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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

What about making the ghostbusters an all female cast ?? And or making will smith deadshot same as making the guy from the creed movie johnny storm in the last fantastic four movie ??? That's not an accurate depiction of either of these characters...Both these characters have been since their creation Caucasian. Deadshot might be latino not 100% on that.... but that's my thought. So why alter them? Now that i think about it, i believe jimmy olsen on the new supergirl show is also not how he's been depicted the past 60 years.

To me, I don't really care how the character looks so long as they're able to retain the core of the character (with certain exceptions, of course). I've always seen the movies as more of an alternate universe than a straight up adaptation, where the writers and whoever else is involved are allowed to take the concepts presented in their story and rework them to fit a movie.

With Michael B. Jordan as Human Torch, I've been a fan of him since Chronicle and even back then I thought, race aside, he would be a perfect Human Torch (unfortunately, Fan4stic was so bad that they pretty much wasted all of the actors' talents). So I didn't mind him being Human Torch. At the same time, like you and BlueMarvel said, I don't think the characters should deliberately have their races changed for the sake of diversity. At that point, it feels more like you're using "diversity" as a gimmick, and not like you actually believe in it. As a black guy, I agree with the sentiment that we should simply have more black original characters that we can call our own and not try to ride the coattails of a popular superhero.