I honestly don't get how you're getting any of what you're getting out of what i am saying. Of course the issue is not that i have a strict "don't speak except when spoken to" rule. that would be silly, no matter how dreamy Zero Esc may or may not be.
But you are reacting to something I said to someone else, as though it is incorrect, based on something you said. Even though it is actually completely correct, based on reality. What I said, again, had nothing to do with your statement beyond the name Shazam, which is tje correct name given to the character by the people who own that character, and the name he will certainly be given if given his own movie. The Rock would not be playing Captain Marvel, he'd be playing Shazam. If it helps to think of them as two separate characters, then think of it like that. in that case, I wasn't speaking of Captain Marvel, I was speaking of Shazam, who looks much like Captain Marvel and has the same powers and origin, but is a totally different person.
As far as faceless conglomerate mumbo jumbo, like it or not that faceless conglomerate owns the character, and eventually, you DO have to accept their changes.
Thats easier for me to do because i have no attachment to the character. But when changes are made to my childhood things, I don't actively deny these changes and try to tell people they are wrong. Its something we have to do as adults.
Hell, the last Hobbit movie was shit and changed just about everything from the book. i grew up reading that book with my mom, one chapter a night, over and over again for years. I love that book. But if someone wants to say Legolas saved the dwarves asses in Mirkwood Forest from the spiders, I don't go "Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! IDIOT!" I tell them "in the movie yes, but did you know that in the book, he wasn't even there? Bilbo saved them."
