What is a true fan?
 

I've wondered this for quite some time, now.. I think it's finally time I got a few other opinions. What do you guys think a true fan is? Is a true fan:

A) Someone who loves everything related to a certain subject.. i.e. Street Fighter fans who love the Street Fighter movie, simply because it is Street Fighter.

OR..

B) Someone who only loves good things related to a certain subject, and feels that bad things are disgraceful.. i.e. People who hate the Street Fighter movie because they feel it brings shame to the series.

What do you think?

A true fan is someone that doesn't have anything to prove.

:| You've got some issus that need resolving, boyo...


A fan? What is a fan? I assume its just shortened from fanatic. In that case "A"

I happen to be a fan of many things that I have a ton of things about them I don't like.

What do you mean by that?

B.

Like me... I hate the 3rd TMNT movie because it brings shame to us mutants an' turtle lovin' humans...

It's pretty obvious... the whole Japan obsession.

Sure, I like it a lot, but that doesn't make me worse than any other person on this board.

Hey, Japan rocks.

It's just a land mass.

A COOl land mass.

Yeah, Japan is cool, but Japan can suck, too...

I'm impressed. That was big of you.

I'd have to say "A". Because there could be a release of the turtles getting their ass whooped by Barney, and the A-fan could say "That sh*t ruled!!!" It would take someone who wouldn't mind sacrificing their intellect and looking like the dumbest person in the world just for their own idol(s). B-fan speaks only the truth, doesn't mean he's/she's a true fan (nor does it mean he/she ISN'T a true fan), it just means he's/she's being honest. But for someone to look completely idiotic for their idol(s), I'd have to say he/she would be the one to stick with the idol(s) 'til the end.

Rap is being introduced. There are no more ninjas. Kanji pisses me off. Japanese girls like "thugs" now. A lot of the food is garbage.

Yeah, Japan can suck.

EDIT: Oh, and anime is terrible as of late.

I went with A because I thought of how so many hate the second Turtle movie...I still like it because I just love the Turtles and the nostalgia. Oh well, I imagine if the Turtles start changing storylines every ten years and they totally become alien to me, I might start becoming more of a B...maybe I already am a little.

I picked A. But, I won't say that a "true" fan has to love everything about their fandom, they simply don't let those "bad" things influence their feelings.

It's all a matter of opinion. But I believe a true fan will enjoy and love their choosen fandom, through the good and bad, thick and thin, fair-weather fans, and critics.

Definately B. Have to be selective in what you like.

I guess B...

There is no such thing as a true fan.

b, i think.

I would never want to go to japan with all them damn earthquakes they got...

I have to agree with Kali. Good and bad is relative. An example is that I personally enjoy COOTS while many people do not like it at all. Yet even those of us who disagree still consider ourselves TMNT fans. Many times you become a fan of something for a reason. Sometimes the thing you like goes in a bad direction (COOTS for some people, Next Mutation for many others), but you don't stop loving it for those small mistakes. You take what you think is good, and cherish it. You acknowledge the bad, and hope your critcism (if constructive) can actually help change things and make them better.

I did not vote on this, because I can't really agree with A or B.

I'm with Stone Ill on this one. A fan's a fan, there's no such thing as a TRUE fan, because how the hell can a FALSE fan exist? Even if they like it without knowing next to crap about it, a fan is still a fan. Infact the whole true fan crap tends to piss me off.

And HEY some people like the third TMNT movie! *looks around and sees she's alone on that part* @#&$#&#!

Hey, I'm with you! I enjoyed the third movie also.

Yay! ^.^

A true fan:

http://img24.photobucket.com/albums/...loniss/fan.jpg

good one ^.^

I like TMNTIII too, yo. I honestly believe that people would not hate it as much if the costumes were Henson costumes.

I have to agree with the no such thing as a true fan thing.

although I think there are people who are what i call "Fad Fans" they are only fans of things that are popular at the moment.. and as soon as its unpopular they drop it and pretend they were never into it.

THOSE are the people who aggrivate me.

I think that in order to be considered a "FAN" you have to be able to take the good with the bad. You don't have to like it. just accept it's existance and admit it was part of the franchise.

personally I liked the 3rd movie. it was fun for what it was. now it EASILLY could have been better. but it was still fun.

and I can even admit that next mutation had its merits. it wasn't my favorite but I accept its existance.

What about Naruto and Wolf's Rain??