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Is it racist?

No! 151 84.36%
 
yea, a little 28 15.64%
 
Total:179
NoirSon on 09 August 2013

I had no problem with the first African American Power Ranger being black and aside from joking on the matter, no Asians I met had a problem with the first yellow Power Ranger being yellow either. If anything, I am pleasantly surprised they included a person of color, not too many Japanese developers bother although some newer ones like Platinum have been more willing.

As long as Wonderblack doesn't act like Black Baron from MadWorld or Anarchy Reigns does most of the time, it ain't racist.



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Suke on 09 August 2013


Baljeet from Phineas and Ferb

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PDF: Now you took that WAY out of proportion. I thought they was upset because he's African-American, but he's indie. Black people can live anywhere they want in the world, there even black people who live in Japan.



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Goatseye on 09 August 2013

I'm still wondering how a well informed website like this bring YouTube rubbishes here.
Nevertheless, it's the typical Japanese portray of black characters in their games. I had the same sensation in Street Fighter IV, Binary Domain etc...
I don't think it's a big of a deal seriously to discuss this. That's the image they have about black people I assume. That's how it gets to them.



outlawauron on 09 August 2013

If any of the above were racist, it was the White Wonderful. That was the heaviest stereotype.



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Mr Khan on 09 August 2013
Torillian said:

I'd assume it's the intro where he does a break dance, same with Wonder Pink being a little sexist because they did a tits and ass shot. Now you can say, "well that's the individual character, Pink is a model so of course she does those kind of poses, and Black happens to be a break dancer" but as a first initial reaction it does seem a bit odd if nothing else.

edit: actually they can use that explanation on Black but not Pink since they do introduce a couple more women in that trailer and other than the communications officer briefly shown they all have intros like that.  

Black still seems more nuanced than Pink: he's a breakdancing gamer.



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Goatseye on 09 August 2013
NoirSon said:
I had no problem with the first African American Power Ranger being black and aside from joking on the matter, no Asians I met had a problem with the first yellow Power Ranger being yellow either. If anything, I am pleasantly surprised they included a person of color, not too many Japanese developers bother although some newer ones like Platinum have been more willing.

As long as Wonderblack doesn't act like Black Baron from MadWorld or Anarchy Reigns does most of the time, it ain't racist.

You should see the ridiculous black street fighter characters that came after SFIV. Everybody had a super power and power ups but a black busta had a basketball. Funny.



aikohualda on 09 August 2013

vernita green (aka copperhead: I shouldve been BLACK mamba

yeah kill bill is also racist..

power ranger.....
black ranger is black
yellow ranger is chinese american
blue ranger has blue eyes....

captain planet... fire has red hair....



 

Goatseye on 09 August 2013

I think the word here is not racist but... I don't really know the word, must be "the bird".



Goatseye on 09 August 2013
aikohualda said:
vernita green (aka copperhead: I shouldve been BLACK mamba

yeah kill bill is also racist..

power ranger.....
black ranger is black
yellow ranger is chinese american
blue ranger has blue eyes....

captain planet... fire has red hair....

I think it's stupid to bring the word racist in this case.

It's just stereotypical Japanese devs that have the same vision about black characters.



NoirSon on 09 August 2013
Goatseye said:
NoirSon said:
I had no problem with the first African American Power Ranger being black and aside from joking on the matter, no Asians I met had a problem with the first yellow Power Ranger being yellow either. If anything, I am pleasantly surprised they included a person of color, not too many Japanese developers bother although some newer ones like Platinum have been more willing.

As long as Wonderblack doesn't act like Black Baron from MadWorld or Anarchy Reigns does most of the time, it ain't racist.

You should see the ridiculous black street fighter characters that came after SFIV. Everybody had a super power and power ups but a black busta had a basketball. Funny.

I think you meant Street Fighter 2 but yeah I remember them, so many black boxer thugs and Lucky  from the US Sports team in King of Fighter that was a basketball player and fought with a basketball. But I hope you don't mean my man Sean he was actually fun to use until the nerfed him in later editions.

 

Used to try to do Sean's Basketball taunt all day.