History YMMV / SupremePower

* WTHCostumingDepartment: Given series' dark and realistic tone, Arcanna's {{Stripperiffic}} costume looks very out of place and silly.

* SeasonalRot: Howard Chaykin's run has been taken very poorly, primarily due to shifting the focus on pastiches of Marvel superheroes and phasing out most of the Squadron until the conclusion of the first arc.

* SeasonalRot: Howard Chaykin's run has been taken very poorly.

* IdiotPlot: Everyone in TheGovernment... Right up until General Alexander shows up, lampshading it with TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
-->'''General Alexander''': '''''You had access to an artifact from a non-human civilization! Do you realize what you had, what you let get away from you? Do you? Then let me explain it to you!''''' ''Imagine handing an F-16 to the Aztecs in 1521, when Cortez was at war with them, and instead of learning to '''fly''' so they could slice Cortez and his army to shreds, they cut off the '''wings''' to use as '''shields''', the '''guns''' as '''clubs''', and they take off the '''wheels''' because they figured they would look really cool '''hanging from the temple ceiling!''' This is '''exactly''' what you people and your agencies have been doing since day one, and worse still, you've been doing it in '''secret''', not just from the public, which we expect, '''but from each other!''' As a result, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing! And what has the left hand been doing all this time? '''Jerking off, that's what! And what've you got to show for it? One guy [Doctor Spectrum]! And a bunch of melted metal where the ship used to be!'''''

-->'''Doctor Steadman''': You get a spike, put it under a five-ton press. Put the business end of the spike on his chest. Start the machine. It'd take about an hour to pierce his chest. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath The screaming would be...]] About an hour. After that, it's [[WouldHurtAChild open season on the internal organs.]]

* CompleteMonster:
** [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers Michael Redstone]] is a heinous SerialKiller who, [[BewareTheSuperman after being granted superpowers]], becomes one of the most evil villains the Squadron Supreme face. Even as a regular human being, Redstone's killing career began after he tortured his CO in the military for 5 hours before murdering her, just [[HeManWomanHater for being a woman]]. Following this up by becoming a murderer of prostitutes, Redstone is later experimented on by the government, who grant him superpowers. Using these powers, Redstone continues his spree, murdering several more women by ripping their limbs off and [[CreepySouvenir keeping them as trophies]]. When confronted by the hero Hyperion, Redstone flees while murdering everyone in his way, notably [[WouldHurtAChild using a child as ammo to fling at Hyperion]]. After [[RecruitingTheCriminal making a deal with the government]], Redstone becomes a U.S. operative who is dropped into foreign countries with orders to kill as many people as possible to destabilize said countries, and, in his final appearance, Redstone holds Los Angeles hostage with a nuclear bomb, orders Hyperion to allow himself to be beaten to death lest the city be destroyed, and takes time during their duel to brutally murder innocents in various ways just to torment Hyperion. With no professed reason for his crimes beyond [[ForTheEvulz a love of killing]], Michael Redstone was handily the most personal foe Hyperion ever faced.
** ''Supreme Power: Nighthawk'': [[MonsterClown Whiteface]], real name Stephen Binst, the BigBad of this {{Spinoff}}, is the most depraved man Nighthawk has ever fought against. Once a pharmacist who sought to "fill a hole of unhappiness" in his life, Whiteface developed a lethal drug that he planned to spread throughout Chicago, hoping that a massive bodycount would be enough to make him feel happy in life. Testing the compound on a poor woman and her family, he kills the entire household--including [[WouldHurtAChild two children and a baby]]. Years later, having awaken from a catatonic state brought on by being assaulted, maimed, and possibly raped in prison for his deplorable crimes, Whiteface escapes confinement, kills and takes the outfit of a clown, then replaces a shipment of cocaine with his lethal drug, resulting in over 3,800 deaths of men, women, and children alike in just three days. Later poisoning the guests at a child's birthday party, resulting in numerous children's deaths, Whiteface then murders a crippled woman, a nurse, another man for his outfit, and kidnaps a baby. Traveling to a local water plant, [[CopKiller brutally murdering 3 police officers along the way]], Whiteface gleefully flings the kidnapped baby into the water processing unit, hoping for him to drown while he makes his escape from a recently-arrived Nighthawk. A {{sadist}} who believed mass murder would bring joy into his life, Whiteface, despite his lack of superpowers, stood out even among the likes of Redstone as a truly disgusting lunatic.

