Idiotic BATMAN V SUPERMAN Rumor Shows How Far Some Fanboys Will Go To Avoid The Truth

We've heard a lot of rumors about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but this is by far the most ridiculous. I don't believe a single word of it is true, but I wanted to tell you about it to illustrate just how far some fanboys will go to twist things into a narrative that fits their own vision, while being completely blinded by obvious truths. The rumor comes from TotalSpoiler, and I tried reading it there, but I simply didn't have time to sift through all of the thousands of words of broken English; thankfully io9 has a good rundown of the main points.

The first thing this batch of insanity claims is that Ben Affleck isn't actually playing Batman...he's playing Slade Wilson (Deathstroke) in disguise as Batman. The supposed "proof" lies in the fact that the character has impersonated Batman before in the comics, that Batman's "do you bleed?" line from the BVS trailer is close to Deathstroke's "I will make you bleed" quote from Injustice: Gods Among Us (a video game, by the way), and that Slade Wilson also has a butler in the comics. (Presumably the writer doesn't believe Jeremy Irons is playing Alfred because we haven't explicitly heard his name mentioned in the trailers yet.)

We've already seen rumors that claim Jared Leto's Joker in Suicide Squad was originally Batman's sidekick Robin before he went crazy and turned into the supervillain, and this new rumor says that Batman v Superman directly connects with the Christopher Nolan Batman films because Joker is actually Joseph Gordon-Levitt's John Blake, revealed to have the middle name of "Robin" at the end of The Dark Knight Rises. (HE'S NOT THE TRADITIONAL "ROBIN," HE'S THE NEW BATMAN, but that's a whole different rant.) As io9 says:

So somehow, Batman v Superman would be set after The Dark Knight Rises but with Blake as Robin working with Deathstroke as Batman? And at some point, Blake becomes the next Joker? Oh god, my head hurts.

And finally, the rumor says that the reason the film has a "v" instead of a "vs" in the title is because the "v" is actually a secret Roman numeral 5, which supposedly stands for the fifth movie in the Nolan Batman timeline (following Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and Man of Steel).

I've written a lot about the fanboy reaction to Nolan movies before, but completely inventing something like this takes fanaticism to a whole new level. These ramblings of a raving fanboy clinging so desperately to Nolan's trilogy results in a bonkers theory, but it's also profoundly sad. This person can't come to grips with reality, so they create a reality of their own...at least until the movie comes out and proves him wrong, at which point he'll probably go frame by frame throughout the film searching for clues that prove his theory is still somehow correct, insisting he's the only one smart enough to see it.

Creating fan theories about upcoming movies can sometimes be fun, and people like J.J. Abrams almost encourage it by keeping as many secrets as possible (and sometimes going to strange lengths to deceive fans, a mistake he probably won't make again). But not everything deserves a conspiracy theory, and when you have to twist things around to fit your narrative so much that all logic completely vanishes from the equation, you've taken it too far.