History YMMV / BlackestNight

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Black Lantern Firestorm, partly because [[RuleOfCool he looks really awesome]], partly because he's responsible for a truly horrific death. He's so popular that he was brought back in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay'', ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil2013'', and the Series/{{The Flash|2014}} TV show.

** While it's not necessarily a terrible idea for Sinestro to be confronted by Black Lantern versions of Abin Sur and Arin Sur, it feels like a missed opportunity to not have Sinestro face his predecessor Prohl Gosgotha as a Black Lantern, who would most assuredly have called out his successor for [[MurderByInaction letting him die]] just so he could keep his ring for himself and how this secret act of selfishness wholly undermines Sinestro's claims of defending his actions against the Green Lantern Corps as doing what he feels is right.

%%** Larfleeze, Atrocitus, Walker.

** While it's not necessarily a terrible idea for Sinestro to be confronted by Black Lantern versions of Abin Sur and Arin Sur, it feels like a missed opportunity to not have Sinestro face his predecessor Prohl Gosgotha as a Black Lantern, who would most assuredly have called out his successor for [[MurderByInaction letting him die]] just so he could keep his ring for himself and how this secret act of selfishness wholly undermines Sinestro's claims of doing what he feels is right.

* {{Narm}}: While Guy's rage and despair over Kyle's death is generally a TearJerker, the actual panel of his reaction crosses into this. The BigWordShout of Kyle's name is drawn out as "KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYLLLLLLLEEEEEE" -- implying he stressed each letter's pronunciation more or less equally, even the silent E.

** Holly Granger of ''Hawk and Dove'', who had a thoroughly dislikable personality that, somehow, changed depending on the writer, was ''not'' liked by fans. So when Hank is brought back here, he kills her in a CurbStompBattle, and in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay'', Hank is brought back as Hawk instead of Holly. Notably, Holly's death is basically shrugged off by the DCU at large, including her sister, and rarely if ever referenced again... ''after'' the event is over, that is. During the event [[AlasPoorScrappy her passing is handled with some degree of tragedy]], mainly in how it affects the poor Dawn.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Black Lantern Firestorm, partly because [[RuleOfCool because he looks really awesome]], partly because he's responsible for a truly horrific death. He's so popular that he was brought back in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay'', ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil2013'', and the Series/{{The Flash|2014}} TV show.

** Larfleeze, Atrocitus, Walker.

* HilariousInHindsight: Barry at one point tells Mera and the Atom that at the moment, they are Superman and Wonder Woman. Brandon Routh has now played both Superman and Ray Palmer and likewise Susan Eisenberg has voiced by Wonder Woman and Mera, making this statement true.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Black Lantern Firestorm, partly because [[RuleOfCool because he looks really awesome]], partly because he's responsible for a truly horrific death. He's so popular that [[spoiler:he's been brought back as an important character in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay'']]. Brought back in ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' with ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil2013'', too.
** And now [[BreakoutVillain he's made an appearance on]] the Series/{{The Flash|2014}} TV show.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Black Lantern Firestorm, partly because [[RuleOfCool because he looks really awesome]], partly because he's responsible for a truly horrific death. He's so popular that [[spoiler:he's been brought back as an important character in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay'']]. Brought back in ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' with ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil'', too.

* HilariousInHindsight: Barry at one point tells Mera and the Atom that at the moment, they are Superman and Wonder Woman. Brandon Routh has now played both Superman and Ray Palmer, making this statement true.

** The Threeboot version of the ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} briefly appeared in the ''Adventure Comics'' tie-in issues discussing old comic books they uncovered which could've shed light on Superboy-Prime's future, and also mentioned they were keeping Prime under surveillance. However, nothing else came out of their appearance, nor was it revealed if they ever learned that two of their deceased members, Sun Boy and Element Lad, had been revived as Black Lanterns and were among the Lanterns attacking Prime in Earth-Prime's 21st Century. It would've been interesting to see this Legion, which had previously been fighting against Prime in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', being forced to save him.

