The Last Son/YMMV

• Arc Fatigue: More than ten years since the series started and Darkseid has yet to put his foot on Earth.
• Continuity Lock Out: Zig-zagged. Recaps are offered every now and then, but the story certainly makes a lot more sense if one reads all the chapters.
• Moral Event Horizon: Arcade. Kidnapping his classmates: bad. Teaming up with the Joker: also bad. Murder of his parents: Moral Event Horizon.
• Never Live It Down: The fic boasts some impressive Worldbuilding and Canon Welding but as Mega Crossovers that also feature those in spades have pollinated the internet since The Last Son, its own successes in those fields have been seen as nothing too special and its defining quality has steadily become the fact that it turned Krypton into a Mary Suetopia and shills DC at Marvel's expense, something that tends to turn away any new potential readers or cause people to cite The Last Son as an interesting premise done wrong.
• Seinfeld Is Unfunny: In 2006, The Last Son was a revolutionary crossover, weaving together DC and Marvel and creating a wonderful new universe. As little as ten years later, it can be seen as a Dork Age Cliché Storm that mixes outdated ideas about comic book characters, shills Superman and the Kryptonian race at the expense of everyone else and self-limiting by only mixing two fandoms.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: A common complaint about the series. All the Marvel heroes get hit with Adaptational Wimp, while the villains generally get Too Dumb to Live, and are walked over by their DC counterparts. Doctor Doom is defeated by Superman, Ronan the Accusser is humiliated by Lobo, and General Zod smacks Thor around. All of which led to angry grumblings from Marvel fans.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The fic notably hypes up Darkseid as its Bigger Bad. From The New Tens onwards however, a crossover would likely, thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, have Thanos in that role.

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