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I wouldn’t say they have something against dark skin, it’s just light skin is put on a pedestal and Storm unfortunately has a long and consistent history of being depicted as racially ambiguous to outright white passing in the comics.
If she were made in the 2010’s she’d be depicted much more authentically but in gaming, where dark skin in general is pushed aside in favor of lighter shades, this is gonna be a consistent issue. I expect a lot of it to go away when the MCU inevitably casts a dark skin actress that will be the inspiration for all future adaptations in multimedia.
you don't have to say it love, the evidence is in how they choose to design her. if developers place a lighter skin tone on a pedestal what seems to be all the time what message does it convey about darker skin? look at the villain she fought on the raft. the developers didn't have issue showing the prisoners in darker hues. l just a thought.
truthfully lighter skin has been pushed or highlighted across different formats. gaming, comics, movies, television, etc. a woman did a ted talks on how the nwa movie casted black girls and lighter women were considered A-level while the darker girls were way lower on the grading scale. Its a thing that still persists unfortunately and I don't think its going to change anytime soon.
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just some recent topics on the matter that reached newsworthy status but this certainly doesn't escape the innumerable conversations I've seen had on how she is generally depicted lighter by artists and design companies:
https://www.cbr.com/marvel-future-fi...hing-backlash/
https://www.racked.com/2018/7/10/175...pp-halle-berry
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That’s a good point, I guess a better way to put it is that these developers and other creators don’t actively hate darker skin, they just have an unconscious bias towards lighter shades which has been socially conditioned in Western culture for generations. It’s a shame and a cultural attitude that’s slightly improving as black women embrace their natural features and pop culture at large becomes more comfortable positioning them as leads and objects of beauty.
I definitely think Disney’s aware of that more recent shift and that they’ll cast a darker skinned actress to play Storm. They proved that with the Black Panther movie and the casting of Monica Rambeau. Hopefully with some healthy MCU synergy Storm’s actress can become the template for future depictions of the character in gaming and the comics. But it sucks that it’s gonna take corporate synergy to address the whitewashing of Marvel’s most iconic black female character.
Kevin is about eight days late with that article.
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perhaps they do have an unconscious bias that's fair. I just am a bit over giving people the benefit of the doubt considering it has been a reoccurring issue.
and I agree with your last point. I'm hopeful with the reception of both bp and Monica that will cast a darker skinned woman.
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Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”