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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
What about Firebird? I don't think she's tied to any property but the Avenges and the Rangers and I doubt anyone has the rights to the Rangers.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersEveryone had a kid sidekick in the 40's. It was a way to give the target demographic an Audience Surrogate they could relate to. Most of these characters have been swept under the rug except Robin, who became too famous to unceremoniously drop, and Bucky, who was brought back to life for the Winter Soldier storyline and retconned into a black ops assassin in an effort to justify his relationship to Cap in WWII - the idea being that while Captain America kicks in the front door and draws all enemy attention to him with his bright, spangly costume and shield, Bucky slips in the back door and neutralizes the target, grabs the MacGuffin, or otherwise achieves the mission objective.
Played completely straight, the Kid Sidekick is mostly a Discredited Trope for superheroes these days, as the tone of comics has shifted towards more serious storytelling, and as a result writers have become all too aware of the Unfortunate Implications involved when superheroes start recruiting Child Soldiers.
edited 23rd Jan '15 11:33:19 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Hell, Bucky and Toro even got their own sidekicks, the Young Allies, who also included a shockingly racist black stereotype!
edited 23rd Jan '15 11:54:21 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Shocking by today's standards, anyway. This was a time period when Superman said you could slap a Jap
◊, after all.
Oriental people were depicted as yellow-skinned vampires who speak in deliberately bad Engrish.
edited 23rd Jan '15 11:55:25 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It wasn't so long ago that blatant racism was considered totally acceptable, and regrettably, racism is still far more alive and well today than a lot of people realize.
Hell, just last year, I was listening to one of my favorite radio programs where people write in whatever problems they have and the DJs take calls to try and answer it, and one of the write-ins they got was a woman in an up-scale neighborhood asking if there's a way to keep black and Hispanic kids from coming to her house while Trick-or-Treating.
It was the first time I head OPP turn into "Everyone dogpile on this terrible person because their question is, itself, the problem."
edited 23rd Jan '15 12:04:56 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.@Brother Voodoo
To be fair, if you want to do Brother Voodoo right, casting Chiwetel Ejiofor is a bloody good first step.
It also helps that Brother Voodoo recently got pushed to diversify the role of Sorcerer Supreme.
Actually, I know Brother Voodoo inherited the title from Doctor Strange, but who had it before strange? I realise I don't actually know this.
Also, it helps that Voodoo is a real thing and playing it accurately is far more interesting than giving the hollywood version.
It is becoming quite evident that every one of Marvel's franchises has a major black supporting cast member.
Rody, Falcon, Hemdiel, Nick Fury, Gamora. The Hulk franchise is the exception.
edited 23rd Jan '15 1:45:30 PM by Whowho
And that's mostly because Hulk was unfortunately a Stillborn Franchise.
Not that I can find from a quick Google search. I guess any actor who is of Haitian descent is likely at least familiar with it.
I hadn't heard of Brother Voodoo, but looking him up, the actor is a good fit. Also, I find it interesting that similarly to Strange, he has a background as an intellectual and someone who might be expected to have a "logical" mind.
With both of them as well as Iron Fist, I see the character is being portrayed as something of a Flat-Earth Atheist, and acknowledging how they shouldn't be able to do the stuff they are doing. Maybe less so with Brother Voodoo since the comic seems to present Voudoun pretty realistically even if the powers the guy gets from it are less realistic.
edited 23rd Jan '15 2:05:21 PM by Hodor2
I think as long as they have consultants who can tell them whether or not it's being portrayed respectfully, it shouldn't be an issue.
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Clea was Sorcerer Supreme in Earth X right?

Well we could get Spider-man and his Amazing Frie- No no, that won't work either.
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