[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by Harbinger

I just wish marvel would stop race and gender changing major characters and use the opportunity to make new ones. Im still waiting for t’challa’s illegitimate white son or the scarlet warlock. I get companies are lazy, unimaginative entities that are just looking for the cheapest and laziest way to make a quick buck off these properties but it doesn’t do much for longevity.

To TRULY expand and incorporate inclusion, new characters MUST be created.....not butchering and bastardizing pre-established characters. That sorta crap is just cheap and lazy.

I'm not sure we can have a genuine dialogue on this if you cannot agree to a mutual acceptance of the fact that there is a need for greater diversity within Marvel's stable of heroes - there always has been. If we can't even agree upon that, then we are just going to be talking around each other and not to one another.

Additionally, understanding that books/publishing and movies/film, while similar, are considerably different in how they go about courting fans and delivering content is also an important distinction to agree upon if we are going to build in earnest. Simply put, films have tight deadlines that dictate their actions just as much as viewer demographics and potential ticket sales do.

When a film targets me as an African American, it's a strategy, not an altruism, nor is it 'politically motivated'. Such a silly notion, if true, would necessitate marginalized communities holding the lion's share of political power, which we don't. Their motivation to target me is strictly about avarice and cold hard cash. Not about appeasing me, people like me, or some sense of general progress.

Comics on the other hand have far more time to cultivate my readership, which makes it, in my opinion, far more egregious that they haven't organically created new characters throughout the years. Beyond the fact that Marvel doesn't afford new books/characters the time they need to flourish - my beloved Rom got 75 issues... lol as much as I love the character, he wouldn't have sniffed 25 in the current environment - I'm a firm believer in true empowerment and an advocate for the hiring of a more diverse staff of editors and writers that would have the cultural experience/cache and collateral to create a character like Storm - a good intention and great-for-what-she-is hero - without alienating a youthful 'me' and others with similar sentiments. That said, it's exactly this type of approach (hiring diverse voices) to which organizations like Marvel appear to be largely resistant. And trust me when I say this 'bruh, we're overqualified in MOST cases.

I'm a canonical fan of many things. Had you approached this conundrum from a premise in which you expressed problems with any changes to source material, then we would have a mutually held jump-off point from which to start. I love Michael Douglas as an actor, always have, but I hate that he's an 'aged' Hank Pym. It irritates me that I can't expect to see Hank Pym in action in the MCU, that uninitiated fans credit Tony Stark with creating Ultron, and I'll probably not see Wasp (Janet) as collateral damage and fallout. Not to mention, Douglas could have been used for a myriad of other weighty roles.

However, your principle stance, as far as I have seen, seems to revolve uniquely around race, while you are seemingly good with the other many changes in the MCU. Because of that fact, I've considered my support for source material - warts and all (something I've been consistent on) - wholly different from what you've been saying.

Hey, we've been friendly for years, my dude. You want to really rap about this? Let's spare the thread, hit me up and we can build...

EDIT: If that is truly Kro, yeeesh, I'll be holding my nose more than anticipated....but still plan to perform my duty and nab the wave to pave the way for the canon Eternals....Oh, Hasbro, I know you are beholden to Marvel/Disney's whims, but WHAY couldn't you have convinced them to go the canon route first??? WHAAY I ask you! WHAAAAY!?!?