Jul 23 2010Westboro Baptist Church's Comic-Con Protest Counter-Protested By Superhero Opposition

Seen in the top picture going for a four person sign-holding record (and proving there might actually be something to the whole "strength in numbers" thing after all), the Westboro Baptist Church's Comic-Con protest was met with some stiff opposition to say the least. Maybe God's not on your side after all. The superheroes definitely aren't!
They've faced down humans time and time again, but Fred Phelps and his minions from the Westboro Baptist Church were not ready for the cosplay action that awaited them today at Comic-Con. After all, who can win against a counter protest that includes robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and...kittens?
Unbeknownst to the dastardly fanatics of the Westboro Baptist Church, the good folks of San Diego's Comic-Con were prepared for their arrival with their own special brand of superhuman counter protesting chanting "WHAT DO WE WANT" "GAY SEX" "WHEN DO WE WANT IT" "NOW!" while brandishing ironic (and some sincere) signs. Simply stated: The eclectic assembly of nerdom's finest stood and delivered.
Oh man, I love a good counter-protest. Reminds me of the time I saw some asshat out front of a McDonald's picketing to bring the McRib back. I threw an empty bottle at him. MY SILENCE SPOKE VOLUMES.
Hit the jump for a couple more shots of counter-protesters and a video interview.



Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church [comicsalliance] (with a bunch more pictures)
Thanks to Crypt Rats, Fally and Missy, who

Reader Comments
1. Wasteland Tuna - July 23, 2010 2:59 PM
First.
2. Shelbon - July 23, 2010 2:59 PM
My girlfiend is at sdcc right now and I'm so jealous. I would love to beat some baptist arse
3. Margo Roth Spiegleman - July 23, 2010 2:59 PM
This is actually kinda funny! And I know some retard below is gonna be like, "OMFG FAGGOTS GO DIE!"
Can't take a joke.
4. Shelbon - July 23, 2010 3:02 PM
The guy in a bender costume is hilarious
5. GOD HATES GW - July 23, 2010 3:04 PM
F YOUR COUCH, GW!!! The McRib was the shit and I'd do it again, even if you threw another Fiji bottle at me! MCRIB FTW!
(Don't you remember when they first showed up during the Flintstone's movie era? You are ungrateful, sir!)
6. UNO! - July 23, 2010 3:08 PM
BLACK POWER!!!.....Oh!? am i at the wrong protest?....Ummm....DEPORT THEM ALL! hows that?....Better...i thought so :) .......jk folks PEACE is BEAST!
<3, PEACE, & PIGGYS!!
7. Toejam and Earl - July 23, 2010 3:10 PM
@5 McRibs are, indeed, the shit. Though when I worked at McDonald's I remember pressing down on them with weights on a spatula (which was mandated) and fat POURING off of them. Extremely unhealthy.
Delicious.
Anywho... that chick with the four signs is kinda hot. And: lol at the hypnotoad sign.
8. Shelbon - July 23, 2010 3:11 PM
@6 plays a blue 6 and that leaves me with one card.."UNO!" I shouted declaring my imminent victory.
9. UNO! - July 23, 2010 3:14 PM
@8
DAMN YOU!!! Touche......Round 2!....*Plays Wild draw 4, choose's yellow* IN YO FACE!!!!!
10. Phase 10! - July 23, 2010 3:18 PM
@8&9 AH HAA, but I have completed Phase 8 before you could lay down your 7 cards of one color, so I have successfully diverted your win to occupy another space on the calendar!!!!
11. UNO! - July 23, 2010 3:21 PM
@10
OH YEAAH! ......well i just got layed!!!! While commenting on Geekologie! And i had my eyes Closed!! EPIC WIN!
12. wes g - July 23, 2010 3:24 PM
GOD HATES SENTRIES!
this one made me smile :D
http://io9.com/5594111/the-sdcc-god-hates-fags-counterprotest-had-the-best-signs-ever/gallery/2
13. Shelbon - July 23, 2010 3:25 PM
@10 Phase 10? that shit is sooo late 90's. I was playing MTG (magic the gathering). Has anyone seen Bob, from accounting?
14. Shelbon - July 23, 2010 3:29 PM
That's no moon, it's Comic-Con!
