YMMV / Extinctioners

• Anvilicious: The ecological message given is not very subtle, and it can be summed up in this way: You don't have the right to reclaim your place you originally called home when you originally spoiled that place. Trying to reclaim it by force is even worse. Though considering that the Hunters did commit a lot of atrocities to the humanimals as well as the protagonists (ranging from killing their family members to enslaving them), it can be easy to take the message as the right call.
• Cliché Storm: One of the biggest criticism against the comic is the uncanny similarity with both X-Men and in less degree, with Albedo: Erma Felna EDF, its spiritual antecessor, and the fact most of the villains lack redeemable features, being mostly very two-dimensional and their only role is being evil for the sake of being a villain. This is one of the reasons why the reboot tries to solve many of these problems by expanding the personalities of all the characters and giving the villains more motivations other than "killing and capturing anyone who is not human".
• Complete Monster: Noah Adam Mahn, the cruel head of humanity's Science Division, is the Big Bad of the entire comic and the single greatest threat to ever scourge Alden. Mahn's forces wreak havoc and death across Alden, wiping out entire villages and a space station populated by well over a thousand innocent lives, targeting superpowered "hybrids" to either cow or mentally break them into their slaves while forcing them into breeding programs or to slaughter their own kind. Mahn's previous experiments with creating a sapient species ended with them being declared "expendable" and the entire species almost completely killed under his order, and Mahn announces his intentions at the end of the first arc to invade Alden and utterly crush the humanimals and their cities, enslaving whatever he doesn't annihilate. Even compared to his comparatively well-intentioned colleagues in humanity's fleets, Mahn is nothing more than a xenophobic monster willing to put an entire species under his foot out of a rabid sense of superiority.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • Regarding themes and even characters, the whole story can be from Albedo: Erma Felna EDF, except with a super-hero spin.
  • In the same way, it's also the successor of Katmandu, another comic that Shawntae Howard, the creator, worked previously since the 90s, as both comics shares many visual similarities and the fact many of the main characters are felines. The main difference, besides Extinctioners being set in the future, while Katmandu taked place in the past, is the fact many of the main characters are from other species besides cats, mice and lizards.
• Spiritual Antithesis: On the other hand, Extinctioners is also this from Albedo as well: Both titles deals with furry characters who were created by outside forces outside their own understanding, and in both cases humans are behind their creation. The difference lies in the fact, while in Albedo, the Creators are very ambiguous beings whose true intentions aren't completely known; all that's certain is that they created life as a part of a social scientific experiment just to know how they can react without the need of humans. In Extinctioners, on the other hand, their equivalent (The Makers), as far as we know, are mostly evil and the story makes it painfully clear that the anthropomorphic cast were created by the humans just to save their own asses. How evil is really still in the air. Another main difference is, while in Albedo the main cast were put on a distant planet by the Creators, in Extinctioners the whole setting turns out to be a renamed Earth instead.
  • Despite belonging to a very different genre, Extinctioners can be this towards NieR: Automata, of all things: While both stories deal with an unusual alien invasion and how the heroes try to deal with it, while explaining extremely complex themes, in Extinctioners the invaders are the human race, who are trying to reclaim their homeland by sending a mixed group of humans and humanimals to fight against the heroes, while the heroes deal with the Awful Truth they were created for unsavory and petty reasons, while in Automata the human race is already extinct and the reasons why the heroes (2B and 9S) are fighting against the invaders and the reason for their own existence are nightmarishly complex.

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