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Genshin Impact Voice Actors Join in Criticism of Upcoming Natlan Region's Character Designs - IGN (www.ign.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fan outcry stems from what many feel is a failure to accurately represent the cultures each character pulls from, including the fact that Mavukia, Kinich, and Ororon — who seem to be inspired by real-life deities like the Maori's Mahuika — are all white. It continues a trend in Genshin Impact that has seen players begging for proper representation.

Now some of the actors behind Genshin Impact’s faces have begun to chime in. Albedo actor, Khoi Dao, published a statement on X/Twitter calling for change in Genshin Impact.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not real life. Having Valkyrie assume a leadership position is not to claim that happened in real life. It's a work of fiction. The MCU can make its own rules.

Love & Thunder had its issues. Representation (over or under) was not one of them.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don’t have any problems with the Valkyries themselves, just with the black ones because there simply is no explanation as to how they got there. Say they’re a lost unit from Wakanda and ended up there and climbed up the ranks - I take it, and I’ll like it.

You’re right with that last paragraph. That movie was somehow worse than Velocipastor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The explanation is literally that they're space aliens. They don't need to conform to human demographic patterns. Someone getting there from Wakanda raises far more questions than "some aliens aren't white"

[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since when did they change the narrative to be space aliens??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It was always like that? The first scene of the first film depicts Jotunheim as a regular old planet. Asgard looks weird for a "planet", but people just fly to and from it with spaceships in Ragnarok. The last we see of Loki in the first film, he's drifting off into the stars, and then the next time we see him is when he invades Earth in the service of a big purple alien from space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, always like that in the MCU. The comics have done all kinds of wild takes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

They're technically interdimensional beings. They were worshipped as Gods by the Norse, not literally Nordic humans.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wtf do you mean there is no explanation. This is FICTION. Lol.