It's certainly a flawed system, and I don't think it's absolutely necessary to have a black character to appeal to black audiences, but it's definitely gotta be easier. Given that white audiences have 99% of the modern superheroes to easily empathize with, I don't think it's unfair for black people to want a few more heroes they can immediately see themselves in the shoes of.
If you ask a lot of darkies, you'll probably find that their favourite films aren't necessarily orientated around their race, same with any other race. A film is a film and whether it portrays the story of the writer is the most important aspect.
If you wish to rack up racial equality then create characters rather than alternating races for simplicity, it's done in comics and in animation so why not in this medium.
I tell you I don't know of anyone who has been put off a mainstream film due to the amount of races portrayed in it. No one goes to watch a superhero film based on a race count.
Look at The batman, it had a racial skewerness so it created a black and asian character earlier on to help. It now has a justice league line up that is not only entirely male orientated but also entirely white. It hasn't budged at all with its line up and the only reason why it seems odd is because this type of bold move hasn't been done in animation in a long time. One is so used to be ***** footed around that when someone has the guts to do it right (or right in theory), it catches us off guard. More power to them i say.
These characters were created in a different time to ours let us either see them as period pieces or try to come up with new characters to compliment them but let them flourish as characters rather than racial representatives of 'black versions of etc' or even changing them for the sake of convinience to not piss off anyone who doesn't really care.
there's a thread i was posting in about this sort of topic in referal to hancock and how one dude portrayed it as a racial stereotyping of a superhero and i countered while other interesting points where brought up, i'll find the link for ya.
You're the only one who thinks he looks like Iron Man's sidekick, dude. I see it as an alternate Spider-Man, unencumbered by the 616 issues relating to CW, calling a hero who's much more suited to efficiently handling a threat for help. You know, like heroes in shared universes do
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How's Wolverine's comic now a days?
