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  • Americans Hate Tingle: While at most a Base-Breaking Character among fans in the US, Yara is greatly disliked by Brazilian fans (ironically, the audience she was created to appeal to), with many critiquing her often stereotypical and inauthentic portrayal of Brazilian culture. More explanation can be found here. The reveal that she didn't even grow up in Brazil and was actually raised in the United States for her entire life, as well as her increased interactions with Classical Mythology compared to local folklore, also significantly damaged her popularity for Brazilian readers, since it was seen as undermining her status as a Brazilian superhero by turning her into yet another superhero more familiar and connected with US culture.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Some WW fans only read the book as popular Wonder Woman supporting characters such as Cassie Sandsmark and Artemis popped up for a few issues to get some spotlight.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: After making a splash in DC Future State, Yara Flor became the first Wonder Girl to get her very own on-going title which received a substantial amount of promotion from editorial. To the point where Yara was even hyped-up In-Universe as The Chosen One. But partly due to a Troubled Production that resulted in multiple consecutive delays, the comic was abruptly canceled by DC with its seventh issue being forced to hurriedly wrap up as many lingering plot threads as possible. Making all of the previous fanfare Yara received throughout DC Infinite Frontier much harder to read a second time around. The fact that this also happened just shortly after The CW backed out on the Wonder Girl pilot, which was supposed to serve as Yara's live action debut, just adds salt to the wound.
  • Misblamed: Between "Future State" and this, there is more than enough of Joelle Jones's writing to fairly critique it, but beyond pacing, characterization, consistency and dialog she should not be blamed for her ignorance of the material she's adapting. A new "Amazon Of The Amazon" character was an editorial mandate, and the decision to give Yara Flor her own Rebirth series was a marketing directive. Knowing Jones did not know much about Brazil's geography, history, cultures and expecting her to keep pumping out material beyond "Future State", DC could have hired someone else who was more familiar with the relevant information from the start, tapping parent company Warner if necessary. Alternatively, DC could have hired an appropriately knowledgeable consultant, if DC was insistent on using Jones, to get the most out of her exclusivity contract or something. If DC didn't want to pay another body it could have purchased or directed Jones towards relevant research material with an adequate time frame to study it. Preferably DC would have done a combination of all three, but instead left Jones to figure it out on her own, and most of "it" is written in Portuguese, a languages Jones doesn't speak, and other languages that are even harder to come by in the United States, meaning she can only decipher so much while meeting her deadlines. This doesn't excuse any flaws with the comic, nor does it absolve Jones of all errors, but the character and series weren't her ideas and Jones should not have been expected to have done any better with them than she did. Both Word Press and The Medium fired shots at Joelle Jones for being tone deaf, but it isn't realistic to expect a writer to tell the press that she's not the correct choice and that her employer should employ someone else.
  • So Okay, It's Average: While Joelle Jones's gorgeous artwork, strong characterization of its protagonist, and the overall respectful incorporation of Brazilian Folklore have all been praised by readers, one of the major criticisms leveled at this series is its severe amount of Pacing Problems. Specifically its heavy reliance on back to back exposition dumps that leave very little time for Yara to actually reflect on what should be game-changing revelations. It also suffers from a mild case of Strangled by the Red String through the character of João, who like Steve Trevor before him, is another Useless Boyfriend Satellite Love Interest for Yara who doesn't contribute anything to the plot before being effectively Put on a Bus by issue #4.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Before the series came out readers were lead to believe there would be a Divine Conflict between the Greek gods of Olympus and some South American gods corresponding to Brazil's general location. In the end only one such god on the South American side shows up and is only tertiary to the conflict, all but stating he doesn't even care. If one stretches the definition of "god" to include "the enchanted ones" then Iara and Caipora could count and do indeed show up, but neither of them directly oppose Hera's forces either...and if we're following the same logic as "DC Future State", we aren't stretching that definition anyway. Those books established that Caipora simply felt the need to step up while the gods were missing, showed Moon and Sun brother gods Iae and Kuat returning, and showed life on Earth being imperiled by Kuat's confrontation with Solaris. Trial of the Amazons also distinctly shows that Yara does not count Caipora among their ranks during her anti god rant. It's possible Jones simply did not want skirmishes between gods overshadowing Yara Flor, who was being reintroduced to a new continuity with a new origin story here, but the comic just barely had enough time to establish Flor before it was canceled, and Yara's appearances from there have been related to conflicts between The Amazon tribes, rather than their gods, so we'll probably never get that plot.

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