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My 12 year old nephew asked me why we get so mad about movie changes but not comic reboots.
He said, 'Uncle Blake, you got red in the face about the Mandarin twist, but you just shrugged when they reset the whole X-Men universe last year,' and that simple kid logic about our weird fan priorities has been stuck in my head for a week now.
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rowan_anderson9d ago
Spot on, and it shows how we handle change in general. We accept a total reset if we see it coming, like a new comic run. But a sudden twist in something we already know feels like a betrayal. It's like being okay with moving to a new house but losing your mind if someone rearranges your living room without asking. Your nephew nailed a weird human thing about control and expectation.
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olivia_barnes979d ago
That kid is onto something but rowan_anderson is overthinking it. We get mad about movie changes because we paid for a ticket and have to live with it forever. Comics reset every Tuesday so who cares, it's just paper.
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the_lee4d ago
Wait, isn't it the other way around though? Comic changes get fans super mad all the time. Remember One More Day in Spider-Man? People are still mad about that marriage being erased. I think we get just as upset, but a bad comic story gets buried by the next reboot. A bad movie change is stuck on screen forever.
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