I doubt we'll return to a world where most leading hero characters are simply white men by default as they were when most well-established characters were created.
I'd like to think, that we'd get to the point where people aren't that concerned about the race of the character. I remember people being mad that Jessica Alba was cast as the Invisible Woman. She's white-skinned, she's hot, she's blonde(at least the dye or wig is), but just the knowledge that her father was from Venezuela infuriated people. In our multi-cultural, mixed-race society, does it really matter if, say Mary Jane Watson, is a natural green-eyed redhead? So she'll be mixed-race. Why should characters created forty or fifty years ago in very different times, be frozen in that time. You're talking about new incarnations of these characters. Reboots. Each generation should get its own versions of these characters. I'm not married to white Peter Parker Spider-Man. Why not Miles Morales? Why not Silk? The new generation doesn't care what race or gender these characters are. It's all new to the kids. It's the old fogies like me who'll complain. "How DARE they make the Kingpin a big, black guy." Even though Michael Clark-Duncan was as imposing as any non-CGI character could be. Ultimately, who cares? These characters don't belong to any one set of artists or writers or to any one generation of fans. They are continually reborn and should reflect our society.
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