[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by omega145

Seriously? Just let writers, directors, producers make those decisions and go along for the ride. It gets tiring hearing the community bitching about gender/race changing and diversity.

The entire Marvel universe was created by mostly white men in the image of themselves and those in majority power. Black Panther wasn't created until 1966. Falcon not until 1969. Luke Cage not until 1972. Shang Chi, 1973. It took decades for Marvel to create characters that were non-white and somehow important to comic books.

Representation is important hence why characters are shaped the way how they are in films. This is a thread about Marvel Legends and certain people love bringing in their biased views on diversity into every topic/forum thread. I see this type of nonsense in every forum I am in. Leave your ignorance at home.

See to me the race/ gender swapping bothers me for two main reasons.....

1). Is its studios/writers being cheap and lazy. If they TRULY were serious about diversity they wouldn't be ruining pre established characters they would come up with NEW ones to add to roster or bolster formerly d list side characters ( like falcon ) into a mainstream role. This goes for all types ( homosexual, minority etc. ).

2). It shows a true lack of unoriginal thought process by todays “talent.” There is a plethora of under utilized Characters of ALL KINDS out there that could be utilized but they choose to rooster whats already been established to give the illusion of “Yes we care”-ism. Even in comics it happens ( yes i know it has been going on forever and a day ) but its gotten worse in the last 20 years. There seems to be absolutely no real original ideas any more just rehashing and recycling they same tired Plots etc.

Then it translates into toys that stagnate and dont move.

Representation may be important but not at the expense of what is. They need to come up with new characters and new plots. And yes i am serious.....if its okay to change things one way then it also needs to flow the opposite way otherwise it is unfair to both sides.