Nova/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Stronian, making her defeat by Richard even more satisfying.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Cosmo, who debuted in two issues of Nova's fourth series and was so popular he became a regular character in Guardians of the Galaxy.
 * Ho Yay: With Quasar. Don't deny it, it's there.
 * And with Silver Surfer, thanks to that cover where they looks like they're dancing.
 * Memetic Mutation: "I ripped Anihillus guts of. What have X done lately?"
 * My Real Daddy: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning - their take on the character forced everybody else to stop treating him as an inexperienced rookie.
 * Replacement Scrappy: Sam Alexander for Richard Rider - After a mass of character development, becoming a cornerstone of Marvel's cosmic stories, and popular enough to appear in Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 & receive talk of a movie adapting the character to the the big screen, everything was seemingly thrown out of the window just so they could have a new rookie Nova instead. This isn't helped by the fact that when.
 * It doesn't help that the first issue to flesh out Sam's personality has raised (rather exaggerated) fears of him being a Fad Super due to him briefly mentioning that he enjoys dubstep music while trying to take his mind off the fact that the Phoenix Force is right behind him.
 * And then it turned out that Sam Alexander was initially created for Ultimate Spider-Man, rather than simply using Richard Rider.