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"Why is every single article by this person always have to do with his "blackness"?"

Because he's great at it.

Also: he writes about a lot of other stuff, too, but it seems like you're only looking at the byline when it's about blackness. So.

Trek is in continuity, though. Why bother with a reboot if you're not gonna mess with the design, even just to make it look like it's not just a man in a suit.

"Power Stepping Action."

This is really boring. It's also a terrible body plan.

Not totally. He's actually saying they're all probably better people than he's giving them credit for; he's being unfair, and most of them deserve better from him. That being said, he's not prepared to give them any better.

A game that follows HK-47 over thousands of years of Star Wars history and showcases how he was instrumental in every major event.

And what is the name of the storyline?

I think it's supposed to be a direct nod to James Bond.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that Kitty Pryde's new time travel power is going to be the explanation for everything?

This bore itself out in this case pretty neatly: Zimmerman was found to have been justified in standing his ground; Trayvon was not.

"So generally people would see it as changing the character, not adding to the mythos, and that’s how people get scandalized, I guess."

While you're absolutely right - look at Miles Morales - I think the question is very much not about creating an Elseworlds black Superman, but about changing the character.

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God I miss FMV cutscenes.

But meanwhile, if we're going to rekindle roles that are traditionally stereotypical, let's turn them on their head and do them well.

It's because somewhere a really talented Native American actor is once again not getting a job.

Samesies.

The best way for the movie to handle this would have been to have Johnny Depp's Tonto turn out to be a white con-man/actor pretending to be a "noble savage" for the sideshow.

Maybe I missed something watching the movie, but weren't they just human twins?

What's chasing them?

My hope when I heard of the framing device was that he was lying about being a Native American for the sake of the sideshow.