spetznaz
Senior Fanboy Killer
Originally posted by quanchi112
its no secret i love thanos but the guy has some amazing feats backing him up. prep makes things complicated and no one knows how long it could take thanos to acquire the ig if he wanted to. its all speculation. but i see what u are saying becuz with all our fav characters or characters we support there is some level of biased involved.we are human so we cant escape this kinda shit i guess.
Everyone is biased to one extent or the other. That much is true. We all have our favorite characters.
The difference, though, between a fan and a fanboy is that the fan of (say) Wolverine will be drawn to that character and defend him when need be, but will also be able to admit when his fave character is outmatched. A fanboy, on the other hand, will continue to defend his character even when it is clearly evident that school ended a long time back (and when it appears like he may lose the argument due to logic IMMEDIATELY switches to all sorts of silly argumentative 'points' that hold no water but can drag on forever .....there are so many examples of such that there is really no reason going into that ....might even step on some toes on this thread ....without naming names .....ahem ....)
Oh, and there are fanboys of very powerful characters, not just the usual suspects (e.g. relatively 'low' characters, compared to who they are pit against, like Wolverine, Spiderman and Storm ....all who had or have their share of fanboys). A person can be a fanboy of more powerful characters, e.g. Superman, the Hulk .....or even Thanos.
The identifying mark is non-logical support of the character, coupled with the use of really atrophied argumentative remarks disguised as 'points.'
There are many fans of characters out there (e.g. Aquaman and Namor both have some VERY good fans who support the character, but use more logic than can be found in squads of fanboys).
And there are many fanboys of characters (e.g. the greatest-one-of-them-all who shall remain unnamed, but supported Wolverine. There are some ancients who used to be spiderman fanboys, but that passed on over a year ago. Currently Storm and Ironman fanboys abound, and there was that whole 'Huc' nonsense going on some time back that matched the Hulk ....basically a one-dimensional character .....against some rather potent people who were multi, or even omni, dimensional).
Bias is alright ....actually quite good (otherwise people wouldn't bother debating). It only becomes a problem when it is either taken too far (e.g. gender bias etc), or when it makes the person myopic (e.g. the poster who was saying that IronMan is faster than Superman).