In the recent event of J.K. Rowling making
Hermione as a black character, I would like to read what are the opinions of people here if your favourite character of X franchise was changed to a different race/skin colour?
As my username indicates "Saiyan" I'm a long time
Dragon Ball fan so if Toei Animation, Shueisha or Akira Toriyama had decided to unexpectedly turn Son Goku to a westerner/white or black character I would respectfully quit watching because at that point it just wouldn't be the character I grew up with. I'd also want to add another aspect, when Toei Animation stops having Masako Nozawa voicing the Son family I might stop watch it altogether (she too is what makes Son Goku and the Son family so great). Simply put, don't change what's already established!
A great example is from the
Fantastic Four where Johnny Storm was changed from a white personage to a black one and to some people this was seen as good and diversity but to the fans of the franchise who were accustomed to Johnny Storm being white they didn't take this well. And it's not racist to bring it up but rather how one loved the character that was changed for the PC crowd. Let's not forget Jimmy Olsen too was changed from black to white but instead of modifying the race of a long time character they could bring in new ones, though they don't.
P.S. And like the saying goes;
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
rowling never made her black, she only likes the idea of it. considering she usually described if a character wasn't caucasian, hermione is clearly white. also she never interfered when they cast the white girl so. dont get your panties in a bunch.
son goku is already a white as it gets man. literally eating rice with chopstics is the most asian thing he's everdone. barely a dbz character looks asian.
as for johnny storm. did you stop watching marvel moviescuse of the black nick fury? thought so. the problem with johnny storm is not that they changed his race or not even that they didn't hange the rest of the storm family with him. the problem is that johnny storm was literally always the clichee black guy in white skin. and now they made the one character that always acts all coo and smooth and hip and make him black, turning him into a real clichee.
why not ben or reed? or doom. no, they chose the one that would rile people up the most cause he has a still white sister and is the one that always acts the way white people imagine black people to act.
also, you're comparing entirely different scenarios.
fantastic four is an alternate dimension kind of deal. jhonny wasnt white all his life and then woke up black one day.
if they started dragonball over with a fresh cast of charaters and the goku one is now serious and dark skinned, just becuse he kept the goku name isn't saying this is THE son goku now. like in zelda. its always a link, but barely ever the same.
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I think the person's acting skill is more important and if they contribute to the character you're going for. Nick Fury was originally white in the comics, but, honestly, I prefer the newer Nick Fury from the movies. I don't think he would be as fun and awesome without Samuel Jackson.
movie nick fury is just barking orders and disappearing all the time.
where once he was a super spy, he now is that black police captain they made fun off in Last Action Hero.
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Like Crabbe in the movies, he was replaced by a black actor. Those things bother me.
but crabbe wasn't turned black. due to actor problems, the crabbe role was literally writen out and replaced by black slytherin #2.
since they never really called his name i think, some peole assumed he was crabbe now, but he was just another guy who filled an empty seat
I was gonna say that. lol
