Dog Moon
Adventurer
Similarities like both list comparing fiction characters to real people? Yeah, I noticed that.
So you're trying to say that there are no similarities between fictional characters to real people? Interesting.
Hold on a second, let me get this straight. You "became accustomed" to Bruce Lee's and Martin Luther King's race?
"Established race?" No, in Bruce Lee's and Martin Luther King's cases, it isn't "the established race of the character." It's the race of a person who was real. You don't "establish" their race. Martin Luther King was black. Bruce Lee was Asian.
Well again, you're looking at the differences. I was trying to find more general words to help focus on the similarities, which is why those words aren't the best words to describe the situation. Yes, MLK is black and Bruce Lee was Asian and Batman is White and Storm is Black. However they were born or created, in the end, that is what we see.
Let me ask you this, why do you think a character like Batman, a comic book character made up in 1939, was White? Do you think he could as easily have been "established" as Black or Asian?
How about this; what does Batman's being White add to the story?
I believe Batman could just as easily been black as opposed to being white and I think little about the character could have been changed to accomodate that, if anything. It is quite possible that given the time it was created and the prejudice running rampant in the America at the time that it would not have grown as popular if Batman had been black, but I think that yes, Batman could have been as easily black without needing to change the story.