Stroppy children with a flair for the dramatic about this, at least!
Names, roles played previously. Lotta factors, many of which make me hella uncomfortable, because there's some seriously skeevy undertones of exoticization of people in the name of great justice.
Add to that the whole "he's drawn as swarthy with strong features and they never said flat out he was white in the comics, therefore clearly not white!" and I am in full side-eye mode. Again, think the character would be improved by race bending, but dude. With his backstory and when he was created, they wouldn't have had to specify whiteness there. That's kind of the reality of America's fucked up system. (Plus he's totally drawn like Vincent Price, who was totally awesome, but also an upper class rich white guy. So they're are literally doing this whole creepy gross classification by what you view as stereotypical features, and this would make so much more sense were I not on my phone.)
Nah, I get you. Tumblr-dom seems to have real problems with differentiating between categories of Things Which Are Issues and degree of outrage for various Things Which Are Issues. Also, history and context. And then you have the just free-floating fail that occurs in the world, including on Tumbr, which then gets reblogged and not examined and...yeah.
Though like a few of the FFA people, I suspect most of the people who'd been fancasting Oded Fehr were operating under the assumption that he was Egyptian.
I'm mostly operating under the assumption that he's hot and underused.
More Marvel announcements:
- Captain America: Civil War - May 6th 2016
- Doctor Strange - November 4th, 2016
- Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 (to be named) – May 5th, 2017
- Thor: Ragnarok – July 28th, 2017
- Black Panther - November 3rd, 2017 – starring Chadwick Boseman
- Captain Marvel – July 6th 2018 – featuring the Carol Danvers character
- Inhumans – November 2nd 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 – May 4th 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 – May 3rd 2019
Tom beat me, and oh my dear god, my geek panties are wet.
(Huh. That above post needs context, but Imma let it stand.)
Coolness. I have no comics knowledge whatsoever, but I'm glad the MCU head honchos finally got around to planning movies not headlined by yet another white dude.
Cumberbatch is not announced as Doctor Strange so it looks like that's not yet confirmed.
Chadwick Boseman?
I'm sure he will be fine, but what about all the other guys?
Didn't they tell you, ita? He's our New Black Headliner. You only get one.
I'm sure he will be fine, but what about all the other guys?
Someone's got to be Luke Cage.