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teigaga on 12 February 2015
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The Fury said:
teigaga said:
Ugh, on mobile so quoting is a mess@V-r0ckI think you overstate the relevance of race. A lot of these characters have various different interpretations and generally the iconic features are behavioural characteristics, attire and physical build. Not so much the colour of their skin or facial features. Sone characters iconography definitely exists in their race like Superman or Thor (normally main characters), but plenty of others aren't so specific. The only time i think race should come into it is when the characters image is so specific/iconic you wouldn't dare change the colour of their hair, let alone their skin. Jonny storm, electro and Kingpin aren't that cemented it their depictions in my opinion.Funnily enough no one seemed to care that Jessica Alba was mixed race, but i guess the blond hair and white-ish appearance was enough for her to play Sue :p

Jonny Storm is white LIKE his sister. If both were black, many of us comics fans would have little issue. The bolded bit in reference to Human Torch is laughable btw.

Imagine the outright uproad if Bishop was white, his ethnicity has nothing to do with his character, his character is befined by the mutant oppression he suffered and how he came through it. Yet changing from black to white would be a big no no. Why is it okay to change Jonny Storm to black and for us comic fans who complaint to be called racist because of it?

Changing 1 of the 2 Storm kids makes the family dynamic completely different, whether you think it won't or not. 

Jessica alba and Chris Evans could not be whole siblings in the originaf FF movie. One is half mexican....



Also I'm not saying the sibling dynamics isn't changed (highly doubt anyone cares- the story isn't going to focus on growing up with an adopted sibling). Many things are changed in adaptions but thats clearly not focus of peoples annoyance. Johnny storm has always been blond in the comics and no ones seems to care when he isn't or when they gave him a buzz cut, again there are iconic cemented depiction of characters which people wouldn't dare change (superman), and then there is the likes of johnny storm.

And yes there is obviously a double standards and its not hard to grasp why. There are so few reknown black comic book characters that the likes of Blade, Storm and Bishop are highly beloved for the fact that they there are different and represent a minority. 


P.S: No one here is calling anyone racist lol