Poll:So the new spider man is half black, half hispanic ,what do you think escapist.

[Littaly]

Sure why not, it's not that big of a deal. At least they're doing something a little new with it.

 

[Wintermoot]

don,t care I,m sure they let him keep his old/regular personality making this move a bit useless.

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

Nothing really wrong, just wondering what crazy storyline their eventually gonna come up with to bring Parker back...

Well, the idea is that dead means dead in the Ultimate setting, that's what Marvel bragged anyway when they launched it.

But now they're more like a kid's goldfish, you just go to the store and get a new Spider-Man if the old one dies and all is well again. Heh.

That said, I've got no problem with him being black, he could be an Asian female to male transgender for all I care (I'd love to see a comic publisher have the guts to make such a character), I have a problem with his mere existence.

Even by comic book logic it just defies all probability that before there's even time for grass to grow on Peter Parker's grave that some other kid in the same city, of roughly the same age, gets roughly the same powers as he did and decides to take up the mantle of Spider-Man. That just smacks of plot convenience, contrivance, convolution and many other long words starting with C.

 

[LITE992]

I'm not against it at all. What I don't get is how they told the public about the new Spider-Man. "Hey, everybody! We made the next Spider-Man half-black and half-hispanic so people wouldn't think we're racist! Which we aren't!"

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

I was going to say it's just pandering but, I don't know, at least they're trying to try. Invincible's doing this too.

 

[Faladorian]

BS. When they're writing new stories they're free to introduce new characters. And *gasp* the new characters don't have to all be white. It's not a retcon, it's a new character. It's canonical.

That's what I already said. If they're making new characters, fine. Make them whatever race you want. I don't care if they make them all black, hispanic, asian, whatever; as long as they don't decide half-way through that they actually want them to be white now.

Be less paranoid about the big bad minorities having characters first maybe?

Figures it's impossible to make any comment about race without being branded a racist. Let your guard down, you're not a righteous guardian of equal rights. All races are equal, but pretending that there's nothing different between them is stupid.

No, I didn't. You seem to be reading the post you wish I made instead of the one I made. I pointed out that you're wrong, it is canonical. And this is a new character. Yes, he's taking Spider-Man's place, no he is still a new character. Plus I wasn't saying anything they did might be wrong so I'm clearly not making the same point as you.

What I was saying is: why don't they just make a new hero altogether? Do they have to continue a character's storyline after they're dead? Spiderman is Peter Parker. Just like Superman is Clark Kent. If you're going to take away a hero's identity, you might as well scrap the costume, too.

Lolno. That sounds absolutely absurd. Do point out where Nick Fury got destroyed. I mean the whole paranoia of that citing absurd consequences kinda hints at the racism underneath this.

Plus it isn't even the same character. He's becoming Spider-Man, but he's a new character.

I'm pretty sure I already covered everything here. Races are equal but different, hero's identity, yadda-yadda.

Yes, because you have a paranoia about minorities appearing in media apparently. There's no good reason to assume they did it just to shove a minority in. That's a ridiculous assumption.

Oh yeah that's exactly what I was saying... Racism is always the answer, right? No.

No, it wouldn't be ridiculous there either if the previous guy filling that role had died. THEY'RE CHANGING HIS IDENTITY ANYWAY. Sure, you can say that's your point. The absurdity of it makes me wonder if it's something else.

That is my point, as I've already said. You might also want to consult a thesaurus. "Absurd" isn't the only adjective in the language.

 

[zombie goat fetish]

Don't care, since when does skin color effect a fiction comic charter.

 

[somonels]

But he isn't spider man. Parker is.
This slim shady is just imitating.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Don't care. Seriously, not that big of a deal. At least, not to me.