don't, they might give us a Black Thor

Can you please do a video on why are no real Omega Level telepaths because there's a lot of superheroes with lightning power that are black but how many black telepaths are there for real for real when you break it down

That end where you said should've stayed with black bomber. So cringe I have to slow clap for it.

melanin conducts electricity, and that's all i'm going to say.

Black bomber is the exact opposite of what happened to God the Father, Jesus, the angels and the Jews.(how they are modernly portrayed today)

Looks like they can't handle Black Lightning

@@forickgrimaldus8301 oh my god

@@forickgrimaldus8301 lol

It's even less surprising when talking about the original source of the problem, Hanna-Barbera. The word "cheap" is essentially synonymous with everything that company did.

Dude, you’re not lying that Tony Rebello guy or whatever his name is he needs to sue the fuck out of them Hanna-Barbera in DC completely screwed him out of a legacy. He could be like Stan Lee for black superheroes.

He got me at "and he basically was in everything except name. ...and pants." Edit: "Whenever I see it, I shake my head, and my neck hurts." got an actual LOL out of me.

Nah you can't call that, you have to pay the royalties 🤣🤣🤣 call it something else 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@sanketvaria9734 chocolate thunder?

“The rage of Africa incarnate” - woolie madden

His CW show was dope mostly and him becoming the leader of the Justice League in Young Justice was a super cool moment.

@@BajanShinobi It gets a lot of hate which i think is mostly based in prejudice(and having 3 good villains) but honestly to me its fire for the first three seasons, the fourth and last season is mid as all hell though

They could do a really cool story, where it's revealed that Black Lightning has had his soul split into all these different heroes, and he needs to collect all these fragments to get his true power back, it would be poetic justice as they're all him just without breaking copyright

im late but i really dont get this,almost everyone i know and in general that watched the arrowverse watched all the shows and blacklightning so what do you mean underrated

Tbf, there is an element of racism behind the logic. You cant help but realise that they cared so little for their black superhero that they would rather just rip themselves off than protect their ip. We ended ip with a tolkien black superhero

​@@IEPerez1994Nah, creator rights back then and even up to now has always been egalitarian with it's ass fucking

@@IEPerez1994 Maybe in other industries but superhero comics are the gods of ripping off characters in general... The only reason they don't sue is because once someone started, half of everyone's characters would get nuked and then everyone loses money.

⁠@@IEPerez1994Are you not familiar with Marvel and DC, or just in general, comics? Cause once an original character is made, everyone just rips each other off based on that character until it’s hard to even figure out the original. Like with deadpool and deathstroke, aquaman and namor, more obvious who’s the original, but superman and hyperion. These are just a few examples of pretty blatant copies of characters. None of these characters are black and they basically keep their ethnicities. It’s not a race thing, more of just liking a character, ripping it off, and not bothering to change them too much, at least race wise.

@@thatboi134 I guarantee if it were a white hero they’d have paid for him.

He didn't, but he achieved more than he ever thought possible by indirectly spawning dozens of black superheroes

He opened the way for us and helped get rid of the black bomber at least that's powerful

@@Bruva_Ayamhyt So he got paid in exposure.

@@saaytin for the culture

Something else that's wild to me is that, he vowed to create more black super heroes for his friends, and because he would've had to have been paid royalties for just *one* of the black superheroes he created, it resulted in all these other black super heroes being created instead. Either way, he won! 😂

As bad as this sounds we dont know the percentage.. If it was anything over like 3-10% at most then it is reasonable to say no. Bear in mind the costs go pretty far in making stuff like this. This dude shouldnt get the whole budget (leading to everyone else like writers and such getting the shitty end of the stick) just because he took a super general power (which is apparently protected under some form of fair use law) and black skin.. Nothing truly inspiring or great there other than his promise to his friends as a kid. If it was some amount that left it to still be a profitable endeavor and they chose this though then thats sad.

@@Canzary did you watch the video? The character was very well written and not just “black with lightning” in fact the latter is more true of the characters DC created to avoid paying royalties.

@@rosaevee274 no, Static shock is well written but Black Vulcan and Soul Powers are just copy's because they didn't want to pay royalty's

Yes... That's basically it. We want to use the original Black Lightning. DC says we aren't going to pay the artist royalties, so we will copy and paste.

