YMMV / Champions (1975)

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The series was a notorious flop for its lack of a premise. Ostensibly a superhero superteam series, its main cast has virtually no thematic reason for sticking together and lack many opportunities for chemistry aside from Angel and Iceman (who were originally meant to be the sole co-leads before Executive Meddling shoved in Black Widow, Hercules, and Ghost Rider), and due to the chronic turnover of writers and artists, there was never any time to establish a real root concept behind the series besides "a bunch of superheroes do stuff," leaving it meandering and uncommitted to any direction until it quietly folded in early 1979 due to low sales.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Iceman's crush on Darkstar. With the reveal that he was gay, one begins to wonder if perhaps he didn't choose someone whom he knew wouldn't reciprocate his feelings to have a crush on.
• Narm: How is Black Widow almost defeated in issue #4? Why, a wave throws her off balance and into the villains arms!
  • And how does the villain react?
  - Billy's gonna kill you, lady. Billy's gonna kill you **bad**. Killyoukillyoukillyoukillyoukillyou...!
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: All of the characters could have been used in really interesting ways, especially since they were so dissimilar from each other (aside from Iceman and Angel). They could have bounced off each other and had conflicts from their opposing ways of doing things (especially Ghost Rider, who had been more of an Anti-Hero). Instead, there was little to no internal conflicts and most plots revolved around standard superhero fights.

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