He seems like a good character, but I can't get over the way he fills out the classic 90's demo combo here. It's just too perfect. Also, it does seem like they're turning the Avengers into the Teen Titans, particularly given that the cover is laid out like New Tenn Titans #1.

Most do, so I'm counting him that way since tokenism is always about perception. By the bye, does anyone know what type of Latino his mother is (I and others have speculated Caribbean islands based on the New York setting), including all the combos of white/black/indio Hispanic/Lusitanic/Haitian and whether his father…

There are quite a few big hitters, but they don't have the current notoriety (at least in the internet media echo chamber) and wouldn't conform to the traditional five token band structure quite as hilariously.

Then they wouldn't have the Latino token, and would also raise the average age of the group.

Insensitive attempt at including a Native American (Navajo, mined much of our uranium and are now suffering severe repercussions)?

It actually seems more like the '90's, especially if you keep in mind that Pakistan is in Asia.

I think he's actually making fun of both this unfortunate aspect and people who get way too worked up about it on either side.

But you still have to admit that both have the most common form of the Five Token Band.

He may be a season or two behind.

I'm just happy to see a non-Christian, even though I would like to see more Jews and maybe some neurodiversity not in the form of a robot or alien. Neither would fit the Captain Planet/Power Rangers casting though, with the Jerkass White In Red/Fire, Blonde Chick, Asian Chick, Black Guy (technically indio, but nobody…

Well, Stark is technically disabled. Actually, if you count his history with alcoholism he's both physically and mentally disabled.

Maybe "stereotypical" is the wrong word, but the way the diversity is manifested is very tropetastic and cliche. Pretty much every attempt at a diverse cast in post-Cold War media (the Cold War had its own checklist due to most tension being about geopolitics) had this exact composition. The most well known examples…

I actually missed Captain America because it turns out that I read things by going around the outside, so I guess that makes two black guys. Is Nova not white Latino in comics? He had an accent in that terrible animated series.

By saying he had a disability. What's next, "you're so dumb, I bet you're in a wheelchair?"

I was going to go after how checklisty this grouping is, with a note about how it seems unusual for the Avengers to include kids and how the lineup included one of every minority/demographic generally put on checklists, but then I realized that I was reading the lineup radially and so had not noticed that there were…

I mean, you're the one mocking a disability while he's making fun of the way there seems to be a checklist somewhere (note that there aren't any duplicates of any demographic).

Okay, that's kinda dumb. Does Spiderman really need electric powers and invisibility?

But what poipose does this serve, really?

There's like one guy in the industry who always does that, or at least one show each season. I have no idea why.

Wait, are we not counting The Mindy Project and that show about the Pakistani kid who moved to bumfuck wherever as being about Asian-Americans? I'm even leaving off how everyone seems to have shifted shows about Semitic peoples from about Asians to about whites. Actually, how many shows have there been about…