What are some inaccurate fan myths you wish would die?

[CharlesPhipps]

The thing about nerds and geeks etc. is that very few nerds and geeks nowadays are actually nerds and geeks. They're normies who like things that have been rubber stamped by society as being nerdy or geeky and as such have taken on the identity as a matter fitting in.

The Lord of the Rings was made famous by hippies who adopted it.

Star Wars was loved by billions.

Goths have always been kind of sexy and cool.

Nerds actually never owned anything they liked.

[Makeshift Python]

The thing about nerds and geeks etc. is that very few nerds and geeks nowadays are actually nerds and geeks. They're normies who like things that have been rubber stamped by society as being nerdy or geeky and as such have taken on the identity as a matter fitting in. I think that is where the ''fake nerd'' stereotype comes from, particularly with women, as it is rather annoying to watch someone who shrills about what a geek they are just because they have a Superman T-shirt and play Fortnite but otherwise have zero investment beyond that.

http://www.dorkly.com/post/46874/female-fantasy-iii

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I don't know if this counts, but that theory that James Bond is in fact many different people needs to die. Yes, its silly that the man started his career in the 1960s as Sean Connery and ended it in the early noughties as Pierce Brosnan (making him a senior citizen) but this is also the franchise that contains villains with teeth that can eat steel cables, literal voodoo gods that cannot die, women that can see the future with cards, men with three nipples etc. It was never meant to be a serious franchise until Daniel Craig took over as a whole new Bond.

The evidence that he is one guy is littered throughout the films, the most prominent being the repeated references to Tracy Bond and all of the returning gadgets in Die Another Day.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to just assume it's one guy that went on continuous missions, relegating modernized environmental developments to unspoken production changes as with Star Trek costuming or DCAU design fluctuations between shows.

Works rather nicely as I think Roger Moore was pretty old by the time he finished doing it also.

[GreyICE]

Female dwarfs totally have beards you Libtard Cuck!

If the late Sir Terry Pratchett says it's true then it's true.

[Madner Kami]

men with three nipples etc. It was never meant to be a serious franchise until Daniel Craig took over as a whole new Bond.

Um... [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_nipple]Bond was always real.[/url]

[hammerofglass]

That every interpersonal relationship of any kind including active enmity is either sexual tension or a sign that the characters are having sex offscreen.

I guess finding justification for every possible combination is half the fun for shippers, but it seems like you have to slog through it when discussing anything fandom related these days.

[TheStarWarsTrek]

Hmm. I thought "Darth Jar Jar" was just a funny joke, until I saw a bunch of posts that seemed to take it as gospel that yes, it really was Luca's intention to make Jar Jar a Sith until fan backlash to the character made him drop that thread after TPM. Which is just . . . there are so many problems with that idea. Not to mention all the "evidence" has the same energy as those youtube conspiracy videos that have a random red circle in the thumbnail.

Ooh, here's another good one "Man, Indiana Jones caused the Holocaust! If he had done nothing, the Nazis would have taken the Ark of the Covenant straight to Berlin and opened it in front of a grinning Hitler!" Um, no. In the movie Bellock clearly states that they should open it first to make sure the tablets are really there, so they don't look like jackasses in front of Hitler.

Oh, and another one: "The Joker's plan in TDK makes no sense!" Sure, like many movie plans things seem to go too perfectly in some cases. But I think people are mistakenly assuming that Harvey Dent becoming Two Face was part of the plan. Joker didn't NEED that to happen, he was probably already planning to blow up a hospital, and when Dent was injured he just seized the opportunity.

[TheStarWarsTrek]

Another one: I've heard the old chestnut "Bruce Wayne spends all his money dressing up like a bat to punch poor people when he could use his money to fight the sources of crime!". First of all, all the soup kitchens and after school programs in the world aren't going to stop the likes of the Joker or Ras Al Ghul, they're called *super* criminals for a reason.

Second, Bruce Wayne hosting a charity ball (which is then crashed by a supervillain), or his company inventing some new tech (that is stolen by a supervillain) is basically a Batman cliche at this point.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I can't stand people shoving the theory of Jar Jar Binks being Ray's father down everyone's throats. First off, do we even know how long Gungans live? He must be like 120 years old by the time Force Awaken comes along. Also, why doesn't Rey show any physical traits of a Gungan? Have we been given any evidence that she can breathe underwater? You want to complain about Last Jedi being a crap movie, fine. You want to lament over Legends being tossed to the dogs like scraps only to be regurgitated back into canon by heartless executives who aren't going to do the characters any justice and are probably going to milk them dry and obviously exploit them just to make Abrams' far fetched idea work when it couldn't at all in the first place, fine. Just stop trying to convince me that Jar Jar is Rey's father. It's an absurd idea considering we haven't even seen Jar Jar in not only this set of movies, but the original trilogy as well. Where's he been this whole time?

[Madner Kami]

I can't stand people shoving the theory of Jar Jar Binks being Ray's father down everyone's throats. First off, do we even know how long Gungans live? He must be like 120 years old by the time Force Awaken comes along. Also, why doesn't Rey show any physical traits of a Gungan? Have we been given any evidence that she can breathe underwater? You want to complain about Last Jedi being a crap movie, fine. You want to lament over Legends being tossed to the dogs like scraps only to be regurgitated back into canon by heartless executives who aren't going to do the characters any justice and are probably going to milk them dry and obviously exploit them just to make Abrams' far fetched idea work when it couldn't at all in the first place, fine. Just stop trying to convince me that Jar Jar is Rey's father. It's an absurd idea considering we haven't even seen Jar Jar in not only this set of movies, but the original trilogy as well. Where's he been this whole time?

Is this a parody-theory you just came up with? Because if you did, then thanks for the lolz. If this theory is indeed out there and the creator was serious, then kudos to the trolls who perpetuate it and :facepalm: to everyone truely believing it and a :nail to the central forehead: of the creator.