History YMMV / BrightestDay

* StrangledByTheRedString: Boston and Dawn's romance comes off more as pandering Male wish fulfillment then a meaningful relationship. Really just there to give Boston a ideal supportive female who he can selflessly sacrifice himself for at the end. Dawn shows no real romantic interest in Boston. She is friendly sure but nothing would imply she's attracted to him. Its no wonder that it quickly dies not soon after being one of the few things to carry over into the New 52 reboot.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Life Entity. Even if its actions were meant to serve the greater good, the things it did afterwards ([[spoiler: not reviving Hawkgirl and leaving Deadman once more trapped in a state of limbo between life and death]]) were nothing short of dick moves.

** [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/05/06/the-racial-politics-of-regressive-storytelling/ This]] is a great article about the matter, it also touches on the point that UnfortunateImplications doesn't mean a particular author or artist is consciously racist, but trends can be spotted.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Life Entity. Even if it's actions were meant to serve the greater good, the things it did afterwards ([[spoiler: not reviving Hawkgirl and leaving Deadman once more trapped in a state of limbo between life and death]]) were nothing short of dick moves.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Life Entity. Even if it's actions were meant to serve the greater good, the things it did afterwards ([[spoiler: not reviving Hawkgirl and leaving Deadman once more trapped in a state of limbo between life and death]]) were nothing short of dick moves.

** Some find Ice's recent "repressed memories" to be a tad stereotypical in their portrayal of Roma as thieves.

** Doubles with ComicBook/BlackestNight on this one, but there have been critics who have pointed out that Johns relies heavily on Creator/AlanMoore and his work on Comicbook/GreenLantern mythos. With the release of ''Brightest Day'' #23, this may appear more true: [[spoiler:The Dark Avatar is Comicbook/SwampThing after the Green was corrupted by Nekron's attack]]. HOWEVER, one must take a step backward to see that this isn't completely true. While Johns owes Moore a bit (hey, did anyone just want to leave the fertile ground of story potential alone forever, just because Moore wrote it?), it's actually '''Len Wein''' that Johns has been honoring the most: [[spoiler:Len Wein wrote just as much, if not more work for Green Lantern, created Nekron, AND created Swamp Thing]].

* UnfortunateImplications: This series has drawn some raised eyebrows for its frequent {{Legacy Implosion}}s of [[AffirmativeActionLegacy minority and legacy characters]] like Ronnie Raymond replacing Jason Rusch as the lead Firestorm and Ryan Choi being killed off so Ray Palmer could retake the role of the Atom. (On the plus side, Rusch is still half of Firestorm and BlueBeetle Jaime Reyes is featured in ''Generation Lost''.)

** Doubles with BlackestNight on this one, but there have been critics who have pointed out that Johns relies heavily on Creator/AlanMoore and his work on Comicbook/GreenLantern mythos. With the release of ''Brightest Day'' #23, this may appear more true: [[spoiler:The Dark Avatar is Comicbook/SwampThing after the Green was corrupted by Nekron's attack]]. HOWEVER, one must take a step backward to see that this isn't completely true. While Johns owes Moore a bit (hey, did anyone just want to leave the fertile ground of story potential alone forever, just because Moore wrote it?), it's actually '''Len Wein''' that Johns has been honoring the most: [[spoiler:Len Wein wrote just as much, if not more work for Green Lantern, created Nekron, AND created Swamp Thing]].

* UnfortunateImplications: How much of this is actually unfortunate and how much is FanDumb is open to interpretation, but this series has drawn some raised eyebrows for its frequent {{Legacy Implosion}}s of [[AffirmativeActionLegacy minority and legacy characters]] like Ronnie Raymond replacing Jason Rusch as the lead Firestorm and Ryan Choi being killed off so Ray Palmer could retake the role of the Atom. (On the plus side, Rusch is still half of Firestorm and BlueBeetle Jaime Reyes is featured in ''Generation Lost''.)

* CrackPairing: While it started in ''Blackest Night'', there have been comments concerning Atrocitus and his... "attraction" to Mera. Carol Ferris even detects a spark of love in Atrocitus' heart that wasn't there before. It is absolutely not helped by the fact that Atrocitus' very first ring construct is Red Lantern!Mera.

** Doubles with BlackestNight on this one, but there have been critics who have pointed out that Johns relies heavily on AlanMoore and his work on Comicbook/GreenLantern mythos. With the release of ''Brightest Day'' #23, this may appear more true: [[spoiler:The Dark Avatar is Comicbook/SwampThing after the Green was corrupted by Nekron's attack]]. HOWEVER, one must take a step backward to see that this isn't completely true. While Johns owes Moore a bit (hey, did anyone just want to leave the fertile ground of story potential alone forever, just because Moore wrote it?), it's actually '''Len Wein''' that Johns has been honoring the most: [[spoiler:Len Wein wrote just as much, if not more work for Green Lantern, created Nekron, AND created Swamp Thing]].

