X-Men has been better at including minorities in its ranks than most, though. I also would have liked Bishop to have a larger role though I understand why they sent Wolvie back instead.
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X-Men has been better at including minorities in its ranks than most, though. I also would have liked Bishop to have a larger role though I understand why they sent Wolvie back instead.
Well yes, but when The Avengers/Spiderman/Superman/Wonder Woman/Green Lantern/The Hulk/Ghost Rider/Electra/The Flash/Fantastic Four/Daredevil/The Punisher/Captain America and all of their supporting characters/villains are white, it doesn't take very much to "improve" on that!
One of the previews we saw was for Guardians of the Galaxy - it makes me sad that we are more likely to have a tree and a raccoon and an alien as major characters in a superhero movie than a person of colour :(
Points for War Machine, I guess! Wait, and The Invisible Woman maybe (there's a joke there...)!
Okay, I'm going to make a list of minorities as major superhero characters as depicted in film/TV. Help me add to the list!
Invisible Woman, War Machine, Lucius Fox (not a superhero, but I'll add him), Nick Fury, Storm, Catwoman, Blade, Hancock
Take a victory when you can, even if it's a small one. Are there any Maori superheroes?
I haven't seen a ton of X-Men but there was one, Storm I think she's called? That I absolutely loved when I was a little girl because I had a doll of her and she had pretty hair
Yes, Storm is one of the X-Men.
Other than Maui? Nah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
And yes, I edited my previous post to try make a list and perhaps glean a more substantial victory! I'm trying to be grateful instead of fuming over "ugh bishop = angry black man packing heat as only black man in movie" xDD
PS - This is pretty interesting, I'm not done reading it yet though.
Bishop didn't come off as any more angry than any of the other mutants being attacked. :lol:
Zoe Saldana is in Guardians of the Galaxy, albeit, she's playing a green alien.
Kingpin was re-imagined as a black man for Daredevil.
I've already mentioned Falcon in Captain America & Johnny Storm in the F4 reboot.
Morgan Freeman was in the Batman Trilogy.
Wraith in Wolverine Origins.
Agent Trip, Agent May, Dethlok, "Flowers" & Skye are all minority characters in Agents of SHIELD.
Most of the cast of The Wolverine was Asian.
Well, wasn't The Wolverine set in Japan? But thanks! Some of those I have mentioned, and some of them I haven't seen, so that's good to know. I'm excited about the new Fantastic Four, although I liked the old Mr Fantastic. I'm about done with this tangent I think, but it's a shame that I have to stretch so much to cobble together a group of characters who are mostly just supporting characters in a sea of white people (see also: Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, etc.).
Electro in the new Spidey film was black!
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I just saw X-Men. I'm hoping that the next movie will deal us some flashbacks of exactly what happened to Xavier's and Magneto's teams. (SPOILER)Emma, Angel, Azazel, and Riptide were captured, obviously, but how? Did they go down one-by-one or all at once during an assault led by Erik? What about the others? I may have blinked a bit when (SPOILER)Mystique was looking at the pictures in Trask's lab but I don't think the question of what happened to (SPOILER)Banshee was ever truly answered. We know that (SPOILER)Havoc was drafted. Is he coming back?
There's also question as to the correlation between Days and the rest of Logan's history. If (SPOILER)Emma is dead, then who was that girl in (SPOILER)Origins? Obviously, the simplest explanation is that despite splicing scenes from the past movies into Logan's memory flashes, those movies are not canon with the story of First Class and Days of Future Past. But I'm personally hoping that the stinger's introduction of who I assume is the past incarnation (as a pharoah) of (SPOILER)Apocalypse will provide a canon explanation for the existence of (SPOILER)two Emmas... that being two mutants who can turn their skin into diamond perhaps in saying she was resurrected in a younger body which is supposedly within his span of power. It is somewhat difficult to imagine how a movie/story featuring (SPOILER)Apocalypse can precede the original trilogy chronologically. I suppose the in-story explanation would have to be that Xavier uses Cerebro to erase the event from the memories of people all across the world.
Another question that arose at watching First Class that hasn't been answered is that Beast designed and built Cerebro... but in the original X-Men movie, Xavier told Logan that Erik helped him build it. I'm hoping the next movie shows Cerebro being destroyed and, of course, being needed for the plot, Magneto helps to re-"build" it. That's the only explanation left to satisfy the question, imo.
Spiderman was almost a black guy.
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Unfortunately this did not improve the quality of the movie, but then again nothing could.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colonel Angus
And Jamie Fox smurfing killed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockharted
Yes, but considering Hollywood hasn't been afraid of whitewashing actual minority characters in the past for the sake of having a recognized name in their cast, I'd take it as a victory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calliope
Also, Harry Lennix and Laurence Fishburne were in Man of Steel, the latter of which was playing Perry White, chief editor of the Daily Planet.
That would've been awesome. :lol: Fun Fact: Joel McHale played a banker in Spiderman 2 of the Tobey Trilogy. I would've hoped they had cast him in that part again.Quote:
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Also, Jaime Foxx was awesome as Electro.
Mercen-X, there's a LOT of issues w/ continuity in the X-Men franchise. I hope whatever they do now, they can get it all together. As for the Wolverine stuff, I hope Wolverine 3 answers all of our questions.
What do you think they'll call the next Wolverine movie?