Amazons Attack! / YMMV

Ass Pull: Granny Goodness as the mastermind. Not only was this reveal not given any buildup in the book, it wasn't even properly explained in Countdown to Final Crisis OR Death Of The New Gods!
Fanon Discontinuity: To many Wondy fans, thanks to how the story derailed the Amazons. Considering the Let Us Never Speak of This Again attitude by characters long afterward, it may be Canon Discontinuity as well.
Harsher in Hindsight
- In Wonder Woman vol. 3 #14, a character echoes most of the fandom's sentiments by saying "The last thing we want is Amazons Attack: The Sequel". DC's Flashpoint crossover pretty much gave us Amazons Attack: The Sequel in the Amazon-Atlantian war. However, while the Amazon-Atlantian war did have some more similarities to A.A. (both sides were manipulated by traitors within their ranks), much more care was put into the plot and it was better received - it wasn't all about Straw Feminists killing men for being men while being under control that could've been easily broken, at least.
- In spite of Diana's best efforts, "Amazons Attack: The Sequel" does come to pass in Wonder Woman (2023) during Dawn of DC. While initially presented as a remake, Sergeant Steel states his reasons for disliking Wonder Woman was not doing enough the first time Amazons invaded the US, and since there is nothing like that in the Rebirth-Infinite Frontier-Dawn Of line one can only assume he's referring to this event, somehow. If anything, is getting criticism for copying the original too much^note.
Hilarious in Hindsight: This ultimately wouldn't be the last DC story to have a twist involving Granny Goodness being the main villain, though it made far more sense there than it did here.
Memetic Mutation: The page quote is so stupid that it's awesome.
Batman: Bees. My god.
Moral Event Horizon: The first pages of the book, where two Amazons slaughter a man and his young son while they're looking at the Lincoln Memorial and discussing what Abraham Lincoln stood for — and then one Amazon asks the other about the statue. "Just a man." And this is the Establishing Character Moment for the invasion. It went From Bad to Worse from there. Much worse.
Narm: The Big Bad being Granny Goodness of all people comes so far out of nowhere that some readers actually find it hilarious.
Signature Scene:
- The scene where Batman acts incredulous at the idea of the Amazons using venomous bees as one of their weapons.
- The sudden reveal that Granny Goodness is behind the whole fiasco.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Fans were actually excited about the prospect of the Amazons and the United States coming to blows, especially since the project originated as an aborted prelude to Infinite Crisis. Things went downhill fast in large part due to the execution being almost completely nonsensical, flanderizing the Amazons as Straw Feminists with flimsy-to-nonexistent reasoning for war, making Wonder Woman herself an almost-complete non-agent in her own story, and overall being a mess of various incomplete subplots and motivations that don't cohere at all.

YMMV / Amazons Attack!

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