tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362449693979739609.post4029484142726972082..comments2023-08-21T03:27:47.092-04:00Comments on Scarlet Betch: Racebending - 0, Marvel - 1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362449693979739609.post-33076277244632685962010-08-31T10:51:04.546-04:002010-08-31T10:51:04.546-04:00Totally agree with you, g_whiz! I mentioned Jacks...Totally agree with you, g_whiz! I mentioned Jackson and Duncan merely to illustrate that racebending.com's concerns about racebending in a Marvel film weren't unfounded. In the sense of racebending of any kind, yes it has occurred under Marvel's eye. In the sense of a white-washing policy, though, you're right: Marvel has kept its (myriad of) white actors solely in roles of traditionally white characters.<br /><br />My parenthetical statement at the end of the post is meant as clarification on that point: I'm happy about Nico's casting call clarification, but not because I'm a comic book purist who thinks comic book ethnicity should be preserved as cannon in all forms . I think that the transition from page to screen is a great opportunity to diversify a genre that has historically been too monochromatic. If Marvel started racebending all its characters so that all the queer characters of color (e.g., Bling! Are there any others?) were played by straight, white people and all the Thors and Captain Americas and Iron Men and Wolverines were played as queers of colour, I think I would be pro-racebending/pro-queerbending. It's all bending, some of it is just more socially conscious.<br /><br />RE: Ultimate Fury<br />The comic book version came first, but according to Samuel L. Jackson's official website they asked to use his likeness, so it is intentional.Kuhnsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04061722311370042587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362449693979739609.post-28054616443603135402010-08-31T09:38:53.749-04:002010-08-31T09:38:53.749-04:00I don't know, considering how 99% of the comic...I don't know, considering how 99% of the comic universe is overrepresented by white male characters, and the Avengers token black character of late is Luke Cage, I think - as far as the movie line is concerned having Nick Fury be portrayed by Samuel L Jackson is perfectly understandable. Besides, the Ultimate Universe's Nick Fury looks exactly like Jackson and, frankly is a lot more interesting than the 616 version. Whether or not the resemblence is a coencidence and the casting came after is beyond me, but I think the importance of Nico being Japanese American is much different.<br /><br />Taking an already established, very important minority character and making them white is much much different than taking a character who'se race varies depending on which universe they're in and making one of them stick for film purposes. Its losing one of a few non-cliched, non-sterotypical japanese-american characters in the case of Nico. Its losing one of hundreds of thousands of quasi-generic white male characters in the case of Nick Fury.g_whizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15239758875167277254noreply@blogger.com