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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Great work, by the way
PS>I would've liked to see Black Spiderman as well
- Maybe it's because I've been a fan for more than half my life, but it bothers me when characters I know and love are given a/replaced with a minority for the sake of having a minority. For instance, in a movie of Marvel's (non-Ultimate) Spider-Man, I was very much against making him black because to me Peter Parker is a well-developed character and I don't think he'd be the same person if he was black any more than my life would be perfectly the same if I were a different race. Your culture is a part of you, and does have an influence, so I don't like random swapping. I'm also upset with DCs trend of taking well-established characters and just making them minorities in what seems more like a marketing campaign than a well thought out plan. The Question was one of my favorite heroes, but they killed him and replaced him with a Latino-lesbian character, Renee Montoya, who I liked in Batman Beyond, but when you kill a well-established hero and expect me to just be like "yeah, I like the Question, I'll keep following this person who isn't the character I like," it causes resentment. I also don't like that they "rebooted" Alan Scott, who traditionally had a wife and children, to be gay now. If they created new characters, or let new minority versions work alongside the traditional versions (I'd be OK with two Questions), I'd be much happier.
-Likewise, I'm all for creating strong minority characters in their own right. It boggles my mind when Hollywood disregards color (because, as I said, it influences the character tremendously). Bane wasn't Bane in Batman to me because Scottish and South American are *not* the same thing. And though I didn't see Airbender (I heard it was horrible) it boggled my mind that all the characters were white in a show with such strong Asian influence. John Stewart, who is black, is a fine Green Lantern and strong character in his own right, but with all of DC's worries about representing minorities, he's underplayed in the movies and comics (Even though DC seems to be on a binge of killing or rebooting white heroes to replace them with minorities). Likewise, there are a number of strong black characters in G.I. Joe, but they felt a need to make white characters black instead of just using the available (good!) black characters for the movie.... although that movie wasn't so hot, either.... Ah, Hollywood.