YMMV / Aberrant

• Creator's Pet: Divis Mal is a canonically right well-intentioned extremist, he's on an entire different power tier compared to most of the setting, he has the ability to depower or empower other supers at will, and basically the entire plot is caused by and guided by him, with the players having no capability to effectively disrupt his goals, let alone attack him effectively. At one point, supposedly, one of the developers said that the title of the game, Aberrant, referred to Divis Mal specifically.
• Narm: The comic in the first edition core where Slider tells Corbin of Utopia's dirty dealings. It's hard to take it seriously as a horrific revelation of a hidden conspiracy when one of the pivotal parts is her asking him, in the dire tone of someone uttering a game-changing line, "what's your sperm count?"
• Once Original, Now Common: Aberrant wasn't the first superhero Genre Deconstruction (and it came out during The Dark Age of Comic Books), but it was uniquely thorough in its integration of superpowered individuals into the world and its exploration of the consequences. Nowadays, however, various degrees of Deconstruction and Reconstruction are the rule in superhero media rather than the exception, and it looks increasingly dated to newcomers with its extremely Nineties sensibilities. 2e takes this into account, cutting out most of the unnecessarily dark bits and aiming to create a world where superpowers have a marked impact, but whether for good or ill is still being decided.

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