I stumbled upon this Wikipedia page and ended up spending all day reading talk pages. I know comic fans are a bristly bunch that will argue canon, names, etc for hours upon hours. Example: did Spider-Man kill Gwen Stacy if TPBs that came out after the original comic don’t show the infamous “snap”? WELL?
So I wasn’t surprised that a two comic book issues made the list:
- Where should Tiamut’s picture in the Celestials entry go? An edit war between DCincarnate and Asgardian (insert “Ass-Guardian” joke here) started that went on for just about forever: about 11 edits (those are all links btw).
Until it turned out that Asgardian is a bit of a douche and likes to call other people’s edits “petty”. So… he is a perfect comic book fan.
- But all the fun was reserved for the Avengers when a huge flame war erupted when New Avengers was released and people started bitching that New Avengers isn’t the same as plain ol’ Avengers. My favorite quote there came when someone blamed BMB for the issue: “Bendis is educated. He loves doing this kind of stuff — splitting the internet in half, or in our case, splitting Avengers fans in half, the pro-merge and the anti-merge.” BMB can never catch a break these days. Eventually anti-merge won (unlike anti-registration) and the New Avengers Wikipedia was created and the old Avengers page was more or less edited to be a history of everything pre-New Avengers and basic info about the split. Until…
- The Mighty Avengers was slated for release! Oh shit, old wounds! But this time around they just made a Mighty Avengers page while admitting that this split was probably just temporary and that eventually the main Avengers article would have to be updated once this split was over.
Other fun stuff:
- Did you know that Robin encourages homosexuality?
- More importantly, is Batman gay? This was discussed quite a bit, crap (each of those is a link also)!
- Hal Jordan isn’t evil anymore!
Great stuff I tell you. You could spend days in talk pages.



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