I think you all have seen Jennifer Kale in the agatha all along series. As most of you know, she is the cousin of Johnny Blaze. The actress is great but I am honestly tired of this race swapping thing MCU keeps doing shamelessly just to cater to POC. Does that mean Johnny Blaze who was always a blonde white dude will be a black POC now? Like, why do we always turn white people to either Black or Latino in the MCU?
Moon Knight? White jew in comics/lore, latino in the MCU series.
Ghost Rider? Torch passed to Reyes to replace Blaze. Luna was great though and Isaac too, but most of the times those race swaps are pointless, just aiming to change already established characters instead of creating new ones.
I know, the eternal "if race isn't important part of the character, then it is fine". For Marc Spector his jewish ethnicity was very important, yet barely even hinted at in the show. Then that argument turns out in "well it's a fictional character, who cares, stop being racist". Like, come on, man.
Point is that I don't logically see how this helps the POC minorities. There are a lot of amazing POC (created as Black) Marvel characters who clearly did very well like Miles and Black Panther and Luke Cage and Blade and Sam Wilson. I've seen Black creators online speculating that this could have the consequence of making people even more divided than accepting. The problem is that it is not just representation. Psychologically people will want to claim the character once it belongs to a certain race/ethnicity. I've seen countless people online being toxic with white cosplayers cosplaying POC characters (who were race swapped).
Bottom line is, if they find a good POC actor who really fits the role, then I am fine with it. But if it is just race swapping for the sake of race swapping, it is a shame because we could have someone perfect for the role like Norman Reedus and not have them because Marvel Studios decided to be "inclusive".
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