Truee

I really love miles morales I know people dont like ultimate spiderman (im talking about the show not the comic), however thanks to that show I knew about the spiderverse, miles morales and miguel o´hara before most people

@@HollowMaskYTfor me it was a combination of the Beenox-era Spider-Man games (Edge Of Time and Shattered Dimensions), Miles’ suit was a costume in both and Miguel was pretty prominently featured in them to boot. I’m glad USM put ppl on tho

@@bobbyshewan4229Wait miles’ suit was an option in shattered dimensions? I thought that game came out before Miles’ debuted

@@Lylybeebee Pretty sure it wasn't. I don't think Shattered Dimensions had Miles, as that was about a year prior to his comic debut, but Edge of Time definitely did. (At least going off my memory I don't recall a Miles suit)

Black lightning is definitely one of my favorite characters in the show

Finally, right?

Cobra Kai never dies.

Barry bee Benson

Yellow also looks good with the color brown it’s actually one of the best colors

Black and blue too, really just the fact that lightning doesn't look as cool when it's making already white skin brighter

You know what it is

Load shedding

@@suzygirl1843 so, here's my gig. He (my electrical powered hero), would find a team of local scientist, to build the legendary self sustaining battery (theoretically built by Nicola Tesla), build it to mega size (it's comics, they'd do that easy), then he'd use his power to charge the battery to max capacity. The government being d**** would try to stop the project but they'd give in swing the true benefits. The power source would expand into Africa and begin economic liberation... 😢 Any comic writers in the comments, I have a feeling this story would fly.

@@arsilent5038 don't go with corporates but instead get yourself a team

@@Human_traain a team you say? Bet. I have MANY ideas, concepts and quite literally an entire world to build. I just don't know where to start.

@@arsilent5038 start in the beggining get your favorite character start with their origin and slowly built your lore (also go rear other comics and listen to the critique other people have on certain comics and learn from your mistakes

Dude it's been so long since I watched young justice and I never noticed it was static shock!!!

@@mimo__.- Yeah, they had a bunch of Dakota Comics characters scattered throughout. Static, Rocket, Icon, etc.

Did you know that the largest building in the world wouldn’t even touch the bottom of the ocean?

SBT really is responsible for a lot of things being super popular in Brazil for no reason lmao But yes, I am Brazilian and I have fond memories of Static Shock

Everyone my age knew Static Shock but it never picked up after that. I think they dismiss this hero because it stereotypes the hood.

@@Greedyshitholebastard Well, I'm white and my brothers and I liked Static Shock. Vergil is just a cool character who _happens_ to be black.

interesting

I just looked her up and woah her design is gorgeous, I also love the idea of wind powers something about it just makes a character seem more carefree and fun

Growing up in the 90s, enjoying the X men cartoon and not reading comics religiously due to being lower-middle class and growing up way out in rural America, I always thought she was Egyptian, instead of Black. My brain also glossed over Jubilation Lee's Asian heritage. Maybe it just wasn't important to my brain, but I also remember being like "holy crap they've always been black [or asian?!]" and laugh to myself

@@Torsion o.o; What 'race' do you think Egyptians are...? Cause.. Just to let you know. They're black. Egypt is in Africa.. That's the homeland of blackness., its the Europe to whiteness.

@@Torsion As a clarification, Storm's father is from Harlem in the US. Storm's mother is from Kenya. They moved to Cairo Egypt and died there. Storm lived as a pick pocket until her powers developed she left Cairo and travelled to the Serengetti where she lived as a goddess until joining the X-Men

@ChaosDesigned keep in mind that these were things my brain decided as a child, not really making the Egypt is in Africa connection. Even then, I'd say they're more Mediterranean/Middle Eastern than "Black?" I'll admit though, it probably had more to do with her skin tone and straight hair more than anything. If she would've had curls in her hair for the 90s cartoon, maybe I would have realized it sooner? Not saying that all Africans have curly hair, but as a generalized trait in [US] media, kind of? Especially since I don't equate a street rat and thief to having very good hygiene/beauty routine ... so natural hair instead of the straight hair probably just led to the assumption.

Holy crap can we see the paper that I really hope you'll write because that is such an interesting idea!

Um, hell yes. Excellent write-up, thank you!

Great now I'm fucking sadder he didn't get any royalties 😭

Thank you!! That's more-than-likely 90% of the reason. Art is still art at the end of the day

@@jdajayi92 Don't underestimate the urge of big companies to save a penny by exploiting someone else's work.

