*sigh*

I watched the most recent Legion of Super-heroes cartoon, which was notable for giving the black character a couple speaking lines for a change.

However.

At one point in the episode, our motley band of heroes got turned into hideous rampaging monsters, because that is just what happens sometimes if you want to be a superhero. As part of their transformation, the three white kids got turned the unnatural colours of green, yickier green, and orange.

But the black kid got to keep his skin tone*. After all, I can only figure, it was unnatural enough *already*.

...on the bright side, my mopeyness about the show being cancelled? Significantly reduced.

*The only other character to do this was the kid who already looked like a monster, whose entire shtick is that he's angsty about looking like a monster, and who incidentally is a monster coloured pretty damn exactly the series' representation of *brown*.

*sigh*

I watched the most recent Legion of Super-heroes cartoon, which was notable for giving the black character a couple speaking lines for a change.

However.

At one point in the episode, our motley band of heroes got turned into hideous rampaging monsters, because that is just what happens sometimes if you want to be a superhero. As part of their transformation, the three white kids got turned the unnatural colours of green, yickier green, and orange.

But the black kid got to keep his skin tone*. After all, I can only figure, it was unnatural enough *already*.

...on the bright side, my mopeyness about the show being cancelled? Significantly reduced.

*The only other character to do this was the kid who already looked like a monster, whose entire shtick is that he's angsty about looking like a monster, and who incidentally is a monster coloured pretty damn exactly the series' representation of *brown*.