Originally Posted by
Silver Fang
Characters are popular when actual effort is put into writing them & making them look good. Sometimes at blatant expense of other characters. The popular characters weren't created popular. They became that way with genuine story & development.
And yet he still was the leader in Uncanny, and still seems high in the rankings in HoX. So that hasn't stopped him. meanwhile Storm hasn't been leading anything. Except the award for being the token black female.
They've already character assassinated him and turned him into a baby killer for the sake of a white character's story. Hope. His treatment wasn't good at that point, especially going there with the only black male character we had.
Yet Madrox of all characters gets brought back and had a mini series dedicated to him. I can't imagine he's that phenomenal of a character. Hell using one of my former favs. Sabretooth. He WAS a good villain, and he WAS popular. Now he's one of the biggest losers in the X-verse. He is certainly not written as a serious character that anyone cares about, yet he can have his head cut off 3 times in the past year & keep coming back sucking up panel time being a useless jobber. But yet somehow Synch can't be brought back? Especially when Destiny is going to be showing up somewhere in HOX. I don't think Synch hasn't been referenced to since he was killed 20+ years ago. Monet loved him in GenX, he was killed and that was that. Meanwhile she had a bigger reaction to Madrox one-night standing her, and dying than she did Synch.
They'll revive or make use of what seem like some of the most obscure white characters who can't be that popular. But 99% of the black characters stay in limbo.
But they're weren't. One was white, the other was black. And it's the black guy who got the boot. Meanwhile there's about 5 Wolverines running around that nobody has gotten rid of yet, besides Mary Sue Logan aka Old Man Logan.
And many white character appear everywhere while black characters go in & out of limbo, except the queen of tokenism, Storm.
So again. there's more white characters that get great treatment than black characters, which there aren't many of, nor do they get treatment that's ever that good.
To bring up my classic example. If you complain the black guy always dies in horror films. Someone will argue "More white people got killed." Why is that? because it was more white people around in the first place & more to spare. Lets say you got 8 characters. 1 black, 1 Asian, and 6 white. The black & Asian characters get killed off. That's two minorities. Then 4 of the 6 white people get killed, plus the other white extras in the film. Sure that was more white people dying. But we still had more white people living too -when the final ones standing are the white characters, meanwhile all of the 2 minorities around were axed.