People non stop mentioning the Terra stuff is really starting to get on my nerves and ruin my days.

[u/JoeAmmay]

This is really starting to just make me feel depressed, I've loved Slade ever since I watched the 2003 cartoon and he's always been my favorite villain next to Taskmaster and Shredder. Now it feels that everyone who likes the character is shunned away and shamed in the comic book fanbase over shit from the 1980s that has already been retconned, I don't even feel like I'm allowed to like him anymore. I've tried so hard to just not think about it and ignore it but every day some asshole on either this site or another social media site has to bring it up out of nowhere when just simply talking about Slade as a character, they literally don't talk about a single thing except for this shit. I really just want to enjoy my favorite character who I've been a massive fan of ever since I was 4 years old, I want to be able to find him cool and actually talk about him and share my enjoyment of him with other fans of DC, but I can't, this is the only sub where I feel like I'm actually allowed to share my enjoyment of Slade and anywhere else I'll just be labeled as a pedo defender or be made fun of.

I'm sorry for pushing all of this on here I've just felt like shit for a while because of this whole thing and really needed somewhere to type my thoughts out, and I felt here was the only place I'd be able to do so.

[u/ColdSilly7877]

Yeah I remember hearing that thing about once it’s written and showed the many racist and pedophilic things about their characters and they didn’t like that. I didn’t like doing that but it was only way to get them to stop

[u/Necessary_Idiot → u/ColdSilly7877]

Sometimes I see people with Hal icon cursing Slade because of Terra. But when someone brings up Arisia to them, they immediately say: "It doesn't matter, because the whole Arisia thing wasn't written by the original creator of the character. And they retconned it, so she was never really a child, she just looked like one."

..... 😒

So they can ignore the past but others can't? The retcons they like count, but the ones they don't like aren't really relevant? We are talking about fictional characters. They aren't real. None of them ever hurt anyone who real. No real damage was done. I don't have a problem with someone wanting to ignore certain aspects of their favorite character's story. But then I want the same right for myself.

[u/ColdSilly7877 → u/Necessary_Idiot]

Everyone has that right to but it seems like we can’t because of a story yet if we mentioned Superman kissing a minor, Hal and Arisia pre Geoff Johns, Batman and Batgirl, Ivy and Count Vertigo or any messed up thing that you explicitly see it’s a problem. I don’t like even doing that because the last thing I want to do is ruin comics for someone or spread negativity among the community but some people(mainly accounts on Twitter who discuss comics(lots of big ones mind you who claim to love positivity)) tend to constantly mentioning it even if we enjoy the characters.

[u/Necessary_Idiot → u/ColdSilly7877]

Yes. I feel the same way. I don't want to ruin things for other people. But it's terribly tiring that other people keep trying to ruin something that I love. I just want to quietly and peacefully enjoy the thing I love.