r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Character_Growth_397 • 12h ago

Hated Tropes Things meant to be progressive just end up being incredibly offensive

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What If - In one of the comics Miles becomes Thor, and it's full of stereotypes about black people such as the Mjolnir having graffiti on it and the infamous "by Odin's fade"

Emilia Perez - Everything about the movie

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u/Wardock8 11h ago

I think I'd actually rather be called the n word lmao

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u/MineNowBotBoy 10h ago

Pretty sure that’s what the frost giants call him

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u/DengarLives66 4h ago

Why are the frost giants all of a sudden wearing white hoods?

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u/LoopStricken 6h ago

A common misconception, they actually say Nifflers.

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u/xSegador 2h ago

Frost white* giants

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u/Capable-Locksmith-13 9h ago

I'm not even black and this shit offends me.

Jesus Christ, did they run this by a single black person before printing it?

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u/cheeseburgerandfrie 8h ago

Definitely not

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u/Alarming_Panic665 6h ago

See this is why DEI is important. Because if a single black person was on the editorial (with actual power/authority) then this wouldn't have happened.

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u/KeyMyBike 1h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a black person onboard that disagreed and as a result, the artists and writers made it more offensive in retaliation.

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u/SelfInteresting7259 6h ago

Not even a chance

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u/interwebz_2021 6h ago

No Black people, but they did run it by the same person who approved that Converse accidental KKK ad.

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u/David_the_Wanderer 3h ago

The what ad?

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u/Creloc 2h ago

I think you need to go even broader. It appears they didn't run it past a single person who hadn't suffered a major head trauma in the previous three days

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u/SuckmyPelosB1tch 2h ago

Honestly you got a point, at least that’s up front and not whatever the fuck this is