Yup. That said, I'll give them Nick Fury, and I'm not convinced that his character was an agenda-based race swap. Samuel L Jackson was typecast well, and at the time everybody liked him. Within the MCU confines, he played it well, and until about Endgame, was written well. Some of their other choices however good for the roles were a little risky, like Robert Downey Jr.. Jackson was a big known star, had played basically that rile over and over again, wasn't a has-been or TV actor (no shade from me, but the first half dozen new Marvel movies were clearly designed and cast for blockbuster star power advertising), and had no image issues. That he made more than most of us will in a lifetime just saying, "motherfucker," was his worst image problem, before TDS took over social media.
Most of the race swaps have some significant other problems, like the way the characters are written, them or the writers shitting on the historical character instances, being DEI-hire actors or actresses, having fake media hype for them, that doesn't translate into tickets or streamimg subscriptions, etc..
Yup. That said, I'll give them Nick Fury, and I'm not convinced that his character was an agenda-based race swap. Samuel L Jackson was typecast well, and at the time everybody liked him. Within the MCU confines, he played it well, and until about Endgame, was written well. Some of their other choices however good for the roles were a little risky, like Robert Downey Jr.. Jackson was a big known star, had played basically that rile over and over again, wasn't a has-been or TV actor (no shade from me, but the first half dozen new Marvel movies were clearly designed and cast for blockbuster star power advertising), and had no image issues. That he made more than most of us will in a lifetime just saying, "motherfucker," was his worst image problem, before TDS took over social media.
Most of the race swaps have some significant other problems, like the way the characters are written, them or the writers shitting on the historical character instances, being DEI-hire actors or actresses, having fake media hype for them, that doesn't translate into tickets or streamimg subscriptions, etc..