See-- I actually only care about the diversity. I never liked the Avengers because it mainly felt like a bunch of White Guys trying to save the world with their tokens... Whereas X-men had the best diversity of all time!!! For me as child, watching a black women like Storm COMMAND and lead the way she did was one of the many reasons I STILL read today. It was the first time I ever seen anything like that in a show or fictional book.
LOL what??
First of all, if race is a big issue for you in your entertainment...you maybe a racist.
Second, Storm isn't like a real black woman, throughout history she has been drawn to have features more in common with caucasians than sub saharan africans (straight hair, blue eyes, nordic nose) When I first saw Storm as a kid I honestly thought she was just a swarthy, exotic looking, white woman. I am just saying, I never understood why Storm is this great symbol of blackness when she is usually drawn to look more like an olive skinned Angelina Jolie than she is drawn to look like someone like Rhianna. Claremont even suggested at one point that Storm isn't even really a black woman, but some sort of magic hodge podge of all the races.
Third, while the X-Men do have characters from all different races, for the most part they are bad ethnic stereotypes. The native american characters are either hunters, shamans or in touch with the earth, the Chinese girl shoots fireworks, the Japanese girl is a ninja the only other Asian girls of merit are Xian and Hisako, one is code named freaking Karma and the other basically strolls around in an energy based mech....next you will be telling the kid from Brazil has a hot blooded temperament....wait....OH MY GOD.....
It's funny that while being an allegory for civil rights, the X-Men are also the most vaguely racist comic book in history. It's like they have been trolling the fanbase for decades. I guess it's one of the reasons why I like them so much.....
Hey does anyone want to ponder the coincidental nature of how the X-Men were founded by a skinhead and their greatest rival is a Jew?? :D
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