YMMV / Forever Evil (2013)

• Arc Fatigue: For a number of people. The main reason was that Trinity War, an event DC had been shilling for over a year, turned out to merely be a lead-in to Forever Evil. Add in a generally sluggish pace magnified by the main series being delayed - the 7th issue came three months after the 6th - and you've got readers making a lot of jokes about the title.
• Broken Base:
  • The appearance of Sinestro in promotional art didn't go over too well with Green Lantern fans, who were hoping DC would leave the character alone after the ending of Geoff Johns' run on the series closed by giving Sinestro an effective send-off. Of course, there are fans who are quite happy to see Johns writing Sinestro again, also along with the fact that it closes up character threads from Wrath of the First Lantern - as Volthoom is historically Power Ring's mentor.
  • Inversely, some fans are upset that despite being a major event focusing on DC's villains, The Joker is absent, while others are happy DC's finally leaving him alone, since Death of the Family happened a few months prior — and especially considering The Joker himself was a Base-Breaking Character in said arc, where some were okay with him and some think The New 52 turned him into a Narmtastic Villain Sue. Though some fans argued that the main reason Joker should be involved was so they could give him Character Rerailment from this.
  • Cheetah not being included in Luthor's Legion of Doom as the Superwoman counter. Some are satisfied because she still has an important role as one of the Secret Society's most powerful generals, but some think it's a missed opportunity.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: The identity of the creature who destroyed Earth-3 is a mystery that is built up throughout the entire series, and the answer is only revealed in the very last panel. Many readers were quick to correctly guess that the culprit was the Anti-Monitor, who had done the exact same thing previously in Crisis on Infinite Earths. The fact his arrival is announced by the skies turning red, much like in the previous crisis, should give his presence away to savvy readers almost immediately.
• Fan Nickname: Before, and still after, being officially dubbed the "Injustice League" fans have come to call Lex Luthor's alliance of villains the "Legion of Doom" after the iconic incarnation of the team.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Schedule Slip of the final issue of the series led to several jokes about DC taking the title of the event to heart by dragging it out.
• I Knew It!:
  • A common prediction was that the Syndicate's prisoner was Alexander Luthor. However no one saw coming that he was also Earth 3's version of Shazam.
  • Another common prediction was that the father of Superwoman's baby was again, Alexander Luthor.
  • Also relatively common among those familiar with DC Crisis Crossover history was the prediction that the Greater-Scope Villain was the Anti-Monitor.
• Memetic Mutation: This face in the center bottom panel◊ Joker makes in his tie-in issue purely for how weird it looks.
• Ugly Cute: Bizarro may be a deformed Superman clone, but he's very childlike. He sees Lex Luthor as his father and follows him like a son. He's even afraid of the dark. The look on his face says a lot.

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