Convergence / YMMV

Bizarro Episode: Both issues of the Supergirl Matrix tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
Character Rerailment: For some characters like Starfire and Roy Harper, this is the best writing they've had ever since The New 52, losing the baggage they've carried from Red Hood and the Outlaws.
Continuity Lock-Out: The main line of Convergence is a direct sequel to the New 52's Earth 2 series. So if you've never picked up one of those books, you won't understand what's happening.
Fan-Preferred Couple: Many of these pairings that aren't in the New 52 will be revisited, including Clark Kent and Lois Lane, Wally West and Linda Park, and Dick Grayson with both Barbara Gordon and Starfire (in separate universes). Stephanie Brown and Tim Drake share some Belligerent Sexual Tension as well.
I Knew It!: There was speculation and guessing that the main series was going to jump start the upcoming Earth-2: Society book, and they were right.
Just Here for Godzilla: Many readers are happy to see their favorite characters again in their pre-Flashpoint versions, if only to see them get a proper closure to their stories.
Les Yay:
- In Convergence: Batgirl, Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain are shown to be living together. Stephanie also refers to Cassandra as "honey", paying a little fanservice to the popular ship.
- In Convergence: The Question, there's a rather similar situation between Renee Montoya and Helena Bertinelli, who are also living together, and talk to one another like a married couple. It's likely a Mythology Gag to the Justice League cartoon, in which Helena and Vic Sage, who's Renee male predecessor in The Question mantle, were a couple.
Like You Would Really Do It: Many fans find it hard to believe that this is the actual last time DC will do anything with these versions of the characters, considering how the company has become prone to the Cosmic Retcon trope, and considering that they had attempted something similar with their DC Retroactive mini-event back in 2011. Turns out to be correct, when this event in fact goes the complete opposite extreme and makes every story, everywhere, canon.
Memetic Mutation: Telos, one of the main characters of the event, saw an apparent attempt by DC to push him as a sensational new find—going so far as to give him a miniseries that debuted five months after Convergence had wrapped up. Said miniseries then bombed hard. Most of the fandom found the attempt to push the character baffling, and so turned him into a Memetic Badass out of sheer sarcasm: obviously, Telos got a solo series before characters like the Justice Society or Shazam, because he's the most popular and successful character DC has ever created! Consequently, jokes about Telos being DC's greatest A-lister and his miniseries being more popular than the Bible are rather common whenever he's mentioned, and writer Jeff King stopped doing comics afterward because he realized he could never match his masterpiece.
Salvaged Story: The event seems like this trope personified, to the extent that some have called it "A love letter to the fans."
- The event is a series of stories revolving around various past versions of DC's characters, who have been plucked from the timestream by Brainiac. The general sense seems to be that DC wanted to go back and give a satisfactory send-off to the Pre-New 52 timeline, as well as answer some complaints (with the writer of the Titans tie-in explicitly saying he wanted to reverse the horrible things that had been done to Arsenal and Lian during and after Cry For Justice). Plot points include:
  - Stephanie Brown and the returned Cassandra Cain fighting crime together as Batgirl and Black Bat.
  - The beloved Wolfman/Perez-era Teen Titans being featured (rather than one of the more recent, controversial incarnations) with the creators promising to follow up on a storyline between Kole and Jericho that originally went nowhere. Starfire and Nightwing are also married at last, which in itself made the fandom rejoice.
  - Barbara Gordon as Oracle once again, still in a wheelchair, and now married to Nightwing.
  - Arsenal trying to set his life right, working through his addiction, and working with the real Titans again.
  - Donna Troy back as Troia alongside Starfire and Arsenal.
  - Lian Harper and Ryan Choi coming back to life.
  - Deathstroke finally getting what he deserves after avoiding any retribution for murdering Ryan Choi.
  - Renee Montoya is back as the Question and teams up with Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) and Batwoman.
  - Superman still being in a loving marriage to Lois Lane. They even have a son together.
  - Wally West as The Flash again and reunited with his children Iris and Jai, who are back to their former powersets.
  - Ted Kord being alive again as part of the Justice League International.
  - The Golden Age Superman and Justice Society of America coming back, alongside a restored Infinity Inc.
  - Amanda Waller back to her original body type, and in charge of a Suicide Squad similar to its early days.
