(Hugo) Strange "Batman 3" rumors

[thehefner]

Note: I figure there are a couple people interested in the new Batman film here who also don't read about_faces, which is where I usually now post all my Bat-fan stuff. Just trying to make your skimming easier, my non-comic-reading friends!

So, a couple weeks ago, I finally started a fan project wherein I looked at every single appearance of Hugo Strange,

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[skalja]

You can't talk with them about anything, because the adapted version dominates and obliterates all stories that created it. It's very frustrating.

Hasn't this happened with all of the Spidey characters who appeared in the film? Except for JJJ and Aunt May, who hew very close to their original counterparts.

[thehefner]

I'd imagine so! I've known people who thought that Eddie Brock was always a skinny kid, for example. At least the Norman Osborn fans have their own character so front and center in Marvel U these days, so Movie!Gobby isn't totally dominating fandom. I don't think. Unlike poor Otto. Also, Heath!Joker is the only Joker for many, many fans. I don't begrudge them their favorite, I just wish they'd broaden their horizons, y'know? I wish there wouldn't be more than a handful of people I could talk with about "The Laughing Fish."

But hey, at least JJJ is timeless and accessible either way. So it's certainly possible!

Honestly, I think this is just a part of how increasingly fragmented fandom has become in general. I'm not sure how that happened, exactly, but that's the way things are, and--according to some--it's something people will need to deal with and capitalize upon if comics are to endure. For now, I just kinda feel out of place.

[skalja]

I think the only reason comics!Osborn has held his own against movie!Osborn is that movie Osborn was really only in the first movie (apart from a bit of creepy voice over), which is almost ten years old, whereas comics!Osborn has been busy lately. But really, movie!fandom combined with the smaller but sizeable minority of cartoon!fandom probably dominates comics!fandom by ... a factor of ten, at least.

Has fandom really gotten that fragmented? I mean, I think people in our age range remember an unfragmented fandom from the early internet days simply because there was so litte fannish stuff (or any stuff) on the internet that everyone banded together. But before that there were fen who could only communicate through zines, letters, occasional con meetings ... it's just that now, we can see what we're missing because it's all broadcast.