No, Bucky shouldn't have been Captain America either. The really sad thing is that you can see the good parts of TFATWS under all the garbage. The show should have been about Sam and Bucky's characters and also Sam and Bucky's relationship. The parts that that touched on those things were great. Unfortunately, most of the show was about a character who wasn't even on screen: Steve. Couple that with the writers wanting to make everything about race and clumsily trying to do the "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" thing, and you get a show that is about 40% crap.

If Disney cared about black represetation The Princess and the Frog should have been the first animated movie to get a live action remake.

I am a black man and I am in 100% support of this statement.

"It's important because people need to see themselves" is an argument made by narcissists that can't see characters for their struggles and personality, and need everyone to look just like them in order to relate.

Imagine feeling the need to ask a random person born a certain color if it was ok if their kid dressed up as his favorite super hero. Modern society sucks.

Man, did you nail it: -hackneyed -pandering -writers think it’s so cool -reduction to race/gender/sexual orientation And that buy me dinner/mind blow line was hilarious

The one critique of the show FATWS you didn’t mention is how Sam was given the blessing of none other than Steve Rogers himself at the end of Endgame only for Sam to go “Naw I’m not worthy despite what Captain America told me to my face” and then gives up the shield. The writers go out of their way to create drama where there should be none and then spend the next six episodes to get back to where we were with Endgame.

I remember I actually was done when they literally dropped the stupid "Do better" I mean that statement is always stupid. Comes from usually flawed people that think they can judge people

As a black man, I could not agree more. First of all, I found your channel 3 months ago, and it's becoming one of my favorites! I really appreciate the work you put into your content. Even from a young age I never understood the concept of liking or being interested in something because of my skin color. It is one of the most foolish ways to live life. I'm also tired of being told I will like something or need to like something because I'm black. One of the best things I learned from my father was that my morals, character, and faith should dictate how I live my life. He never mentioned our race as something that would hold me back. As a result, I am very successful, well versed, and respected in my community. People take notice of someone who is different. I am different because I do use my skin color as my identity.

In the comics, it's Bucky who takes up the shield under two conditions. 1: any secret mental conditioning from his days as the Winter Soldier had to be telepathically removed 2: he would answer only to himself Why Marvel wouldn't follow through with this, I don't know.

In Spider-Man: Far From Home Peter didn’t think he was worthy of Tony’s EDITH glasses, he gives them to Mysterio, chaos ensues, Peter’s terrified and injured during his rock bottom moment, has a heart-to-heart with Happy, finally accepts he can still be Spider-Man *and* carry on Tony’s legacy. He was never the “new” Iron Man. I would’ve loved to have seen that with Sam Wilson. I can understand if he didn’t feel worthy of the shield - there’s the set-up for an awesome character arc. Sam realizes he can still be Falcon *and* carry Captain America’s shield. Hell, everyone remembers when Steve lifted Mjölnir and beat the shit out of Thanos….

"It's meant to hurt just a little bit." And this is why you're one of my favourite KZfaq creators. The father energy is real.

6:52, ironically enough in 2002, DisneyToons actually made a movie about Wendy’s daughter Jane becoming the first girl to join the Lost Boys and it was actually good

It's like they don't care about Falcon himself. He was danm cool in winter soldier. It's like they forgot about that. He'll also never be able to fill captain america's shoes either.

They be talking about being able to "see themself in the character of the same race" while I see Optimus Prime and go "That's literally me"

Swaps are essential. How else can they make rehashing the same old crap over and over through reboots and sequels interesting? Like you said, it's a crutch.

In another universe, Steve passes the shield to Sam and tells him it's now his. Sam says, there will only ever be one Captain America.. Steve says, America still needs a symbol..I want you to be it. Sam says he will.. But not as Captain America... And not as Falcon either.. He'll combine the two mantels into something new... Something that will never replace Steve, but stand along side him and what he represented. Sam says, call me "Eagle"

The problem is that these swaps are becoming more and more out of pure unadulterated spite and hate rather than just laziness, I realized that back when they race-swapped Heimdall (no disrespect to Idris Elba, he is a fine actor) And here is how I figured it out, I usually research mythology (mainly Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Norse) for my art projects, so while researching some Norse mythology I came across Heimdall, and it really surprised me when one of his titles was "the whitest among the gods" because he was really pale according to Norse mythology, when they take that one specific character and cast a black actor to play as him it's not a coincidence or just laziness, it's intentional to spite people, specially people familiar with Norse mythology and culture. Then of course it started happening with historic characters like Anne Boleyn former queen of England and it became clear this is intentional and hateful not just sloppy pandering, really disgraceful and abhorrent.