I was going to say the exact same thing. Red is too evil with black Green just makes you think poison or plants ... so the obvious powers would be lame. Pink is girly Purple is girly Orange and black blend to make chocolate. You're basically left with blue or yellow. And electricity is obviously the first thing you'll think of. Then ... after that ... everyone copies.

But why it's gotta be electricity and not anything else that generates light?

To expand on this even further, it explains why I've always thought black people can pull of white suits (or tuxedoes) way better than white people can. They make it look sharp & dignified, where white guys in white suits look either like a villain or just cheesy. Saying this is as a white guy, so it just may just be my own bias.

I wish I knew who’s idea it was but I’ve never been able to find the specifics lol

@@MixedUpMedia21 It was longtime DC editor and writer Bob Kanigher, well-known as a writer on SGT. ROCK, THE METAL MEN and Silver Age WONDER WOMAN among others.

Wasn’t it originally brown bomber and it was a white guy who had the powers of a black man

Gen Z is just gonna call him a Miles Morales knock off 😭

He does appear in young justice though! He also has a mentee/mentorship role with black lightning in the show!

@@ohishwaddup gen z watched static shock stupid

Are magnet just electric gravity 🤔

@@skremblo Not really. Both gravity and electromagnetism are two of the 4 fundamental interactions, but they work differently. For one, electromagnetism is carried by the photon, but we haven't found a "graviton" yet if it exists. Electromagnetism is also far stronger than gravity, it's just that gravity doesn't cancel itself out. There's no negative or positive gravitational pole so the force doesn't "loop" back in on itself like a magnet would.

@@kirbybirb253 could there possibly be a "negative" gravity to the "positive"???

@@jameswtlocs Not quite. The thing about gravitational fields is they extend effectively forever. What allows gravity to reach so far even though it's the weakest force is the fact that there's no negative gravity. All magnets we know to exist are north-south dipoles, meaning every magnet cancels out its own field, and electricity has positive and negative charges so that every negative charge in the universe has a positive one to cancel it out. But gravitational dipoles don't exist in such a way. Gravity is _always_ an attractive force generated by mass. Now, in theory, matter may exist that has negative mass, and objects with negative mass _would_ theoretically generate a repulsive gravitational field. But nothing has been observed to have negative mass, and if it did it would be *really* weird because of the properties matter with negative mass can be expected to have.

@@kirbybirb253 wow that's the coolest thing I've ever heard. I can imagine making characters from this information. What are the main forces of the known universe thus far?

Well I appreciate you watching the video. I also saw people say that it was because the color of lightning contrasts nicely against brown skin. I think “Black Lightning is cool” is probably the best explanation tbh lol

That actually is true

It’s true… Interesting thing about that… Scientists have been studying how to use melanin to create cybernetic organisms, which points to another trope I’ve seen… cybernetic black characters…

Well, it's better than fire control because then they'd say "He's black because of the fire." 😂

I know alot of black consciousness groups are going to say "the black man is god" rhetoric...🤷‍♂️😏

Same here

I agree

I have always loved lightening powers even before I realized alot of black heroes is shown with this ability, pretty cool.

My username is Greenthunder and I’m black. Never even knew

Right, but I am sure the creator had to know at least a little about American Superheroes from comics and cartoons to make that connection, unless it was an accident.

Kinda but yeah

Yeah he already said that.

Spider-Punk is black and has electric guitar.

@@alienalchemist 💀

Venom blasts

In all honesty, most of the characters in the video are cool. So if your character looks better with lightning, go for it. Your idea sounds pretty damn awesome either way, especially channeling the energy in his spine like Godzilla.

I swear l never thought of it when I made my character either I just thought electricity powers were cool.

that sounds awesome

Better copyright some of your ideas especially if you plan on doing something big with it.

@@jms7265 how would I go about that?

You don't die alone sir.

O he confused Shocker with Elektro.

Shocker has to be the comic character that people get the powers wrong the most lmao very common mistake

@@DaviRBify he mentions Electro in practically the same sentence.

@@DaviRBify even electro is white in the comics

So what’s your justification for everything else?

Woah, that’s really interesting! Thanks for sharing, seriously

Like thunder bird....

That's pretty cool actually. I'm trying to read up more on African myths myself. You have recommendations on reading material?

Guess if DC ever wanted to give some sort of in-universe reason why so many of their dark-skinned super heroes have electrical powers... that could be used as a starting point.

