Scott Lang in MCU, Matt Murdock in Fox Film/MCU and Roy Harper in Arrow aren’t redheads despite being so in the comics and there hasn’t been much of a fuss made about those compared to ones changed to another race. If you wanna go further back to Smallville, Lana Lang wasn’t a redhead despite being so in the comics.
When it comes to Latinos, there are Afro Latinos like Tessa Thompson who plays Valkyrie, Zoe Saldana who plays Gamora and Winston Duke who plays M’Baku but their Latino heritage is never acknowledged. Latinos are there just not in the form people would expect them to be but their heritage can’t be ignored simply because their seen as black first.
The Jeffrey Wright news would seem to put the prequel rumors out to pasture, btw.
Unless we're assuming he somehow grew into J.K. Simmons.
Because those roles were cast before raceswapping gingers became a reoccurring pattern. Charlie Cox reportedly tried to dye his hair red but apparently looked terrible so they decided to let Matt have brown hair instead. I should've been more specific in terms of this started happening in more recent years, since Smallville was almost 20 years ago. Valkyrie and the original comic book Gamora are not redheads, I was talking specifically about changing characters with red hair, not changing white characters in general.
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"I love mankind...it's people I can't stand!!"
- Charles Schultz.
Black Widow, Kory and Mera are still redheads in their live action incarnations and the most recent Lois Lane was a redhead. Even if Barbara is black, it doesn't mean she won't have red hair.
And yeah, it's bullshit that this ranting about redhead erasure only ever comes up when it's black characters playing white redheads. Almost none of Jimmy Olsen's actors have been redheads yet it's Mechad Brooks who gets flack from fans. Charlie Cox can refuse to die his hair red for Daredevil with zero complaints from fans. But cast a black girl as MJ or Ariel and the like clockwork, the cries of "redhead erasure" arise.
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We'll have some more interesting test cases coming up with The Riddler, Orion, and Poison Ivy for DC characters at least. They have a good shot at appearing in DC movies in the next few years, especially Ivy given how much they are using Harley. I feel that it has become a recent trend in Hollywood where it stands out, but maybe it was all happenstance and the numbers no longer back it up when we extend the time line out further. We'll see eventually I guess.
Superman fans did complain about Smallville's Jimmy Olsen not being a ginger, same way they complained about Erica Durance's Lois having blond-ish hair in the early seasons. People used to complain that Chris Evans' Johnny Storm didn't have blonde hair or Hugh Jackman's Wolverine wasn't shorter. None of that was raceswapping and fans were still not happy about it at the time. People had a lot more issues with Ben Affleck's Matt Murdock and Jennifer Garner's Elektra, than they did with Michael Clarke Duncan's Kingpin. Fans complaining about characters being changed is not some new phenomenon, it's a big complaint currently because specific type of characters are almost always changed in the exact same way. It's strange to suggest that "redhead erasure" isn't happening when it clearly is.
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The stunning about face when it comes to raceswapping for different movies
Birds of Prey cast jurnee smollett as black canary problem
The Batman casting black actors for Commissioner Gordon and possibly Barbara Gordon equals okay
At least there's finally confirmation Reeves movie is an else world and has no connection to the dceu
Oh my god...more raceswapping? And worse yet, more redhead erasure? Well, that Batman movie is probably going to be a giant bomb of wokeness and thus will probably tank. It's amazing to me how people like AgentZ (yes, naming names, because I'm direct like that) will accept any tenuous excuse to shoehorn in black characters, no matter the cost, no matter how silly it is, and no matter how inapplicable it is given the setting and characters involved. Integrity to the characters, story, and world is more important than forced, shoehorned, hamfisted diversity.
If these people behind the scenes want more black characters worth a damn, they need to put in the work and create them instead of stealing white characters. It is very possible to have quality diversity without pissing people off and misrepresenting well established characters. But some people are just too lazy and untalented to go that route, and their zealot followers don't care. That type of stuff makes people get tired of diversity and ultimately works against the cause. Most people don't like stuff forced on them.
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