My husband is a Star Wars fan. A Clone and Stormtroooper collector at that. Being all of these things puts him in company I'd politely say is a mixed bag. The lesson we've talked about is you can't let bad apples ruin what you enjoy. I watched GI Joe as a kid, and it didn't really stick with me the same way Transformers did, but I'm collecting the Classified dudes because they're fun and scale with most of what I have action figure wise. There's no deeper science to it. Just fun army guys and gals.I don't really get what I see of the Joe fandom, but I'm also pretty much at the fringes of that, anyway.