@@yesmansam6686 can't recommend a book. But for gods and stuff, read up on the 'orishas', the anansi stories and all the Egyptian stuff. For mythological creatures,.I'll just list off a few. IMPUNDULU, Nyami Nyami and Tokoloshe for a start.

Ok... what is the point of this comment?

​@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051That none of his heroes will have electricity powers.

@@travisfields157The black character proceeds to tase a villain.

#ad

Cool story bro

Black Lightning in the CW show as well. That's pretty interesting.

"with every other "trope" related to black people they all feel like theyre rooted in some deep seeded racism or fetishization " dude get off the internet your brain is rotting

Even the same colors in 🤦🏾‍♂️😂😂😂 Blue and yellow costumes 🔥👀

In this case even trying to frame it as a stereotype is laughable. "You know those black people, always plugging things in, and uhh, generating static with friction!"

@@DeanCubed Clearly the Moonwalk was just a way for black people to generate static with style.

because this trope is so widely used it feels a little racist to still willingly add to it when writing a black character. For example; Miles Morales started out with a nerve touch ability that would “shock” enemies then as he got more popular and was being adapted theyve given him full electric powers shooting bolts from his hands making him Marvels equivalent to static shock.

Even in One Piece eneru is designed after Eminem who is white but as black as any white man can be

And now on some degree black Adam can be added to the list

@@tpsam wow that’s crazy

Ya let's be clear - Hanna Barbera is not really racist - they're just cheap af.

Was reading black clover today, there's a character thats a gyaru(japanese that tan and are the closest we get to black people most times in manga) whats her magic? Electricity lol

"black women with dangerous voices" should be a podcast

Black bomber would have a disturbingly effective super villain for black lightning.

Would’ve been terrible lol

The great late Dwayne McDuffie wrote a hilarious parody of the situation but dc censored it

The answer very rarely is "flat-out racism".

Though unsurprising that the second answer was 'corporate greed' cause they just didn't want to pay royalties.

@@genericyoutubeuser8957 define “rarely”

@@cdw2468 I'm not going to engage with someone whose handle supports a violent mass murder.

@@genericyoutubeuser8957 it’s a joke, and not at all a reason to not engage with someone about racism. what’s more likely is that you realize you don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re too much of a coward to stand behind your true beliefs so you’ve tried to find an excuse to not say them

I think it's because there already were a lot of heroes that had fire, or even ice powers. Water was rare, but not unknown, but electricity was only ever used in villains.

I agree, especially when you consider how many electrical powers require charging up from an outside source it becomes most practical in a city where the grid is everywhere. (I cam just imagine a joke like in Spiderman homecoming where he couldn't swing across the field, where the electric hero has to lure the villain towards a transmission line just to use his powers again). Basically its like how plant growth/manipulation or speak with animals is most useful in rural areas where the "fuel" of your powers is. (Although speak with animals in a city would still work out well as pidgeons and seagulls are everywhere and probably have seen alot)

The power types also have personalities connected to them too, like The Superman powerset, Speed/Strength, or Strength/Invunerable has a personality typecast to it and is almost always given to the white male subset and then spunoff to everyone else later Ala Captain Marvel or Black Atom. But Electricity always has this lowkey subtle but powerful far reaching feel, that is good for black characters. Its not often you see a Main character in American comics with flame powers, as usually the more raw destructive powers are left to badguys. Eletricity is pretty versatile.

I think this is really accidental in nature. Like an English teacher trying to cram a metaphor in every page... however, it does work. Electricity would be a cool power regardless. Though I love how comic creators forget just how deadly and powerful lightning truly is.

@@jasonreed7522 rats too, can't forget the rats possums and dogs, if you can talk to animals a pack of st Bernards at your whim is pretty deadly

I think Justice League Doom was the first time I've seen someone use John's Human alter ego as a Black Man, from then on, it kind of stuck I think.

I’m glad the feds were listening in to recommend this as well lol welcome to the channel😂

Most tropes honestly come from copies. There are so many redhead female superhero’s that can read minds/move things with their mind as a copycat from Jean grey

Haha if there is another thing that motivates America other than racism, it will definitely be refusing to pay people what they are owed.

