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<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve already gone over how idiotic it would be for Iron Fist to be played by an Asian actor (here<\/a>).\u00a0 My biggest problem with Hollywood’s new hobby of changing the races and genders of beloved characters is how absurdly random and arbitrary it is. As though they decide at the beginning of the year what percentage of characters will be each race and gender and then start spinning a big lottery pong pong ball tumbler and mark them as they fall out.<\/span><\/p>\n Case in point- the black guy being the human torch.\u00a0 Iron Fist being white is integral to his whole mythos, Luke cage being black is integral to his whole mythos.\u00a0 There is NOTHING in the Fantastic Four Mythos that connects them to their race…EXCEPT that the human torch and invisible girl are brother and sister.\u00a0 SO…if the human torch is black…WHY THE F*CK NOT JUST MAKE THE INVISIBLE GIRL BLACK?! See my point? It’s just silly and random.\u00a0 You could make the entire FF black for all I care, the only connection to them and race is that two of them are siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n What’s worse, there are characters that could actually be better if their race was changed.\u00a0 Take Dr.Strange.\u00a0 As a white guy, his origin never made a lick of sense to me.\u00a0 He’s a surgeon who has a mental breakdown and goes off the to the orient and somehow finds his way into the world of mysticism …so deeply that the worlds greatest sorcerer becomes aware of him.\u00a0 Wha? Why would he go to Orient?\u00a0 and why would anyone who knew anything about the hidden mystic arts give some middle aged white tourist the time of day?\u00a0 Over the years Marvel tried to tack on some extra backstory, about his future teacher saving him at a young age as a way to connect the dots…which just added more questions.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, wouldn’t it make way more sense if Dr.Strange was ASIAN?\u00a0 And has a breakdown and goes off the orient to trace his roots or something?\u00a0 Then him stumbling into the deep dark inner circles of Asian mysticism seem more plausible.\u00a0 Perhaps his family line connects him to such entities.\u00a0 Dr.Strange would have been BETTER if they changed his race…but\u00a0 nope.\u00a0 He’s some white 39 year old.\u00a0\u00a0 That makes ZERO sense.\u00a0 The only conceivable reason he was ever white is that he was thought up in 1960something by a old white guy who probably grew up reading about Hairy Houdini and thought of an Italian a suit and top hat when he heard the phrase “magician” The random change they made here, which makes no sense, is he is way way waaaayyyy\u00a0 to young to be Dr. Strange.\u00a0 Dr.Strange was a rich, famous neurosurgeon when he started his journey, best case scenario to become a neurosurgeon is 14 years, I guess you could get real lucky and become rich and famous right out of the box with some high profile case…after you have spent a year building up your private practice. Then tack on several years wandering the orient and then time spent learning all there is to know about magic.\u00a0 How long you figure that takes?\u00a0 Longer than med school maybe? hmmm?\u00a0 maybe it takes a bit more time learning 6000 years of mystical knowledge than how to become a surgeon.\u00a0 maybe? But, let’s say it’s the same…14 years of med school+ at least 1 year of private practice before being rich and famous +3 years wandering the orient\/dealing with a mental breakdown+ 14 years studying the mystic arts = 32 years going by AFTER\u00a0 he gets out of high school.\u00a0 He should be early 50s AT THE YOUNGEST.<\/span><\/p>\n Dr.Strange is an old wise weathered guy, like Nick Fury.\u00a0 The guy the have playing him, if I was a bartender I’d ask him for his ID, and if I was some Asian guy connected to the mystic arts in any way, I’d take one look at this guy from Vanilla Village somewhere, and let the street rabble roll him for his wallet, passport and travelers checks.\u00a0 He’d spend more time at the U.S. Embassy filing incident reports than learning any ancient hidden secrets from the mystical underworld.<\/span><\/p>\n Onto the newest rumor.\u00a0 Ice Cube as J. J. Jameson the curmudgeonly editor in the Spider man mythos.\u00a0 I……love this idea.\u00a0 Hear me out.\u00a0 There is nothing about J.J. that connects him to any particular race.\u00a0 He needs to be cranky, boisterous, he has to scowl and shout a lot, and complain, be a cheapskate, and frighten his staff…and he has to be old.\u00a0 Guess what genX…Ice Cube is old.\u00a0 I know you don’t want to hear that, but he’s not a 20 year old punk anymore.\u00a0 He’s old.\u00a0 Spray some grey in his hair and picture him yelling…”Parker!\u00a0 Where the hell is that kid at?!\u00a0 When you don’t want him he’s underfoot, when you do want him he’s off clowning around somewhere.\u00a0 These kids ain’t have no damn commitment”.<\/span><\/p>\n I not only am okay with this idea, I love it.\u00a0 If you don’t love it, just wait..it’ll seem like casting brilliance in a year or two after they gender\/race swap who knows who else.\u00a0 Maybe that’d be a good contest- We try to predict which marvel Character who was originally a white male that they change and to what race and gender.\u00a0 Let’s see here, who’s left to screw up?\u00a0 Black Bolt?\u00a0 Sure, he’ll be Latino, and just to hit us over the head with it, he’ll be able to talk so as to have a Latino accent.\u00a0 “madre dios!!!!” (and pillars shake from the vibrations).<\/span><\/p>\n When Douglas is not busy complaining he is at www.arseniclullabies.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n ***don’t forget to come and see him at Wizard World St. Louis<\/a> April1-3rd and Wizard World Madison<\/a> April 7-9th***<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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