Fan outcry stems from what many feel is a failure to accurately represent the cultures each character pulls from, including the fact that Mavukia, Kinich, and Ororon — who seem to be inspired by real-life deities like the Maori’s Mahuika — are all white. It continues a trend in Genshin Impact that has seen players begging for proper representation.
Now some of the actors behind Genshin Impact’s faces have begun to chime in. Albedo actor, Khoi Dao, published a statement on X/Twitter calling for change in Genshin Impact.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not real life. Having Valkyrie assume a leadership position is not to claim that happened in real life. It’s a work of fiction. The MCU can make its own rules.
Love & Thunder had its issues. Representation (over or under) was not one of them.
I don’t have any problems with the Valkyries themselves, just with the black ones because there simply is no explanation as to how they got there. Say they’re a lost unit from Wakanda and ended up there and climbed up the ranks - I take it, and I’ll like it.
You’re right with that last paragraph. That movie was somehow worse than Velocipastor.
The explanation is literally that they’re space aliens. They don’t need to conform to human demographic patterns. Someone getting there from Wakanda raises far more questions than “some aliens aren’t white”
Since when did they change the narrative to be space aliens??
It was always like that? The first scene of the first film depicts Jotunheim as a regular old planet. Asgard looks weird for a “planet”, but people just fly to and from it with spaceships in Ragnarok. The last we see of Loki in the first film, he’s drifting off into the stars, and then the next time we see him is when he invades Earth in the service of a big purple alien from space.
Well, always like that in the MCU. The comics have done all kinds of wild takes.
They’re technically interdimensional beings. They were worshipped as Gods by the Norse, not literally Nordic humans.
Wtf do you mean there is no explanation. This is FICTION. Lol.