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Originally Posted by tlasjr

For the most part for me it's the actor not their race that matters. I think it's easier for Marvel charecters as Marvel/Disney has complete control.
Hence we have both wite and black nick fuy's.

On the other hand look at G.I. Joe. Ripcord was white for more than 20 years. The movie studio decided to take the character and change the race and even what he does. No there is no white ricpcord.
And Roadblock, one of the a list characters, the hulking brute of the team who holds a browning 50 cal like an assault rife kept his race but became a ninja?

And yes, non traditional races changing can be a problem also. For example in the new Bay epic The TMNT will be aliens which means they are not mutants, not like related to terrestrial turtles and thus not trained in the Japanese martial art Ninjitsu.

Not enough on TMNT is known, it may still be mutated through alien interference of some kind which would still make them of an alien nature when simplified and telling people.

Roadblock I'm fine with as it's the freaking rock and just an excuse for his action figure, the same to bruce willis. The movie-verse is it's own universe anyway so the characters can be any race. Though sometimes there's some bleedover like with Renegades. GI Joe is one of those it doesn't really matter to me on race though barring the must bes. Those to me are only things like Scarlet must be a red head, Snakes eyes must have his iconic visor, Jinx must be asian, and things like that. Then again, I guess I'm not really attached to those characters as their race, but the existence of them as something different also doesn't nullify their past material either.