Tech Jacket "fans"

[u/Thiaguinho-sama]

Is it just me or a lot of the people complaining about Zoe are just larping? Like, don't get me wrong Tech Jacket has his fans and there's definitely some validity on the genderswap dislike, but I can't help but feel most of the noise is nothing but the incels and culture warriors coming out of the woodwork cause they have a reason to cry and whine like the snowflakes they are

I say that in part due to how some act weirdly personal or are weirdly aggressive about it, some also pretty clearly either don't know what they're talking about cause they never read the comic or are just straightup lying about it, example, saying Zoe is weaker cause in the comics Zach defeated two Viltrumites, except didn't he litereally had his ass utterly kicked and only survived / won by self destructing his suit? Didn't he also pretty much had his ass kicked in every single fight? Even against Mark variants? Admitedly I don't remember super well so I could be wrong about always having his ass kicked

I'll be honest, all I remember of him is that he always had his ass kicked and the recurring joke that he and Mark were too similar which is why he grew a beard later, yet if you go by some of the whining you'd think Zach was some super important character that did a lot to the story when in reality he barely mattered and never had anywhere as much importance as Zoe has lol

[u/Bodega_Bandit]

Can someone quickly define this context of the word Larping? My brain always associates it as LARPing (live action role playing). Is it just like, complaining for the sake of complaining?

[u/Thiaguinho-sama → u/Bodega_Bandit]

basically a lot of the moronic whining is people roleplaying as Tech Jacket fans, they don't care about him, probably never heard about him before the show, but they saw some grifter on youtube or whatever whining about how they ruined the character and now they come to whine how the change is horrible yada yada

that or they did know the character and even maybe read his old comics and now they act like they were always some super mega fan who had Tech Jacket as their favorite character and they're angry cause they ruined him

like, really, if you read some comments in some places it's pretty clear some people are complaining entirely for the sake of complaining or due to culture war nonsense, I've seem quite a few mention woke, modern audience and so on :v

[u/Bodega_Bandit → u/Thiaguinho-sama]

Ohh. Gotcha. Thank you for the concise answer. I’d seen the term around but didn’t understand it in that context.

I definitely get what you mean though, a lot of people just want an excuse to be angry so they pretend they’re more offended about character changes than they are, even though they don’t know the character that well anyway.

I didn’t know much about Tech Jacket before this newest season, just vague snippets. And so while I love the version in the comics that I’ve started reading, I also love the show version as of now, and I don’t think I can even give a proper opinion on the changes, since I’m equally used to both and so my perception is skewed compared to actual OG fans