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[terra]

Time for another installment of: Alex has questions!! So here goes.

Is there anything you and fandom in general disagree about re: your character? What are your ~unpopular opinions~?

Do you not understand why fandom decided their middle name was Malloy? Are they 5'6" according to you and 5'8" according to everyone else? Did you interpret a

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[terra]

FOR BUCKY:

A lot of his general fandom interpretation comes from, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, Steve/Tony fic ideas written before the comics really fleshed him out. So often he is written as this sociopath who is jealously obsessed with Tony and/or secretly plotting to kill Tony, who insists on ~being called James~

There's also a strange idea that he is stunted due to WW2 and never mentally aged past 13??

Neither of these interpretations match up with my own.

[terra]

That is the same with all fic ideas really it just so happens that Marvel/Captain America stuff is glutted with Steve/Tony

[fishnets]

I like Combs!Crow as if he were an entirely different character (build, costume, personality... everything is so radically different, how can I not?), but he gave me nightmares as a child and he's voiced by Combs... so I really can't hate him.

I still haven't seen the movies, but I think his appearance is really off-putting. If the version in the comics looked like that, I think his life could have been radically different. :|a

[fishnets]

Yeah, I think that's the big thing "oh, but he wasn't terrifying," and I think that's something... I like? The fact that they don't have to be massive, menacing and terrifying to be a villain. I think there was more substance in him before, as a character that was seemingly normal on the surface.

I think a lot of people get caught up in ~ohh he's so handsome~ and forget the core of his past was a whole fucking lot of bullying and mistreatment from 99% of the people who surrounded him.

[meowminx]

A lot of people seem to think that Frank Miller made Selina black in Year One? I think it's the crew cut. But the companion Catwoman miniseries (which is kind of awful because every female in it is raped/abused) shows her as a white chick with long black hair before she cuts it short. I read that mini years before Year One so I didn't get what people were talking about at all.

A lot of people seem to think that Selina and Holly have a thing which... no. Holly's basically her adopted little sister and while she may be a prostitute when they first meet, she's also thirteen.

[he_is_wild]

I sometimes wonder if people are aware how old some of these characters are supposed to be.

[hotforbabyleg]

TL;DR SKIP THIS COMMENT IT'S TERRIBLE

AND OKAY, I think I generally interpret Lust as a less sexual being than most of the fandom does, when they actually remember mangaLust existed! There seems to be a general consensus that Lust was Father's ~honey trap~ character and that a lot of her offscreen espionage and information-gathering was based around sleeping with people in power, and I don't really buy that. Like, certainly she has to have done it at least a couple of times, but it couldn't have been the majority of her work; we never see her do anything like it in her appearances except when she's dating Havoc, and like come on guys we know he never got past first base if that. She has many more assets that are beneficial to being useful to Father than her strictly physical ones, and I'd rather focus on the strategy and manipulation she demonstrates in her admittedly limited canon, because that plus the ruthlessness is what made me like her as a character in the first place. That is definitely not to say that it's a ~shame~ that she

[batghoul]

I'm mostly on the same page with the fandom about Cass. The only arguments I tend to get into are that her treatment in Steph's series was a disgrace and all the "BUT BRYAN Q. MILLER WANTED TO USE HER/COULDN'T USE HER!" baloney doesn't cut it or absolve him of the fact that her one appearance in the book was awful and demeaning.

I'm not really involved with the Hellboy fandom so I don't even know what crazy things people think about him.

[soldarius]

I agree lolol. Everyone makes our Miller to be some sort of ~amazing pro-woman writer~ when there were SO MANY PROBLEMS with Steph's series even outside of the non-existent Cass. :I