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  • Designated Hero: Many detractors felt that the "heroes" are basically selfish capitalists who may have caused economic woes for UW Earth (strawman of any opposition to Libertarianism and Anarcho Capitalism) rather than the system itself being the problems. Not to mention that lack of any trade proposals with Earth and consideration of any attempts at diplomacy as UW's evil intent (not to mention treated as Villain Ball, especially the use of military force in the first stories) by the belters didn't help much with their characterization.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: One character cited a Paris attack as one the events being used as an example of government's use of tragedies for their own cause. Then the real 2015 Paris Attack happened.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The storyline of inhabitants of Ceres' independence became with the release of The Expanse novels in 2011 along with accompanying TV series in 2015, which also had self-reliant inhabitants of the Asteroid belt—one of their settlements being Ceres. Unlike the comic, the novels and series provided a nuanced version of their ideology since it portrayed a negative side—such as inability to police landlords from cutting corners on life support systems, exploitation by wealthier and powerful entities from Earth and Mars, factionalism among their resistance movements, and vigilantism often harming innocents alongside the perpetrators.

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