why do green lantern fans hate batman fans so much? (genuinely asking I'm new around here)
Depends on who you ask! There’s an array of reasons why GL fans don’t really like the batman fans and it shifts from person to person, but I want to stress the fact that this is about fanon batfam fans — the ones who don’t read the comics, pride themselves on it, and are generally a nuisance towards other DC fans. We’re not talking about batman fans in general, many of us actually read batman and enjoy his character! The specific irritations we have is with the fanon side, and how they’re just really, really annoying sometimes.
I’ll try to break down some of the larger issues I personally have and the more widespread reasons for GL fan’s animosity towards the fanon batfam that I’ve seen pop up here and there. Again, I want to emphasise that this is about the fanon batfam fans, and not about the people who actually read the comics.
They clog our tags. So much oh my GODDD. Typically this wouldnt be that huge of an issue in a typical fandom since those are characters who exist together in a cohesive narrative. DC, and comics as a whole, don’t function at all like that and every section of DC functions as their own isolated fandom, and when you start clogging tags that are utterly unrelated to your post, people start having issues. So much of the GL tag is just filled with batfam posts or posts mocking the GL’s themselves because the people who post that only take from the characterisation of out of context panels, the DCAMU, or fanon characterisation — the most popular ‘GL’ posts are just batfam and don’t relate at all. I sort of struggle to articulate this well, but imagine seeing a post about a particular fandom, and for no reason they start dragging another fandom and then tag that fandom, and that post is the most popular in the tag for the fandom that’s being disrespected. It’s just an etiquette issue, but annoying as all hell and is personally my biggest issue, and it isn’t exclusive to just the GL’s, but we seem to get the brunt of it.
They don’t read comics. Honestly speaks for itself, but it’s surprising how stubborn many of them are about actually reading the source material they claim they’re fans of. This leads to a lot of misinformation being spread around and just actual tomfoolery that gets to an embarrassing point to watch. I think it’s straight up disrespectful that they refuse to engage with the comics because they’re too ‘sad’ or ‘edgy’ because they’re holding themselves back from reading some of the best stories ever put to paper.
If I’m being honest, it feels like many of them think comics are too juvenile to handle these topics properly and never really got past thinking that comics are inherently a children’s entertainment medium. Comics have their issues, yes, they’re a product of their environment, as literally everything in art is ever is, and boiling it all down to being sad and edgy and a medium incapable of deconstructing it’s own narrative, characters and themes just as any other artistic medium can is disrespectful towards every creative who has ever worked on comics.
Batglazing. This is just a DC thing in general but a lot of fanon batfam fans who don’t read comics, know fuck all about the characters they’re pitting against each other, and have a general bias towards the batfam do that ‘Bruce beats everyone with prep time’ but 100 times more annoying because they don’t actually know what the fuck they’re talking about. No, Duke does not beat Hal in a fight. No, Hal is not scared of Batman, that’s why they fight in the first place. No, Bruce is not a better scientist than Barry. No, Bruce is not the leader of the JLA, that’s J’onn. No, Bruce is not more leftist than fucking Oliver Queen. They try to place Bruce and the batfam into spaces already occupied by other DC characters, and instead of it being ‘what-ifs’, toying with it like fandom usually does, they treat it as canon and actively get into arguments with actual fans of the characters they’re disrespecting about it. It’s incredibly strange to see, and could be solved by opening up the average JLA or Titans run — or even just looking up at solo team up issues.
I’m gonna give my own opinion and say that a lot of this is just genuinely bad fandom etiquette and shows how bad the state of it currently is, and that I’d have a lot less issues if these people tagged properly. The not reading comics thing is egregious, but I literally wouldn’t give a shit if they kept out of our tags. A lot of this is just DC power scaling fitted into the clown suit of fandom, with a healthy dose of the medium of comics that literally makes it impossible to get a good reading of characters without reading damn near almost over 60 years of comics, which is why I give such leeway to fanon fans a lot of the time.
DC characters are riddled with conflicting characterisation, mischaracterisation, 50+ years of comics that takes months to read through, retconned and rebooted lore, involved in events that takes days to read through that, ultimately, do not impact the character. It’s hard to get into comics. I get wanting to engage in a fandom like DC that is so expansive, has decades of rich history, fantastic character work and being apprehensive on how much you have to read, but if it gets to a point of people questioning if you even know what the hell you’re talking about, then it’s probably a time to crack open a reading list.
Thank you for the ask anon and hope you have fun on your reading journey!
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