* CrazyAwesome: Larfleeze.
** Yellow Lantern Scarecrow.
** All the deputy Lanterns, really. ''Especially'' [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]], the secondary focus of the series, after Hal Jordan.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Nekron]], Lord of the Unliving and the face of all death within the DCU, is an [[EldritchAbomination entity]] that eventually proves himself to be far too {{sadist}}ic a being to simply be a cosmic force doing its job. The force behind the [[RevenantZombie necromantic Black Lanterns]], Nekron implicitly influences William Hand into killing himself and his entire family to become his tether into the living world in his bid to enact the "Blackest Night," a [[OmnicidalManiac state of eternal death imposed upon all creation]]. Nekron reveals the constant death and resurrection within the universe is a matter of his influence, making those who die and revive sleeper agents--keeping them aware and conscious in their own bodies--and eventually simply turning them all into Black Lanterns, twisting them into horrible, undead mockeries of the people they once were. Through the Black Lanterns, Nekron unleashes a wave of death across everything in his path, turning more and more into Black Lanterns and intent on never stopping until all is silent.

** Prior to the release of ''Blackest Night'' #0, it was established in ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Nightwing]]'' that there was a black market for metahuman bodies and organs, leading to the League's confiscation of them. At the end of BN #0, there is a shot of the Black Lantern Corps with its members rising from a graveyard, with no indication that this was to actually happen. The InternetBackdraft was substantial, saying that DC was ignoring what the ''Nightwing'' writer, Peter Tomasi, had established; but it turned out to be the opposite as BN #1 made direct reference to the ''Nightwing'' storyline. This made it all the more sillier since Tomasi had been writing for the monthly ''Green Lantern Corps'' book for at least two years previous... and what was supposed to be a non-canon group picture of the Black Lantern Corps was taken literally.

* InternetBackdraft: Fans of the Titans were not happy that Tempest was used as a SacrificialLion to show how serious ''Blackest Night'' was going to be in terms of killing off characters, especially since Garth had been getting a very raw deal ever since ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' and the deaths of Dolphin and Cerdian. There is WordOfGod from creators such as Phil Jimenez that a few higher ups at DC did not like Tempest for not being a badass in the same regards as Hal Jordan, which has not quelled anger from the fans who are still displeased that Garth has not shown up in the [=Nu52=].
** Gehenna's and Captain Boomerang II's death scenes were also not well liked, the former because it was very agonizing and drawn out to the point that some fans called it TorturePorn and the latter because he made an abrupt FaceHeelTurn that seemed to be an attempt to make sure nobody would feel bad when he died (it didn't work).

* CounterpartComparison: Some find the Black Lanterns very similar to the ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', to the extent that ''Blackest Night'' is sometimes thought of as DC's AlternateCompanyEquivalent to that particular event.

* MagnificentBastard: Sinestro. So, so much.

** The Threeboot version of the LegionOfSuperHeroes briefly appeared in the ''Adventure Comics'' tie-in issues discussing old comic books they uncovered which could've shed light on Superboy-Prime's future, and also mentioned they were keeping Prime under surveillance. However, nothing else came out of their appearance, nor was it revealed if they ever learned that two of their deceased members, Sun Boy and Element Lad, had been revived as Black Lanterns and were among the Lanterns attacking Prime in Earth-Prime's 21st Century. It would've been interesting to see this Legion, which had previously been fighting against Prime in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', being forced to save him.

** Holly Granger of ''Hawk and Dove'', who had a thoroughly dislikable personality that, somehow, changed depending on the writer, was ''not'' liked by fans. So when Hank is brought back here, he kills her in a CurbStompBattle, and in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay'', Hank is brought back as Hawk instead of Holly. Notably, Holly's death is basically shrugged off by the DCU at large, including her sister, and rarely if ever referenced again.