YMMV / Age of Apocalypse

• Complete Monster: See X-Men.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Blink, though it still took her five years to cheat death and get a book as a Breakout Character.
  • Sabretooth's heroic version was well-received, and he became a breakout character; he was put into the main cast of the Exiles and has appeared in pretty much every story which involves the Age of Apocalypse verse.
  • This version of Sunfire is also often preferred over the main one due to his cool design. In the main universe, they even turned him into a Horseman of Apocalypse to make him look more like this version.
• Older Than They Think: The comic book event was actually inspired by the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "One Man's Worth" (where Xavier is killed before forming the X-Men), not the other way round. Because animation has a much longer development time, the comic event was published before its inspiration aired.
• Squick: The Generation Next team member Vincente has the power to turn into a liquid or a gas. At one point, the GN kids are infiltrating a concentration camp. Husk gets inside by posing as a human prostitute hired by one of the camp bosses. She carries Vincente, in his liquid state, with her in a flask. After the camp boss blows her cover, he decides he wants a drink before he kills Husk, and drains the flask containing Vincente. Hilarity Ensues.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Husk's betrayal was a despicable act, especially after she took a child as a hostage and tried to kill her former friends. But being left behind, witnessing all of her close friends die, including the man she loved, and being tortured for a long time in a Crapsack World makes her a Jerkass Woobie after all. So, maybe Sunfire burning her sister alive and Magneto crushing her brothers to death in front of her, getting a "Reason You Suck" Speech from Rogue and being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Kirika was a bit too harsh?

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