I like to tell people that say diversity and swapping is important that we should reboot black panther with Michelle Rodriguez because black panther in Spanish is Pantera. The first thing they say is that being black is part of the black panther lore and character. Odd that that's when they're all for respecting the lore

Completely agree. I'm a Hispanic woman and some of my favorite characters in entertainment are men and not just for the eye candy. 😉 I just find they're typically better written and have great stories and arcs. Even if we're not the same sex nor race, I identify with their struggles. That's what I never understood about all these "so you can see yourself as person because they're this color". Someone does not have to look like me for me to empathize with them and that is one thing these one-dimensional "race-baiting and swapping, calling everyone a racist or phobe for not liking something" people lack, it's empathy. It's rather sad to see. 😕

Another example of this that I think is particularly interesting is the Supergirl series’ version of Jimmy Olsen. Not only did they make him black instead of giving some attention to underrated and ALREADY black DC character John Henry Irons, but they even added insult to injury by having him dawn a superhero persona with silver armor (Guardian). That’s literally John Henry Irons becoming Steel, but moved over to Jimmy Olsen FOR NO REASON. And on top of that, the character of Winn even acts somewhat as a stand-in for OG Jimmy Olsen (white, under-appreciated in the workplace, etc.). So, why not just let Jimmy be John and Winn be Jimmy!? It gets on my last nerve when a movie or show could so easily have had its cake and eaten it only to go out of its way to screw it up. They could so easily have gotten their brownie points for racial inclusivity AND stayed faithful to the Superman mythos by just using Steel instead, but that would apparently make too much sense for modern entertainment.

I kind of forgot how cool the falcon was in the movies. After watching the series all I can remember is that he’s oppressed and sad. Great video though, I really enjoyed your take.

Future swaps. Seven Brides for Seven Sisters. 12 Angry Women (That one will write itself)

I stopped reading books about girls when I was like ten, I didn’t really understand why I just knew that I didn’t enjoy them, now I know that it’s because even the girls who aren’t girl bosses are manipulative, whiny, and insecure.

Ha, he did the thing with the thing from screen rant pitch meeting, homage to Ryan this time! Just love these nods to other creators! Your videos are great!

"Did your mind just buy me dinner? 'Cause I'm gonna blow it!" Bravo, sir.

Blacktain America is up there with Peter Darker in the top tier of joke names for these characters. Well done.

I love Anthony Mackie as an actor, loved him as The Falcon...he's not Captain America. That show was nothing but BLM scripts that I rolled my eyes on HARD until I tapped out...

I still haven't gotten over the fact that DisneyToons was shut down before they could make their Iridessa-centric movie. They had plans to make films centered on each one of Tinkerbell's friends, but only managed to complete one before the franchise was canceled. The absolute disrespect of current-year Disney just race-swapping Tink instead of bringing back all her cool friends, smh.

The saddest thing about the falcon show is how much good stuff they had going, but just got buried in modern politics crap. - sam & bucky being buddy-cop - Fake Cap being the perfect embodiment of A Good Soldier - Zemo. - the community coming together to rebuild when the big companies refused to invest. But i cant enjoy any of that without sitting through twice as much screentime in inplicit and explicit Race/Class lecturing

Systemic strugglitis!!! That is gold!🤣 Your commentary here on the disservice to Falcon was eye-opening. As a woman, I am not impressed with gender swaps. They reek of pandering, inferiority complexes, and lack of creativity.

I honestly have to agree with you Greg. Unfortunately Hollywood has lost it’s originality and almost every movie is basically a quick cash grab of already established stories. Just race swapping Lil Mermaid and Snow White doesn’t make it an original movie. It’s really exhausting and it’s getting hard finding original stories to watch anymore. I respect your honest takes and analysis, and that’s why I watch your channel 👍🏽.

