It's so obvious what they're doing. Ghost Rider Scene (2007)
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This is one of the things that MIGHT have just been done with no thought but thanks to current day we see it through an ideological lens.
Give you two examples: John Stewart as Green Lantern and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. If they were done NOW not previously, regardless of quality they'd be a lot of people saying that they were blackwashing a character.
This could've been resolved with having a young White or Latino kid be the one getting the 'innocent' line but even back then there was a known predilection for young Black men to have 'wrong time, wrong place' syndrome so this scene might've been made under that than agenda pushing.
Nick Fury was White in the comic books so ironically he was a blackwashed character to begin with. Most fans of the Marvel movies had no idea because they had never read the comic books. Marvel really struck gold and then threw it all away.
He was white, and a WWII vet in the regular universe. He was based on Jackson in the Ultimate series.
I just know I got the comic names wrong...
Yes, the character was blackwashed in the ultimate series way before the movies. You can tell it wasn't a coincidence because race swapping characters only ever changes characters that were originally White.
I think it's because the best version of him as white is the Hoff. That is a very different movie.