YES. Movie!Zuko is quite not pale in the movie and is white in the comic oh and by the way, the bad guys get to be POC and the heroes get to be white and that's not at all problematic oh no.
AND CHRIST THE BOY HAS A CRUCIFIX ON HIS BACK. I SWEAR TO GOD A FUCKING CRUCIFIX. THEY VIOLATED HIS DALAI LAMA IMAGERY AND MADE HIM JESUS, THE BASTARDS.
WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE UP THEIR MINDS? Is Zuko pale or dark-skinned? You can't have more than one version of Zuko's appearance outside of his original canon, but apparently they can. DX
YEEEEES. THE CRUCIFIX. I just. How can anyone not notice that or not have a problem with it? Whether the characters are Asian or not, they're still set in a fictional setting influenced by Asian cultures around the world. You can't justify turning Aang into Jesus and trying to fit him in that world! YOU JUST CAN'T.
IS JOON CHOI THE SAME PERSON BEHIND THE TWILIGHT MANGA ADAPTATION? BECAUSE I WOULD BE LESS SURPRISED BY THAT.
also fail. isn't Zuko played by Dev Patel, who is while not suitable, IN MY OPINION, to play the obviously Asian Zuko, still very not white? I just. don't understand.
That icon is so very appropriate for a reaction to this lunacy.
And yeah, I at least gave them the tiniest bit of credit to NOT MAKE A COMIC because then the changes from real life to animated makes the racefail that much more blaringly obvious! There's being blatant and not caring and then there's THIS!
Oh god, I just realized that the background is supposed to contain the funky symbols they use for writing instead of actual Chinese calligraphy asdfghjkl dying forever now.
Yeah, it's like he thinks all the shiny white will blind us momentarily so we don't quite realize how incredibly PAINFUL this is.
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IMAGINE IF THEY DID THIS TO THE BEATLES, MAN. WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO LIGHT THINGS ON FIRE? LIKE SERIOUSLY ON FIRE?
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THE G GUNDAM RIPOFF IS ZUKO.
DON'T THEY LOOK AUTHENTIC AND ASIAN?
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that made me LOL so loud my roommates asked if I was high. /random tangent
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I can forgive the way Aang and Zuko look, but WHY ARE FUCK ARE KATARA AND SOKKA WHITE AND WHY MUST YOU REMIND ME OF THIS GODDAMN MOVIE AAAHHHHH.
/excuse me while I go back to my corner and mope for the rest of the day.
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Annnnnd now I just read oceansex's comment about Dev Patel playing Zuko and NOW I AM OUTRAGED ALL OVER AGAIN FOR A DIFFERENT REASON. UGH.
/will stop spamming your inbox now, sorry.
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AND CHRIST THE BOY HAS A CRUCIFIX ON HIS BACK. I SWEAR TO GOD A FUCKING CRUCIFIX. THEY VIOLATED HIS DALAI LAMA IMAGERY AND MADE HIM JESUS, THE BASTARDS.
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YEEEEES. THE CRUCIFIX. I just. How can anyone not notice that or not have a problem with it? Whether the characters are Asian or not, they're still set in a fictional setting influenced by Asian cultures around the world. You can't justify turning Aang into Jesus and trying to fit him in that world! YOU JUST CAN'T.
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also fail. isn't Zuko played by Dev Patel, who is while not suitable, IN MY OPINION, to play the obviously Asian Zuko, still very not white? I just. don't understand.
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...NOPE. APPARENTLY NOT?
And yes. Zuko is so very. VERY. Not WHITE.
WHERE IS HIS SCAR? I mean, it's faintly there in movie version but I think he doesn't have it here! Zuko without a scar is NOT ZUKO ASDFGHJKL.
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... I am giving these people way too much credit. and now I am horrified even more.
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And yeah, I at least gave them the tiniest bit of credit to NOT MAKE A COMIC because then the changes from real life to animated makes the racefail that much more blaringly obvious! There's being blatant and not caring and then there's THIS!
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Yeah, it's like he thinks all the shiny white will blind us momentarily so we don't quite realize how incredibly PAINFUL this is.
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