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Originally Posted by Crimz

Getting rid of her accent in the trilogy, has lessened the amount of diversity of the characters in the movie. One of the great things about X-Men was that they had characters from all over the world in many walks of life. When Storm is changed from African to African-American it takes away something interesting and unique to her character.

It's not wrong for me to want an African Storm and Russian Colossus, and if a recast is the only way to get that then I don't mind.

Storm, was not changed from African to African-American. Storm is not African she has always been African-American. She was born in Harlem I believe. However she was brought up in Egypt and then spent her late teenage years in Kenya before being recruited by Charles Xavier.