*sigh*

[odditycollector]

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*.

Comments

[the_willow.insanejournal.com]

Dude, but he's OTHER, therefore even when everyone else is also OTHER due to weird monster making science - he must still be even more OTHER than them.

It's the weird laws of racism. Don't look at me. I don't create. I just highlight them with my bright red pen of : Stop Being Stupid.

Yeah, I'm not feeling much of anything that it got cancelled. I couldn't even watch it, despite the love that dare not speak it's name between Braniac and Supes. Show was just too damn white.

I'd like to believe that even if PoC have to build a time machine and WALK into the Future, we'll do it, in order to avoid the genocide that seems to happen to all of us between the present and the lily white days of flying cars.

[odditycollector.insanejournal.com]

It was as if the show's creators thought he had *less* steps somehow between him and a monster, is what I think struck me hardest.

But also the white kids became... better designed? More symmetrical monsters so... yeah. I see what you mean.

*borrows your pen to draw circles around the episode whole damn show*

I couldn't even watch it, despite the love that dare not speak it's name between Braniac and Supes. Show was just too damn white.
Yeah, I don't blame you at all. There's not even *background* characters of colour, unless you're talking about green or pink. I ran a tally for a couple episodes, examining it frame by frame and... I guess maybe you could consider the evil cyborg bent on destroying the universe to be brown, considering the show's colour palette? It's a part of the reason I haven't watched a lot of the episodes.

But I really like the *idea* of a Legion show, and Brainy's Superman fixation is really hilarious, and it makes the tiny fangirl in me sad that it is going away even with the pathetic racial and gender undertones.

I'd like to believe that even if PoC have to build a time machine and WALK into the Future, we'll do it, in order to avoid the genocide that seems to happen to all of us between the present and the lily white days of flying cars.

I... really wish there was another explanation. I do. But I've never been able to come up with one. (http://odditycollector.insanejournal.com/1908.html)