Originally Posted by
Blue22
Damian is so incredibly mixed that I just can't get too hung up on how he looks between his different portrayals. As long as he's not super pale, I'm always satisfied. Even as a dark skinned POC, I never really understood why the DC fandom chose this character, of all people, to get so heated about when it comes to his skin tone. As if people just forget that not only do light skinned middle eastern people exist, and deserve representation just as much as anyone else, but that the boy is half white. Half white and half BATMAN, aka the guy whose genetics are so strong that even his adopted kids look like him.
Yes, Damian should have some color to him. Yes, it's great that some artists (particularly whoever drew him in that one Ric book) are giving him facial features that match his mixed heritage. But realistically, he shouldn't look anywhere near as dark as he does in all the fanart or in the Wayne Family Adventures comic (which I now hear people call the "correct version" of Damian). Like...I understand the need for diversity and representation. Lord knows adding some color to the Batfamily is never a bad thing. But..I think people really forget that he is still just as white as he is Asian. Between Bruce's genes and everything that makes up the Al-Ghul bloodline (you know...whenever they acknowledge how mixed that gene pool is), he is one of the last characters you wanna start a war over in terms of how they should look.