A similar thing happened with Philip Seymour Hoffman, known to all as “Phil Hoffman” who got screwed six ways to sunday with his stage name. However, that isn’t anything at all like this.

Twodd? Any welation to Wodger?

Way ahead of you!

I worked with a woman years ago who would dig in her heels about exactly one subject: her Spanish-speaking parents named her Teresa (pronounced Teh-RAY-sa), and if you called her Ter-REE-sa she would immediately correct you. We actually had a few coworkers who decided to follow her lead and stop anglicizing their…

I see what u did there.

“Samir” isn’t even difficult! 

Much like Annie Hathaway, I accept this change with open arms. Its a shame that a cultural rich name had to be cut down because someone didn’t think it worked. Good on you Thandiwe.

This happens so often.  My first name is “Samir”.  The number of times people have just gone right to “I’m gonna call you ‘Sam’” is annoying.  Usually to be polite I’ve just let it be since it’s often something like the scenario you mention: first day at work or introductions.  You don’t want to come across as…

Toddiwe.

Newton for the W

You’re on fiwre today!

I can’t figure out where my royal W goes.
Twodd?
Towdd?
Toddw?

Sure thing, Kiri...van...oh...Kevin.

I remember when I was in my early twenties and working at the office of an assisted living facility, we had a new resident with a slightly uncommon Hispanic first name like Hermenegildo. He introduced himself using his full name to a coworker, and the coworker immediately says something like “How about I call you Ermie…

Will you still respond to “Hey You!” when someone is yelling at you to stop going through their garbage?

Good for her.

To be fair, without Star Wars, we would never have gotten the Star Trek revival that was launched with TMP.

The Dark Knight is no more responsible for crap like the Snyderverse (come at me) than Star Wars is for the glut of tiresome imitator space movies from the 1980s, or Nirvana is for the entirety of late 90s rock. Innovators are not responsible for imitators.

The MCU has delivered literally dozens of non-“grimdark” superhero movies.  If that’s what you like you are well served and D.C. has also made several lighthearted superhero movies like Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Green Lantern. Neither The Dark Knight nor any of the other darker superhero movies are taking anything…

As is pointed out in the article, the MCU went with a different tone from The Dark Knight and was hugely successful.