Grocer Man
Well-Known Member
You know how comics seem to be trying to make the cast as ethnically diverse as possible these days? I thought it'd be interesting to make a thread about your favorite minority characters from any media, for whatever reason.
There are only two rules: 1) you can only use minorities that exist in real life, so stuff like Kryptonians are right out, and 2) you can only use characters that are genuine minorities based on the setting of the story. For instance, you can't choose a Japanese character from anime or manga, because most characters in those are Japanese.
Off the top of my head:
Black: This is a difficult one. To be frank, a lot of black characters are just generic badasses. I'm going to say Storm (X-Men) and Killer Bee (Naruto.)
Midgets: Tyrion Lannister (A Song Of Ice and Fire) I also want to say Edward Elric, but I don't think he counts.
Hispanic: Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle)
Jew: Kitty Pryde, Spike Siegel
Albino: Tombstone (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
Asian: Doctor Light (The lady one, not the Rapey McRape one), Knives Chau (Scott Pilgrim)
Gay: Hulkling (Young Avengers), Wallace Wells (Scott Pilgrim)
Lesbian: Setsuna Sakurazaki (Mahou Sensei Negima)
Elderly: Iroh (Avatar)
Handicapable: Professor X (X-Men), Toph (Avatar)
There are only two rules: 1) you can only use minorities that exist in real life, so stuff like Kryptonians are right out, and 2) you can only use characters that are genuine minorities based on the setting of the story. For instance, you can't choose a Japanese character from anime or manga, because most characters in those are Japanese.
Off the top of my head:
Black: This is a difficult one. To be frank, a lot of black characters are just generic badasses. I'm going to say Storm (X-Men) and Killer Bee (Naruto.)
Midgets: Tyrion Lannister (A Song Of Ice and Fire) I also want to say Edward Elric, but I don't think he counts.
Hispanic: Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle)
Jew: Kitty Pryde, Spike Siegel
Albino: Tombstone (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
Asian: Doctor Light (The lady one, not the Rapey McRape one), Knives Chau (Scott Pilgrim)
Gay: Hulkling (Young Avengers), Wallace Wells (Scott Pilgrim)
Lesbian: Setsuna Sakurazaki (Mahou Sensei Negima)
Elderly: Iroh (Avatar)
Handicapable: Professor X (X-Men), Toph (Avatar)
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