You can’t deny it’s a new trend in adaptations, one meant to avoid the “hassle” of properly making existing characters that are people of color, women, and whatever as popular as the white ones. Yes, the only reason the white male heroes are in the supposed “lead” is that so many more of them were made but it’s not like there weren’t black women basically running superteams. Filmation not only gave us Space Sentinels but put Isis (since now apparently Egyptians are black because Egypt is a country on the continent of Africa…which I guess means the Inuit are now Native Americans like the Apache or one of the Canadian tribes or something?) in command of the Freedom Force. (Interesting enough, Hercules was somehow on both teams. Guess it’s called the Valley Of Time for a reason.) I’ve listed the heroes I grew up watching and I could (and probably should) easily do another installment. Note how long it took for Black Panther, a hero created by two Jewish men in the 1960s, to become a famous name outside of comics and now a ping pong ball in the culture war.
I was watching a video recently by YouTube commentator Just A Robot I won’t be posting because I’ll be hitting similar points in my article but a bit more toned down. Plus he seems to think Invincible is on Disney+ instead of Netflix. (And apparently I’m as bad, as someone just pointed out in the comments it was on Amazon Prime. Articles are easier to fix than videos thankfully. I don’t have access to any of them, though some older Amazon shows are starting to make their way to Freevee…which I still don’t watch there either because the franchise is a bit too bloody for me.) Of course with the way Disney keeps buying competition and thinking that will solve their financial failures…
I will, however, link to it in case you want to watch it later. Entitled “Is Racebending Making People More Racist“, the host posts the theory that instead of solving racism the replacement of traditionally white characters may make people more resentful, thus making the problem worse. And this may be the goal as the elitists want to divide us to control us.Whatever you may think of his point of view, and it should be noted that even people of those races disagree that the changes are positive since they aren’t what was created (when gay rights activist and former Sulu portrayer George Takei is telling you not to make Sulu gay because that’s the actor’s orientation and not his character’s and you don’t listen, you’re the idiot) in the source material, that’s not really what I want to focus on. The culture war may be ruining modern storytelling, but it’s only one factor. The other is not caring about the source material. The changes made to the Battlestar Galactica reimagine wasn’t because of “wokeness”, it was because they didn’t care about the original show.
No, there’s something that is only part of the discussion that I really want to focus on. Have you ever notice that anytime a male character becomes a woman, a straight character is turned gay, or a white character becomes a person of color that the whole character is different? Not necessarily bad, though most are, but why does changing the race, gender, and/or orientation also mean changing everything else?
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