YMMV / Marvel Mangaverse

• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • Apocalypse is hyped up as an invincible foe who the Avengers can barely even hope to stub the toe of, a foe so dramatic that it requires the Avengers to form a Humongous Mecha Iron Man suit. One single blast and Apocalypse falls over like a chump and dies. Even the Avengers seem unimpressed.
  "I never would've expected to beat Apocalypse so easily!"
  • The Hulk is defeated by a single smack in the face by Mjölnir.
  • Though he put up a decent fight (he was curb-stomping all of the X-Men single-handedly), Namor was swiftly sent flying Team Rocket-style by Ben Grimm.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Black Widow kissing Bruce Banner after hitting him with a tranquilizing spike. It contributed nothing to the plot, is never mentioned again, and ultimately didn't matter as any Character Development it might've given Black Widow is rendered diddly-squat due to the character's death a few pages later.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • The Punisher one-shot features a discipline-obsessed principal-turned-vigilante spanking criminals into submission. While the villain talks about a plot to take control of the rampaging Hulk mentioned in the other stories, that plan never actually happens, and the Punisher is never seen again.
  • The Ghost Riders one-shot is mostly a story about supernatural sibling rivalry. While the Hulk appears briefly towards the end, none of the events of the story affect the larger arc.
• Complete Monster (New Dawn & Eternity Twilight): Baron Strucker, the head of Hydra, doubles as the loyal servant of the outer god Dormammu. Strucker's first attempt in handing Dormammu the Earth on a silver platter ended up cutting power across the globe, leading to an event known as the Blackout War that cost thousands of lives. After the planet recovers, Strucker plays the part of an ally to Namor the Sub-Mariner and manipulates him into spurring a brutal attack on humanity, and spitefully murders their mutual ally Attuma when Namor's back is turned. When Strucker is finally successful in summoning Dormammu, he eagerly sacrifices all of Hydra's minions to whet the dark god's bloodthirst.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Pretty much the only thing anybody remembers and even likes about this experiment is its take on Spider-Man, and even then Marvel seems content on limiting his gimmick as "Spider-Man as a ninja" rather than "Spider-Man if he was Animesque".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Compare New Mangaverse to Ultimatum, really.
  • Bruce Banner hooking up with Tony Stark's sister Toni, given their bromance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • Similarly, his kiss with Black Widow given their actual romance in the MCU.
  • Carol Danvers becoming the Mangaverse's successor to Captain America, since the mainstream version later became Earth 616's successor to Captain Marvel.
• Shallow Parody: One of the more consistent critiques of the whole endeavor was that a lot of writers didn't actually seem all that knowledgeable about manga, which made it come across as less "what if Marvel heroes were conceived of in the manga industry and used manga-esque story tropes?" and more "what if Marvel heroes had a few stereotypical Japanese elements added?"
• So Bad, It's Good: While in general the series is seen as So Okay, It's Average if not worse, the series is often mocked by certain parts of the fanbase.
  • X-Men: Phoenix – Legacy of Fire: The nonsensical plot, the female characters' incredibly limited wardrobe, the multiple out-of-place hot-springs scenes, the obvious CG; in short, there's a lot to laugh at for such a short series.
  • The Ghost Riders one-shot, mostly due its horrible blending of 2D characters and beginner-level CG backgrounds, as well as its out-there tone, among other things. Some have argued that the comic may in fact fall under Poe's Law, and that the "unintended comedy" was intentional, and the "ironic" appreciation was actually the intended response.^note Then again, it is written by Chuck Austen...
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus on the Ben Dunn penned series. While the art is nice and the reimagined characters are interesting, the plot that surrounds them is very cookie-cutter, and due to the large number of characters, none of them are given enough time to develop.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Even with Anime and Manga's mainstream popularity re-boom in The New '10s, this experiment was already a rather amusing look into how the US comic books industry in the 2000s perceived the mediums and their conventions, when anime and manga had already rocketed into the public consensus to being present in Barnes and Nobles by the mid 2000s and being shown on Cartoon Network's Toonami since the late 1990s, and when the likes of Marvel and DC were only beginning to find their way out of the American Dark Age of Comics.