Originally Posted by
Tzigone
This jut makes me wonder if French or Brazilian or Swedish or Laotian comics have American main characters or if their fans expect or pressure them to. DC is chiefly an American (US) company with an American fanbase. If they want to expand, that's a sound business move, but if they're going to do so in the comics, then one would expect non-English language to go along with those new characters. Personally, I'd start with Spanish, due to proximity. I completely get why British characters (Canadian, etc.) would be a step before that because of an English-as-a-first-language potential customer-base. If they are doing it on the movie/tv side, it might be better to create characters specifically for that, and with their own codenames.
And yes, they are bound to get cultural details wrong the further afield they go. Which is probably a reason for so many fictional countries. Well, that at the need for them to be taken over by dictators, at war when convenient, etc.
Representing the diversity with in the country is good, though. But I'd do it by having a new non-white-but-American Wonder Woman sidekick (who doesn't have to Wonder Girl, and both Wonder Girls are too old for the sidekick role and should be independent by now, anyway) who went to Themyscira to learn or gets powers as Cassie originally did (by asking) or some such. Or by having all new heroes. Which DC just won't do, presumably because it's really hard to sell them to old fans. I still think new heroes in a disconnected universe (mostly each on own universe with self-contained continuity) in OGNs would be a great way to go for them. I love the idea of the shared universe, but it quickly grew so big that it presents it own problems. Even more so now with more arcs taking place over months and fewer stand-alone stories. It could be amazing in Early Marvel days, though.
That's a harder sell out of the country, of course, because distance can inhibit interaction - though boom tubes or teleportation can help - and because the biggest threats and earth-based fighting is more likely to be based in the US because that's where majority of readers - and heroes - are.
I acknowledge I don't really get the appeal of a Brazilian who is from an Amazon tribe there, so has nothing to do with actual Brazilians or their culture (the all-female warriors myth, so far as as I know having no basis in their history, though the Amazons of DC are so far off myth it doesn't really matter). Unless, of course, she actually lives and operates in Brazil. But someone raised there would be a better Brazilian hero in general (just as most the heroes were raised in the US in comics published in the US). Of course, an actual Brazilian company would most likely do that better. But if DC wants to try, that's great. I just wish they wouldn't displace/discard existing heroes and gives newbies their names to do that. Then again, not a legacy fan. I mean, I don't mind it for this exercise, but none of the stories sound interesting to me so far for me because of what they've done (or not done) with the characters I already know.