YMMV / The Last Son

• Anti-Climax Boss: After the Gibborim were summoned to Earth in the "Lost and Find" storyline, seconds later they are held at gunpoint by Phantom Zone-based weapons (that had previously nearly wiped them out in the past during their war against Krypton) and Superman gives them the choice of returning to where they came from or fighting a no-win scenario. They immediately chose the former without hesitation.
• Broken Base: Is Allison a great character who is an interesting new love interest for Clark? Or is she a Mary Sue who is given all sorts of powers and focus she doesn't deserve with all the characters shilling for her?
• Canon Defilement: Crossing over with Creator's Apathy the author has repeatedly made errors in how characters are portrayed because they couldn't bother to actually do any research on this. This has resulted in a grim and non-joking Deadpool and a cowardly jerkass Booster Gold, neither of which fit their actual characters and resulted in fan backlash.
• Crossover Ship: J'onn J'onzz and Mystique.
• Growing the Beard: While good to start with, the series has grown from a simple X-Men Evolution/Superman crossover with a flair for background detail in which everyone was essentially a cheerleader for Superman's awesomeness into a complex, tightly woven and cleverly plotted story in which characters are more balanced, Character Development is well handled and everyone gets at least one awesome scene.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Arcade. Kidnapping his classmates: bad. Teaming up with the Joker: really bad. Murder of his parents: Moral Event Horizon.
  • The Dheronians crossed it when they used Apokoliptian technology to destroy Krypton.
  • Cadmus and HYDRA as a whole crossed it when they, on nonconsecutive occasions, kidnapped Power Girl and tried to force her, via torture, to give them access to Kryptonian technology.
  • Cameron Hodge's Establishing Character Moment is shooting a Mutant flight attendant For the Evulz.
• Narm: yo-yo's back and forth between these, with the slightly cartoony and over the top narration and the generally cheesy nature of some of the dialogue, particularly in the earlier stories.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Alison Blaire, more or less. Having previously been an annoying character, her discovery of some of her Dark and Troubled Past her mother was Madame Hydra, who seduced Alison's father simply to get at his DNA, worked with Mister Sinister to ensure that the baby had the necessary powers and appearance, aborting over half a dozen pregnancies in the process. She even faked a career in music to get Alison to go down that path. In essence, everything about Alison was a lie which led to a thoroughly effective Break the Cutie, and deal with it herself in a thoroughly realistic and awesome way did a lot to endear her to fans.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: The relationship between Superman and Alison Blaire, this series' version of Power Girl.
• Strawman Has a Point: Robert Kelly and Nick Fury had their reservations about Superman and later General Zod, which the latter came out true in the end when he is at command of Sentrius.
• The Scrappy: Allison, thanks to what has been stated above. Even after her Break the Cutie moment many felt that was just another way to give the character more attention.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The common criticism is that most Marvel characters are seemingly underpowered in comparison to the DC characters, namely Zod.
  • The author admits that he has been doing this with Marvel in general, and is working to change it. Whether he actually will is too soon to tell.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Runaways/Gibborim plot; as previously stated, the Gibborim were a very Anti-Climax Boss, but on top of that, the heroes realised too quickly that the Runaways were innocent. An interesting plot could have been made out of the Runaways having to defend themselves from the League and the X-Men while the heroes realised over time that the kids had been framed by their parents, as opposed to Cyborg having worked that out already before the start of the chapter and relaying that discovery to his old friends.