Going around on social media tonight is a lot of chatter about Ben Affleck taking the role of Batman. Will he be terrible? Can he pull it off? What about Daredevil?And then there’s a kind of secondary meme I’ve seen beginning to develop–the negative undercurrent of a lot of the conversation has been undercut somewhat by a particular message: Remember Heath Ledger?As you can see on the comments thread archived at Rotten Tomatoes, fans were skeptical of the Oscar-winner when he was announced as the choice to play The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s then-untitled Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight. The ratio of about eight negative (and three extremely negative comments to one positive one is probably about what we’re seeing tonight on Affleck, give or take.This isn’t unheard-of, though; people have a very particular view of their superheroes in their head, having often grown up with the characters. And when that vision of the character is undercut? Well…it ain’t pretty.We’ll leave aside things like the rumor that Michael B. Jordan could turn out to be the next Human Torch. While it’s always fun to watch the frenzy of hate that comes out of the suggestion that a superhero should change his appearance to suit the actor chosen to play him/her, we’ll get plenty of that in the list, which we’ll limit only to theatrical movies that have actually come out.
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