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Snowflakian · 07-10-2017, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Nitelife

Because its lazy name slapping. Because matt trakker was white. They coulda made hondo the new leader or had matt be part of a bigger organization and his boss be black. I think its mainly fans are tired of seeing race/ gender swapping of long established characters as it does not truly expand a brand/line/product and just panders to the vocal minority.

True expansion comes from creating NEW characters not just lazily slapping a pre-established character's name and history onto a different body.

Because when race doesn't play a factor in the character's persona, it's open for any interpretation.

When race does play a factor to the character nature, it can't be changed.

Matt Trakker is one it doesn't matter. Johnny Storm is one that it doesn't matter(on that one they should have played it up more about how Franklin seemed to favor his adopted daughter over his own son and then explore that for the emotional turnover of Johnny's rebelliousness and acceptance of his sister, they hinted at it, but never really made it clear to the audience). It varies character to character based on their innate metaphors. Being white isn't innate to their metaphor, though it is for a character like Ironfist. Same as race is innate to other characters like America Chavez being a Latina, Black Panther being African. White Tiger being a Latina. Etc. Those can't be changed because it's part of their character metaphor to who they are.

Changing ones that don't matter, isn't a big deal. If more kids get enjoyment out of it because of it, yay. It's not pandering. If you don't like it, you can still buy the previous released Trakker figure that's based on his classic self. That one has already been released and is somewhat cheap to find on ebay. So IDW chose to vary it up on a character that was open to do so. It's not a big deal.

New characters get created, people still call that pandering. Change a character for an AU based story, people whine then too. Personally, I think the change is awesome of IDW.

I really don't get why it's such an issue either way. New interpretations happen all the time. It's what makes comics great.

07-10-2017, 02:55 PM	#33
Snowflakian Illyria's New Qwa'ha Xahn Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: In the clouds. Posts: 4,120	Quote: Originally Posted by Nitelife Because its lazy name slapping. Because matt trakker was white. They coulda made hondo the new leader or had matt be part of a bigger organization and his boss be black. I think its mainly fans are tired of seeing race/ gender swapping of long established characters as it does not truly expand a brand/line/product and just panders to the vocal minority. True expansion comes from creating NEW characters not just lazily slapping a pre-established character's name and history onto a different body. Because when race doesn't play a factor in the character's persona, it's open for any interpretation. When race does play a factor to the character nature, it can't be changed. Matt Trakker is one it doesn't matter. Johnny Storm is one that it doesn't matter(on that one they should have played it up more about how Franklin seemed to favor his adopted daughter over his own son and then explore that for the emotional turnover of Johnny's rebelliousness and acceptance of his sister, they hinted at it, but never really made it clear to the audience). It varies character to character based on their innate metaphors. Being white isn't innate to their metaphor, though it is for a character like Ironfist. Same as race is innate to other characters like America Chavez being a Latina, Black Panther being African. White Tiger being a Latina. Etc. Those can't be changed because it's part of their character metaphor to who they are. Changing ones that don't matter, isn't a big deal. If more kids get enjoyment out of it because of it, yay. It's not pandering. If you don't like it, you can still buy the previous released Trakker figure that's based on his classic self. That one has already been released and is somewhat cheap to find on ebay. So IDW chose to vary it up on a character that was open to do so. It's not a big deal. New characters get created, people still call that pandering. Change a character for an AU based story, people whine then too. Personally, I think the change is awesome of IDW. I really don't get why it's such an issue either way. New interpretations happen all the time. It's what makes comics great. __________________ Last edited by Snowflakian; 07-10-2017 at 03:00 PM..