Anonymous
9/8/2025, 7:31:58 PM
No.150275364
>>150274871
Not all of them are. Blade is cool and everyone knows it. Cyborg is if not commonly liked then at least respected. Nobody has a problem with Storm, they have a problem with the way that the X-men have been character assassinated overall in the past couple decades.
The problem is when you get to more recent black characters that are just blatant corporate cashgrab exercises. Miles is a prime example of this: he adds nothing, and exists as nothing more than a tick on the side of the spiderman franchise. Not even because he is black specifically, but because he has NOTHING going on as a character of his own (as evidenced by the fact that after all of these years he still doesn't have his own superhero name or a villain that isn't a Peter Parker sloppy seconds. Miles contributes nothing, but they won't get rid of him seemingly purely because they like the idea of having a black spiderman despite the fact that they won't give him anything to do.
THAT kind of character is what drags down perception of black superheroes overall: the ones that don't function as characters of their own without being propped up by executive brand management.
Not all of them are. Blade is cool and everyone knows it. Cyborg is if not commonly liked then at least respected. Nobody has a problem with Storm, they have a problem with the way that the X-men have been character assassinated overall in the past couple decades.
The problem is when you get to more recent black characters that are just blatant corporate cashgrab exercises. Miles is a prime example of this: he adds nothing, and exists as nothing more than a tick on the side of the spiderman franchise. Not even because he is black specifically, but because he has NOTHING going on as a character of his own (as evidenced by the fact that after all of these years he still doesn't have his own superhero name or a villain that isn't a Peter Parker sloppy seconds. Miles contributes nothing, but they won't get rid of him seemingly purely because they like the idea of having a black spiderman despite the fact that they won't give him anything to do.
THAT kind of character is what drags down perception of black superheroes overall: the ones that don't function as characters of their own without being propped up by executive brand management.