Only thing is... These are aliens. Not Norse gods. And not based on 616 Marvel universe.
Angelina Jolie in both Wanted and A Mighty Heart (playing the real life Marianne Pearl) , Ben Affleck in Argo (playing a real life latino man named Tony Mendez), Emma Stone in Aloha... There are others but I can't think of them right now. These are all within the last decade. That's not even TRYING to mention The Last Airbender...
Oh! And that movie, I think called, 21. It was based on the real life team of card counting college students who were all or mostly Asian American... But who were instead racebent to be all white ... While still touting itself as "the true story".
Because I knew the reason behind the wanted casting*, I looked the rest up too.
In A Mighty Heart, Marianne Pearl actually
chose Jolie to play her, and said the race controversy was stupid. Plus finding another Afro-Chinese-Cuban-Dutch woman to accurately play her to
not be 'racebending' would have been prohibitively stupid.
Argo is purely Director Ben Affleck's ego and pet project. He made the film because he wanted to play the character. He wasn't whitewashing, just full of himself.
(Plus there's also the whole 'latinos not being white' thing that's always been hilarious to me as a European, since it's the descendents of Northern and Southern European colonists somehow ending up thinking they're different races to one another.)
Emma Stone might not be half white, a quater oriental and a quarter haitian, but she is fair skinned and ginger enough to accurately portray the fair skinned and ginger Captain Allison Ng
21 I will give you, however it was well over a decade ago (2008) and the main character's actor wasn't even
American, since they cast a Brit, so goodness know what the thought process behind the casting was there.
The guy he was playing's reaction was hilariously xenophobic though: "I would have been a lot more insulted if they had chosen someone who was Japanese or Korean, just to have an Asian playing me."
So yeah, not exactly a damning endictment of systemic racism in Hollywood casting, being a common source of whitewashing, and certainly not in recent years.
Now if you want to argue that the modern media hates
gingers, there's far more evidence that there's actually deliberate intent behind it.
(Sorry for the silly writing, it was the first high res version of the meme I found and I'm lazy)
*which incidentally was because Fox in the comics wasn't 'a' black woman, it was specifically Halle Berry (as her awful Catwoman) , who turned the role down. Jolie was asked because that was the original writers second choice. Also they racebent the main villain to be black by casting Morgan Freeman, so it was a wash overall.
Plus that is not an accurate adaptation even slightly.
There's a point in the comics where the main character, as part of his training, kidnaps and repeatedly rapes what is very obviously Britney Spears to the point he gets 'rape exhaustion' before murdering her.
It was originally meant to be a DC Elseworlds comic, but it was far to edgy for DC, so the names are just changed, but it's super obvious who the characters are meant to be (Fox is literally just Catwoman).
It's Peter Pan