Crazy thing is DC comic made A successful son (static shock) but he never got to meet his Dad (Black lighting) 😂😂

Meanwhile Superman, Shazam, Captain Marvel, and Miracleman/Marvel Man

Super heroes are built off a lot of tropes and even villains, look at how many copies of Venom there are, and Venom's design itself is based off an earlier indie comic character called Grendel which released by Darkhorse in the early 80s, look how many super heroes have the power of flight, or a healing factor... Wolverine, Hulk and Deadpool pretty much have the same healing factor....I don't think it's a racist trope at all because the same trope exists among non black super heroes too....and there are white super heroes that have electrical powers too like Thor

Storm is the goat, honestly😂

That's similar but idk if it's the same. That is designing characters based on the properties of their powers, not that they give ice powers to white people. Ice powered characters may be pale skinned or literally white coloured because of the connection to ice and snow as being white and how being cold makes you pale. They also often have blue skin. Also I'd say ice characters are more likely to have white hair, not blonde hair due to the snow connection. But there isn't really a connection between the aesthetics/ properties of lightning and black skin/ people.

Man ddnt pay attention to the video at all.. yah. Aestheticis aight

That's true. Yellow and black just go well together.

Yeah, but Frozone doesn't count. That was a Disney movie for kids.

@@ReblazeGaming what's "logical" about ice powers giving white hair? I think that's a pretty fair comparison that it's also based on aesthetics in a similar way. It only seems logical because they made it a trope. Your argument is similar to saying Wendy's beef patties don't look right. It's not logical.

Yes but she used lightening more then anything else.

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@@Harlem1mentality Cause lightning is powerful and cool

@@brooklyngray1527 what’s that supposed to mean

The best example is Black Adam 😁

Hmmm honestly It may not be that deep. I imagine the the thought process in the 1970’s was more literal than anything else. Black power was a huge back then. All the young black people an cool Black people were saying it. Black power hmmm what is black power? Electricity that’s power. When we don’t have electricity we don’t have power. But when we do it’s black power electricity. Lmao that’s what i think happened

I think it's just coincidental because lightning powers are just really cool

I don't think it's a coincidende. It's more like an odd cultural thing that nobody notices.

@@blanktrigger8863 honestly i think it's coincidence. I don't see how your skin color affects a superpower you think of

@@r3ady780You said skin color. By trying too hard not to be racist you expose your racism. Has nothing to do with my comment.

Dairui is truly that nigga, the whole cloud village is so raw

I agree, I'm off white (Slavic and Persian ancestry) but think electrical powers are awesome, being able to shoot a bolt of lightning, what's not to like? You could also just make a static field to mess up electronics.

Darui

@@ChaseBlackmoon or depending on control use it to fly using earth's magnetic field.

@@UrScum 🤦🏾‍♂️

Honestly, come of my favorite characters were from Kumogakure, I was always so bumbed they weren't in more stuff.

That’s not even true tho dude. There’s so many non-Black characters that utilize lightning/electricity. Look at Thor, Miracle Man, Shazam, Black Adam, Livewire, various Flashes variants and even Superman at one point. Look at Cole MacGrath from Infamous or Raiden from Mortal Kombat and Raiden from Metal Gear Solid. It’s not true.

Kakashi and Sasuke utilize lightning in the show too

ya, uhuh, u kno wat it is

Surely fire is the most obvious yellow thing that a Black superhero could control though? Other obvious choices include lava and sand (ok, sand doesn't emit light, but I'm sure they could make it look good if they really wanted to). I suspect that the electricity trope is more to do with a lack of imagination than anything else. Blue and yellow aren't the only colours that look good on dark skin either. E.g. a well chosen shade of green can look at least as good as blue, so control of plants or dangerous green reptiles (crocodiles, some snakes, etc.) would be another obvious superpower choice. Or for a really strong colour contrast, why not give a dark-skinned Black superhero control over white things, like light, snow, ice, skeletons or ghosts? I mean light in general, not just lightning. E.g. a superhero who could bend light or alter its speed or colour would be a powerful illusionist.

True

Bruh black looks good with everything

@@noidsuper yeah, on design color theory I was in, black is one of neutral color that got along with other color fine, in some saturation of course. But, having black alongside with white in the color scheme is crucial. Idk what i'm talking about at this point the more I read it.

Sailor Jupiter is one of my favorite electric powered characters. Psionics is another favorite power set of mine.

@@Hardmanferdead I'm starting to get into psionic powers too, like telepathy

@@quentinjones6877 maybe the character has plasma powers or controls crystals

@@noctisastrum7495 who?

