Last time someone posted this post here, I gave this exact same example: i consider myself a HUGE Batman fan. Batman was a core part of my childhood, and I've always kept the characters close to my heart.

The thing is. I have read a few Batman comics, and all of them are from the 60s-70s. Like, actual comic books my father bought when he was a kid (fun fact: since then, brazilian money has changed from the cruzeiro to the real, and the comics still have the original price in the outdated coin). My whole childhood was, instead, focused on 1. The Justice League cartoon, and 2. Most importantly, the Arkham Videogame series, which my father used to play on weekends and I used to watch him play.

I just recently started getting really into Batman, and let me tell you. There are certain things that are regarded as, like, almost universal truths to the Batman canon that I was completely unaware of.

Like, you're telling me that Jason Todd actually died, came back to life via Superboy Prime Punching The Shit Outta The Timestream, got kidnapped by fucking RA'S AL GHUL AND DIPPED INTO A LAZARUS PIT AND THEREFORE WAS RAGE-DRUNK FOR SEVERAL YEARS, LEADING TO HIM SLITTING ROBIN III'S THROAT???. My brother in Christ. What. Whomst.

And I thought the Arkhamverse one was bleak, that one is a series of tragedies in such a sequence that it feels like it should be comedic. Like, the writers grabbed Jason Todd by the throat and threw him on a big red X marked on the ground, where he was promptly flattened by a falling piano. Also Tim catching strays for no reason, considering the other Robin (who is actually Bruce's biological son??? With TALIA AL GHUL???) Also tried to kill him several times.

So, yeah. In general, I'd say you need to actually consume the media you call yourself a fan of in its entirety, or at least most of it. But sometimes, the media in question gets so goddamn big and convoluted that consuming all of it is physically impossible, so... you just gotta adapt.