@husk123: to me it was never the problem about Johnny's race, it was that Sue was white as well. It seemed like they wanted a black actor to be Human Torch, but who cares whos Sue. Granted I like the choices of the actors, but this changes certain things about the character's history that are fundemental, they are brother and sister. Make her black. But instead they will mess with their history and make it confusing with audience members. From what ive heard Sue is adopted or somethhing, but it bothers me that they are different races, but if they can convey a good sibling relationship even though one of them is not even blood related, than they did their job right. Now thinking about it, im even more bummed that Sue isn't black because the studio didnt want to force a white-black romantic relationship with Sue and Reed.
Overall I feel like the tone doesnt match who these characters are, but again if they do a good job and make it work than that wont be an issue.
Yep. It just seems lazy on the part of the studio. People also seem to be picking and choosing part of the argument and making it about not wanting Human Torch to be black while the majority of us are saying that they just should have made BOTH Storms black for the sake of not altering their history.
I see where y'all are coming from but literally NO one else has said that they should both just be black up until you two, they've all just been complaining "Why is Johnny black, I lost a white superhero blah blah blah" and really a white and black siblings isn't that hard to grasp, have you never heard of an interracial family?
Good teaser trailer. I really liked the beginning of the Ultimate Fantastic Four run which is what I hear this is based on. It is going to be funny to hear all of the racist comments about Johnny Storm being African American instead of Caucasian.
Is it racist to expect a brother and sister with the same biological mother and father to be the same ethnicity? So you'd be cool if they make a Black Panther movie and T'Challa's sister looks like the girl from the Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate package? I would have simply preferred they made BOTH Sue and Johnny black instead of just one of them, it works for the West family on Flash.
There's a huge difference, if a black character would be cast as white, people have every right to be mad since there's so few black characters, and who cares if Johnny is cast as black his race was never essential to his character, you still have plenty of other white superheroes on the big screen, get over it.
Like the focus on Black characters but honestly Character of the month seems like a joke unless the character is batman, the developers don't ever put thought into the character on why they're great or anything, just the usual battles, what stories to read, etc like c'mon put some thought into it.
This whole story arc is BS and is beyond being dragged out, I actually hope the Secret Wars is a reboot to clean up the mess this volume of Uncanny X-men and All new X-men have created.
HATE the casting for Storm, never even heard of the guy playing Cyclops, and I'm ok with Sophie as jean. But seriously, stop casting the most white looking black girls as Storm.
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