History YMMV / AstonishingXMen

* CreatorsPet: Kitty Pryde for Creator/JossWhedon gets brought back to a regular series role after having largely been absent since of the death of Colossus in 2001. Not only does she get promoted to the main team as TheHeart but becomes a DeadpanSnarker who many thinks is Joss' Buffy the Vampire Slayer substitute. Joss has also admitted, like Bendis, that he had a crush on her as a child.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Some see the X-Men as this after their CruelMercy against Kaga, considering his '''''entire life''''' has been preemptive LaserGuidedKarma in and of itself. Wolverine (the poster-boy for HealingFactor and MadeOfIndestructium) in particular even punches him (a known-frail {{Muggle}}) unconscious -- '''''after''''' his VillainousBSOD-induced surrender, no less. It can just come across as an unpleasant (and, more importantly, dangerous -- given a still-alive Kaga could possibly (however slightly) escape to invoke '''''another''''' RoaringRampageOfRevenge) KickThemWhileTheyAreDown.
** Their borderline NoSympathy reaction only further enhances this. Sure, the X-Men are feared and hated by normal human society, but compared to Kaga and the Morlocks, it's hard ''not'' to think that the X-Men really lucked out as far as mutations go. It makes them come across as bigger jerks than what the audience were expecting.

* TearJerker: The aftermath of Kitty's [[spoiler: phasing the giant bullet through the earth. Cyclops regretfully tells Colossus that there's no way for them to bring Kitty back.]]
** The giant bullet that's fired from the Breakworld to destroy the Earth has magical defenses that trap the planet's heroes in a [[LotusEaterMachine dreamlike trance]] to prevent them from interfering. Spider-Man is the first to awaken from the spell, and he desperately attempts to snap the others out of it as the bullet gets closer and closer. When all seems lost, the teenage hero quietly cries "Somebody ''please'' do some magic..."

* FridgeLogic: It's established in "Unstoppable" that Danger is incapable of killing anyone. However, this contradicts events from her first battle against the X-Men, in which Cyclops would have died from his injuries had Kitty not performed [=CPR=] on him; and Danger has no problems lethally impaling Colossus and Shadowcat.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Dr. Kavita Rao develops a way to suppress the X-gene which causes mutations and declares it a "cure" for mutants. The X-Men are disgusted by this line of thinking, insisting that the mutant community should stick together and refuse to take the drug on principle. However, they're a team of conventionally-attractive (with the exception of Beast, but even he is still muscular and humanoid) superheroes with strong control over their useful mutant gifts and a ton of resources. The majority of the mutants who ''do'' want the cure are either physically deformed in some way--we see a man whose torso is also his head, a fly-like creature, a ghostly teenager who lacks a body, and a boy with crab claws, among others--or suffer from incredibly dangerous PowerIncontinence (Dr. Rao was inspired to work on the cure by a little girl she adopted who has the ability to subconsciously bring her nightmares to life, which in turn killed her birth parents). Given that those people are clearly suffering both physical and mental anguish from their mutations, it's hard not to support Dr. Rao's attempts to help them in some way, even if dubbing mutation overall as an illness is a narrow-minded view.