@@quentinjones6877 I meant that the character you're working on could use those powers, sorry I worded that weirdly

He sure checkmated DC. The more DC refuses to pay him, the worse they look.

Seems to have been resolved - Isabella returned to DC to write a Black Lightning story in 2017, and recently had a cameo on the TV show.

@@joelpartee594 Do you know which episode?

@@k9commander The Book of War: Chapter Three: Liberation (Season 3 Episode 16) as "Judge Isabella".

@@joelpartee594 Thanks.

its apparently in development.

i really loved all the future Static appearances in the Batman Beyond / Justice League (was it?) crossover episodes

He’s basically dcs answer to miles morales so with his recent popularity we will probably see Static Shock show up again

I agree but it’s also just NOT representation lol.

Is there any character that couldn't be made interesting and thoughtful with sufficiently good writing? Granted, that description puts no upper bound on the quality of writing necessary to do so.

Black bomber is a crazy name too

I don't think it would be THAT hard, just make him have a huge existencial crisis at having to live as a black man from time to time and experience the racism that he himself causes. But yeah it wouldn't be representation, and comics at that time were DEFINETLY not on the level of handling such a topic correctly. But nowadays a good writter could make it work easily, just watch the episode where Johnny Bravo turns into a woman.

Black bomber would honestly be a really interesting character to try to pull off. it probably wouldn't work, but it would be a super interesting challenge.

Storm doesn't have lightning based powers

@@felixlara2945 she can control lightning smart guy

Hmmm honestly It may not be that deep. I imagine the the thought process in the 1970’s was more literal than anything else. Black power was a huge back then. All the young black people an cool Black people were saying it. Black power hmmm what is black power? Electricity that’s power. When we don’t have electricity we don’t have power. But when we do it’s black power electricity. Lmao that’s what i think happened

Not black, but you'd like Mikasa from A Certain Magical Index series. She uses electricity in great ways, and her nickname is Railgun, and I'm guessing you already know why. She's also immune to mind control as you said because of the electric field around here

@@nonon8952 But it's more of a subset of her power to control the weather. It's not her main power.

The first black superhero wad going to be a Caucasian that turned black as a superhero transformation. Thankfully more sensible people made the final decisions there. That was the brown bomber pitch, fortunately we got black lighting instead.

This man just made video with facts on this sht. And we gonna go with "I think this is why" man no wonder fake news spreads so quick

@@piusdoe8984 this isn't an award-winning biopic my dude. It was a really good video that I enjoyed but yes I feel like as someone who has been reading comic books for literal decades I do possess the knowledge to weigh in on the subject. What are you 12?

Its a youtube video man, its not the be-all end all. Guy listened to the video, had his own thoughts and put them down, open for discussion. There's nothing wrong with that. and why is everybody in this comment section so touchy? Anyway I agree Noremac out here, I think it was just an archetype that was created. Alongside what was said in the video, these guys are companies and what they had was a template that was proven to work and more importantly not tick anyone off, so they made more of it. Could've been more forays into different powers but could've felt too risky. In the design process there could've been all kinds of decisions left unsaid. The contrast point people are bringing up is plausible too. It might be an archetype or a cliche, but there's nothing wrong about it, characters are made out of them

@@piusdoe8984 The video's conclusion is simply "DC started it." Try critically thinking and you'll realize this comment and the video are in agreement.

Same thing with Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Electro is a white guy in the comics, but Jamie Foxx is Black, so by changing the race they inadvertently contributed to this, which is hilarious to me.

Why black though? That's another common Anime Manga trope of making an evil character have a darker completion when he/she turns evil.

@@Vyomesh839 Not only that. But Elctro is a ginge in the comics.... Before going bald. So they also added to the trend of race swaping ginger character as blacks.

@@Magnet_Chaos thats because Gingers tend to have similar problematic stereotypes in media as black people. Hyper-sexual people that are quick to anger and have aggressive personalities. See common similarities between the black Jezebelle trope and the Fiery Redhead trope. All very common stereotypes of the Irish as well as black people, so all the story tropes and writing habits that you can slap onto one character, they can easily slap on the other

@@jevonsims900 he was gonna be an evil character already in this case

That's cause most people don't read the actual comics. In the movies you pretty much only see her using lightning, likely cause that's the easiest to visually convey.

to be honest, her coolest looking ability is striking people with lightning lol

It is her most offensive ability and the fastest to ensure a kill. Her wind powers has never been used to suffocate someone or showed that she is even capable of control like that. I remember that old cartoon and she was really good in it. Her and Rouge were really good in that cartoon with Jean Grey being the butt of jokes.

