YMMV / Top 10

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was Peregrine's brutal assault of Sun Woman because Sun Woman's a child molester, or because Sun Woman having molested younger girls made her seem gay and it offended Peregrine's conservative Christian values? There's no discussion as to why specifically Peregrine went apeshit on Sun Woman as they were arresting her.
  • When Atomaid sends the message that the police are coming for her uncle Atoman, was she trying to warn him or was she trying to gloat that he's finally going to pay for all the horrible things he's done?
• Complete Monster:
  • Craig Wallace, aka Atoman, is the seemingly heroic leader of the Seven Sentinels. In truth, all their heroic exploits are faked. Atoman uses this as a cover for the Sentinels' true purposes: child molestation. Sexually abusing their sidekicks, Atoman has children groomed or raped to become sex slaves to the Seven, indulging in his taste for superpowered children and teens himself on a frequent basis.
  • M'rggla Qualtz is the so-called "Vigilante from Venus" who in actuality is a monstrous alien horror who partakes in the usual proclivities of the Sentinels with horrible aplomb. Qualtz is also the elusive "Libra Killer", responsible for the gruesome deaths of ten prostitutes in Neonopolis, devouring their pineal glands and keeping their heads as trophies. When captured, Qualtz uses her Psychic Powers to literally Mind Rape one of the officers to goad her into violence, clearly relishing her victim's violation.
• Contested Sequel: Beyond the Farthest Precinct is not terribly well-regarded by fans due to the complete lack of any involvement by the original creative team and its rather blatant politics, to say nothing of its decision to pair off the original characters with new ones, which left several of the classic characters Out of Focus.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Jack Phantom, King Peacock, Wolfspider and Joe Pi are all extremely popular, despite barely featuring in the original series.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In Top Ten, there's a racist cop named "Shock-Headed Peter" Cheney. His stupidity gets him in trouble frequently, so some of the cops joke that all the electricity he controls must have fried his brain. Years later, My Hero Academia would introduce the character of Denki Kaminari, who has similar electrical powers... the overuse of which actually does (temporarily) fry his brain.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • M'rrgla Qualtz, the "Vigilante from Venus," is also the Libra Killer, an Eldritch Abomination living in the sewers of Neopolis and feeding off the fluids in their heads. She's killed over 10 known prostitutes and collected their severed heads. While imprisoned, she tries to trick Monsoon into freeing her by putting him in a brief Lotus-Eater Machine, and later invades Jack's mind to mentally have sex with her. She literally committed Mind Rape on Jack, and the look on her face when Jack is threatening to kill her makes it clear she's enjoying every moment of it. It's also implied she's a sexual predator like the rest of the Seven Sentinels, and with her shapeshifting abilities, God can only guess what she must've done to the Young Sentinels.
  • The Seven Sentinels in general. So, you've got a bunch of Captain Ersatz characters based on the Justice League of America, and in their first appearance they try defending one of their teammates despite that said teammate is a shapeshifting serial murderer. It gets worse. They're a bunch of rapists and child molesters who boost their public image by claiming they've fought a number of intergalactic wars and saved the Earth from alien threats, when those are really covers to hide whatever sexual torment they've inflicted on their children and sidekicks. To drive the point home, we get to see Peregrine and Jack's disgusted reactions to footage of Atoman getting what is implied to be a blow job from the Sizzler's preteen sidekick Scorchy. And as we later find out, Scorchy is the Sizzler's daughter. The Forty-Niners gives the Sentinels layers of Fridge Horror by reinforcing that the Hound has had more than one "Pup" for a sidekick. Now let that sink in...
• The Woobie: The Young Sentinels when we find out they're the sexual playthings for the Seven Sentinels, who're not only their mentors, but their fathers and uncles. Scorchy, the Sizzler's sidekick and daughter, breaks down in tears when the Top 10 perform their raid on the Sentinels, saying she hates her father and mentions that Larry Lomax, the Hound, regularly beats them.

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