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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Where are Asians in Game?
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Personally I thought Shang-Chi would have made more sense to introduce than a few champs they’ve released recently (including Hit Monkey) but I also understand why they’d be holding him back until the movie is released.
I genuinely don’t know the answer to “who else is there” without looking it up.
Instead someone says
“This guy posted about ethnicity. I’m going to comment about brining it up”
So far, many people’s argument is
“Can’t you just play the game!?!?”
When they could also “just play the game” and not interfere with a positive discussion.
You could argue that it's just a game, that it doesn't represent the real world. You could argue the same about literature, which is false. Superheroes/villains are written to represent an altered version of our world, while still retaining parts that we are familiar with. That's why we relate to superheroes who have weaknesses since we have weaknesses. That's why we feel connected to superheroes who have the same traits that we do. That's also why we gravitate towards characters who are culturally/racially/sexually similar to ourselves.
Saying that a character in a comic book doesn't represent parts of our real world is false. They all embody aspects of the human experience. That's why they were written.
Saying that world issues shouldn't be brought into the game is also false. An example would be Kamala Khan. She normalizes the "Muslim-American experience". That is a political statement right there. Her inclusion in the game sends a message out, telling people to be proud that they are Muslim.
You chose to focus on something very specific, which not a lot of people feel is relevant to the game. We're here because we're escaping. But you're opening a portal back to the things others are running away from.
Maybe you should look at it from their perspective instead of pushing back.
Definitely a lack of Asian marvel characters overall though... aside from those already mentioned, i can only think of Jubilee, Lady Deathstrike, Silk, Sunfire, and Amadeus Cho
Your answer is incredibly interesting.
Dealing first with toy companies making dolls- if I go back to when i was a kid, pretty much 99% of toys depicting humans in some form could be classed as white. This never seemed to be an issue for non whites in regards to the enjoyment they got from them. I don’t claim to speak for everyone but I was quite happy with my He-Man despite the fact he was white and the same could be said for my friends in school who were of various colours and creeds. The second point about dolls in particular is that they’re designed for an age group that can’t grasp the concept of “identifying with”. Kids just wanna play. I know this as I have 2 8 year olds.
The 2nd part of your answer was fascinating as it got me thinking. I loved Black Panther as a movie. The biggest reason why was Killmonger and that because I really related to the character and his motivations. I don’t need to provide details why I could relate, but I could. Equally, I really loved Captain America: Winter Soldier. But there were no characters that I could relate to there.
I respect everyone right to have their own opinion, but my own is that in fictional medium, representation is irrelevant.
Divided? How? How is wanting to be able to relate to a character "dividing"?
Albeit a very attractive loophole lol
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/do-not-see-race-ignoring-racism-not-helping
- probably a quote from some philosopher.
Saying that I don't relate to someone's race isn't showing a bias.
And you're the one who's discriminating against other ethnicities by not recognizing the differences between ethnicities. If you don't recognize that people have different races, you're basically invalidating them, and their race. By saying that a white character should be good enough for an Asian player since "you don't see color", you're invalidating the Asian race.
Kabam could make new, original characters like they did for Ægon and Guillotine, but let's face it, the majority of the writing is the game more oriented towards fun and humor than complex character development. If they were to make more diverse characters, they'd be guilty of doing the same thing that Marvel has arguably been doing with their comics; creating new, diverse characters, or variations of older characters who are defined by the fact that they are diverse. Instead creating of a superpowered character with relatable struggles and motivations who happens to be Asian, they create a character who is Asian, and happens to also have superpowers.
Creating diverse characters for diversity's sake leads to flat characters who stand to weaken the argument for diversity in all forms of media than strengthen it.
Characters like Amadeus Cho and Miss America (America Chavez) are examples of this, whereas characters like Miles Morales and Kamala Khan are examples of characters who are well-written superheroes who happen to have more diverse backgrounds.
If I cared about playing as someone who I relate with, I would play as Iceman a lot more often, but I don't because Iceman really isn't all that useful in the meta. I don't relate at all to the characters I primarily play as (Ghost, Ant-Man, Psylocke, Fury, Sparkles, Doom, Corvus, Aegon, Starky, Sunspot, Ronin, Claire, Thing, Havok, Mister Fantastic, Sentinel, Colossus, Hyperion, Venom to name a few). It would be cool to see more representation in the game, but ultimately it just doesn't seem as important to me as characters that are fun to play.
In my own novels, my characters are diverse (several LBGT, Asian, Mexican, African, and disabled characters) but none of them have their diversity as the main or sole aspect of their character. That is to say that they aren't gay for the sake of having a gay character, they are a character who happens to be gay. To me, this is the best way to write diverse characters because by drawing extreme attention to what makes them diverse makes them a weak character because what you're really saying is "look how tolerant we are! Look how much we care, we gave you this gay guy to relate to!" which to me always seems really patronizing and pandering.
This is a game based on Marvel Characters, sorry if you’re blind to their back stories and history but instead look at something so basic as color, facial features and genitals. It’s pretty small minded and ignores the inclusive diversity already present.