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Originally Posted by Startaiger

You know, since Wakanda is a fictive country, & if I follow wbat you're saying, it wouldn't matter at all if it wasn't located in Africa as long as the story is the same (Vibranium + isolated country + a king with super powers).
If you locate it, say, on an island in south pacific with asian typed population, what would be the difference in term of story-telling?
Except, everybody would be angry cause this wouldn't be the Black Panther we all know & like.

No, because Black Panther holds a very specific significance as the first black superhero. Marvel isn't stupid enough to change that. The Ancient One? Sure why not.

Conversely, there's no real significance in people like Deadshot or Jimmy Olsen being white.

Regardless, the other reason, and it should be obvious enough that it shouldn't even be worth mentioning, is the racial makeup of superhero films in general. You're never gonna see Marvel making Black Panther into a white guy because the MCU as a franchise has very few minority heroes, and no leading ones as of yet. They're not gonna pass up the big opportunity of being able to trumpet that they're making their first black superhero movie.

You could make the argument that racebending white people into minorities being seen as positive while the vice versa being derided as racist and offensive is a double standard, but it's one that only exists because the diversity situation in Hollywood is so dire to begin with. You're never gonna see Deadshot or Nick Fury drawing the level of controversy as Michael Jackson's casting because we live in a world where the under representation of minorities in cinema is already a huge hot button issue. Nobody wants to be seen as adding to that problem. That should be fairly obvious.

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

...ams i doin' the emojis right???

I'm feeling the head against the wall one right now, LOL.

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People are bitching up a storm about a white man being cast to play Michael Jackson. However, those very same people have no problem with a black man playing a white super hero.

I know, right? It's almost like Michael Jackson was a real person and comic book superheroes are fictional characters who have already been reinterpreted in countless ways!