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Worst SJW Changes in Comics
In the last decade and even before then the changing of a character's ethnicity, gender, and/or sexual preference has become too common in comics and other forms of media. At times in both DC and Marvel's vast history heroes have got what most refer to now as 'black sidekicks' who also take the premiere character's role every so often. This includes GL John Stewart, War Machine, and in more recent years across media we've been introduced to tokenized versions of Aqualad, Kid Flash, Mordo, Crimson Avenger, Valkyrie, Spider-Man, Superman, as well as several others. Other times a gender swap is also used to try and bring in more female readers. Just off the top of my head this includes Green Lantern, Thor, Capt. Marvel, and side characters like Electro, Smasher, Robin, etc. Indie characters such as the Shield and Solar have also been recast as females. Then every once in awhile TPTB decide to kick us in the feels and tell us that this character or that character is now gay. This includes but is certainly not limited to Iceman, GL Alan Scott, the Ray, Shatterstar, the aforementioned tokenized Aqualad, etc.
Now I'm not saying all of this is bad. There's a few success stories in there when you look at how popular the female Thor era became, and how much money Capt. Marvel made being sandwiched in between two Avengers films.
However, which ones though do you think were handled the worst? Could they have been handled better?
For me it's Iceman with the Ray coming in at a close second.
With Iceman and his history, it would've made much more sense if the character was bisexual. In the story itself the younger Bobby even questioned Jean telling him he was gay [which was just as out of character], but she was all "nope you're not bi, just gay." Now for a character who's only ever had one or two note-worthy relationships in the comics, it WOULD have added to a character like Beast.
With the Ray he just got hit with the SJW hammer hard. The new52 had it's own version that was Asian American, can't remember his name off hand, but his powers included illusion casting and hypnosis so despite having a sweet look I was turned off. Then a one-shot tale about a new spin on Earth X had the Freedom Fighters presented as minorities for like the last two pages, in which the Ray was now gay and it went on from there.
None of it had the same appeal as the version of Ray from the 90's. That version would've brought a lot more to the table in the Arrowverse in my opinion. Especially considering his fling with older hero Black Canary had him and GA at odds for awhile....
Now I'm not saying all of this is bad. There's a few success stories in there when you look at how popular the female Thor era became, and how much money Capt. Marvel made being sandwiched in between two Avengers films.
However, which ones though do you think were handled the worst? Could they have been handled better?
For me it's Iceman with the Ray coming in at a close second.
With Iceman and his history, it would've made much more sense if the character was bisexual. In the story itself the younger Bobby even questioned Jean telling him he was gay [which was just as out of character], but she was all "nope you're not bi, just gay." Now for a character who's only ever had one or two note-worthy relationships in the comics, it WOULD have added to a character like Beast.
With the Ray he just got hit with the SJW hammer hard. The new52 had it's own version that was Asian American, can't remember his name off hand, but his powers included illusion casting and hypnosis so despite having a sweet look I was turned off. Then a one-shot tale about a new spin on Earth X had the Freedom Fighters presented as minorities for like the last two pages, in which the Ray was now gay and it went on from there.
None of it had the same appeal as the version of Ray from the 90's. That version would've brought a lot more to the table in the Arrowverse in my opinion. Especially considering his fling with older hero Black Canary had him and GA at odds for awhile....
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