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It also doesn't help that when you cast decent black actors they misuse them in terrible writing.
Biggest example was Force Awakens, EVERYONE was looking forward to Boyega being a Stormtrooper turned into a Jedi story only for him to be badly cut down in that film for Ray to 'shine' then be a walking one for the next two films.
Let's be honest here, NO ONE was looking forward to John Boyega before the movie. The thing is, then the movie came out, and we saw the potential of Finn as a character. And at the same time, watched them squander it, having him slaughter his former mates, the people he was fucking RAISED alongside, while screaming "DIDJU SEE THAT?!? DIDJU SEE THAT?!?"
"Traitor!!!" was the best part of that film, and I never bothered with the rest.
And this happened a DAY at most after he completely froze up in his first battle where one of his brothers-in-arms died in his arms. It was a shock to him that he fled the battlefield and practically deserted. Seriously, what the fuck? This is not how a regular human being acts. That's how a remorseless psychopath acts.
Hell, you want a story? Actually make the leap to make Finn an unaware Force-sensitive, and give him a minor version of The Exile's power, deeply bonding with those around him entirely by instinct. Eventually after breaking the conditioning, he deserts, rescuing Poe, and is deemed a traitor. As he tries to survive going forward, he's forced to kill a lot of First Order troopers, and causing so many of their deaths will feel like he's stabbed himself in the heart.
Fair enough, it's just the wasted potential thanks to contrived circumstances due to writing that turns me off more than diversity but the two come as a bundle set.
Like how they raise Boba in the mandalorian to knock him down in his own series or the recent Suicide Squad game. The only way they can make their characters 'look good' is to knock down the previous generation because they lack the talent to show it any other way.
I would think now that you would see less masculine black men or if he is masculine then it will be revealed that he is gay. I’ve seen that trope with white make characters.
For what it's worth, even many of these masculine black men are emaculated to make the women look better. Finn is frequently shown up by Kelly Trans for example, and is ultimately overshadowed by MaRey Sue. And Nick Fury is made to repeatedly made to look like a doofus when compared to Captain Marvel, culminating with the reveal that he lost his eye to a fucking cat.
Speaking of Nick Fury, why the hell didn't Marvel ever give him his own movie? He was around since nearly the beginning of the MCU, he was setting things up long before Tony Stark got locked up in a cave. There were plenty of things they could have done with him during freaking Phase 1 that would have made for an entertaining two hours, and Samuel L. Jackson has always had crowd-pleasing star power on his side. No, they instead always relegate him to a sidekick role and make a big spectacle out of Black Panther being the very first black superhero evar!
Black Panther was the most annoying marketing since they made it seem like no black people had ever been in a movie before. Blade was quite popular when it came out. A Phase 1 Nick Fury movie could’ve worked and include a crossover with the Original Nick Fury from the original marvel comics. The Sameul Jackson version is from Ultimate comics if i remember correctly
Fury ends up getting a TV series called 'Secret Invasion' that ran for 6 episodes and did little other than kill off more well known characters while also being completely shit.
True. White males are seen as the epitome of evil by the entertainment industry. I guess a black male would be upstaged by a black woman since they rank higher on oppression chart. I guess black Panther would be an example of that. My neighbor said it seemed like he played second fiddle to the stunning and brave women
They could go with the muslim thing because religion is purely aesthetic to the woke cult. The main character could be muslim in the sense that they wear an arabic looking outfit and make vague references to allah every now and then.
Eh, no. Boyega is just as woke as the rest of them.
Quoting myself from a year or so ago