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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Whoops, my bad. I thought I read somewhere that Zendaya was Latina.
Apparently not.
edited 3rd Jun '16 12:51:20 PM by AlleyOop
Okay? I didn't say they should. I'm not sure where you're getting that.
You actually don't. His origin is fairly far removed from the previous Ghost Riders. If the adaptation did make them more connected, you could still just fanwank it away by saying there have been many Ghost Riders throughout history, and Robbie is just the newest one.
We already know why LGBT, female, and POC characters have been marginalized in the MCU. His name is Ike Perlmutter and, until recently, he's had complete creative control over the MCU. Blaming China because there's no Black Widow movie and because Stucky hasn't happened yet is just further conflation of issues. More angry gibberish.
The fact remains that Cargill had nothing to do with Swinton's casting and Feige did. Cargill may have had awkward Tibet relations in mind when he wrote the script, but he wasn't involved in the casting call. His role in the film ended when he turned over the script to Feige. He speaks for himself, not for the studio as a whole.
Colleen Wing is a woman. The Asian Kung Fu Master stereotype is predominately male. There was never a huge craze surrounding Jacqueline Chan or Bryce Lee.
Besides, as anyone who's seen Dare Devil Season Two can attest, the Netflix showrunners are entirely willing to depict all Asians as one-dimensional Evil Magic Ninjas because they're a very different group of people than those running the films.
The latter half of Dare Devil S2 was incredibly racist towards Asian people and has received a great deal of scorn for it already.
edited 3rd Jun '16 1:09:04 PM by TobiasDrake
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Good thing I never mentioned Stucky or Black Widow then, huh?
Again, I'll believe it when I see it. Like I said, I doubt a big corproration is going to own up to that and admit, which is why I put no stock in Feige's answer.
Then they could've made Ancient One a Chinese woman then, right? Since Cargill has no idea what he's talking about?
edited 3rd Jun '16 1:14:04 PM by comicwriter
Well it's not like Daredevil didn't already have McNinjas with Stick and so on.
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Seriously, if the Ancient One was played by an older Asian woman that would've been a huge aversion of Magical Asian stereotypes right there.
edited 3rd Jun '16 1:16:06 PM by AlleyOop
@Adric De Psycho: Read some Young Avengers comics if you can: America Chavez is fantastic.

There are black Latinos. That gets left out of a lot of those discussions.
I doubt Zendaya is White Tiger though. What would White Tiger be doing in a Spider-Man movie?
edited 3rd Jun '16 12:50:16 PM by comicwriter