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I like when media have diversity.
Take Black Panther for example... a movie where the lead roles were inevitably going to be dominated by black actors, and they still managed to put white guys in a couple decent-sized roles. The diversity made that movie more accessible to a wider audience.
I once had a coworker who said to me "all white people look the same," and while I don't share his sentiment, it's important that characters are distinguishable to a wide audience. Including a variety of races is like the easiest way to ensure characters are distinguishable.
The only reason in my opinion to appeal to a wider audience is because of money.
Like they can’t make a movie for the nerds of the series, otherwise it would turn regulars off. They can’t make a game too hard, or, as in FF7 Rebirth, they made a character, who is a total asshole in the original, into a loving and caring person and rewrite stuff to fulfill this narrative.
Also, is diversity really this important? I was watching Thor Love and Thunder and despite the movie being genuinely bad (I walked out of the cinema about an hour in) I just didn’t like that the ancient nords have black women in leading positions. It’s just… no.
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.
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.
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"
Since when did they change the narrative to be space aliens??
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.
Well, always like that in the MCU. The comics have done all kinds of wild takes.
They're technically interdimensional beings. They were worshipped as Gods by the Norse, not literally Nordic humans.
Wtf do you mean there is no explanation. This is FICTION. Lol.