History YMMV / SavageDragon

** "Loathing", "She-Fiend", "Endgame": [[EmotionEater The Fiend]] is a demonic entity who gleefully feeds on hatred. Regularly [[DemonicPossession possessing]] people who have a strong hatred for somebody, the Fiend regularly enacts his hosts' hurtful desires for fun. Possessing a hateful self-help guru about to give a seminar on a yacht, the Fiend tries to have everybody on the yacht killed by steering the ship into an island. Later taking control over She-Dragon to feed off her hate for Overlord, the Fiend taunts Dragon over the fact that he's endangering her. In his final appearance, the Fiend acquires a magical orb, using it to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb]] the [[AndIMustScream agonized souls]] of hateful people to increase his strength, utilizing its power to open up a portal and suck up every hateful soul from across the entire universe.

** The series has got this in spades. Erik Larsen obviously [[AuthorAppeal loves designing these guys]]. Given the tongue-in-cheek nature of this comic, it makes sense, and the costumes fit their [[IncrediblyLamePun silly names]], and the series sometimes lampshades this fact. A lot of them are throwaway baddies, but several members of his RoguesGallery fit this category as well.

** To elaborate; since the [[TheAughts late-Aughts]] the comic has been published on a ''very'' inconsistent and scattershot schedule, with some delays lasting for several months. Because of Larsen's [[DoingItForTheArt dedication]] to keeping the book on a 1:1 comic book/real-world time scale, this often leads to him, for example, cramming a long-time character's sudden death, funeral, mourning, and subsequent avenging, the equivalent of an entire story arc's worth of content, into the space of less than 20 pages, robbing it of much of it's emotional weight.

** The reworked trade version of the first issue had Savage Dragon giving an extended TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a bigoted police officer, who implied to have harassed non-whites in his duties. It seems pretty preachy and the message that Racism is Bad is delivered a couple of times before the speech even ends. Though it should be noted this was originally intended to be part of [[https://www.cbr.com/pcr-extra-issue-21/ the unpublished one-shot Urban Storm, an anthology featuring Image characters]] whose funds would have been used to help the Rebuild L.A. Foundation in wake of the then-recent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots riots stemming from Rodney King beating]].

** The reworked trade version of the first issue had Savage Dragon giving an extended TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a bigoted police officer, who implied to have harrassed non-whites in his duties. It seems pretty preachy and the message that Racism is Bad is delivered a couple of times before the speech even ends. Though it should be noted the comic was published just two months after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots riots stemming from Rodney King beating]].

** Issue #261 has Malcolm discuss with his half-sister Marsha on the usefulness of the COVID-19 vaccine, spending a full page on debunking anti-vaccine arguments. In particular, Malcolm notes that Marsha is wary of getting a vaccine shot, but thinks nothing of getting injected with Malcolm's blood[[note]]which heals anything, but kills the injected person in a couple of hours[[/note]] followed by the freak-out drug[[note]]which resets a character's body, stripping them of superpowers and any other alterations, even beneficial[[/note]] to heal another character who has been hospitalised with COVID-19. The comic was published in early 2022, when people refusing to get a vaccine shot was a serious issue in the real world, but the seriousness of the discussion contrasts with the tone of the rest of the comic. And then just to hammer it home even more, a year later Horridus is killed as a result of refusing to get vaccinated.

** Issue #261 has Malcolm discuss with his half-sister Marsha on the usefulness of the COVID-19 vaccine, spending a full page on debunking anti-vaccine arguments. In particular, Malcolm notes that Marsha is wary of getting a vaccine shot, but thinks nothing of getting injected with Malcolm's blood[[note]]which heals anything, but kills the injected person in a couple of hours[[/note]] followed by the freak-out drug[[note]]which resets a character's body, stripping them of superpowers and any other alterations, even beneficial[[/note]] to heal another character who has been hospitalised with COVID-19. The comic was published in early 2022, when people refusing to get a vaccine shot was a serious issue in the real world, but the seriousness of the discussion contrasts with the tone of the rest of the comic.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The reworked trade version of the first issue had Savage Dragon giving an extended TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a bigoted police officer, who implied to have harrassed non-whites in his duties. It seems pretty preachy and the message that Racism is Bad is delivered a couple of times before the speech even ends. Though it should be noted the comic was published just two months after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots riots stemming from Rodney King beating]].