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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/tony-stark-to-be-replaced-by-black-woman-as-172307955.html

Apparently they are changing Iron Man's character so that he is a woman of African Heritage. I have no problem with any character being any ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. I do have a problem with them arbitrarily changing characters for what seems like social justice reasons. I mean, really? We all ready changed Thor, Spiderman, Captain America, Ice Man, Wolverine, and several others. Why not just make a new character, give them a cool back story, and make them cool on their own?

Also, I have a feeling things would be considerable less accepted if things went the other direction. Imagine if Blade was transformed into a Hasidic Jew........... Wait, that might look cool.

This is covered in the geek media subforum thread on the same topic, thanks