I 100% agree! As a gay man, I am so tired of unorganic 'inclusion' (understanding this is mainly in regards to race, but also seeing it w/ orientation). I have been saying this for so long to ppl. If you REALLY give damn about representation, then you would take the actual time it takes and put forth actual effort to create new and well written LGBT/POC/women characters, with their OWN backstory, rather than just taking a pre-established white/male/straight character and change the one feature and try to pass them off as the same, and just as good as the previous character. If y'all R too lazy to do that, then take the already lesser known characters and introduce them to the main audience and make them popular by giving them a well written movie/show...if you still can?

You are exactly right. Falcon was already cool. He didn't need to be Captain America. He became LESS COOL as Captain America. Bucky should have become Captain America (as he actually needed a form of redemption, being a brainwashed assassin, so there would have been a heck of a lot more interesting conflict. And we'd get Captain America with a metal arm and a gun). Or just leave Captain America dead, and make a Falcon and Bucky movie. Whatever.

"Is the racism in the room with us right now?" LOL Oof. OK. Here's my TL;DR version of my thoughts on this whole topic. It would be best if writers focused on writing good stories and maybe make interesting, original characters of various races/ethnicities/genders/etc. The problem is those movies/shows simply don't get made any more because studios are scared to take risks. Part of it is cancel culture, the other part is the fact that smaller budget films, etc. aren't viable any more since the secondary home video market was killed by streaming. Thus only big tent-pole $100-200M+ "blockbusters" are worth the investment or risk.

Waht I fond particulerly disturbing is how they are REMARKABLY consistant about replacing originally ginger characters with black characters. Its like SCARILY consistent. I didnt know hollywood hated gingers like eric cartmen 😂😂😂

you nailed this topic. I am sick of race swapping and gender swapping characters. I think it is a lazy crutch for so called writers to use because they truly cant write.

The thing about these swaps is that I think they can work, but they won't surpass the originals. I remember the very issue where Sam Wilson became Captain America. I randomly bought it when it came out, and I loved it. I remember sitting through Endgame, and when Steve gave Sam the shield, I lit up like a Christmas tree. The problem is exactly what you said. They don't put effort into these swaps. They just expect you to see a different race or gender of a pre-established character and marvel at it. As someone who was rooting for Sam to become Cap if Steve retired or died, I am heavily disappointed with his MCU portrayal so far.

"Thank you for Smoking" is an excellent recommendation! Especially that scene. Great Take on this topic Greg, I agree peak Falcon Sam Wilson was "Civil War" his scenes were some of my favorite in "The Winter soldier"

I like that you mention Iridesa the tinker bell saga is surprisingly deep in lore and originality and deserve more attention and it could have been cool to see a different neverland story using Iridesa the fairy society and maybe exploring how the kids obtain the power to never get old that could have been cool and original movie plot

I'm so tired of race and gender swaps, and this idea that having someone of your race is the only way to "see yourself" in a movie. I'm a white woman, and the Disney character I relate to the most is Joe from Soul. His relationship with his creative passion really resonated with me.

I can like a swap when it makes sense. Positive example: Kate Bishop. Yeah, she's mostly just female Hawkeye, but because she was inspired by Clint, respected him, and followed his guidance. Her character elevates the original one, and beyond that, she has her own backstory and stake in the ongoing story. Characters like Blacktain America on the other take on "mantles", because we need a new Captain America. Why? There are a lot of Avengers, Falcon himself was one. These characters are always compared to the original, becausd without the original, they are nobodies and they know it. And this comparison is always that they are better than the original, because come on audience, like them already, not realizing that shitting on beloved characters to elevate a new one makes us dislike the new one. And this is why it's so insulting for the groups they want to represent this way, they will just get more hate because of their talentless hack writing.

I think "The Princess and the Frog" was a great example of how it could be done well: Take a well-known story and use it as inspiration to retell it in a different setting. So many great stories have done something similar-the "Lord of the Rings" was itself a retelling of the Germanic Ring Saga-and "The Princess and the Frog" stands on its own without drawing any unnecessary or unfavorable comparisons, while still giving us a new and entertaining view on a classic tale.

