YMMV / The Pride

• Anvilicious: The book is not subtle to say the least, even featuring a lookalike of Richard Spencer fighting against the heroes. It doesn’t help that the gay heroes used for inclusivity look a bit too much like stereotypes used to mock gay people. This may be the reason why the second season miniseries focuses on the Pride recruiting heroes who, while queer, are not as blatantly stereotypical in design. The transition actually sort of works as a decent metaphor for how the earliest queer comic book characters were nothing but gay stereotypes before broader viewpoints were used to humanize future characters and make them three dimensional.
• Badass Decay: Bear starts the comic as The Big Guy of the Pride, but the first series has him kidnapped by the villain and then beaten into a coma that he spends the rest of the series in. The second series has him alive but badly crippled and de-powered. While he does get his powers back in the climax, he still doesn't get to do much beside being curb-stomped by the villainess, due to his injuries still holding him back.

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