History YMMV / BlackestNight

%%** And now in the Series/{{The Flash|2014}} TV show.

* TakeThatScrappy: 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.

%%** And now in the {{Flash}} TV show.

* CompleteMonster: BigBad Nekron seems, at first, an AboveGoodAndEvil CosmicEntity who's simply doing what he's designed to: [[OmnicidalManiac return the universe to its cold, lifeless state.]] Even using the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Black Lanterns]] [[ManipulativeBastard to pull at people's heartstrings]] is a fair enough tactic, given he needs enough emotion-filled hearts to exist on the physical plain. But [[spoiler:allowing the many resurrections just so he could have sleeper agents (said sleeper agents [[AndIMustScream still retain control of their minds, but are trapped in their own bodies]])]] was just plain cruel and callous. It makes you doubt Nekron's supposed lack of emotion.

** 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 ''FinalCrisis'', being forced to save him.

** Osiris had it bad enough in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''. Now, not only is he the only Black Lantern to retain his humanity, but his sister and brother are dead. And everyone is afraid of him. And Sobek is murdering people just to get to him. The poor kid just [[HeroicSacrifice can't catch a break.]] Although in the end, [[spoiler:he is given a true second chance at life thanks to the White Rings. Which gets subverted in ''Titans'' when he participates in the murder of Ryan Choi and gradually becomes the killer everyone accused him of being.]].

** 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 BL #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 BL #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=].

* CompleteMonster: ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' BigBad Nekron seems, at first, an AboveGoodAndEvil CosmicEntity who's simply doing what he's designed to: [[OmnicidalManiac return the universe to its cold, lifeless state.]] Even using the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Black Lanterns]] [[ManipulativeBastard to pull at people's heartstrings]] is a fair enough tactic, given he needs enough emotion-filled hearts to exist on the physical plain. But [[spoiler:allowing the many resurrections just so he could have sleeper agents (said sleeper agents [[AndIMustScream still retain control of their minds, but are trapped in their own bodies]])]] was just plain cruel and callous. It makes you doubt Nekron's supposed lack of emotion.

*** First off, the opening page of the first issue features Red Star mourning Pantha and Baby Wildebeest, who had been killed in ''InfiniteCrisis''. But when the two Titans actually come back as Black Lanterns, they don't go anywhere near him and instead attack Wonder Girl, a Titan they barely knew. And in regards to Wonder Girl, it feels weird that she would be discussing her regrets over the deaths of Marvin and Kid Devil under her tenure as team captain and yet not have her being attacked by them as Black Lanterns. They didn't even actually ''appear'' as Black Lanterns.

** Deathstorm is easily the most distinctive of the Black Lanterns, a TotallyRadical character played for GallowsHumor and serious NightmareFuel.

* MarySue: Subverted. Early on, there were criticisms of Indigo-1 being this, but they died down relatively quickly.
** Deconstructed with Sinestro, who thinks of himself as unstoppable but is too flawed to wield his power to the full extent when [[spoiler: drawing upon the Life Entity]].

** And now in the {{Flash}} TV show.

** Nekron crosses it twice: first by causing the dead to rise and attack their loved ones, and then by [[spoiler: killing eight of the ten resurrected superheroes (including Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman) and turning them into Black Lanterns, all the while being in an AndIMustScream state forced to watch themselves attack their friends and loved ones while slowly dying.]]

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Rot Lap Fan, a Green Lantern from a race of people who are blind and have no concept of color, is explicitly included in the background of the event, but his perspective is never even referenced. Given that the color spectrum is key to the event, it'd have been interesting to see how he explained it.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Black Lantern versions of Firestorm's old villains were made prominent in the variant cover for the third issue, and were the most visible among the dead villains who rose out of the Hall of Justice's morgue. However, nothing came out of this and the most focus there was on Firestorm was on the Black Lantern version. They didn't even think to do a sequel issue to one of the defunct Firestorm titles to tie in to the series.

