YMMV / Hero Choices

• Angel/Devil Shipping: When Shrapnel was first introduced, there were a few people who found his character design attractive. This changed when he touched the Prism Crystal and gained the ability to turn his flesh into stone.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Kenji Katsaros/Talos is viewed as a charming dream of a guy or an overrated narcissist who seems to care more about smiling for the cameras than saving lives. Although he later becomes more humble and saved a little girl, it doesn't change the fact that he has a decent amount of detractors.
  • Caleb/The Man on Fire. Either someone with Hidden Depths, or a sociopathic Supervillain who needs to be locked up.
  • Poppy Patel is viewed as an annoying, superfluous sidekick, or an endearing best friend needed to lighten up the tone of the story. Readers are also split on whether or not she should be Alex's Love Interest, paired with Dax, or be removed from the story.
• Broken Base: Dax should be with Hazel or Poppy. After he and Poppy kissed, many of the readers were divided on their stances to this pairing: Some approve of them, others feel that they are better suited to be with other people, and others think that their subplot feels more like a Romantic Plot Tumor.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Despite being a Supervillain whose crimes include theft, terrorism, arson, and attempted murder, Caleb has a surprisingly strong fanbase.
• Romantic Plot Tumor:
  • Some of the readers feel that the moments involving romancing the Love Interests distract from the main plot and feel more like Filler.
  • Poppy and Dax's Will They or Won't They? subplot is also a Broken Base because many feel their romance is forced and lacking of real chemistry. Dax is shown having more in common with Hazel, and some readers point out that Poppy only started to show interest in Dax after Hazel started to hang out with him, painting her as a Green-Eyed Monster.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Many dislike that they couldn't choose which superpowers Alex has and were stuck with basic powers like flight and super-strength.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Grayson has no role beyond being the token normal Love Interest as a foil to Kenji and Eva. His connection to Silas Prescott doesn't pay off in the plot of Book 1, and does nothing else after he opens The Grand.