* IdiotPlot: Everyone in TheGovernment... Right up until [[MagnificentBastard General Alexander]] shows up, lampshading it with TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* MagnificentBastard: General Alexander, Emil Burbank, '''[[spoiler:[[BadFuture Hyperion]]]]'''

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: While it wasn’t given enough time to be properly explored, Zarda actually acts like she stepped out of an ancient Roman or Greek hero epic. She’s a brutal, selfish, bloodthirsty, sociopathic, and entitled demigoddess that kills random people for the smallest inconveniences, does as she pleases, and shows no remorse for anything she’s done. She sincerely believes that her [[MightMakesRight power makes her better than everyone else]] and is only concerned with becoming Mark’s mate and ruling the world.

* {{Moe}}: Amphibian is this due to being behaving childlike which makes her adorable and despite her wild nature is very friendly toward those who are not hostile to her such as Doctor Spectrum who likes her very much because of this and her asking him about mundane things can make her even more adorable.

* {{Moe}}: Amphibian is this due to being behaving childlike which makes her adorable and despite her wild nature is very friendly toward those who are not hostile to her such as Doctor Spectrum who likes her very much because of this and her asking things to him about mundane things can make her even more adorable.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Whiteface, the Nighthawk miniseries' ArcVillain, seems to think he's the Joker in a Batman comic, saying he's ready to go back to jail once Nighthawk foils his plan. [[spoiler: He isn't; Nighthawk rips the grappling hook embedded into Whiteface out, killing him. No JokerImmunity here!]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Whiteface the Nighthawk miniseries' ArcVillain, seems to think he actually is the Joker in a Batman comic, saying he is ready to go back to jail once Nighthawk foils his plan [[spoiler: he isn't and Nighthawk rips the grappling hook embedded into Whiteface out gutting and killing him, no JokerImmunity there!]]

** Michael Redstone is a heinous SerialKiller who, [[BewareTheSuperman after being granted superpowers]], becomes one of the most evil villains the Squadron Supreme face. Even as a regular human being, Redstone's killing career began after he tortured his CO in the military for 5 hours before murdering her, just [[HeManWomanHater for being a woman]]. Following this up by becoming a murderer of prostitutes, Redstone is later experimented on by the government, who grant him superpowers. Using these powers, Redstone continues his spree, murdering several more women by ripping their limbs off and [[CreepySouvenir keeping them as trophies]]. When confronted by the hero Hyperion, Redstone flees while murdering everyone in his way, notably [[WouldHurtAChild using a child as ammo to fling at Hyperion]]. After [[RecruitingTheCriminal making a deal with the government]], Redstone becomes a U.S. operative who is dropped into foreign countries with orders to kill as many people as possible to destabilize said countries, and, in his final appearance, Redstone holds Los Angeles hostage with a nuclear bomb, orders Hyperion to allow himself to be beaten to death lest the city be destroyed, and takes time during their duel to brutally murder innocents in various ways just to torment Hyperion. With no professed reason for his crimes beyond [[ForTheEvulz a love of killing]], Michael Redstone was handily the most personal foe Hyperion ever faced.

** [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers Michael Redstone]] is a heinous SerialKiller who, [[BewareTheSuperman after being granted superpowers]], becomes one of the most evil villains the Squadron Supreme face. Even as a regular human being, Redstone's killing career began [[SociopathicSoldier after he tortured his CO in the military for 5 hours before murdering her]], just [[HeManWomanHater for being a woman]]. Following this up by becoming a murderer of prostitutes, Redstone is later experimented on by the government, who grant him superpowers. Using these powers, Redstone continues his spree, [[WouldHitAGirl murdering several more women]] by [[AnArmAndALeg ripping their limbs off]] and [[CreepySouvenir keeping them as trophies]]. When confronted by the hero Hyperion, Redstone flees while murdering everyone in his way, notably [[WouldHurtAChild using a child as ammo to fling at Hyperion]]. After [[RecruitingTheCriminal making a deal with the government]], Redstone becomes a U.S. operative who is dropped into foreign countries with orders to kill as many people as possible to destabilize said countries, and, in his final appearance, Redstone holds Los Angeles hostage with a nuclear bomb, orders Hyperion to allow himself to be beaten to death lest the city be destroyed, and takes time during their duel to brutally murder innocents in various ways just to torment Hyperion. With no professed reason for his crimes beyond [[ForTheEvulz a love of killing]], Michael Redstone was handily the most personal foe Hyperion ever faced.