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10-08-2014, 12:09 PM
Jmacq1
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Raw Dog
You're forgeting the Asian martial arts expert Quick Kick, the confederate flag wearing country boy Cross Country, the blonde haired/ blue eyed leader Duke, the Australian biker gang, and so forth and so on.
Quick Kick was a Bruce Lee homage (with a side of Jackie Chan).
Blonde-haired and blue-eyed isn't a stereotype, though it is the "standard leading man" of 80's cartoon series...however the trope was still pretty much in its' infancy when Duke came around.
The Australian Biker Gang was an homage to Mad Max, not a stereotype. Last I'd heard, Australians weren't generally stereotyped as motorcycle gang members, but maybe I'm mistaken (nevermind that they weren't Australian at all in the comics).
And that's a handful of examples across a line that encompasses hundreds of characters, including several that are blatantly designed to avoid stereotypes rather than enforce them.
Eagle Force...it's nearly half or more of the line.
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I have no problem with stereotypes. I'm intelligent enough to know that not all Italians are in the mob and have first hand knowledge to attest to the fact that not every Mexican wears a sombrero.
Sure. But could you say the same thing about your 5 year old self?
I rather doubt it.
Again, don't mistake me...for the time it was still a very diverse line, as "diversity" was indeed dominated by stereotypes back then (Let's not forget the "Multicultural pals" on Superfriends). Joe just did, on the whole, a far better job of averting stereotypes rather than enforcing them. Eagle Force may have been able to do the same if it'd continued long enough, but the codenames and designs in many cases gave them a comparatively more difficult start on that particular score.
But again, in a modern context it's a bit of a "whoo...yeah that so wouldn't fly on mass retail shelves these days."
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