YMMV / The Untold Story of Argo City

• Accidental Innuendo: At the end, Allura expresses worry concerning her daughter's emotional state due to moving far from her friends.
  Allura: "Kara is so moody! She misses the gay times she had as Linda Danvers."
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • A subplot where a woman of unsound mind mistakes her daughter for a doll would be used in an even more disturbing fashion by Neon Genesis Evangelion thirty years later.
  • Jer-Em's warnings about Kryptonians being not meant to have godlike powers are regarded as a fundamentalist's ramblings, but later stories such like New Krypton would show Kryptonians from Kandor and Argo City abusing their godlike powers and bullying other races. It does not help he is not sentenced to the Zone because of jeopardizing the whole city, but because Argoans lost their awesome powers.
• He's Just Hiding: Zor-El and Alura are the only ones to escape to the Survival Zone and believe that everyone else in the city is dead at that point. Still, fans like to think that at least a few additional Argo City residents manage to survive by escaping into space like Kara or shielding themselves from the Kryptonite.
• Older Than They Think: An entire Kryptonian city surviving the destruction of its planet and floating through space is an idea previously used in the 1959 story Action Comics 261 (although that unnamed city lacked an forcefield like Argo City, and so none of its residents appear to have survived the trip through space).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The citizens of Argo City. They are ordinary people (families, rescue workers, etc.) who temporarily develop super powers and struggle to survive a radiation storm in vain after already losing their home planet. Plenty of fans wanted to see more of them survive along with Zor-El and Alura. This sentiment apparently extends to writers, as several different continuities have more survivors of the city.

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