- Audience-Alienating Premise: As its name suggests, The New Universe was an entirely new world, one that had zero ties the existing Marvel Comics Universe, starring an entirely new cast of characters. Sales were sluggish because of this, and the line was discontinued only three years after it started.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5, Jenny's engineer buddies try to operate the robot without her. Not only do they fail miserably, but they overheat the robot's power pack, and only the intervention of Ken "Star Brand" Connell prevents the resulting explosion from taking out downtown Boston. After he saves their butts, Connell gives the engineers a stern lecture on using their power responsibly. A few months later, Connell's attempt to get rid of his power results in the destruction of Pittsburgh. It's almost Foreshadowing, except that "The Black Event" probably hadn't been planned by the writers yet.
- Uncertain Audience: Much of the reason the line underperformed was that it was hard to figure out who it was for. It sat at an odd midpoint between standard superheroics and overtly deconstructive stories like Watchmen, which left it too hoity-toity for fans of the former and too silly for fans of the latter, and it didn't have the name recognition to draw in Marvel's usual readers.
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