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killer shrike
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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004
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Subj: Nope
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 12:44:37 am EDT
Reply Subj: Call it a difference in the willingness to suspend disbelief, then.
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 12:22:49 am EDT (Viewed 446 times)


> Because, from where I stand, even though kids are more than willing to suspend their disbelief for stupid tropes that THEY like, they have ZERO tolerance for tropes that they're even so much as lukewarm about, especially if those tropes are seen as older than their own generation.


They seem to be OK with the idea of a secret identity for Spider-Man, since all three of his films have raked in over a billion dollars. Batman, too, seems to be doing OK for himself.

How many Manga characters use the idea of a secret identity? The Sailor Moon franchsie had them. Power Rangers too.

Technically, the entire mythology of Harry Potter is an extension of the idea of a secret identity, since the average person doesn't even seem to know magic exists in that world (or at least didn't in the two books I read).

Secret identities as a plot device aren't going anywhere.