Originally posted by freezedoom
I still don't get it.
What happens is, one or two fanboys overrate a character. They argue (very loudly) that he could beat people out of his league.
He then receives a lot of hate, and people underrate the hell out of him on the versus forums.
And the first part doesn't necessarily have to happen, it could just be an over-popularity of the character. If a character gets used in a TON of threads, people may get tired of seeing him, and thus, under rate him.
Wolverine is a case of the former. A while back, fanboys over rated him, and it generated a lot of hate. Now a days, most fans that argue for Wolverine don't really over rate him too much, but he still has a lot of backlash hate that nets him losses on the forums.
Strange is a case of the latter. He was used in a lot of threads, and is incredibly powerful due to his pseudo-deus-ex type powers. People got tired of him, and thus under rate him.
Thanos is also a case of the latter. Mostly only underrated by Kid Kurdy, for unknown reasons, and Nvrbnwthagrl because of his insane marvel hate and DC-bias.
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Beyond those three, there aren't very large backlashes.
Batman doesn't really have a backlash to speak of. The Flash had a bit of one, but it's mostly died out. The Hulk is more often overrated on the forums than he is underrated due to backlash.