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So why did only this one character get genderswapped? Galactus still looks like the Lee / Kirby version. Johnny is still a guy, Ben is still a guy, Reed is still a guy, Sue is still a girl and they're all still white (or "white" in Pascal's case). If you were adhering to the look and setting of the classic comics why not not stick with the original Surfer, too?
It was an unnecessary change. They just couldn't play it straight and not get cute with something, and the Surfer was the one thing they had to fuck with, I guess. It's like they held a staff meeting in pre-production, someone pointed out that they hadn't race or genderswapped any characters and then they picked one at random to fuck with just out of principle because they always have to do it at least once.
Fans of the original comics remember Norrin being the Surfer in every significant storyline since 1960-whatever and 99.999999% of plebs have no idea Shalla-Ball ever existed so I ask again, who the fuck was this swap made to appeal to? How does it make the movie better or more marketable?