DC just dropped a bunch of trailers for upcoming movies (Batman, Black Adam, recut Justice League, new Suicide Squad). Kind of interesting to watch them and see the faces that pop out.
Amber Heard - Domestic abuser
Ezra Miller - Recently choke-slammed a girl
James Gunn - sketchy pedophilia comment history
I fully understand they can't cut Flash, and Gunn is a desperate, last-ditch effort to inject GotG style fun into their moribund universe. But surely in a movie that was being made specifically for recut scenes they could have ditched ones with the sociopathic abuser?
Maybe DC are just taking a "fuck cancel culture, we'll use anyone that we want" stance, in which case, more power to them, even if their choice is assholes. I'm not going to be too surprised though if it simply ends up with them being massive hypocrites.
True. I haven't tried any DC shows in several years, but I imagine they have degraded past the point of tolerance. Naivete slips out once in a while as I think maybe that they could be happy with the things they demand.
I watched it again a few years ago. They did have a somewhat woke racism episode, but it was mostly silly. But Static was a great black hero (well, teen Static; I need him to not be so serious and overpowered as his future self). They even had his white buddy playing a somewhat subservient role without seriously harming their relationship.
I do shudder to think of how bad a modern woke take of it could be, now that you mention it. They'd miss the point so hard and probably remove his believable qualities in a frantic pursuit to grab virtues. They'd have to make all of his villains white - that'd be funny. Probably turn the white friend into a bungling simp clown while making the hero a genius king that makes his own inventions.