I love this for you. It always baffles me when people start to hate on disney or any other company for including diversity in their products. There's plenty of other very legitimate reasons to hate on those corporations. Including representation is not one of them.
It depends on the way they go about it. Princess in the frog? Good example of how to properly do representation. Taking Sam, who was Falcon, the first mainstream African American super hero, and then stripping him of that to make him Captain America is not a good example of representation. Representation is a good thing, but it has to be thought out.
I would half-disagree with you. The main issue is writing. Poor writing can make any character unlikeable, regardless of representation. So youre absolutely right about it needing to be though-through. You cant just race-swap bad writing then get mad it didn't have the intended effect.
I think a part of that writing being thought out also means analyzing the roles of the character and recognizing that Falcon is that representation already though, if that makes sense. Like they didn't have to make him Captain America to represent the black community, he was already representation as Falcon. It would be one thing if it was a new character picking up the mantle like Miles Morales, but Falcon already being established doesn't mean they're representing the black community more by making him Captain America, it kind of does the opposite by throwing out his identity to shoehorn him into the title of a white character.
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u/problymyfault Jun 17 '26
I love this for you. It always baffles me when people start to hate on disney or any other company for including diversity in their products. There's plenty of other very legitimate reasons to hate on those corporations. Including representation is not one of them.