. It's got a very weak basis as Kitty, at the last minute, gets cold feet thanks to some words from Illyana, and basically wastes time. But what makes it Narm is the sheer melodrama as Kitty phases through the floor, leaving her veil behind. It looks like a parody of an X-Men book.
  • Lydia Nance's Freudian Excuse; as it turns out, she suffered from an abusive father who was physically mutated, and that's why she hates mutants. Its such a cliché excuse for her being the way she is that ends up feeling like they were trying to make her come off as a Tragic Bigot, but instead reads as a very poor understanding of real life bigotry by trying to justify it.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The first issue of X-Men Gold wasn't spoken of much beyond Ardian Syaf's Easter Egg references to conservative political protests in Indonesia and a passage in the Quran that, depending on the interpretation, can be seen as anti-Semitic and anti-Christian. It led to noticeable backlash from readers and other creators, some of whom work for Marvel themselves. Marvel were unaware of the references, and later announced that subsequent printings of the issue, its digital version and the collected editions would remove the references. They also stated that Syaf would be disciplined for his actions. Syaf later posted on his Facebook that "[His] career is over". It was later confirmed that his contract with Marvel had been terminated with only three issues drawn. What made this controversy even more unfortunate is that it happened after Marvel announced they would tone down political elements in their stories and Gold and Blue was used as an example of superheroes going back to basics, only for an politics-related incident to prop-up on this specific title.
• So Okay, It's Average: The most common criticism of X-Men Gold. Aside from Kitty leading the team and the Mansion being moved to Central Park, there isn't much innovation. The series is mostly content to redo standard X-Men plots that have been done hundreds of times before (the X-Men battle the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the X-Men save a normal human politician from the Brotherhood, the X-Men fight a new kind of Sentinel created by a member of the Trask Family, the X-Men get loudly criticized in the media by a public figure who slanders mutantkind in a Strawman Has a Point manner.)
• Strangled by the Red String:
  • Rachel and Kurt get together with no build-up at all. Supposedly Rachel saw that Kurt had feelings for her while being telepathically linked so she suggests they enter a relationship. Kurts reaction to that is so awkward and uncomfortable that it almost seems like he's just too nice to tell her no. Which is probably not what Guggenheim intended. Kurt and Rachel did have some Ship Tease in the past, but that was such a long time ago that a flashback or something could have helped to make the whole thing seem less abrupt.
  • Kitty and Colossus, as well. Although prior to Inhumans vs. X-Men Piotr had been in a relationship with Domino, when the book begins he immediately goes into Stalker with a Crush mode and begins pursuing Kitty again even though both decided long ago they were Better as Friends.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Kitty Pryde being in-charge of the X-Men was a genuinely interesting idea that could have explored how her character has changed over the years. Instead, the primary focus of the series is on Kitty returning to her, at this point overdone, romance with Colossus, which undermined the idea of Kitty moving on from her past role as a student by revisiting her school-girl crush. Even the final confrontation with Lydia Nance and Alpha, the Big Bad Ensemble of the series, is ultimately just propping their relationship instead of really exploring Kitty's final confrontation with her first real enemy as leader.