You know what would have been great? A scene with Sam and Bucky where Sam tells him that he should have been Captain America. Then Bucky straight up tells him that Steve asked him first, but Bucky declined it, saying that he had way too much baggage as the Winter Soldier. I personally find it odd that Steve never offered it to Bucky first, because he is his literal best friend.

You hit the nail on the head for the most part. I was looking forward to Falcon/WS out of the first line of shows they announced. But after what they did in WandaVision (a HERo tortures a small town and is allowed to walk away?) I was concerned. For Falcon/WS it was a perfect setup for a buddy-cop/odd couple adventure dynamic that was glimpsed at in CA: Civil War. But yeah, instead we were lectured to and fed ridiculous notions to make Sam Wilson oppressed for being black. He couldn't secure a bank loan for his sister's boat? As a military veteran and top test pilot he doesn't get a pension from the US Govt? (pretty sure they also have specific loan programs for vets) Tony Stark never paid anyone for risking their lives for being an Avenger? Come on, man! I quit watching the show after cops randomly pulled up on the street in a black neighborhood and asked Bucky "Is this (black) man bothering you?" So stupid. The only disagreement with your rant is that Miles Morales is still a swap. Spiderman is Peter Parker. Miles and Gwen are part of the Spiderverse. In the case of character property rights for the studio, one would not be able to sell off Miles or Gwen as their own entity, because they are derivatives of Spiderman. Miles also has no rogue's gallery of villains of his own. Although that may change with him facing off against Miguel, but i'm sensing it might be more of a team effort with Gwen. Still, they're not playing in their own sandbox. It's still Spiderman's. As Nerdrotic says "Peter Parker is Spiderman. Miles Morales is Miles Morales." Only time will tell if someone will come up with an epic storyline that is all Miles' own.

i’ve never seen anyone put this bs into words so well and quickly, i hope this opens some eyes fr. you’re very underrated

An interesting story for Falcon would be to continue the story from the winter soldier. What happened when to the veterans that someone was helping were they also dusted or were they left all alone? What happened to them when Falcon disappeared? Would have been also interesting to know who was Sam's wingman. Who was the guy that was sam partner? Did he really die the way he thought he did?

You gotta do better, Disney. You gotta step up

I agree. Sam was a good and authentic character worthy of becoming the New Captain America. He did not need to prove himself as already had done so. I felt the white guy was good but couldn't handle the pressure. Sam did not have to worry because he was already a respected hero

My dude, this video is simply the best. I can’t understate it 😅 you perfectly encapsulated the problem and no one else is talking about it (or at least, not as calmly and well) My brother who watched it with me described it as “he made it not insulting to anyone”. Please keep making videos like this 👊 God bless

Many of us had huge problems with Scarlet in Ghost in the Shell!

Thank you for stating everything that has frustrated me about entertainment in the recent years much better than I could myself. Another thing I don't see discussed (specifically to Falcon / Capt America) is why does he even NEED to become Captain America? Why can't Sam lead the Avengers as Falcon? You touch on it a bit in your part about how they basically say Sam isn't good enough to be Cap by "having to live up to the legacy". So don't do it at all. Sam is badass all on his own as Falcon - as you very well illustrated. He has nothing to live up to. He's amazing in his own right, because of what he uniquely brings to the table. Marvel suggesting that he isn't worthy until he crams himself into the Captain America mold to some degree is insulting to the character AND the audience. Disney just can't stop ruining good things.

As an African American I find them insulting. Like you mentioned these "characters" wouldn't be so bad if someone put effort and time into making them fully fleshed out. There are plenty of shows and movies that do this so well that I can tolerate and sometimes not even mind the underlying woke messaging. Good characters really make up for a lot

The best example I can come up with of a character who is a gender-swap working out all that well would be Danielle “Dani” Phantom in Nickelodeon’s animated children’s television series Danny Phantom (the main character’s nemesis wanted to create an evil clone of him and she was the closest he got.). Since in the show, her name, her powers and even her personality are deliberately modelled after that of Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom (the male protagonist) but after she stops being a pawn of the villain she actually develops as her own distinct character and it works out pretty well. With regard race swaps, they can (sometimes) work. In The Batman, Jeffrey Wright plays Commissioner Gordon and honestly does a decent job and (to my knowledge) people don’t tend to complain about him being a race swap but with Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, people did complain (even though Eartha Kitt played Catwoman in the 60s) but I suspect that that wouldn’t have elicited much controversy if it weren’t for the character giving a shoe-horned in rant about white privilege.

