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originally posted by: burgerbuddy
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: burgerbuddy
I want characters who make sense.
I don't want to feel like some aspect of this or that character is simply there for the window dressing. When a skin color or religion or sexual orientation or gender becomes as much the character as the character, then there is a problem because you know it was injected simply to be a selling point.
When you have an otherwise competent Capt. Save-the-Day and the story is going swimmingly, but suddenly you have the out of left field gender or sexual orientation or religious or racial issue complication that otherwise bears no impact at all on the story and doesn't fit ... then you know that aspect of the character is the permanent side-kick and as much a character as the character Capt. Save-the-Day.
Then your comic sort of sucks.
That's right.
Get that muslim super hero gal all gussied up in a skimpy I dream of jeannie outfit and a couple swords to go around taking out jihadi terrorists.
Like all the white superhero's do to the white bad guys.
That would work, I think.
Who's the blind dude? His name escapes me.
So the disabled are covered. Daredevil!
Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt are hard to beat as Catwoman. Black and white. Purrrrrrrrrrfect.
Deadpool is ugly, so that's covered. Can't think of any fat dude superheros, tho.
A transgender James Bond who likes it stirred, not shaken.
or a homosexual Bond
originally posted by: seasonal
Marvel's VP is blaming declining comic book sales on the increased diversity and female characters, like Kamala Khan a Muslim girl who is Ms Marvel.
originally posted by: Idreamofme
a reply to: Teikiatsu
Theres only 1 true spiderman. Tobey mcguire. Anything else is treason.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
The problem isn't diversity. The problem is their writing has slipped. Ask any comic fan why they're not reading Marvel. I don't know a single one that will say that they have a problem with the diversity. What they will say is that the writing is now terrible.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
The problem isn't diversity. The problem is their writing has slipped. Ask any comic fan why they're not reading Marvel. I don't know a single one that will say that they have a problem with the diversity. What they will say is that the writing is now terrible.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
They simply do not understand. Marvel fans do NOT have a problem with female characters. Some of the most popular X-Men are female. The problem that Marvel fans are having, is with the idea of existing characters being changed to meet diversity targets, rather than having NEW characters developed to meet the needs of a changing readership.