The Flash: The Complete Seasons

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Originally Posted by Batmon77

Alan can have children and be gay. Its just gimmicky.

And im sick of the comic industry doing this. Painting heroes Black or Gay or even Girl Thor is lazy. DC & Marvel have plenty underestablished Black heroes that need better representation, yet theyll make Heimdall, Alicia Walters, Johhny Storm, Iris Allen, etc, Black to appear multi-cultural. Its just a cosmetic gimmick, and neglects the established characters that are sitting on the shelf. Or just create a new character.
On the otherside, they did a great job w Black Manta in the latest JL+Aquaman film.
And Black Spider in Assault on Arkham was very good example of highlighting an underused character.

What bothers me isn't the fact that we're seeing more diversification among established fictional characters (that's a good thing!), but the uproar over said characters' heritage and sexual orientation. These characters have gone through several revisions since they've been introduced, but only when skin colour and sexual preference gets revised the complaints start to pop up, typically among white straight males who feel like someone is taking their possessions from them, and like it or not, those complaints are both racist and homophobic.