YMMV / Heroes Reborn (2015)

• Broken Base: The fandom is predictably split in their reactions to how certain characters are characterized. They were especially split after learning that Matt Parkman made a Face–Heel Turn and is actively working with Renautas, and Claire, Molly and Rene's deaths.
  • It was from the beginning since it was announced that Claire, Peter, and Sylar would not return.
• Moral Event Horizon: Joanne crosses it in the beginning of episode 4 when she outright murders an innocent man just because he was an Evo. To make matters worse, she even jokes about it! At this point, all sympathy the audience might have held for the psychopath evaporates.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The room full of comatose evos hooked into machines and strapped to tables. The wiring they are connected to runs into their spines, actually penetrating the skin and seemingly requiring surgery to remove.
  • The way, Phoebe kills Quentin. She uses her shadows to restrain his hands and then sends a tendril down his throat to do... something. It's not clear what exactly she does to kill him, but given that he's spilling blood, it's likely that she mutilated his internal organs!! Sister of the fucking year.
  • EPIC is the sort of technology the Nazis would have loved. A system designed to make the targeted population incapable of escape. And since the entire world is embracing anti-evo Nazism, that's not good.
  • Sunstone Manor, where Renautus is keeping all of the captured evos that haven't been killed. Some are comatose, strapped to tables and hooked into machines as per above. The rest are living there like its some sort of hippie commune, brainwashed into being happy there and not wanting to leave.
  • The look on Joanne's face that changes from shaking shock to ecstasy and bliss after she killed Mick, the Evo who was with her and Luke's son before the bombing. Even Luke is terrified of her expression, and seals the moment when Joanne's humanity left her.
• Once Original, Now Common: When the original series premiered, it had basically zero competition in the superhero department. Reborn wasn't so lucky. Born into a world with the Marvel Cinematic Universe on film, television and online, and the Arrowverse on the rival CW Network, its flaws (and, by proxy, the original series's flaws) became that much more obvious. Hence its short existence.
• The Scrappy:
  • Joanne, mainly because of the Moral Event Horizon listed above. Some viewers began to sympathize with her in the flashback episode "June 13th - Part 2," only to lose even more fans when she proceeded to blame Luke for Dennis' death, and then immediately murdered an innocent Evo whom Luke previously saved from the Odessa bombing.
  • Matt with his Face–Heel Turn. Now he is a selfish jerk motivated only by personal interest like his father in the original series. Seriously, compared to the Nice Guy who was in Heroes, he seems like two different characters!
• Special Effects Failure: As is inevitable with a TV budget, even a huge one. Some of the power effect failures are things we have seen in the original series; for instance, multiple evo's powers in the first episode have a body-blurring effect that appears very similar to the one used on Candace Wilmer in Season 1. The pyrotechnics budget seems to be a bit smaller than in the first series, with more CG utilized than controlled burns. A butterfly that may or may not be significant as a motif in the plot appears this way too - it is very obviously CGI'd into the scenes it appears in. The storm that Malina calms at the end of "Sundae Bloody Sundae" looks more like an explosion of black smoke than either thunderclouds or a tornado. Don't even get me started on Phoebe's powers as "The Shadow".
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • In the penultimate episode, Luke turns Joanne into a pile of ash with his powers and is not even remotely upset that he just killed his wife.
  • Those who hate Matt were delighted to see him crash his car near a river and get trapped inside.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: The LA plotline is irrelevant to the main plot and is widely considered the weakest part of the show. The fact that Carlos has yet to meet any of the others doesn't help, but it's introduced in "June 13th, Part Two" that he just happens to be Farah's ex-boyfriend. And he's taken to Sunstone Manor, where Parkman is the Director and is working for Erica.

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