btw,
if it's good enough for Stan Lee, it's good enough for me. If Underoos wants to bang, I say let him bang.
Whether comic fans will acknowledge it or not, times are changing. Back when comics were first made a thing, the vast majority of comic consumers were white, and thus their characters were made to reflect them. It's now 2016, and many established characters are being changed to reflect the also changing demographics of the comic consumer population, and/or being changed to reflect the very diverse movie consumer population.
And before someone says "they should just make new characters with ____ ethnicity" here's the the thing, they do. All the time. But in order to put the most butts into seats when it comes to movies, producers need to go with established characters, and in order to gain the widest appeal, they need to change some of the majority characters into minorities. Like I've mentioned in the 'Berry in the past, movie producers first saw this a necessity when looking at the huge success of Fast and Furious franchise, which sports one of the most diverse casts of any franchise I can think of. It literally has a character for everyone. It has veritable mutts in Diesel and Rock, several whtie Americans, a couple African Americans, multiple Europeans from different countries, a white Latino, multiple mixed Latinos, an Asian, a Middle Easterner, etc., and what's even better is that every single one of them brings something to the table. Not a single character is just there as window dressing
btw, I'm sure all of these people up in arms about all of the racebending white characters into minorities didn't give a flying fuck when, for
decades, minority characters were played by whites or were stereotypical joke caricatures of their demographic.
Also, I'm still waiting on my Asian Spiderman, but I'm still gonna watch this because Holland kills it as Underoos Spidey.
