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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132401
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 8:44am | IP Logged | 1
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New Latinx Wonder WomanBut she’s already GREEK!!
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Giorgos Goumas Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 05 June 2005 Location: Greece Posts: 63
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 10:24am | IP Logged | 2
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I never understood what is the appeal of using established characters as of different race or making huge changes. Create new characters to tell new stories.
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Marc Baptiste Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3655
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 10:55am | IP Logged | 3
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JB,
To borrow from ANIMAL FARM - there is diversity and then there is "diversity"!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 11:31am | IP Logged | 4
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When I was working on WONDER WOMAN a Hollywood type, visiting the DC offices, asked me if there was any reason Wonder Woman couldn’t be Black.“I suppose not,” I said, “but YOU get to tell the Greco-American community that their only superhero isn’t theirs anymore.”
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Steven Myers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 10 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5630
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | 5
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I think it was in Perez's reboot when Paradise Island started being populated by more diverse looking group of women.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | 6
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Indeed—battered and wronged women reborn. Tho the interest of the Greek gods became a little suspect in that context.
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Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4586
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | 7
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It's probably mostly the hand-me-down bit that is fraught with dangers of coming out badly, but the real reason is probably as much that a company owns/can own it as anything else... something new involves dealing with a full creator.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 21 November 2020 at 5:00pm
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15840
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | 8
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I see it as an attempt to have your cake and eat it -- who is Wonder Woman? Well, it's this new latinx person... For a short while. Then it'll be Diana again. The new character gets to benefit (in theory) from Wonder Woman's halo effect.
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Joe Zhang Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 12857
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Posted: 21 November 2020 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | 9
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Like with the CW Batwoman, everybody will applaud. Nobody will actually watch. That's the kind of thing that happens in an authoritarian environment.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 21 November 2020 at 8:00pm
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 22 November 2020 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | 10
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Wouldn't an "authoritarian" environment literally dictate that you have to watch (or read, as the case may be) whatever agenda is being pushed? It seems extreme to call this "authoritarian", no matter one's opinion on the subject of diversity and how it's handled in entertainment.
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Jim Burdo Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 April 2020 Location: United States Posts: 357
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Posted: 22 November 2020 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | 11
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Even if this character is successful, "latinx" never will be.
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Adam Schulman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 22 July 2017 Posts: 1717
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Posted: 22 November 2020 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | 12
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DC Future State is a two-month WHAT IF?, essentially, so it hardly matters.
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