I think you're making massive assumptions here.
Just watching the trends unfold.
I'd say you're making massive assumptions about
me. It's not like I'm new here, you don't have to point out to me what I already know. I'm fully aware that there are legitimate longstanding fans of characters such as Croc (including myself). I may not have properly acknowledged it, but that's because I wasn't addressing it. It was irrelevant. Just because I like the character and support him, that doesn't mean I think he has some kind of heightened chance to be in the film. And that is the main thing I was referring to here.
And along the same vein, while I like him, it's
obvious that he got a gigantic surge in popularity recently for the reasons you and I are now going over. His presence on these boards was a grain of sand compared to what it became a couple months ago. All it takes is a filming location and people who had nothing to say about the character before suddenly start clambering out of the woodwork doing all kinds of research and theorizing and declaring that he WILL be in the next film. Hogwash. It happens like clockwork each time a character becomes an obscure possibility, or another popular one gets eliminated.
This doesn't have to be based off of a rumor, it can also be based on the tiniest of suggestions by a fan. Look at Black Mask. Hell, these suggestions tend to
create rumors somehow.
I find myself unable to ignore the fact that hiveminds do exist, even if there are obviously people who are exceptions to this complaint (and are therefore clearly excused, which I didn't think needed to be said).
And I should also say that I'm grateful this sort of thing has made characters more popular that deserve it. But at the same time, it's a bit ridiculous seeing people claim with such divine certainty that the characters that became popular WILL be in the film
People aren't just supporting villains because they want to back the winning horse after The Riddler's elmination from the running.
That's not entirely what I was suggesting. The idea was to build up a 'new' winning horse since their previous hopeful broke down. Or sometimes even as a Plan B before it happens.
Some are, probably, but there are plenty who... gasp... actually like the characters they're talking up.
I never denied this, Keyser.
That's a real pet peeve of mine, when someone tries to invalidate another person's opinion by saying no, they don't actually believe what they're saying, they're just "jumping on the bandwagon" or "joining in the hive mentality".
Speaking of massive assumptions.
Me pointing out the fact that bandwagons exist is not me invalidating
everyone's opinion who happens to like that character. It's relative to the person, of course. Sigh.
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