These aren't the nerds you're looking for.
"You don't want to protest Comic-Con," "I don't want to protest Comic-Con." "You want to go home and rethink your life," "I want to go home and rethink my life."
15. Phailure 10! - July 23, 2010 3:38 PM
@11&13 DAMMIT! (MTG was the balls, Memnarch ftw)
16. Drew - July 23, 2010 3:55 PM
you can always count on us nerds to have a clever comeback, i mean they even gave us warning and everything!
17. Ch4p3l - July 23, 2010 3:57 PM
Yahtzee!!
18. .... - July 23, 2010 4:01 PM
Darn right the comic book people protested back. Also did the church only have 2 people...
Also Uno I am surprised that you commented about something else for a moment, but did you win your Uno game?
19. Poore Richard - July 23, 2010 4:02 PM
Please stop putting words in the lord's mouth. How do you know what things are hated by God?
A disembodied voice told me to tell you to tell them to stop assuming, you know what that makes of u and me.
Also, why does Bender not have booze? Get this robot some more beer!
20. Zaphod Beeblebrox - July 23, 2010 4:14 PM
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
http://r33b.net/
21. McFeely Smackup - July 23, 2010 4:17 PM
"16. Darn right the comic book people protested back. Also did the church only have 2 people..."
That's almost the entire church. The media doesn't tell this very well, but the so called "westboro baptist church" isnt' a church at all, it's just Fred Phelps and his family.
These guys don't even care what they're protesting, it's all just narcissistic attention whoring. The media laps it up, over and over. Giving them media coverage is giving them exactly what they want, if people ignored them, they'd go away.
So basically, as funny as you might think this comic-con counter protest is, it's the equivalent of feeding a stray cat. You're just guaranteeing they'll be back.
22. Zanatrek - July 23, 2010 4:18 PM
What is this I don't even
Comic books really? Go ahead an read/masturbate to your manga, comics etc. etc to your heart's desire.
The surgeon has come to find the cure for AIDS.
23. TheLepper - July 23, 2010 4:21 PM
nice work down there. :D yeaaahhaaaa!!!
24. killerabbit - July 23, 2010 5:13 PM
What do we want? Fry's dog! When do we want it? Fry's dog!
25. Laurenzio - July 23, 2010 5:40 PM
Haha in your face Westboro Baptists! Japanese Tentacle rape FTW! •.• whut?!
26. Figimus - July 23, 2010 5:48 PM
Apparently they hate America with their slogans and upside-down flags...
...Does that mean we can deport them? Let's watch em try this in some other country and see what happens.
27. bman - July 23, 2010 5:51 PM
I wish I was there, for the comics and for justicce, but seriously, being a baptist cristian I can say that they do NOT speak for all of us, they are not even recognized by the national babtist association.
28. phoenix - July 23, 2010 6:02 PM
the real heroes are the prophets of the bible. robes no capes. wbc are the mostest of the hostess christians
29. Zam - July 23, 2010 6:44 PM
@7
You sincerely think that Shirley Phelps-Roper is "hot?" Holy hell do I hope you're joking.
Have a better look, just in case.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t6XXVrt631U/R5qQ7l3-CPI/AAAAAAAACVM/KSkmbvEMocg/s400/ShirleyPhelpsRoper.jpg
30. W - July 23, 2010 7:30 PM
God dislikes funeral protesters
http://www.godhatesfags.com/schedule.html
31. Robot Owl - July 23, 2010 7:31 PM
those poor baptist church bastards have no idea how much everyone is poking fun at them
32. mojo - July 23, 2010 7:40 PM
It was worth them protesting just to get it back in their face Comic Con Style. Jesus Loves Comic Books
33. Fealiks - July 23, 2010 7:53 PM
rofl, "Is this thing on?" is GENIUS
34. Toejam and Earl - July 23, 2010 8:47 PM
@29
I do believe a correction is in order.
Ahem... that chick with the four signs is kinda hot... from a distance... wearing sunglasses... damn you Zam...
35. jojodrum3 - July 23, 2010 9:56 PM
They are totally obsessed with "fags". I wonder how long until there are some hate crimes against these fanatic naysayers.
