YMMV / Marvel: Avengers Academy

• Arc Fatigue: A certain degree of this applies to major events such as Guardians of the Galaxy or Civil War, but Spider-Man takes the cake as it lasted two months. Events in general are one big case arc fatigue, as they're held back to back and exhaust players to the point that many simply don't care any more.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Enchantress. For some she's The Scrappy, because of her Alpha Bitch personality and her snobbiness towards all other characters. To others she the Ensemble Dark Horse for exactly those reasons.
  • Baron Zemo. Some people think that bringing him to the academy adds an interesting dynamic to the characters, and might allow him to gain some character development. Others are offended at the fact that he is essentially A Nazi by Any Other Name. The same applies to the ability to recruit more HYDRA characters like Crossbones and Madame Hydra during the Civil War event.
  • Hank Pym is this and then some. While some enjoy his Crosses the Line Twice antics (such as electrocuting his students to improve their productivity), others despise him for exactly the same reason.
• Broken Base:
  • Jessica Jones being made a premium character during the Daredevil event. Many people responded with anger, given that she was heavily advertised in the buildup to the event; others expressed relief that she was made premium as opposed to another character like Punisher or Luke Cage.
  • The pure chaos of the final week during the Daredevil event. Many were outraged that Punisher, who could only be unlocked by defeating Kingpin 6 times, was going to be near impossible to get for most players due to the incredibly high difficulty of defeating Kingpin 6 times as well as the scarcity of resources needed to fight Kingpin. Players also had to unlock Luke Cage during the same week. With many fans having to accept they'd never unlock Punisher if they didn't pay a load of money into the game, it was a huge problem for the players. Many players announced they were considering quitting the game, while others decided they wouldn't take part in future events if things didn't change. Fans also getting the general feeling the developers didn't care and just want the player's money didn't help.
  • Ghost Rider being the first premium character of the Halloween event has had similar reactions to Jessica Jones. With indications that Blade will also be a premium... well the player base isn't exactly happy.
  • The Under Siege event, which promised to provide players a chance to get a number of characters from past events they might have missed. While they gave a number of them for free, it was made incredibly difficult to unlock the premium characters as they were only available through a special crate that required players to fight the bosses ten times to unlock (said bosses being incredibly overpowered while the playable heroes were limited per boss (Ronan only having three non-premium characters allowed to face him) and severely under-powered (with the method for levelling them up being extremely difficult) in comparison). The crate keys couldn't be bypassed by sharding either, so even if you were willing to pay-to-win, you didn't have the option. Making matters worse, even if you did get enough keys, you didn't get to choose which hero you unlocked, since it was completely random, which sucked for players who wanted one in particular. A number of players have found this event disappointing as a result, not helped by it being such a short event that you had a tiny window to go about the incredibly difficult unlocking method as it was.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: As can be seen in the characters page, almost everyone is voiced by a celebrity. Most of the game's ad campaign relies on the A and B-List stars such as Colton Haynes and Alexandra Daddario, but there are also plenty of YouTube and social media personalities present as well. Those who don't have a famous voice attached are voiced by in-house VAs.
• Ho Yay: So much.
  • When Loki compliments Tony, Tony thinks that he's hitting on him - which he's been waiting for.
    • Tony at one point says Loki is just like his dates, but with prettier hair.
  • When Enchantress gets a mission to control all the boys, she sends Tony and Sam dancing...with each other.
  • Tony likes making these comments to troll the other guys. Like telling Steve about the existence of Cap/Iron Man slash fanfiction.
    Tony: [If I die,] Then tell Fury I love him. It'll be worth it just to imagine the look on his face.
  • Send Tony to work in the Asgardian forge, and he'll admit that Thor is the second sexiest man with a hammer.
  • Tony also mentions to Steve that people on the internet like to write about them.
  • Janet's hero worship of Natasha and Jen can be interpreted as this, considering she also often compliments their looks and style as well as their skills.
  • When Janet meets Quake, she immediately takes her to the club to dance with her.
  • When you recruit Madame Hydra, she'll refer to Spider Woman as "The One That Got Away." Spider Woman then quickly asks if Madame Hydra is only referring to her as a former student.
