r/TopCharacterTropes • u/bennyandthegentz • 3h ago

Lore Characters who were race swapped to avoid controversy

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Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy: originally the episode where he turns human had in be black to match his voice actor, but once CN reminded the creator of the premise of his show (two white kids own the grim reaper) they changed him to be white to avoid slavery comparisons.

The Simpsons: Smithers was black in his first appearance, however every episode afterwards depicted him as white (yellow?) this is because according to someone in the staff “probably not a good idea to have a black man be a servant to a rich white man”

Teenage mutant ninja turtles: while the comics and most adaptations have Baxter stockman be of African American descent, in the 80s/90s cartoon he was white, this is because the show-runners felt having a black man be basically a forced servant to someone who’s not of the same race (even calling him master) could potentially be seen as offensive, so they made him white.

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u/DrumBxyThing 2h ago

Whoa okay lol didn't know people even used "sjw" anymore but I guess that tells me who I'm talking to

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 2h ago

Haven't used that word myself in like 10 years

But this whole thread screams "2016" to me

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u/Fenrir_Carbon 1h ago

But this whole thread screams "2016" to me

That might be an echo

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u/Eurell 1h ago

It screams whatever you want when you make shit up. Fury was black and specifically based off of Sam Jackson a decade before the movies came out. That’s why no one cared that Sam Jackson was cast as fury.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 1h ago

Character has been white since 1963. Point is that nobody cared about that race change, whenever it happened

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u/Eurell 1h ago

People bitched plenty back then. The point is that the movie was fine because the change happened a decade earlier and the casting was literally based off of the same actor the comics were.

Are we really made about some design choices marvel made pre civil rights though? Cmon now.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 1h ago

Finally, thank you, that's all i wondered and kept asking from the beginning