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Originally Posted by neatoman
Well to be fair, can we really say that a character who is canonically a figment of someone's imagination brought to life, actually has an ethnicity in the first place? The only explicit deviation from that is Nick April, who was part Utrom.
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By that logic, Turtles can be turned into Old Magical Karate Hamsters, since they are just a figment of someone's imagination.
Fictional characters, while not real, has some traits which define them. Not only in terms of personality, but also in terms of appearance. And yes, race is a part of those traits. This is why changing character race, with no explanation other than filling the quota, is stupid. It's like changing inherent part of the character. And whether their race is significant for their story or not is irrelevant.
Characters are defined in their entirety, not in "separate" interchangeable parts. You might change some parts of the character, but they are certain things, which should be beyond changes.