I don't recall Wolverine going around "its aboot time I kill ya bub eh?" despite being Canadian. So clearly there were options about the level of caricature. Throw some "cher" and "couyon" in his dialogue and you'd have a genuine Cajun stereotype on its own.
Also the 90s was just as filled with "the South is nothing but drooling retards, the scum of America, look at how backwoods they are!" on every channel. This was one of the few times it wasn't purely malicious.
I should say, this sounds a lot more angry/offended than I am about it. Its a huge nothingburger. Its just been 30+ years of people who "just love Southern accents" and then are referring to an accent that was basically made up on TV.
Fair enough, I’m one of those people who love Southern accents but always imagines women who sound like Rogue and men who sound like Stone Cold Steve Austin. In my defence though, I’m a South African living in New Zealand, so my ears are hopelessly out of tune with American accents. Even my own sounds kinda fucked up to me sometimes, lol.
I appreciated the stereotypes as a child, even the ones about redneck backwoods and dumb hicks etc. It’s the same constant put downs my small farming town Afrikaaner family and I constantly had in South Africa, so it actually made me LOVE the rednecks. Made me root for them.
And for the record I would pay a PREMIUM to watch a series featuring a super-Canadian Wolverine.
I don't recall Wolverine going around "its aboot time I kill ya bub eh?" despite being Canadian. So clearly there were options about the level of caricature. Throw some "cher" and "couyon" in his dialogue and you'd have a genuine Cajun stereotype on its own.
Also the 90s was just as filled with "the South is nothing but drooling retards, the scum of America, look at how backwoods they are!" on every channel. This was one of the few times it wasn't purely malicious.
I should say, this sounds a lot more angry/offended than I am about it. Its a huge nothingburger. Its just been 30+ years of people who "just love Southern accents" and then are referring to an accent that was basically made up on TV.
Fair enough, I’m one of those people who love Southern accents but always imagines women who sound like Rogue and men who sound like Stone Cold Steve Austin. In my defence though, I’m a South African living in New Zealand, so my ears are hopelessly out of tune with American accents. Even my own sounds kinda fucked up to me sometimes, lol.
I appreciated the stereotypes as a child, even the ones about redneck backwoods and dumb hicks etc. It’s the same constant put downs my small farming town Afrikaaner family and I constantly had in South Africa, so it actually made me LOVE the rednecks. Made me root for them.
And for the record I would pay a PREMIUM to watch a series featuring a super-Canadian Wolverine.
Jesus that would be hilarious 😆😆😆
A truly Canadian Wolverine would open up a Tim Hortons outlet in Xavier's Institute.