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Originally Posted by ToTheNines
Weirdo. I’m trying to find that FAKE interview they did when they were pretending it was going to be a movie. No luck yet.
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Thank you to my younger self:
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Originally Posted by Zog The Magnificent
I'm gonna need some context, because I have no idea what this is. I don't think I ever heard about that, so I'd love to learn what the deal was.
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Enjoy:
https://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sh...ghlight=Dillon
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As far as Black April goes, I'm generally opposed to it. The only way I wouldn't if there was a good reason for it. For example, if they made her black because they wanted to have Baxter be her uncle or something, then it changes the dynamic of her orignal story, and it allows Baxter to be a potential personal nemesis for her. There's something really interesting you could do that alters the story, but doesn't fundamentally change it. However, it's never that. It's just a race swap for the sake of diversity, and as you said, there's definitely been a concerted effort to erase red heds in the media of the last decade.
In the older days, race swaps didn't bother me, because they didn't feel like an intentional agenda pushing. When Harvey Dent was played by Billy Dee Williams in Batman, no one cared. But these days, it's always fuled by a racist mindset. Just keep characters what they look like, black, white, or whatever. Until it's okay to switch black characters into white characters, which they would never do, then I don't want to see it, and I don't even want that. It's just a double standard. Stick to the source material, unless you have a very, very good idea/reason not to.
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I kind of agree. April has never been particularly interesting, so I personally don’t care what they do with her ethnicity. Especially as these “adaptions” get more and more out there. Go wild.
I will say I would only get up in arms about it if a studio finally did the right thing and tried to faithfully adapt “Eastman and Laird’s TMNT” for a movie series and they pulled that crap then. (On a smaller scale, I guess you could accuse NECA of this with their last Mirage April figure. At the very least they were doing some serious edging with that skin tone lol).
But this applies to every single character. I want Casey to be white and I want Baxter to be black. Look at the fan reaction to white Shredder.