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I think that's a trick question. IMO the most likely outcome for an earlier Bob is he'd be a massive fanboy of DC movies with Marvel being that thing loser "People Who Don't Matter" are into. He'd later take the cancellation of Burton/Schumacher Batman pretty badly before moving on to the DCAU cartoons. Once those stop airing, it's very likely he ends up the MCU fanboy we know him as anyways just as our Bob did a 180 on Nolan's Batman. Ultimately the only notable deviations by our time would be possibly his stance on DC being different and his attachment to Mario/Nintendo would be replaced by something else entirely but I don't know what. Game Overthinker would've never happened but he'd still be a movie critic and have old man rage during Gamergate.With all of Bob's feigned outrage about the canceling of Batgirl I'm curious about an alternate reality where Bob is 40 years old in 1994 and just discovered that Roger Corman's Fantastic Four will never be released. For any fellow Bobologist unaware, a German guy by the name Bernd Elchinger hired B-movie legend Roger Corman to direct a feature length capeshit movie about the Fantastic Four. The entire thing was cast, shot, edited, marketed, and promptly shelved when completed. Unbeknownst to almost everyone working on the movie, the movie was never actually intended to be seen by anyone and that has been confirmed by Stan Lee himself. It wasn't even a cash grab. It was explicitly made so they could keep the rights to the Fantastic Four, as has been the case for every single FF movie since. From the little deep dive I did for this, it seems the actors were sent cease and desist notices to keep them from ever promoting their own movie.
Bob and his merry host of ear chewers act like what happened to Batgirl is some sort of never before seen offense which is laughable makes them deserved of derision. I'm not saying that what happened to FF is what happened to Batgirl mainly because superhero rights and right holders are pretty different then they were in the 90's. I will say that they hired two brown Belgians who never did much of note before to make a multi million dollar super hero movie and the shelving announcement seemed to take everyone by surprise. Was it because they tried the Marvel trend of hiring small indie directors to try to bully them into doing what the studio wants or was it some sort of diversity hire that blew up in their face or was it never meant to be seen by anyone? All I know is that in a year's time bootleg copies of the Corman FF was already circulating and you can watch the whole thing online now. I have zero doubts that Batgirl will leak out and I will bask in that retarded glow like a lizard in the sun when it does.
It really doesn't matter where in history you drop him, unless something really changes him then he's always going to be a slave to his extreme tribalism and he'll superficially adopt whatever are considered mainstream opinions which he'll distort into his own worldview like he does now.
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