Black Superheroes
ContentA. Doesn't have Lightning powers (Don't get me wrong I love Storm, But Black Lightining and Static, are sadly pretty much the same character, i guess it would have been cool if there was some legacy connection between the two but that's not the case. and lot's not forget the current Johnny Thunder.
B. Isn't From Africa or "Da' Streets" it's like all their origins has to connect them to low income housing and or the "motherland" (Prowler, Falcon, Luke Cage, Black Lighting, that kid wit the tattoos that was in New Xmen for a while, Rage....
C. Black versions of other more recognizable heroes. Black Lantern, lol i mean John Stewart, Steel, Firestorm, Black Goliath, Night Thrasher (wack batman) Mr. Terrific...
D. HAVE BLACK IN THEIR NAMES, Black Lightning, Panther, Goliath, Manta(a villain but still) i'm sure there's more.
E.There's a guy called Rage. RAGE. a kid from the streets that fights crime angrily.
And well that's about it, I left out the "i'm smart so i can build armor and stuff power", which really isn't a power. i mean think about it, alot of black superheroes power is to be smart..... (Steel, Prodigy [one of marvel's many characters with that name] Mr. Terrific, Hardware, Cyborg) or that if you mix and match the above categories, you'll pretty much cover them all.
I know alot of this has to do with "the times" but i think that's used as an excuse a little too much for me. Cause it's not like new black characters don't still follow that trend. Lol are there even any black people in Scott Pilgrim?
And let's not even get started on other minorities in comics, cause good lord it only gets worse.
I also wouldn't mind seeing a black or any other ethnicity save the day in a major crossover. Or be remotely relevant when big threats come to town.
And I know the response this is, make my own, which I do, but is it so much to ask to have others do the same. Instead of trying to make these characters relatable based on stereotypes, just make a character, like they normally do who just happens to be a different skin tone.
Sorry for another negative internet rant but it's own my mind today.
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I saw the Black Lightning comic when I went to pick up Spiderman and was like "Oh man, did Static Shock grow up!? Wow" and then someone filled me in and let me know the real deal. Seriously DC? He's not a new character so i didn't think too hard about. Didn't buy it though.
And as far as black people in Scott Pilgrim I counted one, Dominique, Scott's boss.
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I'd also like to add to your rant how much I hated Hancock. Ofcourse a black superman would be a criminal hobo whose only kryptonite was a white woman. ... ugh.
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I do wonder who decided Black people and Lightning was a winning combination?
I never really looked at Scott Pilgrim that way because, well, it's Canada. I know black people are there, but it seems like O'Malley is drawing from his clique of folks, which I guess is predominantly asian and caucasian folks. Doesn't bother me at all. It's the same thing with Judd Apatow films. They have only one black guy in that universe, but I honestly don't think those guys hang out with many black people. Not because they're racist or anything, it's just that's how it is. If they did have another black person in the film I'd sit in the theater and wonder how he or she got there. I really think these are two examples of "writing what you know."
The big thing really has to be that the characters have to come naturally. I think too many times, forcing a character's race hinders a creator. I think if it just sort of flows and it happens it'll work out better than "Hey, I'm gonna make black people!" Sometimes it works, and sometimes it backfires and people complain because that's not what they grew up with or had any intention of seeing.
I think that's why John Stewart worked so well in the JL cartoons. Yeah, he was like the 5 millionth Green Lantern, but after people put down the picketing signs and stopped complaining, they realized he wasn't Hal Jordan dipped in chocolate. He was his own character. Plus, he got his feathered swirl on with Hawkgirl, and then went back to the inkwell with Vixen.( I have no idea what any of that stuff in the last sentence means, but it sounds like it works.) Also with a little affirmative action, we too can be space cops.
I watched Static shock, and it's heart was in the right place. I just think it never caught on outside of "That black super-hero." As if being black was the gimmick of the show. I'd rather have a few well written, fully developed black characters than be oversaturated with lightning black people. That would be annoying. Plus I don't want to be the guy when eveyrone sees a new black hero come and ask me "What do you think?"
Man this is long...
Female characters tend to get the same sort of treatment, as well. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the comic industry has been, for a long time, dominated primarily by white males. Now that said, I don't mean this as a slam on white guys, just a recognition that there has been a lot of, well, ignorance due to the industry being for one demographic by one demographic.
Then when people start to realize, "Oh, hey, we haven't been treating this other group very well. We should have a positive portrayal of them." it goes to the completely opposite end of the scale in attempts to do something good, which is equally unrealistic.
Culture, personality, and personal experiences are a much bigger factor than things like race or sex. Unfortunately, a lot of people just don't seem to realize that.
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I would really like to see a character that doesn't fall in one of those catagories. Ya know, not a black hero, just a hero.
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