The best image I had to go with this topic.
There’s a change to the new Fantastic Four movie, and some fans aren’t happy about it. It’s Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, who is now adopted and black. This change has its defenders as all changes do. See also Heimdall in the Thor movies, Nick Fury in the Marvel Movieverse (which should be blamed on the Ultimate Universe who was based on Samuel L. Jackson–can you really fault Marvel Studios for jumping on that?), and Perry White in Man Of Steel (and I wish that was the biggest screw-up in that movie but sadly isn’t).
This leads to two questions. 1) Was this change necessary? 2) Is this change bad? Naturally, I have to comment on this and was planning to despite not really caring about the Fantastic Four in any medium. But then someone in the reviewing community put out a video that brought me from “hey, this is an interesting discussion topic” to “you said WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” and thus demanding I had to write this response.
Now I don’t know personally the host of The Graphic Novel Picture Show, a series that usually reviews comic book adaptations. I’ve seen a few episodes and “Solkir” raised good points in his reviews, but we’ve never talked personally. Recently his split personality (we’re going to assume in-show character), Sybil Pandemic (get it? get it?), has taken over the show with commentaries. Again, I haven’t watched a lot of the Sybil-hosted episodes so I don’t know if this is a full female persona or a drag queen persona but for the sake of ease we’re going to refer to “Sybil” with female pronouns and if I feel the need Solkir with male ones. Because something she said in this video got on my nerves.