* CompleteMonster: ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' BigBad Nekron seems, at first, an AboveGoodAndEvil CosmicEntity who's simply doing what he's designed to: [[OmnicidalManiac return the universe to its cold, lifeless state.]] Even using the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Black Lanterns]] [[ManipulativeBastard to pull at people's heartstrings]] is a fair enough tactic, given he needs enough emotion-filled hearts to exist on the physical plain. But [[spoiler:allowing the many resurrections just so he could have sleeper agents (said sleeper agents [[AndIMustScream still retain control of their minds, but are trapped in their own bodies]])]] was just plain cruel and callous. It makes you doubt Nekron's supposed lack of emotion.

* CompleteMonster: BlackestNight BigBad Nekron seems, at first, an AboveGoodAndEvil CosmicEntity who's simply doing what he's designed to: [[OmnicidalManiac return the universe to its cold, lifeless state.]] Even using the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Black Lanterns]] [[ManipulativeBastard to pull at people's heartstrings]] is a fair enough tactic, given he needs enough emotion-filled hearts to exist on the physical plain. But [[spoiler:allowing the many resurrections just so he could have sleeper agents (said sleeper agents [[AndIMustScream still retain control of their minds, but are trapped in their own bodies]])]] was just plain cruel and callous. It makes you doubt Nekron's supposed lack of emotion.

** All the deputy Lanterns, really. ''Especially'' [[TheFlash Barry Allen]], the secondary focus of the series, after Hal Jordan.
* 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 BrightestDay]].
** Brought back in New52 with ForeverEvil, too.
* 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 ''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=].

* MoralEventHorizon: Captain Boomerang killing [[MenAreTheExpendableGender women and children]] to feed his Zombie father, in a desperate attempt to bring him back to life.
** Nekron crosses it twice: first by causing the dead to rise and attack their loved ones, and then by [[spoiler: killing eight of the ten resurrected superheroes (including {{Superman}} and WonderWoman) and turning them into Black Lanterns, all the while being in an AndIMustScream state forced to watch themselves attack their friends and loved ones while slowly dying.]]

* TakeThatScrappy: 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 ''BrightestDay'', Hank is brought back as Hawk instead of Holly.
* TheWoobie: Osiris had it bad enough in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''. Now, not only is he the only Black Lantern to retain his humanity, but his sister and brother are dead. And everyone is afraid of him. And Sobek is murdering people just to get to him. The poor kid just [[HeroicSacrifice can't catch a break.]] Although in the end, [[spoiler:he is given a true second chance at life thanks to the White Rings. Which gets subverted in ''Titans'' when he participates in the murder of Ryan Choi and gradually becomes the killer everyone accused him of being.]].

* CompleteMonster: BigBad Nekron manages to slip into Complete Monster territory. His [[MoralEventHorizon deciding point]] is when he turns the resurrected heroes into Black Lanterns, which led to AndIMustScream: these Black Lanterns aren't truly dead, and instead are forced against their will to torment and kill those closest to them (unlike the other Black Lanterns, who are twisted mimics of the reanimated persons). As an EldritchAbomination, he would be AboveGoodAndEvil and thus exempt from Monsterdom, if it weren't for the fact that he actively schemed and plotted to increase his personal power at the expense of other beings. He's not as emotionless as he thinks... Interestingly, he seems to have become one of these by accident; ''Blackest Night'' writer Creator/GeoffJohns repeatedly stressed in interviews that Nekron is [[CosmicEntity a fundamental force of the universe]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality too alien to define by human morality]]. Let's just say the fans disagree.

* {{Narm}}: The Black Lantern fridge. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just a fridge with the Black Lantern's symbol on it]]. Then again, this was kinda the point.

* InternetBackdraft: Fans of the Titans were not happy that Tempest was used as a SacrificalLion 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 ''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=].

* FanBackdraft: Fans of the Titans were not happy that Tempest was used as a SacrificalLion 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 ''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=].

* FanBacklash: Fans of the Titans were not happy that Tempest was used as a SacrificalLion 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 ''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=].