- Audience-Alienating Era: His New 52 reveal was instantly a target of fan hate, months before his first appearance. Even with his creative team begging people to give him a chance, it never let up. Held up as an example of New 52's mistakes, even DC has chosen to quietly ignore this era.
- Awesome Ego: Lobo, the self-identified Main Man and best bounty hunter in existence. Not many would disagree.
- Cant Unhear It: For those who grew up in the '90s, Brad Garrett comes up as their favorite voice. David Sobolov, Kevin Michael Richardson and John DiMaggio get some honorable mentions.
- Hard-to-Adapt Work: He had many standalone projects aside from the 2000 web cartoon that were cancelled (there's been a rumored solo film for him in the DC Extended Universe, but it has yet to go out of Development Hell). The fact he isn't really a family-friendly DC character doesn't help. However, the cartoon got better over time for retroactively paving the way of adult DC works such as Joker (2019) and The Suicide Squad.
- Misaimed Fandom: Lobo started as a generic mercenary before being retooled by creator Keith Giffen as a parody of eighties "grim and gritty" heroes like Wolverine and The Punisher in a series of mini-series books. Needless to say, Lobo became a big hit with fans who took the satire at face value.
- Questionable Casting: Greg Eagles (who voiced the Main Man in the earlier episodes of the animated web series) and Tom Kenny (who voiced him in DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games) are considered weak and miscast Lobo voices because they didn't use his gruff voice.
- Take That, Scrappy!: One of the (many) controversial decisions made during the New 52 was Lobo being reintroduced as a slender, clean-shaven Bishōnen instead of the grungy, musclebound slob fans had come to know and love. DC Rebirth later brought back the classic Lobo and Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps had Brainiac shrink down the new Lobo and trap him inside a containment jar, which the Green Lantern Corps then refused to open.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: New 52 Lobo was massively dismissed by comic book fans in general, so much that it was sent to Canon Discontinuity at the first chance they got.
- The Scrappy: The post-Flashpoint design of Lobo has proved incredibly unpopular, on account of missing every single aspect of Lobo his fans like and being a ridiculous "pretty-boy" look. The fact that the comic that introduces him goes on to say the Lobo fans have known for decades now is a "fake" really doesn't help. Seemingly it's been restored in DC Rebirth, with the new "real" Lobo sealed away by the Green Lantern corps.
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