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You are fundamentally lacking in understanding about the difference and importance of race bending vs whitewashing and it’s pretty evident not in this post but from your blog in general when it comes to these kind of things. Why keep having a conversation about stuff you don’t seem to be getting or know the full scope of? Like there’s a whole other side of this conversation about PoC not stealing roles from each other even when it comes to people of the same race but different ethnicities. mod v So basically your saying its ok if it happens to white characters , but not to non white characters?

Yes lmfao. So what happens if character is initially played by a white actor , but then is played non white actor , would the next time the character is used have to go to anon white actor in order for it to not be white washing?

What happens is this: the initial actor is white, that actor is then replaced by an actor of color. Then that actor is replaced by another actor of color. That actor is succeeded by another actor of color. We remove boring, over-used white actors from roles forever. 💖😩 So basically you just dont want white actors ….. @mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor

I mean not necessarily, at least we don’t, but we get where the urge comes from. The rampant gatekeeping and white washing of historic nonwhite characters can drive people to want this, but honestly good fair representation would just be great. Also if a white characters was racebent to a PoC you would need to keep casting a PoC for it to no longer be whitewashing, more importantly they should keep casting the same type of PoC.st PoC in favor of white people. Stuff like racebending evens the stakes.

mod v But isnt that kinda exclusionary ,I mean what your saying is that as long as a character is white anyone can play them but the minute someone plays them that isnt than only non white people of that type should be able to play them even if the actor who plsyed them was an awefull actor , like the person that played the human torch in the last fantastic four movie .

It’s just straight up racism to have that double standard, I’m just come right out and say that. This is like casting Scarlet Johansson as the lead in a Ghost in the Shell adaptation. Oh wait, they did that too, and it was also bullshit. Why? Because the ethnicity of that character is a major aspect of the character, just like a character based upon Norse mythology’s Nordic ancestry would also be important to that character. Naturally , but these people rent known for their respect towards european cultures , nor for their knowledge of the history of them . Besides if i’m right than the logically conclusion of their ideas is not a merit but a race based society . @lejacquelope

Something I think people miss is that this doesn’t make Valkyrie a black character, it makes her a white character played by a mixed actress. This doesn’t actually add any minority characters because Valkyrie isn’t a minority character, the same way that Fant4stic’s Johnny Storm was a white character played by a black actor. You know what happens if this peeks people’s interest in the character and they go to read comics about her? They’ll see that blue-eyed, blonde-haired, white character in the illustration on the left up there. And everyone drawn in for the idea of reading about a minority character is immediately turned off. That is one of the biggest problems with casting a minority character as a white character in movie adaptations, because they won’t change to the new race in the comics so it creates a fanbase of the character who aren’t interested in the majority of works featuring that character. You want to push up the number of minority characters? Then actually adapt minority characters! And that doesn’t just mean black, dammit; Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Middle Easterners. All people that are sometimes forgotten in the push for more black characters.

In all fairness, they did cast Idris Elba as Heimdall, another Norse character. And again, in fairness, the late great Jack Kirby’s depiction of Heimdall wasn’t 100% white if you look closely, and in the Marvel comics universe the Greek/Roman, Norse, and Egyptian mythologies are all connected, and before the movie, Heimdall was actually made of cosmic energy, so he could probably make himself any race he wanted if he could:

Race aside, something which I find rather weird, and something this post by @fuckyeahmelancholy mentioned, is that they’re casting a character named Valkyrie with someone who’s rather on the short side.

To be honest, I always felt the Thor films were the weakest solo movies in the MCU. While the action is good, the comedy is occasionally hit or miss, and while Loki is an entertaining villain (which is admittedly something that the films sort of have a shortage of), he sort of took up a bit more more screentime from Malekith in the second film.

Overall, I’m just gonna wait to see if this works out in the long run or not.