#reinterpret away and ignore canon but... don't pretend canon screws em up

[takaraphoenix]

The thing about comic fandom is that there are so many characterizations and iterations of characters, in main timeline alone thanks to reboots or simply to... different writers on different series with very different takes, on top of adaptations and Elseworlds.

So you encounter "he would not fucking say that", very often in regards to actual canon content. And the majority of them are usually valid and right.

You go by a metric of "okay but this has been canon for So Long that the new, changed, different canon is contradictory to a long history of canon". Usually.

But sometimes, you hear people yell about inaccurate characterizations and you keep reading the comics and you keep running into... very consistent... characterizations, throughout different stories, different takes, different timelines even, and at one point, you should consider that maybe the character just isn't what you want them to be.

Some characters are just bad. Bad people, making bad choices and bad decisions. And it's not an inconsistent writing issue or slander of the character. If dozens of writers and dozens of series/runs/adaptations all agree on it, maybe it's you who wants this character to be something they're not.

#Comics #DC Comics #like yeah I have encountered people #who scream about their fave's inconsistent writing #and then I encountered the inconsistent writing #and yeah most of these people have a GOOD metric #for what should be the canon that should be respected #by all the writers who fuck up (-> longest running canon timeline writing) #but there really are some people who yell about character #who just suck. they just do. in every version #it's hard to blame the writers for that if it's So Many Writers #and So Many Takes that all agree on the character's suckiness #like!! it's okay for you to like an OoC version of this character!! #reinterpret away and ignore canon but... don't pretend canon screws em up #bad and shitty characters have to exist too. not everyone can be a sweet precious good person darling #and if you start liking a shitty character you can't really... convince yourself they're actually a sweet precious good person darling