YMMV / The New Guardians

• Crazy Is Cool: Snowflame is a villain powered by cocaine. The sheer absurdity of the concept combined with the fact he's played completely straight made him really memorable. Somebody even made a webcomic about him.
  Snowflame: Cocaine is my god, and I am the human instrument of its will!
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Snowflame is supposed to be a case of Drugs Are Bad, but people seeing him would more likely make them WANT to do cocaine than stay away from it.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: SNOWFLAME! The sheer absurdity of a character powered by cocaine, being the largest of all hams, and also having some of the most bombastic dialogue in Comic Book history means that he's the reason people remember that this series existed. His popularity skyrocketed to the point he came back in 2020.
• Fridge Logic: The entire premise of the comic is that these people were chosen to breed and pass along their superior genes... and among their ranks were a gay man, a plant man, and a robot... man. Oh, and a chunk of the Guardians's choices for these superior beings were already dead.
• Magnificent Bastard: Snowflame, in his original appearance, is a bombastic, hammy Colombian Drug Lord that gains superpowers from snorting Cocaine. Encountering the New Guardians, he warns them to leave his jungle before Ram attacks him. Easily defeating Ram while relishing the fight, Snowflame declares that he has other matters to attend to, revealing that he "never travels" the jungle alone and having his men ambush and apparently gun down the New Guardians. Snowflame orders his men to bury the heroes with their full affects because in "his jungle" he respects the dead. When the New Guardians ambush him at his compound Snowflame turns the tables by snorting a whole heap of cocaine and siccing his drugged out posse that worships him and cocaine as divine on them. An absurd concept played so straight it circles back to awe-inspiring, Snowflame is the most fondly remembered aspect of an otherwise forgotten book.
• Have a Gay Old Time: One of the starter villains was Hemo-Goblin, a goblin that gives people HIV (seriously). In the 2000's the character's name being close enough to "emo" plus the association with blood prompted a very brief Memetic Mutation reinterpreting him as emo.
• Tear Jerker: When Gregorio, formerly known as Extraño, appeared in Midnighter and Apollo, he acts with annoyance when greeted with his old name, remarking "No one’s called me that in years, fewer lived." At first, it might seem like an idle threat over his embarrassing past, but then important to remember that most of his old team died. It's entirely possible that the loss of his friends played a part in him losing his camp characteristics and becoming much more jaded towards heroics.
• Watch It for the Meme: An obscure set of characters that would have been completely forgotten if not for the beloved one-off antagonist Snowflame, who single-handedly keeps the series alive in public memory.