I missed that conversation about Heroes of Color yesterday but to add my two cents in.
I think it's totally true that Heroes of color get unfairly treated for being boring compared to their white counterparts. People Rag on Miles Morales and John Stewart get crapped on for being Boring when dudes like Barry Allen and Hal Jordan have gotten by with being cardboard for the longest time.
As far as looking at Black DC Heroes off the top of my head. There aren't many Bad Black heroes but ones that are misused.
John Stewart I'm a. If fan of from growing up with DCAU Justice League cartoons. His big story is killing Mogo, but as much as people dislike him, dude has a unique perspective as a superhero and as Green Lantern being a former boots on the ground marine.
Black Lightning - I love me some Jefferson Pierce, Dudes getting a television series so we probably won't see him in the dceu anytime soon. Like Clark Kent I love the duality where Jefferson probably does more good in the long term as a teacher than he ever will as Black Lightning.
Martian Manhunter - He technically counts I guess. I'd love a Martian Manhunter film, you can do so many things with him at this point. In the same way Wonder Woman is a period pierce id love to see a series of films each one in a different era with Manhunter taking on a different persona. My ideal take would be something in the 60s and very stylish like new Frontier. A take on spy and alien stories from him.
Cyborg - Anyone who says Cyborg is boring or not interesting simply lacks imagination. He's a disabled African American Man who not only fails from one of the engineering power houses of the world, but lives in one of the most diverse yet segregated city/states in the country that's going through a massive upheaval of the issues of racial gentrification.
Cyborg is quite frankly one of the most relevant characters right now. He's the run the gambit of Technology and the singularly, fatherhood, blackness, and disability.
Victor Stone is a great buddy comedy character but most of that is too deflect from his internalized feelings of doubt and self worth. He's someone who has his humanity raised in question multiple times, and that was before he got the robot parts.
Plus theirs something classically tragic of a black man from mo town thinking he has no soul.
I think it's totally true that Heroes of color get unfairly treated for being boring compared to their white counterparts. People Rag on Miles Morales and John Stewart get crapped on for being Boring when dudes like Barry Allen and Hal Jordan have gotten by with being cardboard for the longest time.
As far as looking at Black DC Heroes off the top of my head. There aren't many Bad Black heroes but ones that are misused.
John Stewart I'm a. If fan of from growing up with DCAU Justice League cartoons. His big story is killing Mogo, but as much as people dislike him, dude has a unique perspective as a superhero and as Green Lantern being a former boots on the ground marine.
Black Lightning - I love me some Jefferson Pierce, Dudes getting a television series so we probably won't see him in the dceu anytime soon. Like Clark Kent I love the duality where Jefferson probably does more good in the long term as a teacher than he ever will as Black Lightning.
Martian Manhunter - He technically counts I guess. I'd love a Martian Manhunter film, you can do so many things with him at this point. In the same way Wonder Woman is a period pierce id love to see a series of films each one in a different era with Manhunter taking on a different persona. My ideal take would be something in the 60s and very stylish like new Frontier. A take on spy and alien stories from him.
Cyborg - Anyone who says Cyborg is boring or not interesting simply lacks imagination. He's a disabled African American Man who not only fails from one of the engineering power houses of the world, but lives in one of the most diverse yet segregated city/states in the country that's going through a massive upheaval of the issues of racial gentrification.
Cyborg is quite frankly one of the most relevant characters right now. He's the run the gambit of Technology and the singularly, fatherhood, blackness, and disability.
Victor Stone is a great buddy comedy character but most of that is too deflect from his internalized feelings of doubt and self worth. He's someone who has his humanity raised in question multiple times, and that was before he got the robot parts.
Plus theirs something classically tragic of a black man from mo town thinking he has no soul.
