Asians representative in x-book

[CosmiComic]

One of the reasons I can never see Sunspot from the Fox New Mutants (2020) film as the real character. They did Cecilia and Sunspot so dirty there.

That's true. Cecilia Reyes is also Black. So why were they whitewashed?

[Slicknickshady]

They ignore Lin Li.

[ChronoRogue]

That's true. Cecilia Reyes is also Black. So why were they whitewashed?

According to the director, representation with race isn't important but their nationality and ethnicity is. It's the usual "I don't see color" privilege BS.

[OopsIdiditagain]

Because when your skin is a unnatural color in comics, Writers seem to forget to flesh out their backgrounds properly. Blink was always from the Bahamas(an island with 90% black population and a 1% other population ) when Scott Lobdell made her but it was never fully fleshed out her background. To make a long story short Fa bing and Jamie Chung look like the drawing of blink.

Saladin Ahmed took over Exiles he actually respected the character enough to flesh out her background and line her up with what someone from that island would look like. This is also why Domino, will probably end up as a black woman in comics as well nobody has ever bothered to go hmm Neena Thurman has been around for years now, I wonder what her parents look like.

Pink skin, green eyes and bone straight pink hair smh. I'm not even surprised people forget these characters are black.

[OopsIdiditagain]

They ignore Lin Li.

Aside from Eyeboy, a lot of characters from that run faded out.

[Kingdom X]

They ignore Lin Li.

Very underrated character.

[JB]

They ignore Lin Li.

Agreed. I'd love to see how she interacts with Krakoa.

[BroHomo]

He's referring to the fact that people will argue up and down that characters like Sunspot aren't black even though his origin literally revolved around anti-black racism.

Dude...

That's kinda odd. He has a Black father and White mother. He's Black, and he's White. It's never either/or.

...so true. lol



Kinda Random Rant:
That aside I druged through episodes of The Gifted to get to the see the black villainess And not only was Sunspot us once again not fvckin black, They wasted Jsmie Chung(?) As you can see in LoveCraft Country, But it had a minority Mutants among the cast but focused on the 2 blonde Nazi kids...

[CosmiComic]

Dude...

...so true. lol



Kinda Random Rant:
That aside I druged through episodes of The Gifted to get to the see the black villainess And not only was Sunspot us once again not fvckin black, They wasted Jsmie Chung(?) As you can see in LoveCraft Country, But it had a minority Mutants among the cast but focused on the 2 blonde Nazi kids...

I hope future adaptations will be more conscious of these things. I don't want characters like Storm to be whitewashed.

And I don't think anyone should be questioning a character's blackness!

[Killerbee911]

Pink skin, green eyes and bone straight pink hair smh. I'm not even surprised people forget these characters are black.

Saladin Ahmed didn't forget



And props to Javier Rodríguez for being able to draw pink skin, green eyes character and instantly you can tell what race she is with one look. And this is relevant to this topic because Kwannon is clearly Asian, Betsy is twin of Brian Captain Britain. And for some reason it hard to tell them apart.

[BroHomo]

And I don't think anyone should be questioning a character's blackness!

When the answer is always zero its no longer logical to keep asking the question

[WallStreeter]

That's true. Cecilia Reyes is also Black. So why were they whitewashed?

The director was a racist. He and Fox were stuck in the 1980s so the New Mutants became a typical white teen horror film. No offense.

[CosmiComic]

When the answer is always zero its no longer logical to keep asking the question

Agreed.

The director was a racist. He and Fox were stuck in the 1980s so the New Mutants became a typical white teen horror film. No offense.

That's too bad. This is a pretty diverse team in the comics.

And why do people still care about the 80s so much?

[BroHomo]

And why do people still care about the 80s so much?

Preppies
Reaganomics
Nose Candy
New Wave
What's not to love?

[OopsIdiditagain]

Karma might get more focus in New Mutants