Sandbox / Omegaverse YMMV

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Some creators, including DJ Stone and Overly Sarcastic Productions, openly dismiss Omegaverse stories as little more than "Werewolf Porn", even though most Omegaverse stories don't feature Werewolves, and many don't even have any explicit sex scenes.
  • Averted on The Other Wiki of all places, where there's a thorough and rather academic description and analysis of Omegaverse.
• Estrogen Brigade: Given that Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls, a significant number of Omegaverse writers will be female.
• Fetish Retardant: Some people are horrified, rather than aroused, by the prospect of being an Omega in Heat, or an Alpha in Rut, who completely loses control of their own reproductive urges.
• Never Live It Down: One of the most infamous facts about the genre is Addison Cain's Frivolous Lawsuit against Zoey Ellis, on the grounds that Cain claimed ownership of an entire genre.
• Rainbow Lens: Even though Omegaverse is already a common form of Speculative Fiction LGBT, there are some who would argue the idea of Omega males being a metaphor for Trans men, and Alpha Females being a metaphor for Trans women.
  • Ironically, Alpha/Omega same-sex couples could represent an Inversion, since an Alpha/Omega same-sex couple, with the Alpha as the masculine partner and the Omega as the feminine partner, and the couple being reproductively compatible, can come across as heteronormative.
• Values Dissonance: Much of the Omegaverse genre is predicated on biological determinism in gender roles (Alphas are always presented as more masculine, while Omegas are always more effeminate), heteronormative family structures (Alpha/Omega pairs are almost always the only same-sex couples to be represented or validated, and they almost always partake in Homosexual Reproduction), systemic rape culture (depicting Alphas and Omegas as being subservient to their biology, unable to keep from Knotting when they go into Rut/Heat), toxic masculinity (Alphas being presented as overly domineering or sometimes abusive), misogyny (Alpha male/ Omega female relationships being consistently depicted as more abusive than Alpha male/ Omega male relationships), and Arranged Marriage (Alphas 'Claiming' an Omega as their own).
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: In some cases the Author explicitly acknowledges how the Omegaverse's moral standards are different from the real world's, and provides a Content Warning.
  • Other authors try to deliberately avert Values Dissonance, instead writing a Reconstruction of the Omegaverse genre with most of the problematic elements removed, and legal precautions in place to prevent too many abuses from happening.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The mere premise of Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics has a lot of space for exploring gender dynamics, how history, religion, and culture would be different in the Omegaverse, social commentary, or other ways of fleshing out the setting... most of which is largely ignored in favor of Alpha/Omega romance and/or sex scenes.

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