How funny I found this post right on the very same day I was going through old ferretbrain articles and found Kyra's Soon I Will Be Invincible review. In her review she was noting how a lot of comic book readers often end up kind of sympathising with the villain when superheroes start reminding them of the "cool kids in high school". And that made me think of all the times whenever I hear of people complaining about much-loved comic book villain Doctor Doom getting bested by a clearly silly joke-superheroine Squirrel Girl in a one-off humourous story written yonks ago.

I guess I could understand how fandom might relate towards obesessiveness, but it's really too bad everything becomes such a zero-sum game with lots of either/or. But then again, maybe a lot of writers are just too creatively lazy/unable to try writing stories where everyone is allowed to be competent and strong in different ways and still have drama so everything becomes a pissing match and it bleeds into fandom.