>>690741
>>690824
>>691073
Getting overly attached to fictional characters is indeed silly. Especially in the world of comics, where due to the nature of monthly comics going on and on for years and years, writers start resorting to ever more crazy and sensationalist stories to hold the attention of readers, that all eventually get retconned back to the status quo to not alienate said readers too much (I.e. the "Death" of Superman and too many other superheroes to count; Spider-Man being the clone all along; Captain America "turning evil"; Thor becoming a woman, etc.) Don't be surprised if these so-called "life-altering irreversible changes" to Batman" get set back to normalcy/explained away (i.e. Catwoman is under some kind of mind control or whatnot, Slade being Damian's father being a hoax by Bane to mentally and emotionally "Break the Bat") in a year or two.
However, by breaking free of the stigma associated with the comics medium since the "Seduction of the Innocent Fiasco" via motion pictures, superhero stories have proven themselves, despite the chagrin they may inspire in you, to be a hit among the masses in terms of entertainment, and are more than likely going to be that way in the foreseeable future. Intellectuals like Cronenberg and Moore (and some pretentious pseudo-intellectuals like Jodorowsky) may not like them, but it's not for them. Pop culture is low culture for the masses. Low, not necessarily imparting worthlessness; it has it's place, and in the past was heavily informed by High culture. George Lucas would be more accurate in describing the original Star Wars films as films suitable for all-ages rather than "films for children" (which is ironic, considering that the politics and issues introduced in the prequel trilogy heavily implied that Lucas, albeit in a clumsy manner, was trying to steer Star Wars in a more "adult" direction.)
The bottom line is, like it or not, Pop culture informs and is a mirror of the general culture. Completely ignore it at your own peril.
>>690767
I have a Like/Annoyance attitude towards Batman. He's enjoyable and entertaining when he's written down to earth but when he's written as "Batgod"….
>because he wasn't some mutant or alieum, he was just a man.
>Fanboy writers (like Millar and Morrison) resort to such ridiculous levels of plot armor/plot gymnastics, so that he can hang with characters who could kill him just by breathing on him the wrong way, to the point that he might as well be a de facto superhuman.
>>691073
Honestly, being on a chan image board and whining about "nerd culture" is like being at a KKK rally and whining about racism: what are you doing here? I suspect you're going through the "self-hating nerd phase" that a lot of people on here go through. Speaking from personal experience: nerds desperately trying to prove their "anti-nerd cred" ironically end up just as fanatical and transparently pathetic as the very extreme nerds that they hate and don't want to be (and also tend towards narcissistic issues due to trying to overcompensate for their old extreme nerdy personality.) The sooner you come to peace with the fact that you can like some nerdy things, without being the stereotypical overweight neckbeard living in his mom's basement, with walls covered with animu girls and thousands of pvc figures, the better. (Then again, you might have to just work through this phase, before you see the light at the end of the tunnel, like I did.)