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Marvel films, it's time for a Black female lead

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Platinum blondes have more fun. Wanda is fun impaired but a not a dour Debbie Downer like Petey.

And dead.

Marvel and FOX thought they they were clever doubling down on The Maximoff twins, but now Evan Peters is going to grab all the glory that slipped from between Aaron Taylor-Johnson's fingers and...

Quicksilver is Kickass?
 
And dead.

Marvel and FOX thought they they were clever doubling down on The Maximoff twins, but now Evan Peters is going to grab all the glory that slipped from between Aaron Taylor-Johnson's fingers and...

Quicksilver is Kickass?
I liked the MCU Quicksilver. I hope he comes back in WandaVision.
 
Hundreds of millions of dollars changed hands to bring the Mutants back.

You're like a little boy on boxing day wondering why all his toys are broken.

They could steal from John Byrne where she "imagined" her children, and they vanished whenever she wasn't lovingly thinking about them.

It's a fair assumption that the Scarlet Witch has always been called the Scarlet Witch because of her Scarlet Hair? But if that Scarlet is from a bottle, then does her superhero name change whenever a new bottle of hair dye takes her fancy and preference?

Naturally green hair is also on the table, for what she is hiding, becuase Wanda's "sister" has naturally green hair, which did not look awful on the Gifted.

Dawn Dane?
 
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Naturally green hair is also on the table, for what she is hiding, becuase Wanda's "sister" has naturally green hair, which did not look awful on the Gifted.
Maybe the green hair is from Lorna's mom. Google tells me her mom was named Suzanna
 
why is it difficult to read what I've written. I don't look for diversity in films.. i look for immersion, and verisimilitude in films.. if diversity is a natural part of that.. that is great. Like having a black Trek captain, and they only mention in two episodes that he is black. But it seems the need to put diverse cast in films seems higher than the need for us to car about the films themselves I'm fin with a female character.. but if you remind us throughout the script hat she is "fiercely independant" and she is actually a mary sue, the verisimilitude is broken, the immersion is broken. So sure bring all those various races and diversity types into the stories, but by putting that first, by reminding us how many checkboxes you've checked off, it no longer feels immersive
Because you’re trying to explain and justify a deeply personal experience as if it is common knowledge. You don’t like diversity, not out of hatred, but because it takes you out of the movie. But why? It’s like you’re just uncomfortable around minorities or women who don’t conform to your expectations. But instead of understanding that this is just a deeply personal thing that only you experience, you create an agenda where none exists. Then you grow obsessive about it and constantly complain about.

But it’s just media trying to better reflect the audience instead of just part of the audience. They aren’t pushing politics or anything, other than appealing to other parts of the audience. There’s a huge female fandom for most shows and movies, some of it is pandering but that’s what it was before, it was just only for white males. Now everyone is starting to get it and that’s wonderful.

So maybe try to understand why people are reacting the way they are to your comments.
 
i don't mind diversity.. i just mind it when it's forced diversity.. like they are doing it JUST to be diverse..

I could agree with this if you specify what
forced diversity looks like. A remake of Braveheart with blacks and hispanics playing 14th century Scotsmen, yes. New Star Wars movies with talented women and nonwhites playing the leads, no.
 
i don't mind diversity.. i just mind it when it's forced diversity.. like they are doing it JUST to be diverse..
AGAIN... it is not JUST to be diverse... it is to ALSO be diverse. Hire the best actor we can that happens to be black, or a woman, or Asian, or whatever. You value immersion above all else. Imagine being an African American and BY AND LARGE, not in all cases, but most, when your race is portrayed on screen you are a drug dealer, gang member, or criminal. THAT breaks their immersion. When you're a woman, BY AND LARGE, your gender is either the girldfriend or Mom, and if you are watching an action or crime movie, most likely they will end up dead to motivate the hero (google Women in Refrigerators). THAT breaks their immersion. If you are gay, you are portrayed in the most stereotypical manner, again are the friend never the hero, and if one of the ensemble does happen to be gay and it is an action or horror movie, yep, the gay boyfriend/girlfriend gets killed (google bury your gays). THAT breaks their immersion. And if you are transgendered? You just don't show up at all ever. THAT breaks their immersion. Try to think outside YOUR immersion and look at others and how THEY see THEIR race/gender/sexual orientation portrayed for 75 years. And the only way to fix it, is to call attention to it when it is done the right way, or to call attention to it if it is done the wrong way. I don't think you're racist, I think if you work on having empathy for people other than you or your immediate peer group you will find that others don't see the same world you do.
 
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Before Chief O’Brien I never saw any of my fellow Irishmen who weren’t portrayed as anything but conniving fall down drunks.
 
Please explain to us what is forced and what isn't forced diversity. I think a lot of the problems are coming from a lack of clear understanding of what exactly you do and don't want.
 
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