" @SC: Haha, no, I've never watched Home and Away. I'm truly glad I never say him on that show. "

" Heim is the whitest of the nordic gods... You wouldn't want a white dude playing an african diety would you? "

" @Susanoo said:

" Heim is the whitest of the nordic gods... You wouldn't want a white dude playing an african diety would you? "

Actually I would love if Black Panther was White.   Just for the lawlz"

" Heim is the whitest of the nordic gods... You wouldn't want a white dude playing an african diety would you? "

@SC said:

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                    @Susanoo said:

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                    Heim is the whitest of the nordic gods... You wouldn't want a white dude playing an african diety would you?

                   

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 The word white has only ever applied to skin color? Nothing else? Its not metaphor? Its not a nickname? Hell I know more big people with the nickname of Tiny than than of Big lol  Personally I think Slash would make an awesome Sagbata, more than that if the guy making the movie, the director, casting guy, the people spending money on it, thought the best actor for the part of an African deity based out of a hyper flawed comic book version of a mythological character, was a white guy? Who would I be to judge his/their decision bad?  Ain't my money, ain't my characters. Plus is it wise to just pretend all characters are made equal? Some characters skin color are important to the character and the characters around them, and their fans, some characters its not an issue at all. This is where the human though process comes into play.  You wouldn't want a crappy movie with characters skin color being accurate would you? (I know its not one way or the other just to clarify too lol ^_^)

                   

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Assuming from the nordic gods presumed appearance, no. Not a metaphor. Trying to complicate this and believing this to be a metaphor will only try to deny this further. 
 
Would you want a black man to be played by a white man? T'Challa to be played by a white person? I would hate that. Not only me, but so much more people. How about having Spider-man played by someone that isn't in the same ethnicity as him? Morgan Freeman is a fantastic actor but I don't want to see him playing Spider-Man. 
 
Actually, I do have a problem if they don't pinpoint the character's accuracy. I would be honored if someone like Morgan Freeman played say, me but it wouldn't be right as I'm not dark skinned and such. Same thing for this situation only it's different.

"Assuming from the nordic gods presumed appearance, no. Not a metaphor. Trying to complicate this and believing this to be a metaphor will only try to deny this further. 

 
Would you want a black man to be played by a white man? T'Challa to be played by a white person? I would hate that. Not only me, but so much more people. How about having Spider-man played by someone that isn't in the same ethnicity as him? Morgan Freeman is a fantastic actor but I don't want to see him playing Spider-Man. 
 
Actually, I do have a problem if they don't pinpoint the character's accuracy. I would be honored if someone like Morgan Freeman played say, me but it wouldn't be right as I'm not dark skinned and such. Same thing for this situation only it's different."

the backlash would have been worse if they had a black man play superman

I wasn't overly keen on the idea of him being cast has Heimdall for continuity reasons but his performance was fantastic.

i think all his detractors just shut up and watched his performance going "holy crap, this is awesome" besides, you see heimdall's face so rarely in comics anyway,it doesn't change much to have him be black. lol

Didn't like the yellow eyes though.

This is bullshit. When White people regularly make a whitewashing in  the cast of  movies, nobody complains that much.
-  Swedish actor Warner Oland portrayed Asian detective Charlie Chan
-Elizabeth Taylor play  the egyptian queen Cleopatra,even though she wasnt white.
-Angelina Jolie will played the the egyptian queen cleopatra in the new movie "Cleopatra : a life".
-  In almost every rendition of Aida - except for the Heather Headley one- Aida has been played by a white women. Aida is an Ethiopian or Nubian princess.
-Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed the prince of PERSIA
-Mr Night Shyamalan made a whitewashing cast in the last airbender :    Noah Ringer as the adolescent hero Aang and other actors in The Last Airbender were casted in minority roles,even though they all were white.  With 'The Last Airbender' you have four Asian/Inuit roles that all went to Caucasian actors.
-Akira Adaptation :   Although the characters will retain their original names — Kaneda and Tetsuo– from the Japanese graphic novels, the story will be set in “Neo-Manhattan",and the roles will be played by white actors.

The guy's a terrible actor, but he's fine in the movie. He just stands there, talks in a deep voice, and looks bored. The colour of his skin wouldn't have changed a thing.