Talk:Bruce Banner vs Bruce Jenner/@comment-7464192-20160628012841/@comment-24322797-20160628020849

Most connections for ERB take a general concept with more added on to it to increase the specificity - That's why Tolkien vs Martin is "fantasy authors with RR initials" opposed to just "authors" which could apply to so many people that the matchup doesn't make sense because why this guy vs that guy. Dragon's battle does that... sort of, with Harry vs Spider-Man being "heroes" with a ton of other stuff added on to make it more specific. But the problem being, with something like Banner vs Jenner, or Martin vs Tolkien, it's completely obvious what that specificity is - "fantasy authors with RR initials," "People named Bruce ''who transform through science." ''Dragon's battle doesn't do that. The only obvious connection between Potter and Spidey beyond "heroes" is "orphans" and that alone isn't even enough to carry the idea. People would need a summary of the match-up just to understand why it's happening instead of something like Harry vs Percy or Spidey vs Tarzan

Spidey vs Tarzan doesn't suffer from this, because the main parallels are obvious - Heros that swing from things. The orphans, animals and lovers named Jane connection only make it better. Spider-Man vs Potter skips the step of obvious connections and goes straight into the side stuff that's there to increase the idea instead of act as it's very foundation. It's like putting decorations on a cake you never put batter in for.

wow this came out longer than i expected