YMMV / Marvel Legacy

• Audience-Alienating Era: While generally regarded as an improvement to recent years, the era isn't without its share of controversy, including the departure of Brian Michael Bendis to DC (though many fans who aren't fond of Bendis are happy), a partnership with arms manufacturer Northrop Grumman that had to be scrapped (but not before G. Willow Wilson threatened to bolt from the company if it went through), many contentious staffers (like writers Nick Spencer and Dan Slott, as well as editor Tom Brevoort and Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso) staying where they were, C.B. Cebulski had only just replaced Axel Alonso as EIC with hopes that he'd improve Marvel's image when it got out that writer "Akira Yoshida" was really just an alias Cebulski used, and many titles getting cancelled. And then things got worse when the presence of a new Thanos mini series set off Jim Starlin so badly — as he'd been developing similar Thanos-focused storylines — that he severed ties with the company and left the story arc of graphic novels involving the character unfinished.
  • Only 6 months into the Legacy initiative, Marvel announced ANOTHER freaking relaunch. This has made many see Legacy as Axel Alonso's poorly planned last effort to keep his job, which Cebulski discarded after taking over as Editor-in-Chief.
• Broken Base:
  • Dan Slott's run as the writer of Amazing Spider-Man will continue past Secret Empire and straight into the Legacy era. Fans of the Slott run clash with those who can't stand it.
  • The restoration of a few older Status Quos. As many fans who are happy to see developments they dislike reversed, there are fans who feel that going back is, if not a mistake, a waste of potentially good ideas and story elements that are worth continued exploring or at least tackling by the hands of other writers if they dislike the execution. For instance (and connecting with the above), many have commented on how returning Peter to his typical Status Quo-working for the Daily Bugle-makes Peter look like a Straw Loser who can't escape being crapped on by life.
  • The revelation of the titles through the variant covers. Some are excited, seeing this as a full return to Marvel's focus on heroism. Others are cautiously optimistic, thinking that there's more to this than what Marvel is showing. There is a group that is very angry, expecting a DC Rebirth-level restart.
  • The teased death of Jane Foster, which is a given since Jane herself is a huge Base-Breaking Character. There are some who are saddened such a character is finally leaving while there are others who are waiting to dance on her grave just to have Thor Odinson back in the hammered saddle. There are a few, though, who aren't buying this and thinking Jane will be spared somehow and become a new heroine a la Thunderstrike. And then there are others who like the character but want her to die, given it would be a good ending for the character, and one that wouldn't come out of nowhere, either.
  • Sam Wilson returning to being the Falcon. Some people are happy that Sam is reclaiming his original mantle while others find this to be a "demotion" from being Captain America and undermines his arc from Secret Empire.
  • Resurrecting Jean Grey. One side is happy to have her back after all these years, as they hated her death and what came from it, and just like the character and would like her back after years of Suspiciously Similar Substitutes. Others think she's more important as a dead character and like what has happened with the X-Men since her death, and feel that her resurrection further cheapens any future deaths for the X-Men.
  • Resurrecting Logan. Some were completely fine with him staying dead longer, and saw it as a nice aversion of Death Is Cheap in comics. Others prefer Old Man Logan being the main Logan, whether that be because of his nerfed abilities, softer character to Logan or just because they find his character more streamlined. Others consider the resurrection redundant because they feel the Old Man has been treated so much like Logan Classic — both by writers and characters in-universe — since his arrival that it's like he never died in the first place. And there are of course Wolverine fans who think his return is right, especially for this relaunch, and just want their character back. And then there are those few who never accepted Old Man Logan (or X-23), and always saw Logan as the one true Wolverine. Speaking of X-23, her fans have also had mixed feelings about Logan's return. There are those who don't like it and worry that Laura is gonna be Demoted to Extra, but also there are her fans who never liked that she became the Wolverine and want her to become her own independent hero.
  • The Cebulski/Yoshida situation. While some think it's enough to warrant Cebulski's resignation and view him having used a Japanese pen name while writing Japan-focused books at Marvel as cultural appropriation, others think it's not really a big deal, pointing out how male authors would use female pen names to write more female-oriented material like YA novels and that Cebulski seems to genuinely love the culture. Then there are people that disapprove of his actions but don't see them as justifying Cebulski being fired and want to wait to see if he has skills at being EIC.
• Character Rerailment: The entire point of Home of the Brave (Captain America #695-697). Steve Rogers is once again a humble defender of the people, a heroic Determinator, and an opponent of extortionists and bigoted militias alike.
