Hi, everybody. After reading yet another thread about OMD, I wondered about the psychology of comic book fans. What makes a person so mad about a fictional 7 year old story that every week someone starts a new thread about it? When you ask that question on an OMD thread, the people that hate OMD say things like "Marvel disrespected me" or some other nonsense. What is it about the mindsets of some fans that prevent them from moving on from a story that they claim they hate?
Comic book fans are stereotyped as maladjusted man-children that can’t handle real life. Things like the constant complaining of a seven year old story that isn't even talked about in the actual comic books just reinforce that stereotype, among other things.
I put this thread on the community board because I notice the posters here are wiser and although they love comics, they’re not as obsessed as the posters on the DC/Marvel boards.
Does anyone have any other examples of extreme fan behavior? Any thoughts on why this behavior exists? Please keep this as civil as you can. And please don’t be offended by this. I’m not trying to put people down, I’m just curious about what’s in a person’s psyche that makes them go extreme over a fictional character.