I love the example you gave about your son. It completely proves that race swaps aren’t needed to lift up others in minority groups. Even Rachel zegler managed to destroy her entire argument by posting photos of herself dressed as Snow White when she was a KID, proving that she identified with her then, and proving that the characters race did not matter, especially to a child who couldn’t care less. To prove it further, I identify with miles morales. It’s not because I’m black or because I need to feel better about myself. It’s because the lessons those movies teach speak to me. It’s not about race. It’s about what the character can teach you and what you can walk away from the movie with.

See, I do think Bucky should have been Captain America (i know you said you don't). To me it makes sense because Bucky is the heart of all three Cap movies. He's what triggers Steve ditching the dancing monkey routine in TFA, Steve's whole objective is to save him in TWS, and of course he's at the heart of the conflict on CW. Plus it would've been a nice payoff for Bucky carrying the shield at some point in every Cap movie. Now i don't necessarily think it should've been passed directly from Steve. It would've had the same issues as all these other characters just inheriting mantels. Rather Steve dies fighting (i hate the whole sending him back in time thing), Bucky grabs it because it's a weapon, then it's just in his possession and he's been seen carrying it so the public starts calling him Captain America. He doesn't even have to accept the title, people will stop call him the name and he can go through his arc of wrestling with his past and all of that before either laying the shield to rest, or deciding to continue carrying it. The idea of passing the torch can be well done imo. Carrying on a legacy or cause left by someone who came before doesn't have to overshadow the person stepping into the role of done well. But it isn't being done well. At all. As for the pandering i am 1. Female 2. Half Chinese Which probably works out to being allowed 3/4 of an opinion? I hate it. All around. And I'm glad so far Asians haven't been dragged too far into this mess but I'm sure they'll get to us eventually 😒

They’re creatively bankrupt. Solution? Adapt award winning books *without* changing them. Mistborn would be a great trilogy, Stormlight would be great for streaming - wish they’d make that series with Arcane animation. Amazon did a good job with Reacher. Even House of the Dragon was solid and that source material reads like a history text. Dune is going to be good….

Awesome video, Greg! Well written, nice pacing, excellent cut-ins and editing; it was very witty, and contained no sugar-coated nonsense. I loved it! I give it a 10/10!

Wow your definition of Kafkatrap pretty much sums up like ALL of the whole "White Fragility" program. Also, loved the whole dinner buying mind blowing riff. I don't know how yet, but I'm going to find a way to shoehorn that into a conversation.

this might sound incredibly polarizing, but I believe that NOW is the best time to become an independent storyteller, because modern corporate storytelling is sloppy, faithless, and pointless. This could really be an age of artistic renaissance, where new creators who have real stories to tell rise up and build their own disneys, their own marvels, their own star wars, etc etc. We can do it! And it doesn't need any pandering, baiting, or "remaking" of any kind.

In total agreement. My husband and I love your videos and agree. Your video on women fantasy and why Cpt Marvel doesn't work is the reason I subscribed to your channel.

Brilliant! It’s a crime that you don’t have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Never commented on a KZfaq video before, but your videos are always just so well done. Keep them coming.

The best representation I've seen on screen recently was the end of the second season of Mando. Mando runs away to fight Moff, and we're left with four strong female characters fighting their way to the bridge. It's tense, it's climactic, it fits with their characters, I was so happy. I asked so many of my friends, "You realize they just made the best 'woman power's scene we're ever going to see?" And they were stunned because THEY DIDN'T REALIZE ALL THE HEROES WERE FEMALE

I have yet to find a swap that was beneficial or necessary to a story. I agree with you Greg, and it is even more annoying when there are fully realized, interesting characters of color in a story or world and they are excluded. The race swaps in the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City movie were frustrating because they ignored existing characters like Sheva, a strong female lead of color.