• Complete Monster: King Maximillian Babbington, the ruler of a post-nuclear United States of America, starts out as the leader of the racist militia "Rampart", having previously had his men take a police station containing several children hostage. After Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, prevents Rampart from hijacking a festival, Babbington lures Captain America into a trap before using hundreds of nuclear warheads to decimate the USA to 10% of its former population—with many survivors being disfigured—and encasing Captain America in ice to put him on display. Succeeding on an alternate Earth, when Captain America is freed from his icy prison by resistance members as of 2025, the USA under Babbington has become a fascist regime, where allegedly inferior people are branded as such, and people are killed for so much as gathering together.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: From a pre-release image alone, the prehistoric Ghost Rider. Because they're a flaming caveman skeleton riding a flaming mammoth! It helps that Jason Aaron has a good history with the Ghost Rider franchise.
• Funny Moments:
  • When a group of police find Deadpool, it's in a rundown bathroom stall that he's using as a makeshift confessional. When the police shoot at him, he keeps uttering "Thank you, Father. May I have another?"
  • Riri blowing shouting out "Avengers Assemble!", then sulking about it a few pages later.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • After the backlash over remarks that Marvel's sales problems were due to fans hating diversity, and their Author's Saving Throw insisting that they wouldn't be removing any characters, Marvel proceeded to cancel several series with diverse casts or without a White Male Lead (including Luke Cage, Generation X, America, and The Unbelievable Gwenpool) because of their poor sales, anyway.
  • This image◊ is either this or Hilarious in Hindsight, depending on how much you liked those books or how angry are you at them ending.
• Heartwarming Moments: Two in Marvel Legacy #1:
  • The sight of the various heroes hanging out in a restaurant and being friends for the first time in a long time.
  • The end, where Valeria is finally ready to come home, which also double as a bit of a Tearjerker.
• Memetic Mutation: Captain America: Grounded, the teasing nickname for Steve's first Legacy storyline, which has him going cross country to reconnect with the people. Even more hilarious is that it's being written by Mark Waid, who once got into a fight with Superman: Grounded writer J. Michael Straczynski and proclaimed that, to cool off, he should go take a "long, dull, boring, pointless walk. Across America. ... That (he) won't finish."
• Narm:
  • This◊ promotional image for the event, which consists of various classic and modern characters staring at the reader. While most of them have serious expressions on their faces Peter Parker, Steve Rogers and Thor Odinson look weirdly depressed for an image that is supposed to get people excited.
  • When Jean Grey's ressurection was anounced, Marvel launched Phoenix-themed variant covers. Including this one◊ with the Punisher. It's meant to look cool, but both Castle and the Phoenix Force look absolutely terrified.
  • One of the lenticular variants changes this classic Dave Cockrum cover for this... thing.
  • Steve Rogers' shield being visible from his backpack in a panel. It looks like a cool visual at first glance, until you realize that Steve is supposed to be keeping a low profile and it makes him look like a dumbass.
  • This video points out several aestethic problems with the issue's cover. While Cap is the focus center in the unfolded version of the cover, the awkward placement means Hulk's nipple is front and center in the folded version◊, which is what most customers are going to see on the store.
• Strawman Has a Point: X-Men Black: Mojo #1 has Mojo angrily state the changes with the mutants he grew up with are terrible, alienating old fans like himself, and that he doesn’t mind change here and there, it just needs to be organic and still have good stories. Many derided Marvel for mocking what they considered perfectly valid criticisms, not helped by using Mojo as an Audience Surrogate seemingly because he was ugly and fat as a way of further mocking critics.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Or rather "Unexpected Titles": no one expected Falcon, Marvel Two-In-One, Spirits of Vengeance and Tales of Suspense to reappear. And then we have Darkhawk, Power Pack, Master of Kung-Fu, and of all comics, NOT BRAND ECHH one-shots.
  • The original Jean Grey returning wasn't at all expected, since her teen self still has a solo series and is more likely to have synergy with her younger movie-counterpart. Also, because people expected it in ResurrXion, given the name.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Logan's resurrection is discovered by the time-displaced Jean Grey, a character with whom he had very little connection, rather than using current Wolverine — not to mention his daughter — X-23, whose discovery of his return would have carried far more impact.
• Win Back the Crowd: This is Marvel's latest attempt to do such a thing, for the people turned off by the darkness and mediocrity of various events and storylines. Time will tell if it succeeds.

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