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bugrimmar on 21 May 2018
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VGPolyglot said:
bugrimmar said:

So your solution is to just tack on random diverse characters for the sake of diversity? How wonderfully superficial. Does it truly further the cause when all you're doing is forcing characters into roles they weren't meant to have?

 

How about creating new stories and new characters that are meant to be female, gay, black, Hispanic, or whatever? Instead of changing gender to suit your agenda, why not make your own goddamn character wherein the gender makes sense? Why ruin an entire storyline just for a minority when the vast majority hates breaking continuity?

 

That's the problem. Diversity backers don't have the courage to fix the problem with talent and creativity and hard work. They just want to do it the easy way. Popular franchise, let's change the gender and it's done! No need to work on something new!

Roles they weren't meant to have? What do you even mean by that? Characters are not real people, they are created specifically to fill a certain role, how are you supposed to decide that they aren't meant to have that role? How can you even change the gender of a franchise? It's like you're entirely against women and minorities being added as characters at all in established franchises, which makes no sense at all, franchises are worked on by various people that come and leave as the franchise evolves, it's not a static cast working on it.

So if we follow your logic, what's the point of having back stories and lore in the first place? So you don't mind RETCON at all huh? Why follow characters and be fans of them when at any moment they can change dramatically without warning?

 

Your argument is nonsense. I'm not against women and minorities as characters. But why change established universes? Just to fulfill your agenda? For money?

 

So if we make Lara croft into a male, would that be ok? Wonder woman becomes wonder man? How about Alonzo in training day to become white? IT BREAKS THE FRANCHISE CONTINUITY.

 

Again, if minorities want to be represented in games and movies, make franchises about them! Why break old ones that fans love to cater to your political agenda? Make new characters! I fucking love Tomb raider. Most of my characters in rpgs and MMOs like WoW and dragon age are female. So just make your own franchises for your inclusion and diversity agenda. No need to make human torch black and force the concept of having a white twin. No need to make a star trek character gay when his actor specifically played him straight.

 

The problem here is you aren't a fan. You don't get it. You're not devoted to these stories. You simply don't get it.