* CompleteMonster: [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Black]] [[ArchEnemy Manta]], [[ZombieApocalypse Deathstorm]], and [[StalkerWithACrush D'kay Drazz]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Professor Zoom becomes the first of the resurrected to achieve his objective and keep his life. In fact, he completes his mission before it's even assigned. Which makes perfect sense when you consider he's the fastest of them all and is the chief rival to the Fastest Man Alive. Not to mention that he's a time-traveler whose backstory as given in ''The Flash'' plays out ''retroactively''.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Carrying over from developments in BlackestNight, Red Lantern leader Atrocitus.

*** Needless to say, when DC announced that ''Brightest Day'' would debut a new, black Aqualad, fan response was... cynical.

** Doubles with BlackestNight on this one, but there have been critics who have pointed out that Johns relies heavily on AlanMoore and his work on Comicbook/GreenLantern mythos. With the release of ''Brightest Day'' #23, this may appear more true: [[spoiler:The Dark Avatar is SwampThing after the Green was corrupted by Nekron's attack]]. HOWEVER, one must take a step backward to see that this isn't completely true. While Johns owes Moore a bit (hey, did anyone just want to leave the fertile ground of story potential alone forever, just because Moore wrote it?), it's actually '''Len Wein''' that Johns has been honoring the most: [[spoiler:Len Wein wrote just as much, if not more work for Green Lantern, created Nekron, AND created Swamp Thing]].

* TearJerker: While readers may know Martian Manhunter was accidentally summoned by a scientist in his origin, few may not know that this actually happened during the era of the [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes. So when J'onn goes to meet with Professor Erdel's daughter, she is very old... and becoming senile. The whole scene makes you want to cry and J'onn's face at the end truly says it all...
** Booster Gold learning that Maxwell Lord's mind wipe made it so that everybody thinks [[spoiler:Ted Kord committed suicide, instead of being murdered by Maxwell Lord.]]
** [-'''[[spoiler: Dex-Starr:]]''' [[spoiler: I find one who hurt you. I kill. I good kitty.]]-]
** [[spoiler: Captain Atom flying the Rocket Red Max Lord booby-trapped away from the rest of the JLI to protect them, all while both the JLI's new Rocket Red and the aforementioned RR are begging for him to help.]]
*** [-'''[[spoiler: Ivan:]]'''[[spoiler: You help me, da?! Captain Atom?! You are going to stop this?! Yes! * beat* Captain...?]]-]
*** [-'''[[spoiler: Captain Atom:]]'''[[spoiler: Be brave, soldier. Be brave.]]-]
** Jade finally coming home and just when she gets back to her family she's told [[spoiler:she and her brother can't be anywhere near each other for fear that they'll involuntarily fuse together again. Particularly heartbreaking as the twins have always been close, even before their father got to know them.]]
** The last page of the Larfleeze Christmas Special, where we learn that what Larfleeze really wants for Christmas is [[spoiler:his family]].
** After millenium of trying and finally [[spoiler: breaking their curse, Hawkgirl and Hawkman's new, and now last life, is silenced when the White Ring KILLS THEM, when they refused to be a part of the ring's plan.]]
** After the White Ring [[spoiler:returns those it had earlier killed and turned into elementals to life, it leaves out Hawkgirl. Hawkman is not happy.]]
** John Stewart's ShootTheDog moment in killing Mogo to prevent rings from recruiting new Lanterns to be brainwashed. Soon followed by [[spoiler:Hal's firing from the Green Lantern Corps by the Guardians]].
** [[spoiler: Boston Brand getting killed and turned into Deadman again, and his farewell to Dove.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' introduced a version of Firestorm that combined Jason Rusch and Ronnie Raymond before it happened in the mainline comics. Doesn't count as CanonImmigrant due to the use of re-imagined versions of Rusch and Raymond (a brainy high-schooler and his ex-jock teacher as the body and mind of Firestorm respectively).

** Doubles with BlackestNight on this one, but there have been critics who have pointed out that Johns relies heavily on AlanMoore and his work on GreenLantern mythos. With the release of ''Brightest Day'' #23, this may appear more true: [[spoiler:The Dark Avatar is SwampThing after the Green was corrupted by Nekron's attack]]. HOWEVER, one must take a step backward to see that this isn't completely true. While Johns owes Moore a bit (hey, did anyone just want to leave the fertile ground of story potential alone forever, just because Moore wrote it?), it's actually '''Len Wein''' that Johns has been honoring the most: [[spoiler:Len Wein wrote just as much, if not more work for Green Lantern, created Nekron, AND created Swamp Thing]].

** After the White Ring [[spoiler:returns those it had earlier killed and turned into elementals to life, it leaves out Hawkgirl. [[{{Understatement}} Hawkman is not happy.]]]]

** And then Jaime was killed off. Some fans [[{{Understatement}} weren't happy]], others just said "LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt." [[spoiler:The second group was right, he turned up fine a few issues later.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[{{Aquaman}} Black]] [[ArchEnemy Manta]], [[ZombieApocalypse Deathstorm]], and [[StalkerWithACrush D'kay Drazz]].

* MemeticBadass: Batman's status as this is lampshaded by Deadman, who thinks he's the chosen bearer of the White Ring. Because it's ''always'' Batman.