Blackest Night/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Captain Boomerang killing [[Men Are the Expendable Gender|women and children]] to feed his Zombie father, in a desperate attempt to bring him back to life.

** Nekron crosses it twice: first by causing the dead to rise and attack their loved ones, and then by {{spoiler|killing eight of the ten resurrected superheroes (including [[Superman]] and [[Wonder Woman]]) and turning them into Black Lanterns, all the while being in an [[And I Must Scream]] state forced to watch themselves attack their friends and loved ones while slowly dying.}}

* [[Padding]]: The Parallax vs. Spectre fight: while providing an emotional callback to ''Rebirth'', it comes off as this when both were promptly dismissed once the fight was over. Arguably, the deputy Lanterns also don't end up contributing that much to the storyline beyond fighting Nekron's Mooks (and, in the case of the Agents Orange, each other); it can feel like they (with the exception of Ganthet, who joins the Green Lanterns permanently) were [[Rule of Cool]]-inspired [[Padding]] tacked on in the attempt to expand the original [[Bat Family Crossover|Lantern Family Crossover]] into a [[Crisis Crossover]].

* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: It looks like ''Adventure Comics'' tie-in is trying to do this with Superboy-Prime with [[Character Development]] and delivering several [[Take That|Take Thats]]. We'll see if this will be successful.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Several fans, especially female fans, were known to have dropped this series with the third issue, thanks to that issue's death which was played disturbingly like a rape. This was not helped at all by a later tie-in issue in which a Black Lantern who had actually, canonically been a rapist in life was discovered ''eating'' the body of the issue 3 victim.

* [[Villain Decay]]: While this could be considered literally true for all the zombied Black Lanterns, other villains like Larfleeze are getting this treatment. In his first appearance he ruled over an entire solar system, possessed the power of an entire corps, dictated terms to the Guardians of the Universe and commanded his own army of wrathful shades. Now he appears much diminished after his first confrontation with the Black Lanterns and his artwork has changed as a result. He is also drawn much smaller and less menacing and seems now to be more of a [[Goldfish Poop Gang|comic relief]] than anything.

** Justified as well. Saint Walker offers to curb Larfleeze's hunger with his blue ring for as long as he helps in the fight. Not the most sane choice when the man's power directly stems from how hungry he is, but then again, he might have pretty much hampered if not outright ruined the entire shebang solely trying to steal the others' rings.

** Also, Larfleeze didn't rule much more than his swamp. The people native to the Vega System, including one of the [[G Ls]] Larfleeze kills, don't seem to know much about him. Larfleeze COULD have ruled, but he was too busy eating.