YMMV / Young Justice: Darkness Falls

• Anti-Climax Boss: The team doesn't even get to fight Vandal Savage before his death.
• Badass Decay:
  • Oh Light, what happened to you? Aside from a few mentions in the first couple chapters, and some influence in the middle, the Light on the whole is doing a whole lot less in this fic, especially after Lex Luthor betrayed their operations to the League.
  • On another note: Mammoth. Although he was among the strongest of the mooks, he gets taken down by Static's electricity on his own.
• Complete Monster:
  • Darkseid is the ruler of Apokolips, who is working with the Light to take over the world. In a Bad Future, Darkseid successfully takes over Earth, destroying most of the cities and killing almost all the heroes. In said future, humans were forced to do backbreaking labor while worshiping Darkseid. Darkseid sentences minions who fail him to 50 lashes or banishes them to a place so horrifying that no one will speak of it, a place where he banished his son Kalibak. Having Kara Zor-El kidnapped as a child and raised as his loyal minion, Darkseid also has the revived Wally West and Victor Stone brainwashed to serve him. When Vandal Savage manages to kill a bunch of superheroes for him, Darkseid vaporizes him because he wanted the heroes brought to him alive so he could torture them first.
  • Chapter 5: The Joker tries to gas all of Gotham City to death with Smilex for fun. To this end, he forces men to help him by holding their families hostage, and plans to kill said men when he no longer needs them, with him being uncaring when three of them are killed by his hyenas.
• Continuity Lock-Out: Well, this is a Young Justice continuation. Though to be fair, the author does to a good job in giving specific references to past events so the audience doesn't get too lost.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When Kara Zor-El makes her debut, it's as one of Darkseid's brainwashed Furies before her redemption. The end of Season 4 reveals that Kara is also one of Darkseid's Furies.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This story features a plotline of Conner almost dying, slowly coming back to health, and then proposing to M'gann before a great battle. Who'd have thought that this story would carry out the marriage plotline of Young Justice Phantoms 7 years beforehand.
• Jerkass Woobie: Kara is definitely no saint in this series, even starting off evil. However, she gets more sympathetic the longer the story goes, as her quest to redeem herself slowly makes her more sympathetic as she goes.
• Like You Would Really Do It: In Chapter 55, Superman dies. Oh yes, because everyone knows that superheroes stay dead when they're killed, especially one as big as him.
• Moral Event Horizon: While no nice person by any stretch, when Granny Goodness orders her own Furies killed when they refuse to return with her to be her fall people, she crossed this line.
• Shocking Moments: Several examples through the fic.
  • The attack on the Watchtower definitely got reader's blood pumping.
  • "Episode 11: Past and Future Revelations" spends its time split between the present and future, but it ends with a Final Battle, 2 deaths, and the end of Darkseid's first attack on earth.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite being the only Runaway to join The Team, Static doesn't actually get to do a lot once he joins, mostly acting in a supporting role than doing anything really significant.
• The Woobie:
  • M'gann. She still carries a lot of guilt for her actions back in Season 2 with her, and doesn't really get over it until she marries Conner.
  • Raven doesn't have it much easier either.

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