“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
If it inevitably gets results it isn't "delusional" behaviour, it's a reward for exhibiting functioning critical faculties. Not a lot of people have that in the real world, hence we get a plethora of mediocrity that the machine keeps pumping out because nobody challenges it or prefers that it do better.
I don't want to sound like a hippy here, but this is a much more creative place when one resists the machine.
DC's facts are frequently altered. Why should we accept them when they change constantly?
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And what happens when the official version isn't stable? What happens if it gets rebooted every five years or so? At what point is the problem on DC's end? Continuity is built on the idea that you get attached to certain characters. But if they keep changing the characters all the time, what is there to get attached to? The version of Superman that exists in the comics today isn't the same one that existed five years ago. Are readers just supposed to pretend the other version didn't exist?
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“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
I use headcanon all the time. It enhances my comic reading experience. Once I read a comic, no one can tell me how I choose to interpret it (and good luck trying). Like that of the actual DC and Marvel universes, it's ever fluctuating.
Keep in mind that you have about as much chance of changing my mind as I do of changing yours.
There will be references and consequences until they decide to ignore them or reboot them away, so none of it matters in the long run anyway. It's really that simple, we don't have a coherent DC universe with a single through line from its inception until now. If someone reads takes on characters from various eras and picks and chooses what they like, it's not the same as embracing full delusion and saying "the stuff I dislike was never published/how I wish things to be is totally how it is and always was!" Nobody here is saying that.
Headcanons are just fanfiction imo. I guess what makes them viable in cape comics is the fact that most of the creators for the characters and concepts are long dead now so there is no specific word of god anymore.
“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman