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No I'm little tired of PC in movies now-a-days
I get it Tony...you're a MCU super fan..so am I so are most card carrying nerds. but why did you originally start obsseing over X-Men Marvel DC characters? because of what they represented. Masculinity, Truth, Justice, Strength, Courage. even ethnicities I'm sure their are black kids that like Luke Cage, and Black Panther because they were well...black.
Some Italian guys may have been a little more into Punisher because he was Italian. Some Former Marines may Have read Punisher because he was a former Jarhead. Why now Make him a Navy SEAL? stuff like that irks the living shit out of me and greatly offends my nerd sensibilities.
To be honest, I don't really care about anything you just said although I understand where you are coming from. I just watch movies for the fighting/violence but that's just me.
No. Mostly for a lot of reasons that have already been posted but also because it might take away potential exposure and screen time from great Marvel characters that are (and have always been) LGBT such as America Chavez, Living Lightning, Hulking & Wiccan, Karolina Dean...
This is one problem with the "PC gender/color/orientation swap" being done in comics/SF/fantasy these days that gets overlooked:
Efforts are being made to elevate existing minority and female characters to prominence (Luke Cage went from blaxploitation to a legit bad ass Avenger) and new ones are being conscientiously created (Anole of X-men) while reveals/outing are done tastefully and logically (Obsidian of JSA) and even some swaps made sensr (Renee Montoya/Question.) Unfortunately, quite often, the decision to fast track (exploit, really) the visibility of the corporate entity's diversity model relegated these artistic choices to the background in favor of cheap exposure that is amplified by sensationalist media (Iron Man is a teenage black girl! OMG!) This can also insinuate that "Gay/interracial /female/nonbinary/etc characters don't sell so we take the proven commodity and do the swap out." Everybody loses except the idiots and everybody is angry at someone (but usually not the right someone.)
Well.....if you don't care...why post in the thread to begin with?
No I'm little tired of PC in movies now-a-days