# What was the loudest fanboy howl of outrage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810 "2005-09-09T13:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/1 "2005-09-09T13:49:55Z")
There are so many from which to choose…Michael Keaton getting cast as Batman…Highlander 2 making it clear that there \*could \* be more than one…Jar Jar… but for me the collective scream that should have been audible all the way to Antarctica was: The **Sephiroth Fanboys** squealing in horror when it was revealed that **Lance Bass** would provide the voice of their idol in **Kingdom Hearts.** ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/2 "2005-09-09T13:53:53Z")
It’s a toss-up between: Midichlorians, and Han shot first. And I wish they’d shut up about them both. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/3 "2005-09-09T13:54:53Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It’s a toss-up between: > Midichlorians, > and > Han shot first. > > And I wish they’d shut up about them both. Well, they were dead right about both of them, so… ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/4 "2005-09-09T13:58:42Z")
Add in the revelation in the Doctor Who TV movie that the Doctor is half-human. And god-allmighty- he kissed a woman! ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/5 "2005-09-09T13:59:58Z")
Did the Trekkies cry blue murder when Kirk died? My personal howl of outrage…nipples on the Batsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Innuendo\_Hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Innuendo\_Hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innuendo_Hunter)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/6 "2005-09-09T14:03:39Z")
**The Scouring of the Shire** or **Tom Bombadil** Take your pick I still loved the movies, however. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/7 "2005-09-09T14:08:21Z")
> [@](#): > > The Sephiroth Fanboys squealing in horror when it was revealed that Lance Bass would provide the voice of their idol in Kingdom Hearts. Despitw the fact that he had about 2 lines and delivered them well, of course. I believe it was N’Sync or the Backstreet boys who were going to appear in Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. Of course, none of the ragin fanboys noted that, in fact, they were going to basically onscreen as anonymous Jedi and get immediately blown away by droids. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/8 "2005-09-09T14:17:53Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Add in the revelation in the Doctor Who TV movie that the Doctor is half-human. > And god-allmighty- he kissed a woman! I hated that, but it seems like most Whovians have learned to deal. Lungbarrow, the book that elaborates about his family mentioned it. (Available [here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lungbarrow/index.shtml) Personally, I just go with the fanon on this. Oh, and as for outcries, it wasn’t _the_ biggest, but I really loved the following: > [@Harlan Ellison](#): > > ``` > They could not have been more offended, confused, enraged and > > ``` > > startled…There was a moment of stunned silence…and then an eruption > of angry voices from all over the fifteen-hundred-person audience. The > kids in their Luke Skywalker pajamas (cobbled up from older brother’s > castoff karate _gi_) and the retarded adults spot-welded into their > Darth Vader freight-masks howled with fury. But I stood my ground, there > on the lecture platform at the World Science Fiction Convention, and I > repeated the heretical words that had sent them into animal hysterics: > > “_Star Wars_ is adolescent nonsense; _Close Encounters_ is > obscurist drivel; _Star Trek_ can turn your brains into puree of bat > guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is _Doctor > Who_! And I’ll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it > up!” \ [Cite](http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/msg/75c6c6040b76a937?dmode=print&hl=en) . ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/9 "2005-09-09T14:36:41Z")
You just gotta love Ellison. He’s a dick. But you gotta love him. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/10 "2005-09-09T14:44:05Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > You just gotta love Ellison. > > He’s a dick. But you gotta love him. I’d contest that. The first and third sentences, anyway. My personal outrage moment was when I heard Nicholas Cage had been cast to play Superman - fortunately, it fell through. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/11 "2005-09-09T14:58:13Z")
The howl that came up when people found out about Arwen accompanying the Fellowship along on their quest so they could promote the love story. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/12 "2005-09-09T15:00:07Z")
H.e.a.t.? ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/13 "2005-09-09T15:14:36Z")
Bah! Those all pale in comparision to the hue and cries that went up way back when NBC cancelled Star Trek (TOS). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/14 "2005-09-09T15:23:30Z")
I think Ellison’s been proved right, over time. I am curious as to what he’d say about Firefly, mind you, but you can’t really do SF on TV that well. Too darn boring. Even B5 isn’t really hard SF. The Rubber Batsuit was a bigger outrage than Keaton, as I recall. But the biggest fanboy howl? Ever? Crisis. And Byrne’s Superman. Even more the latter than the former, but it was like adding insult to injury. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/15 "2005-09-09T15:26:19Z")
I wonder what the howl was like when they heard James Bond was going to be played by a Scotsman! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/16 "2005-09-09T15:27:08Z")
I agree with: - Nipples on the Batsuit - Greedo shooting first And will add: - Jeff Lynne producing two Beatles’ tracks with the ghost of Lennon’s voice - Dylan going electric back at Newport in the 60’s ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/17 "2005-09-09T15:40:15Z")
Organic web shooters. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/18 "2005-09-09T15:46:31Z")
Hal Jordan / Paralax. Not only was it a howl heard 'round the world, but the cleanup on that has been going on for, what? Over a decade now. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/19 "2005-09-09T15:48:00Z")
Going back: Arthur Conan Doyle killing off Sherlock Holmes ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810/20 "2005-09-09T15:48:32Z")
> [@ArrMatey!](#): > > Hal Jordan / Paralax. > > Not only was it a howl heard 'round the world, but the cleanup on that has been going on for, what? Over a decade now. That was what I meant by H.E.A.T. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-loudest-fanboy-howl-of-outrage/320810.md?page=2)