Why do comic book movie fans seem... kind of autistic? They fixate on a stupid costume, plot point, or character trait like a screeching 5 year old tard crying because he won't drink milk unless it's in his dinosaur mug. They talk about fictional characters like they're real. They will swear black and blue that "Superman wouldn't do that" or "Batman wouldn't do that" or "Superman would never let that happen". There's this curious fixation on trying to order and quantify things with power levels so that there is a "correct" answer to everything.

>>212809546 (OP)
>Why do comic book movie fans seem... kind of autistic?
Because they are.

Who else would give a shit about a power fantasy about a human looking alien in a colorful suit.

>>212809546 (OP)
Because a lot of us love comics and are sick of capeshit made by people who despise comics.

>>212809598
Your comics are garbage.

>>212809546 (OP)
By my experience, comic book retards are pretentious and act like if these characters are religious figures.

>>212809664
They're not pretentious, they're just autistic and have bad self-esteem, which usually manifests in a defense mechanism that can seem like pretentiousness.

>>212809664
Something I find very strange is how quickly a new orthodoxy will form. For example, I have seen people crying and wailing for over a decade that Superman doesn't kill. Then in his new film he clearly kills his clone. And suddenly actually Superman kills and has always killed, what do you mean that was a controversial point, what do you mean Zodd's snapped neck?

>>212809691
>pretentious, they're just autistic
They're both.

>make movie for fans of thing
>doesn't look like thing
>omg who the fuck cares?

>>212809546 (OP)
Well, you tell me? You are the one who wanted the Cavill version cancelled in favor of this one cause of all those points you brought up

>>212809546 (OP)
Tell that to you bud gunn who dissed the Cavill version for being "too dark" and was smug about his version will be the definitive one

It’s important to me as a Superman fan that he stops genocide in Palestine.

>>212810807
That's another thing. What's will all the pro-Hamas zoomers praising this movie?

>>212809546 (OP)
They love certainty and knowing ALL ABOUT a thing. They're meant to be shoved into a lab or an office somewhere to wash bottles or sort buttons.

>A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies. Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to.
That was Roger Ebert talking about nerds, and for all his faults it is a cutting insight.