History YMMV / Annihilation

* TheScrappy: Wraith, despite being one of the main heroes of Conquest, is generally disliked due to his overly edgy look and personality which feel like a reject from UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Marvel famously had very little confidence in the event, as it was almost entirely made up of characters who had been irrelevant for well over a decade IRL, while almost all of Marvel's A-List was busy with ''ComicBook/CivilWar''. Which made it all the more surprising when the event became popular enough to spawn multiple sequels and an ongoing, in the process establishing Marvel Cosmic as a pillar of the Marvel Universe for years to come.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Drax the Destroyer before his mini series (which led into this event) and his appearances here was not nearly as popular or well known.
** Ronan the Accuser also gained a fandom thanks to his portrayal as a badass ComicBook/JudgeDredd-esque AntiHero. Some people were disappointed by the CompleteMonster characterization of the MCU version of Ronan because of his role in Annihilation and its sequels.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Drax the Destroyer before his mini series that lead into the event and his appearances was not nearly as popular or well known.
** Ronan the Accuser also gained a fandom thanks to his portrayal as a badass Judge Dredd-esque AntiHero. Some people were disappointed by the CompleteMonster characterization of the MCU version of Ronan because of his role in Annihilation and its sequels.

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Annihilus]] is the BigBad of this Universe-Wide CrisisCrossover, and becomes far more depraved than [[Characters/FantasticFourCentralRoguesGallery any of his previous appearances]]. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out into the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave. Consuming whole star systems and devouring entire worlds, then using what's left of the population as fuel for his army, Annihilus wipes out numerous races and leaves the Skrulls near-extinct with his genocidal campaign. Annihilus implants numerous innocents with body-controlling bugs that painfully force them to do his bidding and when one of his armadas encounters resistance while invading a world, Annihilus [[BadBoss massacres the entire fleet]] for taking too long to destroy the planet. Capturing [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] and many of [[Characters/MarvelComicsHeraldsOfGalactus his Heralds]] after brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus uses them as superweapons, which leaves them in a near-death state of constant agony, then reveals he plans to use them to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe and reign over the void that's left]]. Harboring hatred and disgust for everything in the universe that isn't himself, Annihilus is the worst being the Negative Zone has to offer.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: This story Is responsible for turning Nova from a [[CListFodder c-list Spider-Man Wannabe]] to a badass and mature hero.

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Annihilus]] is the BigBad of this Universe-Wide CrisisCrossover, and becomes far more depraved than [[Characters/FantasticFourCentralRoguesGallery any of his previous appearances]]. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out into the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave. Consuming whole star systems and devouring entire worlds, then using what's left of the population as fuel for his army, Annihilus wipes out numerous races and leaves the Skrulls near-extinct with his genocidal campaign. Annihilus implants numerous innocents with body-controlling bugs that painfully force them to do his bidding and when one of his armadas encounters resistance while invading a world, Annihilus [[BadBoss massacres the entire fleet]] for taking too long to destroy the planet. Capturing [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] and many of his Heralds after brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus uses them as superweapons, which leaves them in a near-death state of constant agony, then reveals he plans to use them to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe and reign over the void that's left]]. Harboring hatred and disgust for everything in the universe that isn't himself, Annihilus is the worst being the Negative Zone has to offer.

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Annihilus]] is the BigBad of this Universe-Wide CrisisCrossover, and becomes far more depraved than [[Characters/FantasticFour any of his previous appearances]]. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out into the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave. Consuming whole star systems and devouring entire worlds, then using what's left of the population as fuel for his army, Annihilus wipes out numerous races and leaves the Skrulls near-extinct with his genocidal campaign. Annihilus implants numerous innocents with body-controlling bugs that painfully force them to do his bidding and when one of his armadas encounters resistance while invading a world, Annihilus [[BadBoss massacres the entire fleet]] for taking too long to destroy the planet. Capturing [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] and many of his Heralds after brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus uses them as superweapons, which leaves them in a near-death state of constant agony, then reveals he plans to use them to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe and reign over the void that's left]]. Harboring hatred and disgust for everything in the universe that isn't himself, Annihilus is the worst being the Negative Zone has to offer.

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Annihilus]] is the BigBad of this Universe-Wide CrisisCrossover, and becomes far more depraved than [[Characters/FantasticFourCentralRoguesGallery any of his previous appearances]]. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out into the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave. Consuming whole star systems and devouring entire worlds, then using what's left of the population as fuel for his army, Annihilus wipes out numerous races and leaves the Skrulls near-extinct with his genocidal campaign. Annihilus implants numerous innocents with body-controlling bugs that painfully force them to do his bidding and when one of his armadas encounters resistance while invading a world, Annihilus [[BadBoss massacres the entire fleet]] for taking too long to destroy the planet. Capturing Galactus and many of his Heralds after brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus uses them as superweapons, which leaves them in a near-death state of constant agony, then reveals he plans to use them to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe and reign over the void that's left]]. Harboring hatred and disgust for everything in the universe that isn't himself, Annihilus is the worst being the Negative Zone has to offer.

* MagnificentBastard: ComicBook/{{Thanos}} counts, see the [[YMMV/MarvelComics main Marvel page]] for details.

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Annihilus]] is the BigBad of this Universe-Wide CrisisCrossover, and becomes far more depraved than [[Characters/FantasticFourEnemies any of his previous appearances]]. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out into the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave. Consuming whole star systems and devouring entire worlds, then using what's left of the population as fuel for his army, Annihilus wipes out numerous races and leaves the Skrulls near-extinct with his genocidal campaign. Annihilus implants numerous innocents with body-controlling bugs that painfully force them to do his bidding and when one of his armadas encounters resistance while invading a world, Annihilus [[BadBoss massacres the entire fleet]] for taking too long to destroy the planet. Capturing Galactus and many of his Heralds after brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus uses them as superweapons, which leaves them in a near-death state of constant agony, then reveals he plans to use them to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe and reign over the void that's left]]. Harboring hatred and disgust for everything in the universe that isn't himself, Annihilus is the worst being the Negative Zone has to offer.

* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Annihilus]] is the BigBad of this Universe-Wide CrisisCrossover, and becomes far more depraved than [[Characters/FantasticFour any of his previous appearances]]. No longer content with ruling the Negative Zone, Annihilus leads an army of insect monsters out into the galaxy in what is aptly termed The Annihilation Wave. Consuming whole star systems and devouring entire worlds, then using what's left of the population as fuel for his army, Annihilus wipes out numerous races and leaves the Skrulls near-extinct with his genocidal campaign. Annihilus implants numerous innocents with body-controlling bugs that painfully force them to do his bidding and when one of his armadas encounters resistance while invading a world, Annihilus [[BadBoss massacres the entire fleet]] for taking too long to destroy the planet. Capturing Galactus and many of his Heralds after brutally murdering the hero Quasar, Annihilus uses them as superweapons, which leaves them in a near-death state of constant agony, then reveals he plans to use them to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe and reign over the void that's left]]. Harboring hatred and disgust for everything in the universe that isn't himself, Annihilus is the worst being the Negative Zone has to offer.