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Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons (newsthump.com)

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[–] mindbleach 1 points 6 months ago

Some Kryptonians resembling one kind of human is not more of a coincidence than Krypton being fully "like Earth, but." Even if we were chosen specifically for our similarities, you have to ask - are there no differences? Nothing missing on one planet and present on the other? Is blue an option? Or like, Tamaranean orange? (And tangentially, if there's wide ethnic variety on Tamaran, could Galfore have been, like, bright red? Additional orange-ness would not look like additional melanin.)

If you want to feel old, Bruce Wayne could have watched one of the Antonio Banderas Zorro movies as a child and be in his 30s today.

I always think of that Shortpacked comic.

From seventeen years ago.