I am "upset" about The Wizard who empowers Billy Batson being on the list. Yes, Zues is one of the legendary figures that give him power, but "lightning" is a cosmetic effect of the magic spell of transformation not something he really uses for effect.

*Thor has entered the chat*

You don’t know comics. All these dudes talking about “contrast.”

True but it’s usually the one she’s most associated with it

@@gx9183 i would say it's weather.

@@gx9183 she controls the weather, uses wind to fly, something that i associated always first with her.

@@christianemden7637 Yes and I’m aware that’s what she does. Just that a lot of forms (specifically the movies) of media depict her using lightning as a main source of offense which is what the general public tend to consume.

Same with Kaldur (Aqualad), his electric powers are more based off his Atlantian magic powers and aren’t his staple ability

I never really noticed but when pointed out it obvious, and it makes sense someone makes 1 good character with powers that are aesthetically pleasing (contrast is huge in comics, and white/cyan/yellow lightning against black/dark brown is just about as contrasty as you can get), and then for copyright/royalty reasons they just kept copy pasting until the few good original chracters were influenced by the trend/trope. (Black lightning and static shock are iconic so now black with electricity powers is a trope to make a character quickly just as much as evil superman is a trope for a quick villain)

Anime especially does this. Any melanin heavy characters have white/silver hair. Scar, Raikage village, Jonah, BNHA rabbit girl, and smell guy from food wars. As you said they like the color pop but it's a lot. Then you look at Bleach and they break the mold with designs so other colors can be used.

honestly i think its just bc white hair complements better on dark shades of skin more than white ones(overall looking too pale) so its simply likely an aesthetic reasoning of contrast

@@PsykoDrama There are lots of reasons for this. I'd say from the Japanese perspective, a lot of that is based on the "gyaru" subculture in Japan, usually a style where part of it is tanning their skin to make it dark and dyeing their hair blonde. This doesn't mean all characters with this combo are "gyaru" I just think it's part of creating that combination in Japanese culture. A lot of anime characters with dark skin tend to be "tan" or are literally this. Think Ikumi from Food Wars. White hair is also an indicator of a character being "special" or magical a lot of the times too, so if they have powers they will likely have cool hair. Another thing is that it works great for creating fictional races. Dark skin and blonde/ white hair is a rare combination irl unless a dark person dyes their hair or they're mixed. So to make characters from a fictional race look unique, that hair colour can be used e.g Scar as an Ishvalan in FMAB, the Lightning Village residents in Naruto etc. And of course the contrast just looks cool. I love Aqualad's look from Young Justice. But of course there are still black characters in anime without blonde hair like Onyankopon from Attack on Titan, Ogun from fire force, Canary from Hunter x Hunter, Afro Samurai, Sister Krone from The Promised Neverland, Lock Rock from My Hero Academia, Advol from Jojo and more. I personally want to see more black characters with crazy hair colours as well rather than black or white/blonde hair. Green, pink, blue, go crazy lol.

@@ReblazeGaming yea, I tried to steer clear of gyaru examples since those are still Japanese representative characters but I guess if they are trying to blend a separate culture into their own then blond/white hair is gonna happen. And as I said Bleach has at least 3 examples that counter the white hair, Soul eater doesn’t use it, Black Lagoon, Fire force, and probably many more. I think anime is figuring out how to draw black/brown people with more of their own cultural flair than with Japanese flair. They are doing this with other races as well, I mean Vinland saga is definitely a far cry from G gundam’s take on anyone European.

Funny, I just commented to you over on his channel, and thanks for coming over. I have a lot of fun making these so I hope it shows!

Good point. Would it be correct to add Kaldur'ahm into this conversation? His main ability is manipulating water with magic, with electricity being a secondary power

yeah not wanting to pay royalties was the whole reason she-hulk existed and seems to be a common thing, luckily she turned out pretty good with a talented staff behind her stories. it happens in video games too apparently, Ms Pacman is getting all but completely erased from games and replaced with an imposter because they didn't want to give the royalties to the original creators.

It's sad when people use race for views or profit. The entire video covered one character and the sometimes shady comic business.

@@abdul-rahmanwashington2479 I don't think that's the case in this instance

@@abdul-rahmanwashington2479 uhm how did you come to to conclusion? 🤣