Between “Before” and “Now” was the enlightenment. An age in which intellectuals said “I can enjoy both, they are not in direct competition”. This required comparing and contrasting the subject material, critical thinking. It required the viewer to define what makes each franchise unique. The main reason for in-fighting in both communities is the “nu” material paid the fee to call their products “official” but didn’t do the work to make them “authentic”. Now I’m not blaming nu fans, not gatekeeping, this was done to the fandom intentionally by corporate stooges. You don’t hire the same director as the other franchise if you are trying to preserve your distinctiveness, and that goes for marvel/dc too. Don’t get me started on hbo, I’ve been seeing adds with the iron throne that say “to rule then all”. They want you to conflate these properties because they don’t have the grey matter to tell them apart and they don’t want you to either.