its really weird how thorough it is and there are a ton of examples. new spiderman movies, mary jane is black. little mermaid black. starfire black (though still a redhead, which is interesting). triss in the witcher is black (though brunette in the books not the game). orphan annie is black now. wally west is now black (flash movie). they turned cyclone (a redhead with storm powers) into a black lady, which is kinda a trope at this point... hawk girl is black now, cw rendition of arrow. bat woman is black now. april o'neil from TMNT. heimdall in the marvel comics was a redhead but black now. beau from she-ra was redheaded but black now. the thing's wife is now black. alice monahan from hellboy is now black. artemis in wonder woman used to be a redhead. judge renslayer in loki (from the most recent thing). bat girl is black now. the character design of domino in deadpool is very cool though.
i think itd be lit if we got some historical african religious stories with a fantastical twist, i really would like to see some authentic stuff rather than just copy pasting black people over redheads. wakanda is an example but the fusion there does africa dirty, i think. theres so many cultures and so many dead myths and religions to explore that simply havent even been considered. they could make some fantastic watching material that no one has considered or seen before.
or just come up with new characters and weave them into plot importance
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Seriously, though. Spiderman, Captain America, and Green Lantern are all black now. None of them were red heads.
I suspect we're seeing the shift in large part because the underlying demographics are changing.
keep the redheads, remove the anglos :ira:
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My favorite part of Falcon/Captain America is
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how Isaiah gave a really good explanation about how America treats black people and how him coming out might put his life in danger because he's supposed to be dead, and why would a black man want to be Captain America for a country like America. And then Falcon goes forward with it anyway because of his sister's pep talk which was basically 'nu uh', gets Isaiah to give him props, puts Isaiah in a museum.... without addressing any of what Isaiah was so angry about or the dangers of him being discovered as a super soldier.
This is your brain on Liberalism.
Just acknowledging shit is fucked and continuing onward business as usual.