Let's cut to the chase here.
White men spent hundreds of years forcibly making themselves the face of the heroic everyman in fiction, whitewashing ostensibly non-white characters and narratives, and simultaneously upholding barriers for non-white people to tell their own stories in various mediums.
You all are everywhere in fiction, and while this level of indoctrination means it's "easy to relate" to white men, the other side of the coin means there's nothing creatively interesting about a white man as a protagonist in any story at this point. We've seen you all before whether we wanted to or not. And this suddenly doesn't become less true just because we're now scanning in real actors into video games.
The Callisto Protocol was interesting insofar as it was a spiritual sequel to Dead Space. But it would've perked my ears more had a Black person been in the driver's seat instead.
It just seems so strangely backwards argue that being black or non-binary would instantly make the character interesting. They're not actually making any argument here. It's like someone arguing how interesting it would be if the character had blue hair.
If your argument is that you just want to see yourself in that character then say that, don't act like it would suddenly make a boring character interesting because you haven't changed anything about the character beyond superficial elements.
She literally said that they could have changed nothing, grabbed the first Black guy they saw off the street and scanned him instead, and she'd find it to be "creatively interesting" now. Because she's stupid and stunted she doesn't realize she's telling everyone that she's incredibly vain and superficial.
Let me put it another way:
Do even the white men here get excited at a white man being a protagonist?
Not get excited at the game mechanics, or the world-building, or the art design of a game a white man happens to be a protagonist in.
Have you ever in your life actually been legitimately hyped to see a white man being presented as a white man in a major work of fiction?
Like, what was your Black Panther moment? Where were you in the world where you were like "Finally, a white man's story is being told?"
I'm curious.
What's a "white man's story"? Why would I think there's a
single one that needs to be told? Why would I get excited about the appearance of the main character of
any story?
NepNep
But people who are upset with what I said are nonetheless insisting that a white man, in and of itself, is an interesting creative choice. Hence why I posed the question. Name a work that was exciting just because a white man was the protagonist of it, aka what is white men's "Black Panther?"
Here she does it again. What's exciting about Black Panther?
Nothing but the fact that the protagonist was a Black man. Decades of movies starring Will Smith, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, etc.? Hush, child, those weren't a Black man's story like this one. This is
our moment,
you wouldn't understand. (All other Black people: "the fuck?")