Greg, I've been really loving your channel. You bring a really interesting perspective, without the "outrage" of a lot of similar channels. Keep up the great work

I was done with the super-hero trend when I realized that End Game was going to lean on time travel for its resolution. I did not go see it because I can count on one hand the number of time travel episodes that were decent and viable uses of the genre. With that in mind it is sad that Falcon's character arc had to end with him having to be Captain America. The better resolution would have been him deciding that he does not need to be Captain America but needs to be his own type of patriotic superhero now and choose to upgrade to American Eagle or some other cool name.

Swap rhe Female Characters to male!

When's the collab with Eric July happening?

Man I wish that the head of every major studio would sit down and watch your video. You lay it out so clearly.

Dude, thank you for showing me the direction that Hollywood is going in. You have brought me so much insight to what I have been feeling has been happening generally. Keep up the good work, and don't let anyone stop you from expressing your own feelings and how you feel about what filth Disney has been feeding us recently

As a former Percy Jackson fan who read the series all the way through the original PJ books and The Heroes of Olympus, this hit me really hard. Seeing Rick Riordan pull up that bullshit with the casting and gaslighting the fans for not being happy with the race-swaps completely destroyed my respect for the author to the point that I no longer had the passion for the source materials.

Still waiting for the MLK movie starring Ryan Gosling.

I'm a black woman and totally agree with you. I'm a long time comic book fan as well as well as Tolkien fan and I HATE these swaps! It's so disrespectful and senseless. But on the plus side, it does help me to know what not to watch.

you are incredibly well spoken, and not afraid to get real, and I respect it. people need to get used to the fact that uncomfortable conversations are the ones most worth having, and you are definitely not afraid to be down to earth with your audience and still entertaining. my subscribble is yours.

Greg, I agree wholeheartedly. This sex/race swapping has been going on at Marvel comics for 20 years and it's usually perpetrated by folks who don't know much about the characters being affected. In the case(s) of the Disney/Marvel TV shows and the later MCU movies, they don't read comics so they don't know the characters (She Hulk showrunner/head writer name-escapes-me) and they are writing for some imaginary 'woke' audience that will totally get their 'hilarious' jab at a character that was admired and loved by millions before they even knew the character existed. I can't count the number of times I ranted to my friends about the laziness and lack of imagination in the comic and now video entertainment industry to re-use characters by changing the sex or race instead of doing justice by existing characters and coming up with new and unique characters with their own backstory and not just 'She's Tony Stark's daughter so she gets to be the new Iron Person. It just proves that this woke crowd has nothing original to say and no imagination other than 'Let's take this character and make them (Oppressed group du jour).' Props to the people behind the spider-verse. I have always maintained that it would show more honor to any group by developing new characters with new abilities with their own origins to be part of the DC or Marvel comics or cinematic universes. Unfortunately, that takes too much time, effort and imagination for these lazy, useless, one-trick-pony wokies. More's the pity. Instead of expanding these universes they are being shrunk and distorted, i.e. FUBAR.

Any chances we get a family review for Haunted Mansion? I took my kids and although I found it painfully dull my kids somehow thoroughly enjoyed it.

I saw the title and thumbnail and wanted to be mad, then I watched the video and now I completely understand what you're saying. Great video 🤝

I remember some discussion around "Captain Carter" that said "Peggy Carter *finally* gets a chance to carry the shield". As if just ... being near Captain America means you deserve to be him? Or to have the things he has? Falcon was a cool character, it doesn't make him more special to become "Captain America".

This whole thing with Miles, Falcon, Nubia, Tim Fox, Iron Heart, and all the other race swapped Superheroes is that the people behind them never had faith in these characters to begin with. They were either made with the expectation to fill in a white man/woman’s shoes… or they were made to literally be their automatic replacements… looking at you Miles, Tim Fox, and Iron Heart. The writers clearly don’t believe they could EVER hope to be as popular as the beloved and long established white characters, so they were literally made to just take the original heroes superhero identities. It’s seriously as if they don’t believe black people are likable enough to stand on their own with their own identities. No, if they’re ever going to be anybody, they have to steal a white character’s spotlight and give it to them, because clearly they can’t achieve a spotlight of their own. They must need their generous shallow handouts. Talk about the bigotry of low expectations. This is why I walked away from that movement long before they lost their goddamn minds in the mid 2000-teens. They’re hiding their own racism with the racism of shallow generosity, mixed with toxic savior complexes. Falcon doesn’t need to be Captain America to be loved, he already was. Now we’re stuck with him because he filled all the right check boxes for the real racist people behind the comics and movie decision of Marvel… sigh…

I agree. There are plenty of characters that are non-white or of non European descent and the fact that they try to race swap is not only an insult to the original character but also the other characters that could be brought to the spotlight, but are deemed unworthy of it.

