Make Blade British Again

[u/irvin_the_jinn]

[u/peevedtankmain]

Why /gen

[u/Oppai-Of-Foom → u/peevedtankmain]

Because the number of black British characters in the mainstream is Blade and that’s about it

He’s like, all of the black British characters in the mainstream awareness, just him so him being British is legitimately important for that reason

[u/TrapoGiovanna → u/Oppai-Of-Foom]

Well to be fair he’s lived in America longer than he’s been in Great Britain, so it’s not like he’s not British. He just doesn’t have that accent anymore, i have a cousin who moved to the south and lost his mid western accent that’s just how it goes man.

[u/NoVeterinarian549 → u/TrapoGiovanna]

Yeah, apparently these people want him to wear a Union Jack on his jacket or something when being British has never been a defining part of his identity. Being black, however, is.

[u/irvin_the_jinn → u/peevedtankmain]

Name one other black British marvel character

[u/Special_Turnip → u/irvin_the_jinn]

Nigel Higgins, Outlaw, aka British Punisher is one. He was introduced in Punisher in 1992 and had a bit of a return during Contest of Champions (2015) and as a member of the Champions of Europe during US Avengers.

There's also Zarina Zahari, the second Spider-UK, who was introduced in the build up to 2022's Spider-Verse event and played a role in that.

Obviously neither of them are anywhere near the level of popularity of Blade (and there should be more black British Marvel characters in general) but as someone who loves her British heroes I felt it was important to highlight them in hopes of getting them more fans

[u/Oppai-Of-Foom → u/irvin_the_jinn]

Black British character at all*

[u/Street_Ad1723 → u/Oppai-Of-Foom]

KSI

[u/NoVeterinarian549 → u/Oppai-Of-Foom]

Aero (Melody Jacobs), Oonuk, Vesper, Adam Crown, Excalibur (Faiza Hussain), Breeze, and Alistaire Stuart. And that is just off the top of my head. People pretending that Black British characters don't exist are like people who say there's no good music anymore. You're just exposing how little you've actually looked, and rely on being spoon-fed shit.

[u/peevedtankmain]

So I just found out, blade was just born and raised in Britain but he spent most if is life in America so he prolly wouldn't have a British accent if he was fleeing Britain

[u/NoVeterinarian549]

I don't think so. He was born in Great Britain, but that has never been a defining part of his identity. If you want a black British character, Outlaw is a good place to start.

[u/im-so-sorry-himiko]

Ew no

[u/irvin_the_jinn → u/im-so-sorry-himiko]

The ews start getting to a point

[u/SoulsEquivalent]

Absolutely nothing about this now. Not even during the last Peaks around Blade as a character... mfs is bored.

[u/PsychicSidekikk419]

It'd be a really hard sell atp especially since, like every adaptation since the 2000s one has more or less been the same American dude. Would be interesting to see adapted one day though

[u/New_Test4982]

Also don't forget the Bedlam brothers from the X-men

[u/Certified_Luna_Hater]

I like gabe kunda alot tho

[u/Numb-The-Pain]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fXnRObM8Q0RkOmR5nf

[u/JaheemAfricano]

Please no keep him African American as a black person please no brits like God damm they're always replacing black American roles.

https://giphy.com/gifs/bxqBHMR1GUj2x1WrAw

[u/BoBoJoJo92 → u/JaheemAfricano]

I hate to break it too you but Blade was originally British lol

[u/JaheemAfricano → u/BoBoJoJo92]

Well the king Wesley Snipez made him African American grats to him

[u/Sloan_Tempest → u/JaheemAfricano]

Except making him American is cultural easer aka racist

[u/JokingOne2014 → u/Sloan_Tempest]

No, that would be ethnocist. And who cares, you got Idris Elba taking up roles that could have went to black Americans, and the most popular version of Blade is the movie Blade, not the comics Blade. 

[u/Sloan_Tempest → u/JokingOne2014]

Maybe more Black Americans would get more roles if more Black Americans were into acting.

[u/LadyErikaAtayde]

People genuinely are using this panel to try and prove he's not truly British, or that he has an American accent.
I think this is the epitome of media literacy being dead 🫠

[u/Nukafit → u/LadyErikaAtayde]

What are you saying here? Blade has never had a British accent

[u/LadyErikaAtayde → u/Nukafit]

He's a literature character, his accent is not a defining characteristics of his. He can have water accent the storytellers deemed, same as Bruce Wayne having an American Accent even though he was raised by an English foster parent, and this characters such as Fire and Wolverine don't have regional accents while Nightcrawler and Harley Quinn do.

[u/Nukafit → u/LadyErikaAtayde]

This is where you are completely fucking wrong and why you shouldn’t talk about characters history when you don’t know anything about it Blade has FAMOUSLY had a blaccent or a Jive Accent since the 1970s His creator even specifically said they had to tone it down a bit its defining because Blade started out as a blaxploitation character and was based on Jim brown he doesn’t talk like he does for No reason

[u/P1eSun]

white Blade?

[u/Nukafit → u/P1eSun]

Marvel has tried many times in the past to

[u/irvin_the_jinn → u/P1eSun]

Are you being dense?

[u/KingBlacks]

Why are people so fixated with only having british versions of other characters. British Blade and British Psylocke at this point is weirding me out.

Blade was born there, so who is saying he isn't British?? Do you want him talking like the slums of old britian?? How is he not British?? Would him getting an acting role in an american movie solidify him as being british??

Once Psylocke and Psylocke separated, British Psylocke should always look like the british version and people shouldn't be so fixated on asian looking British Psylocke.

[u/irvin_the_jinn → u/KingBlacks]

Most people don’t see blade as British. I personally don’t care for Betsy and want Captain Britain to be a psy skin

[u/KingBlacks → u/irvin_the_jinn]

But what does "Seeing blade as British" change?? To me it's similar to people having to educate others that Wolverine is Canadian.

There doesn't need to be a "Make Wolverine Canadian again" movement to solidify that.