It ’s bad to be a fan sometimes — there are so many famed characters , who have been going for so long , that it ’s unvoiced to be an expert on all of them . And what ’s the merriment in being a buff without being an expert ?
specially as time goes by , with so many revamps and reboots , it ’s hard to keep track . And meanwhile , your Friend are get into different eccentric and universes . hold back up with everything is like a full - meter job . So we ’ve get you cover — here ’s our ultimate template to becoming a faux expert on any aggregate - culture medium character , in seven well-situated steps .
Top range : Catwoman byEyemage on Flickr .

So for the purposes of this article , we ’ll pick on two defend characters who are pretty to a great extent let out : Batman ’s nemesis / sexual love interest Catwoman . And the Master , who ’s the Doctor ’s frenemy on Doctor Who . Catwoman is a rugged one , because even after read scads of Catwoman comics over the years , I could n’t separate you what propel her most of the fourth dimension , or what her character is really about . So here ’s a crash grade in how to fake it before you make it .
1 . Get down to the original concept
Find out who the character in the first place was , before all the layers of clobber were added . In the type of Catwoman , this boils down to just her being a glamorous jewel stealer named the Cat . Who says things like , “ Have n’t you seen a pretty lady friend before ? ” and “ I be intimate when I ’m lick . ” It does n’t take long , in the early Bill Finger comics , for Catwoman to start using braggart cats as her pets , and designing cat - related death traps . But essentially : she ’s a jewel stealer with a dim computed axial tomography theme . Meanwhile , the Master was introduce as an malign vis-a-vis to the Doctor , his “ Moriarty ” who uses hypnosis and deathtrap to get his room .

2 . dig into the latest reinvention
You do n’t needs need to know every version of the eccentric that has issue forth about over the years — although some acquaintance with the character reference ’s past faulty turn help . We ’ll come to that in a minute . But you mostly need to know where the theatrical role has ended up now — like in Catwoman ’s case , she ’s now Batman ’s lover , straight up . And she ’s in trouble with Russian gangsters . Also , the movie version of Catwoman is now an Occupy Wall Street rhetoric - spouting revolutionist . As for the Master ? The unexampled edition of that character is straight - up mad , driven Nut by the drumming in his headland that was put there by the Time Lords .
3 . Pick one or two all important storylines from the past to read or keep an eye on

Usually , there ’s one or two moments for any fibre where they actually shone . For Catwoman , it ’s the early issues of her 2002 solo comic by Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke . That was when Catwoman seemed most like she actually had a intention — to safeguard the East End of Gotham . She seemed more like a real person , and she had her own supporting cast . Meanwhile , for the Master , it ’s probably going to be his three - episode arc at the oddment of season four , starting with “ Utopia ” and ending with “ Last of the Time Lords . ” When you ’ve view a character at his / her best , you may kind of skip a lot of the other stuff and nonsense .
4 . Read some fanfic and look at fanart
need to know what the fans are obsess with about a particular character ? ( So you may pretend to be as big a lover as they are ? ) Read the fanfic . It ’ll all be in there , right on the Earth’s surface . A flock of fanfic seems to focalize on a few fix characteristics of a character , plus a bunch of scarcely - hinted - at details , to produce a form of gestalt . The fanfic ( and fan art ) is like a Cliffs Notes to help you see a character from the superfan POV — without having to go through all the textile the actual superfans have consume . It ’s like they ’re manducate your food for you . ( Edited to add : and by this , I stand for , “ pass ten moment skim over some fanfic . ” ) Master fan nontextual matter byHarbek .

5 . Go to one venire at a convention
Just one . You do n’t have to stay the whole time , just hang up out for 20 bit . Long enough to hear the few talk point the creators are travel to hit on , plus the subject that mass seem most frantic to inquire about .
6 . Memorize a few key phrase

You do n’t need to know what they mean — you just need to be able to jabber them on cue , when someone fetch up the fictional character . For Catwoman , remember “ The East End is mine , ” and “ My world is shade of grey . That ’s why you ’ll never empathise me . ”Wikiquote is your friend . For the Master , call up “ Tissue compression eliminator ” ( that ’s his shrink beam ) , “ Oh my dear Doctor , you have been naive , ” “ the speech sound of drums ” and “ I am usually referred to as the Master — universally . ” Memorize two or three catch phrases per character , and everyone will assume you ’re an genuine expert .
7 . Find out the one thing that fans hate & why they detest it
This is really the most all-important step — you take to know what to hate on . Even if you ’ve never ascertain it . For example , nobody actually has to sit through the Catwoman movie to know how dreadful it is — the preview is penalty enough . Also , you just have to glance at a few good example of Jim Balent ’s Catwoman artistic production to abhor it decently . Meanwhile , there are ample clip reels of Anthony Ainley ’s Master at his worst — and you just have to see one or two photos of the Eric Roberts master in his “ pimp high non-Christian priest ” robes to experience the proper hate . work out out what to detest is easy enough — and usually , hating it is fun .

Congratulations ! You are now an expert in all of pop music finish . habituate your baron for in force , or at least socially utilitarian evil .
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