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Because it isn’t, “iconic”. It references a specific iteration of the character, one that happens to have been created during the most impressionable years of a certain generations youth. It’s only, “iconic” to them because they’ve never known the character without it. https://twitter.com/jdv_17/status/1355949779650490374
But let’s examine the word icon for a moment. An icon is something regarded as something representative of a larger idea or whole worthy of veneration or great respect. Superman is an icon as a representative of all superheros because it speaks to the essence of the style.
So when you say that, “Booyah” is iconic you are making the claim that it is somehow a representation worthy of veneration. It’s SO important that it conjures up an entire idea of something larger just on its own and it’s worthy of great respect as a representative that whole.
Even if you want to reduce that conversation to JUST talking about Cyborg as a character, you’re saying that catchphrase is a worthy representative of that character. Everything that character is at its core; distilled into one word. And that word is, “Booyah”?
This is what Ray Fisher was talking about; reducing the character to a catchphrase. If you think that word is so important, so representative of who and what that character is that not to include constitutes, “disrespect” of the character you are announcing that you don’t really
know or care all that much about the character or how it’s presented. You only care about being reminded that the version you’re most comfortable with, the one you’ve known the longest, really is that important. Its not about the character; it’s about you.
And when you believe that satisfying your childhood attachment to one cartoon version is so important that every future iteration needs to be sure to venerate it, I think that’s being disrespectful to the character.
And for those who might read this and feel the need to comment that it’s just a word and not that important, that sword cuts both ways. And I’m not the one that turned this into a debate over what’s important or who truly cares for the character.
You can’t have it both ways. It’s either important, in which case I think you need to own your sense of self-importance, or it’s not important - so why bring it up? As always this isn’t about Zack Snyder - this is about us as fans. It’s about you. We all need to own our bullshit.
