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Rewatch the Matrix trilogy.
Every single bad (or questionable) character is white. Agents. Cipher. All the cops. The Marovingian. The Architect. The virus twins. The dude that gets infected by Smith. I think there might have been a couple of Latino-ish mooks in the "armory stairway" fight. The obviously dubious/criminal gang with the white rabbit tattoo chick.
In the "resistance," all of the doubters are white guys.
For "good"/helpful white characters, there's one councilman that's alright. There's the ammo kid. The spoon kid. Mouse was a white guy, but he was also the one who has pathetic fake Matrix-sex. There's some women (Trinity, Switch, the Marovingian's wife). Keanu himself is half Korean. 6+ hours worth of movies and maybe 10-15 minutes of screen time for helpful white male side characters.
All of the other good characters were either women or not white: Morpheus. Apok. Tank. Dozer. The Oracle. The Oracle's helper. The Keymaker. The golden-glowing Asian dude. The helpful "Karma" guy in the train station. The black general power armor guy. Jada Pinkett the "badass driver." The "we gotta make mortars!" chicks.
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that it wasn't accidental. This was late '90s early '00s. It's only gotten worse. I can't count the number of times I've watched a movie in the last 2 decades where every scene looks like a meeting of the united nations except the bad guys, who are all white men.
The Wachowski brothers also wanted Will Smith to play Neo.