The way people call every minor character a 'deep cut' is driving me nuts

I was at my local shop last Saturday and some guy said he was a real fan because he knew who 'The Wall' was from Marvel. That's not a deep cut, that's a character who had a 12-issue run in the 80s. I've been reading comics for 22 years now, and a real deep cut is something like 'Forbush Man' or 'The Great Lakes Avengers' when they first appeared. People just throw the term around to sound smart (and it backfires). Have any of you caught someone pretending to know obscure canon stuff that's actually pretty well known?

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susana6625d ago

Feel you on this one. I had a guy at a con try to impress me by dropping "Misty Knight" like it was some hidden gem. I was like, dude, she's been a regular in Power Man and Iron Fist for decades, she's even popping up in the movies now. It's like folks think having read one issue from 1993 makes them a historian.

bens8125d ago

i mean is it really that deep though? yeah he was trying to flex but it's a comic convention, that's kind of what people do. misty knight is dope but she's not some obscure character, half the people at the con probably know who she is. i get that it's annoying but acting like he's some fake fan because he mentioned a character that's been around forever feels a little over the top. like maybe he was just trying to find common ground and it came off wrong. your mileage may vary but i wouldn't let it get under your skin that much.