Opinion of new versions of fiction in which the protagonist is not white cisgender heterosexual male (user search)
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Question: What do you think about new versions of comics and sci-fi in which the original story used to have a white cisgender heterosexual male protagonist and the new version has a black, asian, indigenous, transgender, gay, bisexual or female protagonist?
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« on: October 31, 2021, 08:44:05 PM »

I think it really depends.  There is a way to do it without shoehorning someone in.  Take James Bond.  He's a macho man action hero.  There's really no reason I can see that he needs to be a white guy.  If you can find someone of any other race that gives off that some Bondian energy, that guy can play him.  There's the argument that he's always been white, and if the movie was going to be set in the 1960s then yeah the actor will probably be white as there were not many non-white people living in Britain.  If it's set in 2021 it's pretty natural for him to be from another race as Britain is much more diverse now.

I really don't watch too many movies so I'm not sure off the top of my head what an example of shoehorning is, but I can absolutely envision it.
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