How has Brainchild not been reported yet?
Most of the mainstream audiences didn’t watch JUSTICE LEAGUE animated or JLU. Many who have likely have forgotten much of it. And John Stewart's character was changed in the comics partially because of the animated Justice League, but also because he'd kind of languished as a character in the books. Because at his best, he was still kind of boring and one note. The GL comic/s themselves were starting to languish around that time. John's return was a return to the quasi Silver Age concepts that DC has been slowly returning to over the last few years. But given the context, these things are hardly arguments in favor of using John Stewart in my mind.
Well all 7 of those legendary superheroes are white people with a green one added.
Then if you’re going to look at it that way, call what you want to see what it is:
specific racial diversity, and not actually diversity.
I think the idea of exploring tolerance and diversity and acceptance in general is far, far more important than whether there are enough women, black people, etc, on the team.
The concept of the league is much, much bigger than that.
This is a league where some of the members are aliens who are hated/feared/doubted by the human race and other alien races alike. Its a concept that, like X-Men's themes, could apply to all KINDS of differences, be they racial, social, or otherwise.
If all 7 were black would you be against them making one white to acknowledge that whites can be worthy of the Justice League's top tier membership?
It depends on whether that one white character was deserving of inclusion based on the JLA mythology or if he/she was historically white, and what the actor situation was.
I don’t need a character who is white to "represent me", and to represent millions of other whites, just because. I need a character to represent the human race's best traits.
This whole "There has to be a black member" attitude is honestly a mindset that baffles me, because they can't possibly represent every race, so why pretend otherwise and pick just two or three? Characters are characters and mythologies are mythologies, and marketing concerns notwithstanding, I've never been a fan of shoehorning certain characters into a mythology or changing race purely for demographic reasons.
I don’t want a Justice League movie that needs to acknowledge that people of all colors can be “worthy” of the Justice League’s top tier membership, and does so by picking one non-white race to include. Frankly, I don’t want a movie where being worthy of membership is really the point at all. Being worthy of membership should be about far more than race if it's a concept that's explored, and the league and its members being accepting of many differences, even some that are greater than race (species) should be an obvious concept to include in the film.
I'm sure odds are Cyborg will be in the League anyway.