• Memetic Mutation: A few have popped up over a short period of time.
  • Loki dancing alone for two hours. ^Explanation A majority of Loki's missions involve him dancing at Club A for extended periods of time - often immediately after finishing a two-hour dance.
  • Steve has been working out in the quad for days. ^Explanation Steve takes a notoriously long time to unlock, mainly because his quest items (keepsakes) don't appear on very many quests and are often only rewarded one per quest. And while he's waiting to be unlocked, Steve constantly alternates between jumping jacks and one-armed push-ups in the quad.
  • Where's Hawkeye? ^Explanation Hawkeye was shown in the trailer and the promotional photos for the game, and had a voice actor announced shortly after release. However, aside from a few brief cameos, the most recent being the Doctor Strange event, nothing has been seen from him, leading people to wonder where he's supposed to be. Has become an Ascended Meme, as the question is answered in the FAQ.
  • Referring to the villains' prisons as "the shame cubes".
• Questionable Casting: Since it was first announced, many of the voice options drew confusion from fans of both the Avengers and the actors cast. Many turned out to be surprisingly good choices, but some have proven to be rather ill-fitting. Gus Sorola as Hawkeye has been a particularly confusing choice as Gus sounds nothing like one would expect Hawkeye to sound, and once Hawkeye was finally in the game it was clear he used his natural voice.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Pepper Potts was much more well-received when she was promoted to a playable character because her storyline is basically a big Author's Saving Throw regarding to Tony that reminds Nick Fury that Tony is a good person and has admirable qualities as well as flaws.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • There are quite a few missions that take four hours or longer to complete. While these can often be skipped, there are many story-related missions that are this length or longer and are unskippable.
  • Special events may offer loads of new content, but they come with harsh deadlines that many players struggle to keep up with, especially ones that can't or won't pay for the premium currency. Another issue is that TinyCo runs events constantly with little more than a day or two between them, causing fatigue; and while they offer regular event content they're neglecting promised content for the base game.
• Seasonal Rot:
  • The original Spider-Man event was the third full-size event in a row (and if you count the British Invasion mini-event, it was the fourth in a row). Players were getting tired of the regular deadlines for event content and still adjusting to the fact that this was going to be the status quo from now on. On top of that, Spider-Man was double-length - basically two events one right after the other - which compounded the fatigue.
  • Multiverse caught flak because half the characters - essentially anyone not from 2099 - were no-name rehashes of characters that players actually wanted and possibly had already.
  • With Jessica Jones, problems came from the event's sheer difficulty. Factors that contributed to this included the fact that Area of Effect attacks received a severe Nerf just as the event started, and that the enemies were Hand ninjas that had already been proven to be Demonic Spiders.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Quake. She has the least characterization and variation of quotes among all the playable characters, which only emphasize her role as Naïve Newcomer (which got old pretty quick consider the fact you can upgrade her to level 5, and her missions revolve around her growing out of this, but her quotes continue to focus on this).
  • Taskmaster, to an extent. The game Adaptational Villainy removed many of his sympathetic aspect caused him to be flattened and lost nuance in quotes and interaction with the other character than he otherwise would have had.
  • Crossing into They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot, but a lot of the event and bonus characters tend to have similar arcs-join to help fight the current threat, meet the cast, then grow suspicious of Fury and try to uncover his secrets, and form a team of some-sort for reasons. In a similar fashion the female spy characters all have similar stories of joining, being suspicious of Fury for reasons, try to uncover his secrets then fail, often interacting with other spy characters who either share their suspicions or have accepted he has secrets.
• Unfortunate Character Design: Crossbones' skull facepaint makes him look like a Juggalo.
• The Woobie: Tony is seen as this by many players. Though he has several moments when he's quite obnoxious, he also has many genuine attempts at being a better hero...which are almost always brushed off as annoying by Fury or Pepper.
  • Becomes even more pronounced as you progress through the game. It turns out Tony's smug superficiality is really just an act he puts on in order to cover up some severe confidence issues. While a genius in his own right, he considers himself a disappointment who will never live up to the greatness of his father.
  • All of the staff probably qualify, given that they're implied to have lived through the deaths of all their students in a previous timeline.