Your video presentations are to the point n not covered in bs. Just watched 5 in a row. Subscribed to your work.😊

I 1000% agree with this! I hate swaps they are sometimes cheap, slightly insulting, and lowkey racist.

I am not white and I am also not a man, but I agree with your assessment. Swapping a character's immutable characteristics, then proceeding to forget to give the character any interesting personality characteristics is both lazy and disingenuous.

"Is the racism in the room with us right now?" LOL! Nailed it.

This is so on point. Give me badass, original black characters that are awesome on their own merits, but Disney doesnt want to actually put any real effort into that now do they? And I caught that pitch meeting reference 😄

Funny you mentioned Wish because the voice actress for the main character was Rachel Zegler’s costar in West side story.

Woman here. The "Luke Skywalker/Iron Man/Black Panther, but with a girl!" trope is annoying. Lara Croft and Ripley and Mara Jade and other female heroes are cool because they had their own journeys and part of those journeys was being a woman, which is a bit more subtle, complicated, and interesting than just having (pardon my bluntness) tits. The "but with a girl!" characters are just made to co-opt male characters' journeys or, worse, "say something" and don't have that.

That small Pitch-Meeting reference is TIGHT!

Clutch Thank You For Smoking reference. It's legit one of my favorite movies (book is great too, no shock). It just seems to get more and more relevant as time goes by.

Your channel is growing fast - keep it up! I rely on your movie reviews before I take the fam 😂

They needed to retire Captain America, but just could not resist milking it. The thing Marvel now does not understand is that their popular characters all had compelling origin stories, real personalities and character traits, including weaknesses. Steve Rogers was a little guy who had tons of heart, but is also super loyal and always wanted to do "what is right" because of his whole story. Fighting in WWII and his life as a picked on pipsqueak made him who he is. You cannot just give some other guy the shield who does not have that story. Or at least one without an equally compelling story. This is why the Batgirl and Batwoman shows always fail. Batman IS Bruce Wayne. The entire reason for Batman is Bruce Wayne's entire story. Without it, the girl replacement is just a girl in the suit with some toys. Who cares? Who is the Falcon and why should he be Captain America? Marvel has told us about him...nothing. He is a generic good guy who is african american with a flight suit. Shrug. Where is the character? What are his character weaknesses? Why should you care He specifically is Captain America now? They gave us zero answers other than "this is now how it is, consume product!"

I'm tired of character swapping. I'm a character designer and all my designs are intenonal. So if I see a major company changing my designs for profit and saying my designs were bad I'd be pissed

"did your mind buy me dinner? cause I'm going to BLOW IT!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1:18, Was that a Pitch Meeting reference? Wow, wow, wow. Wow.

Ask a romance writer to write an action movie, or ask a comedy writer to write a mystery murder movie, and what will you get? Well, unless the writer has experience and understanding in both fields, it will be shit. I think this is what has been happening behind the scenes for these movies, because when a good writer is told to either change their characters, or get fired, both result in a terrible movie. That, or they just skip the part where they even hire good writers in the first place. I mean, who wants a good writer who refuses to inject politics in their work, when you could have a terrible writer who loves injecting politics into their work?

This was only my second video of yours that I have watched. The 2 pac bit and then the like and subscribe right after got me ngl😅

One thing that always frustrates me with race swap defenders is that when people say that they want original characters they say "Oh, but the already make original characters, but they don't get enough attention". Well why don't you TRY WORKING HARDER TO PROMOTE THEM?!

I grew up watching Chris Evans as cap so it's difficult for me see someone replacing him

The only reason why Miles Morales isn't a 1-for-1 race swap for Spider-Man is because the fans rejected that. That's always been the plan for him, and still is, they're still trying to make him THE Spider-Man in the games. Marvel only continues to market him as Miles Morales while fans reject his swap, but they're still trying.

"I'm not gonna spend my life being a color." - Michael Jackson