  - Superboy back to being Fun Personified (erasing his angsty Darker and Edgier days), and having a costume proper like in his pre-Teen Titans incarnation, with a power boost to boot!
  - Wacky, fan-favorite characters like Ambush Bug have returned.
  - Elongated Man and Sue Dibny alive and married.
  - Earth-S's Captain Marvel, for those who don't like the New 52's Darker and Edgier "Shazam".
  - Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! had been restored from non-funny animal form by Final Crisis, but only the Zoo Crew, with most of the rest of Earth-C's land-dwellers dead and the handful of survivors still trapped as normal animals. Earth-C has now been completely restored.
- Ultimately, the biggest salvage was made at the very end; Crisis on Infinite Earths is undone, allowing all universes to exist once more. All of our favorite characters, even if some of them are changed, are now free to have stories told of them.
So Okay, It's Average:
- The main Convergence book is starting to get this reception mostly due to the first two issues (#0 and #1) only repeating the main premise of the book and focusing more on the Earth-2 characters than anything else. Things may be starting to improve as issue 2 has been noted as having some strong moments: the Earth-2 characters having a focused plan, E-2 Thomas Wayne meeting Pre-Flashpoint Bruce Wayne and having a bittersweet quiet moment alone while E-2 Dick Grayson sees a version of his wife still alive while he has tea with Pre-Flashpoint Alfred.
- The event overall has garnered this reaction. Many fans were happy at seeing past versions of their favorite characters as well as the attempts to resolve some unresolved arcs, especially fans of the Titans, Oracle, and the Superman/Lois Lane marriage. However, many felt the books lost some impact due to continuity and editing errors, which were especially prominent in the main title.
Strawman Has a Point: In Convergence: Superboy #2, after the Kingdom Come heroes face Superboy, he becomes angry and determined to fight them despite their pleas to work together. Everyone (even Dubbilex, who narrates the book) states how irrationally and angrily Superboy is behaving... except Superboy is right for several reasons. First of all, they attacked first, so their pleas for peace seem hypocritical and petty after they were the ones who attacked him with Kryptonite gas. Second, Superboy has no idea if these guys are Evil Counterparts to the heroes he's familiar with. Third, the only thing Superboy knows is that anyone who loses their fight will see their city destroyed. When he asks why the KC heroes (if they're so noble) didn't surrender right away, they say because they have a better chance of figuring things out. Except, there was no way they could have known anything about Superboy or his world to make that judgment. Dubbilex does eventually point out that Superboy has a point, and then communicates with him telepathically to let him know that the version of Superman he's facing is indeed a hero.
Take That, Scrappy!: In Convergence: Speed Force #2, Wally delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Flashpoint Wonder Woman defining her as Diana's worst version of any universe. In Convergence #7, Silver Age Supergirl punches her into a mountain and expresses disbelief at someone like her being Wonder Woman.
Win Back the Crowd: This is DC's attempt to win back fans who are upset at losing their favorite status quos due to the Flashpoint reboot.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: For a series about dream matches between random DC characters from any point in time or any Elseworld there's a lack of truly interesting (Or wish fulfilling) confrontations. One example is a lack of any of the Flashpoint characters meeting their brighter counterparts and being forced to come to grips with how far they've fallen.
The Woobie:
- Both Harpers in Convergence: Titans #1. After all the crap Roy did and went through, after finding at least some semblance of peace, Lian gets resurrected and Roy is told if he ever wants her back for good he has to fight Troia and Starfire. And Lian, in her very first appearance after she was brutally killed off in Cry For Justice and used as a justification for Roy's Face–Heel Turn, is now at the mercy of a demonic being who quite literally has her life in his hands. She's terrified and begging her dad for help, but at the same time she's also forced to watch as her father fights Donna and Kory, her surrogate aunts, and he's doing it for her. Donna is even the closest thing to an actual mother Lian's ever known so she's watching her family tear itself apart over her. God damn somebody give these two a hug, or better yet, just let them hug each other. They get their hug.
- Pre-Crisis Supergirl witnesses a vision of her own future death in Crisis on Infinite Earths and goes through Heroic BSoD as she realises her Heroic Sacrifice might have been a Senseless Sacrifice after all as it seems everything is falling apart. Then she rallies, decides that whatever happens to her she has to save her cousin and flies back to save him.

YMMV / Convergence

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