PoC Marvelverse

[witchwillow]

I should be sleeping, or making breakfast but - sometime on Thursday someone dragged an old rp character (female!Logan) out of my head for random chat meta. And the concept grew and grew and now I'm finding myself over at GJ trying to remember how to set up a game and doing a lot of head scratching.

But that's not the point of this post. Remember

Comments

[skywardprodigal]

My head is spinning. I love this idea.

[witchwillow]

In the end, I'm a really weird fish, aren't I? But I just can't stop thinking about it. Especially after a white friend pointed out to me that she'd be uncomfortable trying to build such a character because she wouldn't know if she'd gotten the nuances right.

It had me thinking of how well read on canon comic book geeks are. And yet even with all that canon, a shift of race creates such a huge difference of conception, perception, interaction, motivation, etc.

[skywardprodigal]

Yes.

People can create Klinzhai, but they can't study their own neighbors and relatives.

[skywardprodigal]

Actually, feel rather than study, to speak a truth.

[valarltd]

I grumbled a little about this with the X3 movie:
"White assimilationist suburban gay folk kick ethnic radical urban queer butt"

The major X-men were all very white (except Storm). The Brotherhood was very ethnic. It played right into the ugliest fears of middle America, really.

[cryptoxin]

Wow -- all kinds of interesting possibilities re: the villains, too: Magneto, Mystique, Mr. Sinister.... Maybe instead of evil mutants, the Muslim Brotherhood of Mutants?

[witchwillow]

I think a 'Muslim Brotherhood of Mutants' portrayed as the villains would tap into a whole lot of prejudice and perhaps promote some.

I'm not sure I understand what you meant (am giving the benefit of the doubt here)

[cryptoxin]

Sorry -- that's what I meant by "instead of evil mutants", meaning not villains, just the idea of a different kind of Mutant Brotherhood. One that's transnational and grounded in religious affiliation -- and plays an explicitly political role in a lot of Arab countries.

I focused on villains assuming that in a racially-shifted Marvelverse, the villains wouldn't necessarily be villains anymore, some of them would be radicals and revolutionaries.

Not that I'd trust Marvel to handle that at all well -- unless they turned things over to good creators.