I know, but nobody is. Demanding all fictional characters represent you/your ethnicity in a 100% perfect manner just results in Tokenism, but dumber. Super-Tokenism, where the one black guy on a team is the bestest one ever. Where the one woman on a team of men could kick everyone's ass at the same time. Where the writer wants to "Boost foreigners up" and "Take white people down a peg" by "Subverting" (Just lazily flipping around) the problem the writer imagined up.



There's a reason why people like Miles Morales, the new black Spider-Man replacement kid, but hate Riri Williams, the new black Iron Man replacement kid. Miles is allowed to be flawed, he's allowed to lose fights and suck at stuff, he's allowed to try and fail and get back up and keep fighting, which makes people want to see him get better the same way people wanted to see Terry get better at being Batman back in the day. And when he does get better, people cheer. Meanwhile, Riri is some random black girl in a ghetto who builds her own Iron Man suit in an apartment and is smarterer than Iron Man and fasterer than Iron Man and betterer than Iron Man in every way ever and it just feels like an obnoxiously preachy self-insert fanfiction written by some kid who wants people to think his OC is cool. Even when "Depth" is added to the character in the way of "Actually, Iron Man is right, I am a thief. I made my suit myself but I ripped off Iron Man's suit so he gets to take it from me" bullshit is just another "Am I a good character? ...Yes, yes I am! Even the Phantom Ring agrees I should be a Green Lantern!" marketing ploy, her armorless-ness is only going to last until she goes through a shallow predictable emotional arc and then decides she's her own uber-kewl hero who should make a betterer Iron Man armour suit.



Riri is a transparent attempt to shallowly pander to black people by giving them a "Girl from the ghetto" who has magical super-armour and magical super-genius mega-awesomeness nobody can defeat ever, and a lot of people of every race see right through it. People don't want to see Gods getting wanked off. People want to see characters on the screen, on the pages, and in print. People want to see characters fight, win, lose, and go on awesome adventures. People want to see characters learn and grow. Or, in the case of comedies, people want characters to tell funny jokes, end up in funny situations, and people want the world play jokes on different people each day. Nobody wants to read some boring Iron Man comic where there is no Iron Man and the whole thing's just Pepper and a bunch of other women emotionally validating each other over and over and over again.



Even Superman isn't perfect. He's lost fights to Doomsday, Lex Luthor, Batman, Supergirl, and so many more. He's only an unstoppable uber-god in the minds of those obnoxious fanboys who think Ki is "Inconsistent and therefore to be ignored" but think Superman being able to "Lift infinity and survive a universe collapsing on him" one day and then getting smacked around by a punch from Bane the other day isn't inconsistent at all. He's been in stories where he's turned against the world, and stories where the world has turned on him. He's been in stories where he's lost everything, and stories where he saved the day. Interesting stories have been told about him, and around him. Meanwhile, no writer can do anything interesting with Riri because nobody wants to make her look bad, weak, or dumb, so she can never lose in an important way or fail in a meaningful way or have a flaw that actually hurts her. She can never be seriously threatened by a major antagonist and no villain can ever make an impression on the audience by kicking her ass or even putting up a decent fight against her before going down, every villain always has to lose to this overbearing and unbearable Sue. I know a lot of feminists think calling a female character a "Mary Sue" is a "Racist sexist bad thing", but that's because they're ignorant idiots who've never realized "Marty Stu" is the male version of this symptom of bad writing and bad character design, and there's a reason why people hated Kirito from Sword Art Online so much. It's his Gary Stuness. Funny how all he needed to do to get that label was be really good at a few video games and hack one of them. Anyway, those people think they're "Saving wimmin forever" by doing this, but they're really just making bad excuses for bad fiction by insulting anyone who sees what's wrong with it and how it could improve. The art form won't improve if it stays the way it is now, and the art form won't improve if the loudest voices are calling it "Perfect just the way it is".



People who want to see sues get shilled and repeatedly emotionally validated don't want to read comics or see characters struggle or fight in them. These people want characters who look like and represent them to always win and always be right and always be the bestestest ever. These people want to replace art with the art of metaphorical reader dick-sucking. These people should just get vibrators for their emotional validation and leave art alone, because that's what they're doing: Censoring, harming, and subverting art because they don't want interesting or fun stories to be told, they want their dicks sucked.