Mindsets for geeks

After writing about the Benoit mindset list earlier this week, I wound up reading this post at Fraggmented, speculating on whether Marvel will resurrect Peter Parker’s long-dead girlfriend Gwen Stacey (MJ’s predecessor as Great Love) sometime soon. And the comments about what a teenager reading today would make of this got me thinking about a Benoit mindset list from the perspective of a comic-book geek (i.e., me). If the comics readers were entering college this year—
•Mary Jane Watson has always been Peter’s great love, and always been his wife (up until the One More Day mess a couple of years back).
•Peter Parker and Flash Thompson have always been buddies.
•Superman and Lois Lane have always been Mr. and Mrs.
•Wonder Woman has never dated Steve Trevor.
•Oliver Queen has always had a beard (in comics, at least).
•John Constantine, Deadman and the New Gods were never new characters—they’ve always been around.
•Tony Stark has never had a bad heart and always been a recovering alcoholic.
•Wolverine has always been an X-Man.
•Up until last year, Wally West has always been the Flash.
•Dick Grayson has always been Nightwing.
•Big-budget, high-quality movies about comic-book characters are nothing unusual or surprising.
•DC’s superheroes have always lived on one Earth.
•There have always been more than one Star Trek series to watch.
•Batman has always been a TV cartoon character.
•Comics have never cost less than a buck.