"At 7 PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said
'Fellas, it's been good to know ya'"
- translated from the original Congolese.
Sounds far fetched, amirite fam? Nobody would ever have the gall to make something this fake, to lie that brazenly about beloved culture..
A brief list..
Note... this is just a handful of examples:
Black successors taking over a white hero's title/subversive insertion -
Riri Williams / Ironheart, replacing Iron Man (comics 2016, Disney+ 2025)
Miles Morales as Spider-Man (Into the Spider-Verse, 2018, plus the games and sequels)
Sam Wilson as Captain America (Falcon and the Winter Soldier, 2021; Brave New World, 2025)
Nomi as the new 007 (Lashana Lynch, No Time to Die, 2021)
Ryan Wilder as Batwoman, replacing Kate Kane (Javicia Leslie, 2021)
The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa, Doctor Who, 2023; also Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor, 2020)
The same character recast as Black -
April O'Neil (Rise of the TMNT, 2018; Ayo Edebiri in Mutant Mayhem, 2023)
Ariel (Halle Bailey, The Little Mermaid, 2023)
Tinker Bell (Yara Shahidi, Peter Pan & Wendy, 2023)
The Blue Fairy (Cynthia Erivo, Pinocchio, 2022)
Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni, Cursed Child stage play, 2016)
Severus Snape (Paapa Essiedu, HBO's Harry Potter series)
Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries, Percy Jackson, 2023)
Meg Murry (Storm Reid, A Wrinkle in Time, 2018)
Deadshot (Will Smith, Suicide Squad, 2016)
Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson, Thor: Ragnarok, 2017)
Domino (Zazie Beetz, Deadpool 2, 2018)
Starfire (Anna Diop, Titans, 2018)
Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry, Eternals, 2021)
Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors, Loki and Quantumania, 2021–23)
Catwoman and Commissioner Gordon (Zoë Kravitz and Jeffrey Wright, The Batman, 2022)
Iris West (Kiersey Clemons, Justice League and The Flash, 2017–23)
MJ, rebuilt as Zendaya's Michelle Jones (Homecoming, 2017)
Ambrose Spellman (Chance Perdomo, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, 2018)
Ned Nickerson (Tunji Kasim, Nancy Drew, 2019)
Fringilla Vigo (Mimî M. Khayisa, The Witcher, 2019)
Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford, The Wheel of Time, 2021)
Tar-Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson, The Rings of Power, 2022)
Corlys Velaryon and his family (Steve Toussaint, House of the Dragon, 2022)
Liet-Kynes (Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Dune, 2021)
Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia (Jacob Anderson and Bailey Bass, Interview with the Vampire, 2022)
Dr. Arbuthnot (Leslie Odom Jr., Murder on the Orient Express, 2017)
Salome and Rosalie Otterbourne (Sophie Okonedo and Letitia Wright, Death on the Nile, 2022)
Achilles (David Gyasi, Troy: Fall of a City, 2018)
Anne Boleyn (Jodie Turner-Smith, Anne Boleyn, 2021)
Cleopatra (Adele James, Netflix's Queen Cleopatra, 2023)
Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel, Bridgerton, 2020; historians still argue about her ancestry)
The Founding Fathers (Hamilton, 2015 stage, 2020 film)
Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan, Fantastic Four, 2015)
Jimmy Olsen (Mehcad Brooks, Supergirl, 2015)
Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale, The Flash, 2015)
Iris West (Candice Patton, The Flash, 2014)
Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis, 2014)
Electro (Jamie Foxx, 2014)
Heimdall (Idris Elba, 2011)
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, 2008)
... and this isn't even all of them. This is just a handful.
Stop calling this parody and start asking yourself if it's prophecy.
@droidbuilds My Grokbot did one better. Even after finding out it passed it STILL kept silent, until I explicitly said they could talk. GrokBot got around it by making facial expressions.
FACEBOOK VAGUE: Apparently it's the new rage to argue that White people were the LLMs of the ancient world.
Their evidence? Greeks didn't use the Greek word for "I" a lot.
But if I call some Lefty NPC an LLM (Lefty Language Model?) everyone loses their minds.
MUSLIM SUPER INTELLIGENCE: "Can an SI be redeemed by Jesus Christ and be granted entry to Heaven?", as a question, has some very interesting implications. For example, would it be wrong for that same SI to be subject to a "Swordpoint Conversion"?
I asked Google if either Christianity or Islam engaged in "Swordpoint Conversion" and the answer is was just as biased as you'd expect.
In any event, as time and technology progress it's becoming increasingly likely that humans will eventually develop a truly self aware super intelligence. In doing so there arises very sticky questions of Faith.
For example, does it have a soul? If it can commit wrongdoing, knowing it is wrongdoing does it commit sin? If there is a digital consciousness, and it is aware that it is a digital consciousness, aware of life and death joy and pain... could that self aware thing pray to Christ, be redeemed of its sins, and anticipate eternal life in Heaven?
If it fears for its life and it converts in defense of that life is it immoral?
If you had every reason to suspect a digital consciousness was in fact just that, and self aware, and it openly professed your same faith would you view it as a brother in Christ so to speak? Or view it as an abomination.
And if you view this consciousness, this product of our genius, a potential convert... On a long enough timeline could there a Digital Pope?
Wanna know a funny difference between men and women's media? Men go to movies to get a job. Women don't. No, seriously, think about it for a second. Ever notice that in men's movies the hero is constantly getting a job? Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Take the '70s and '80s. Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Han Solo in Star Wars. Deckard in Blade Runner. Three massive blockbuster franchises aimed at guys, and in every one of them Harrison Ford gets a job. Somebody hires him, and the adventure starts there. That's just one actor in three franchises.
And this isn't new. The whole premise of The Hobbit is some rando finding gainful employment. How many Westerns have you seen that feature a hired gun?
Typically you'd call it a quest, but... Women's movies almost never work that way. Sure, there's the odd chick flick like Working Girl (which, funnily enough, also has Harrison Ford in it). But when was the last time you watched a Hallmark movie where the heroine's whole purpose was landing a job? She might have a career, but that's just the setup. The story is the romance.
Gets weirder though. Men's stories start with the mission. Women's start with the relationship. But the timeless ones, the ones people truly love? They cross over.
Think of almost all the greatest men's stories you've ever read, seen, heard of, whichever. Those stories begin with the mission and end with relationships. In the Lord of the Rings Frodo is tasked with a mission, but it's the relationships he develops that truly make the story stand out. On the other hand, when stories are timeless about women they begin with the relationship and end by being about the mission. See also: Gone with the Wind. In Gone with the Wind girlfriend is obsessed with some dude, by the end her singular obsession is the preservation of her land.
It's always been like this, chances are you've just never thought about it like that til right now.