Why does Marvel pretend he's Aboriginal when he's clearly a black guy?
>>153467496Because they gotta check those diversity boxes?
>>153467496have you ever seen an aboriginal anon
>>153467496It's a mutie, ya chucklefuck.
>>153467573Yes and they don't look like Bishop. Gateway and Manifold, yes. Bishop, no.
Jerry curl>bald bishop
>>153467496He’s both.Aboriginal on his mother’s side.Black on his father’s side, from the Las Vegas area.
>>153468212Since when? Marvel Wiki says they're both Aboriginal.
>>153467496Because a lot of Americans don't know much about Aboriginals and think they're black.
>>153468304Remember when they put Manifold on the weird black only team that Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote, The Crew?
>>153467496he was originally and then some 90s guys came in and decided black guy=american>>153468352I remember the Crew, I don't remember that
>>153468266Both his maternal grandparents are aboriginal, not both his parents. The wiki is wrong then.
>>153467496black guy being a genocidal child murderer is a bad look.
>>153468419No, he wasn't. Portacio was originally going to make him Filipino, but the editor said to make him black because they have more black readers.
>>153467496aborigenes are black. you do mean australian/new zealand ones, right? abos? because otherwise you have to add some word after 'aboriginal'so are negritos. you can tell that old africans managed to have just boat-tech enough to get to the next island over, and hopped island to island til they got to oceania.
>>153467496Has anyone other than Claremont acknowledged the Aboriginal thing?Really, my problem with Bishop is why does Marvel pretend he's a hero? The dude murdered billions of people.
>>153470851In his mini from around 09. And turning him evil was such a stupid thing to do, it's probably best to pretend it never happened and could easily be explained away if they wanted to.
>>153470851So did Dr strange but he got away with it
>>153470851Because writers do stupid shock value things constantly. If you retained all of them, there would only be a handful of viable heroes.
>>153471791Which is why cartoons made by competent creators who like the work and have normie hard wranglers work so well. No way home managed to make OMD actually not hortifyingly shit. And xmen tas put the xmen into the popular zeitgeist.
>>153471837Correction: Used to.Not counting the Today in Marvel History shorts, we haven't gotten anything decent from animated Marvel Animation since EMH.
>>153470851They retcon Bishop as being possessed by the Demon Bear during that time.
>>153472808https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCydGRcv1A
>>153468532had he not appeared on-panel even as a shadow at that point? because filipino is the last possible thing I can think of Bishop passing for, he has like a hundred pounds on the biggest filipino guy never mind all the rest of it
Claremont made him Aboriginal to create a connection with Gateway.Considering no one remembers this, it’s not like it really mattered.
>>153472808uh huhremember when Jean murdered billions of people and the X-Men argued it wasn't her, it was the Phoenix, and the aliens who'd been keeping the Phoenix for trillions of years gave her a trial with evidence and said yup, that's her alright, you're fully responsible for the things you do as the Phoenix, and the X-Men said "nuh-uh" and basically went to war with the aliens?and then it turned out the aliens were right and Jean was the Phoenix and the Phoenix was Jean all along, and Dark Phoenix is just the Phoenix on a bad day? and the X-Men haven't quite started a religion around Jean yet, but you know, it's gonna happen one of these summer eventswhy is it always OK when the X-Men, who do nothing but complain that they're being genocidally eradicated, who tried to literally murder Wanda Maximoff even though she was being mind-controlled by basically her father but if you want to get technical, basically Onslaught, the mutant genocidal guy who killed all those non-mutants for fun, when she said no more mutants? and it wasn't even her that had the power! It was fucking Dr Doom! and remember when Holocaust and Apocalypse and I don't know, fucking Dog Rape probably, joined the X-Men on their pedo island as part of the ruling council? hey remember that council with Magneto on it who previously took over Genosha and all the humans there just disappeared and nobody, not even the X-Men, said "must have been killed by Cassandra Nova, the genocidal sister of our founder, Charles Xavier" and they all went to live on pedo island together?god damn the X-Men are shitty, no wonder it's been 10 years and they still won't give them movies
>>153473556He was told to make him black before he was introduced in comics. Portacio was going to make him Filipino because he's Filipino. Here is a drawing Portacio did of Filipino Bishop.
>>153473831i guess in the long run filipinos really dodged a bullet
>>153467496He's from the future, that's what Abbos will be like in the future once the weakest of the herd are run over in their sleep
>>153468502That whole storyline was unnecessary.
>>153467496bishop is the great grandson of gateway. that doesn't mean he's full blooded abo
>>153467496He was introduced as a black American guy, and in the early 2000s Chris Claremont suddenly decided to make him an Aborigine so he could be related to Gateway.This is basically the black character equivalent of all the times writers took an obviously white character they didn't create and inflicted some "akshually they're something else" backstory upon them.
>>153472808They had the chance to do that, but they explicitly didn't, he was possessed by the Demon Bear AFTER his crusade against Hope, and because of said possession he lost his memories of the whole ordeal for a bit, which is why X-Force let him hang out with them.
>>153471837>No way home managed to make OMD actually not hortifyingly shitWhat's does this mean? Terrible film and terrible comic
>>153467496Because drawing him how an abbo actually looks would be a racist caricature
>>153467496Wasn't he supposed to be filipino or something but it was never brought up until they made him Australian?
>>153474238I'm still waiting for one of them to grow the balls to make a Colonial Man comic completely unironically
>>153476027No. Portacio was going to make him Filipino, but the editor told him to make him black because they had more black readers.
>>153475775Yeah. It was weird.
>>153467496>Aboriginal when he's clearly a black guyAre you confusing aborigines with native americans? Aborigines ARE black.
>>153473831Kek
>>153478446Look at an Aboriginal person and then look at a black person of Sub-Saharan descent.
Shard does look Aboriginal or black. She looks like a blonde white woman painted brown.
>>153481227She's not mixed, but comics tend to do a terrible job at drawing mixed characters.
>>153480237dodo you think that's one group? sub-saharan? jfc anon if we're going that route then we're busting out the 19th century pictures of irishmen too
>>153467496I get the feeling whoever made that call has no idea what an Aboriginee is
>>153473592To be fair, Scott Lobdell created a connection between Gateway and Monet a decade before. He also hinted at a connection between Bishop and Monet.
>>153467496Because hes just a token so he can be whatever you want him to be as long as you stfu about inclusion, so call him asian if you want doesnt really matter
>>153482042Naw. He was a good character.
>>153483230But hardly used in good ways anymore.
>>153467496Black people don't have non afro curls like that and straight hair beard
>>153467496Well, he isn't very original.
