Quote Originally Posted by Osiris-Rex View Post
Not saying people wouldn't complain. Just saying why some people will complain while other people would think it is a good idea. You are always going to get two sides. They are going too far or they are not going far enough.
Yes, there is nothing wrong with Superman's per-established identity. But is there anything wrong with a fresh approach giving Superman a new back story? What is the real reason people would want or object to a Superman with dark skin?
The comic books have had dark skinned Kryptonians for several years and TV shows like Krypton and Supergirl have shown there are Kryptonians with dark skin. So the claim that all Kryptonians have light skin can't be used as an excuse.
Even Kansas has a few black people. So that can't be used as an excuse. And nothing requires Clark Kent to be raised in Kansas anyway. Alabama or Mississippi would be suitable home states if the idea is for Clark to blend in with the locals.
I'd object because it is going beyond the point where a character ceases to be the same character. Having Val-Zod on Earth 2 worked for me because he was a separate character, not the classic Superman with a different back story. Having another Elseworlds take where Superman was raised (and resembled) another ethnicity works because the whole point is to paly with a character's backstory. But for the main continuity (DCU prime universe comics, a movie series, a TX show) if you aren't sticking to the main backstory then you'd be better off calling your character Apollo, Icon, Hyperion, Supreme ….

It's the same as making a Bruce Wayne whose origin revolved around his criminal parents killing each other, a Peter Parker who uses an exo-skeleton based on the abilities of a spider, a Black Panther who has no high-tech Wakanda but rather a destitute African nation that has been fought over for thousands of years, … Any of these might be a great story playing off the standard tropes of the character or the basis for a new character who takes some of those tropes and uses them differently, but they wouldn't justify replacing the characters that have decades of sales behind them.