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Originally Posted by Dejablue
I have to ask tho, how beholden to race do characters have to be in a multiverse scenario? Since TMNT runs on one. And isn't that the whole point of the Spiderverse? Peter Parker is a spiderman out of infinite spidermans.
I want to reiterate that I'm confident April will be white in the majority of her appearances. But I find it disturbing that in a proven multiverse scenario like this, people get so angry about 1 race change. When the skin color is the least important thing about who they are, and on top of that, April is radically different iteration to iteration.
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As Zog said in the Spider-verse there are other characters besides Peter-Parker who are spider-man. Such as Myles Morales or Gwen Stacey who is Spider-Gwen/Woman.
They are completely different characters with completely different stories and back grounds. They are essentially completely different universes and new stories. If they just simply re-skinned Peter-Parker and changed his ethnicity it would be the same character with just a different coloring which is boring and lazy.
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Originally Posted by Zog The Magnificent
Even in your example though, there is no black Peter Parker. There's Miles Morales, who is a completely different and unique character. It also helps that the Spiderman identity is a legacy mantle, while April O'Neil is one specific person.
Personally, I think that characters should just be what they are. If they're white, make them white. If they're black, make them black. If Rise wanted more "diversity," they should have just used Angel, a prexisting black character who could have easily filled the niche they wanted to fill, rather than recoloring an existing character. Diversity, as it is typically thought of these days, shouldn't really be an issue. Rather than trying to check off all the boxes and make sure they have one of each group, storywriters should just write a story and let the characters be what they need to be.
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I pretty much agree with this.