DC Comics' Vixen: The Animated Series

~~Leo656~~ · 08-21-2015, 10:09 PM

She originally grew up in Africa in the comics, so... yeah, not to be "weird" about it, but, she'd definitely be a LOT darker than that.

It's a dirty little secret of the entertainment industry that they prefer heroic characters to be an "acceptable" level of black, in both appearance and behavior. Sounds awful but I swear to you it's true. I don't get it frankly; I get why it started a long time ago but you'd hope we were over it now. In this kind of case, in particular, it kind of gets into "why bother?" territory. Her heritage is like 90% of her character; really undermines the whole thing if you go out of your way to "lighten her up", in my opinion.

I can imagine the conversation behind it, though. It's tough to get a show approved with either a female lead or a minority lead. A show with both, something's gotta give. That's just way to much "progressiveness" all at once for the average entertainment executive to wrap their heads around.

Ah well. The art on the whole is pretty nice though.

08-21-2015, 10:09 PM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	She originally grew up in Africa in the comics, so... yeah, not to be "weird" about it, but, she'd definitely be a LOT darker than that. It's a dirty little secret of the entertainment industry that they prefer heroic characters to be an "acceptable" level of black, in both appearance and behavior. Sounds awful but I swear to you it's true. I don't get it frankly; I get why it started a long time ago but you'd hope we were over it now. In this kind of case, in particular, it kind of gets into "why bother?" territory. Her heritage is like 90% of her character; really undermines the whole thing if you go out of your way to "lighten her up", in my opinion. I can imagine the conversation behind it, though. It's tough to get a show approved with either a female lead or a minority lead. A show with both, something's gotta give. That's just way to much "progressiveness" all at once for the average entertainment executive to wrap their heads around. Ah well. The art on the whole is pretty nice though.