Professional writers can screw up their characterization just like amateurs can. Especially in canons like superhero comics, where multiple writers across decades have been interpreting the characters in different ways and taking their characterization in different directions. A single writer can fuck up their own characters, too, but they're more likely to have had a coherent vision for the character than a writing team.
It's not automatically illegitimate to say that something a character does in canon was really OOC for them, based on their established characterization up to that point. It's just a way of calling out bad writing.
(Of course it's no more automatically legitimate than any claim of OOCness, particularly one based on shipping, but "ooc" is not a fault that only fan writers are capable of having.)
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Professional writers can screw up their characterization just like amateurs can. Especially in canons like superhero comics, where multiple writers across decades have been interpreting the characters in different ways and taking their characterization in different directions. A single writer can fuck up their own characters, too, but they're more likely to have had a coherent vision for the character than a writing team.
It's not automatically illegitimate to say that something a character does in canon was really OOC for them, based on their established characterization up to that point. It's just a way of calling out bad writing.
(Of course it's no more automatically legitimate than any claim of OOCness, particularly one based on shipping, but "ooc" is not a fault that only fan writers are capable of having.)