36. urza - July 23, 2010 10:52 PM
Honestly I would have loved to have seen a Darth Vader holding a sign saying "I find your lack of faith disturbing" or someone with a harpoon gun steal their signs.
37. Helmut the cat - July 24, 2010 1:45 AM
I called this when first posted
38. justin - July 24, 2010 1:53 AM
OMG! This is the greatest reply to that fucking prick. My only regret is that this protest wasn't followed with a mass suicide. Removing these hate mongers from the face of the earth. Kool aide anyone?
39. justin - July 24, 2010 1:55 AM
Shirley Phelps-Roper.....wow! whats happening in my pants.....I love this dude. first man I have ever loved. yikes thats an ugly dude! wow
40. Richard - July 24, 2010 2:31 AM
@29
That's not Shirley Phelps, she's on the right. That's Megan Phelps, she's extremely cute and on Louis Theroux's The Most Hated Family in America seemed extremely reasonable and intelligent and looked like she could possibly claw her way out of the horrible brain washing her family has given her.
I recognized her in the photo immediately, and it destroyed any potential laugh I might have gotten from the geek anti-protest.
41. Fors - July 24, 2010 4:35 AM
The church is against parking at any time!
42. TJ - July 24, 2010 6:08 AM
How does a chuch with about 100 members travel so much? They are everywhere and can't have that much income... Just sayin
43. BluePancake - July 24, 2010 8:18 AM
Epic Win.
44. E(rik) - July 24, 2010 8:22 AM
The best counter protests sign was "God hates the combine!".
Although I don't know what a Half Life sign was doing at comic con...
45. Wolfpack - July 24, 2010 9:16 AM
HAIL OUR OVERLORD: ZILTOID , OMNISCIENT!!!!!!!
46. WIGGER - July 24, 2010 10:29 AM
meh
47. Blashyrkh - July 24, 2010 1:29 PM
ZIL-TOID!
48. kirk cameron's abortion doctor - July 24, 2010 2:48 PM
@21
Yes, wbc are attention-whores, lower than tila tequila. But tt doesn't inspire the hilarious mocking she so richly deserves like the wbc. Those signs made my day.
Kill All Humans!
49. NoseRingGirl - July 24, 2010 4:09 PM
It's always so hilarious how they show up with like 5 people holding 12 signs each, only to be counter-protested by groups like 15-30 times larger. They came to Iowa State University one time (because the college is too "gay friendly") and had all of 3 people (one of which was a 10 yr. old boy) and a total of about 20 signs. You've got to admire their abilities to manage so many giant hate-filled pieces of cardboard. I wonder how they are at juggling?
btw, we had about 150+ to their 3....w00t....
50. DJ Believe it - July 24, 2010 4:10 PM
if you bring a sign to a protest, you protest for a day...if you bring cardboard, stencils, and spray paint to a protest, you spread protest for a lifetime...
51. laux - July 25, 2010 3:03 AM
God hates it when you put words in his mouth A holes!!
52. Jesus - July 25, 2010 8:59 AM
@51
God told me to tell you to stop telling people what he hates. And you're a douche.
Amen.
53. Kelsey - July 25, 2010 4:21 PM
Nerds are the fucking best. Man, I found out about this little-too-late. I went to Comic-Con the next two days! Man, to be involved in this.... would be SO awesome. I, personally, invite the lovely people at Westbro Baptist next year. Just give us warning again so we can have fun at your expense!
54. Quck - July 25, 2010 6:00 PM
Haha! Please make a big bang theory special! HAH
55. Cheese Doodle - July 26, 2010 9:02 AM
Zalgo?
56. TechGuy - July 26, 2010 10:18 AM
Hint: Use a directional mic next time. Could barely make out what was being said.
57. jumpin_j - July 26, 2010 10:41 AM
Protest WIN!!!
58. Matiras Grimoire - July 28, 2010 6:10 PM
true justice, i wonder if otakon will get these kind of problems...
59. Lord of the horse beaters - July 29, 2010 2:40 AM
@1 OFFS, you should die for ruining this awesome post with your "First" asshattery. Go screw yourself please... wait a minute... too late...
YAY COMIC-CON PROTESTORS! Show those WBC douchebags what's what. By the way... where's the pic of Jesus protesting against those pricks?