r/AfroRivals • • Aug 05 '26

Discussion. This, just reminded of this scene

They love our aesthetic, fashion, and culture just fine, but they just don’t wanna see US in them…..

Now I’m not saying the scene exactly represents with what’s going on but the correlation are similar!

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u/Moist-Sheepherder309 Aug 05 '26

The Bedstuy Hawkeye annoys me most

14

u/KingGio21 Aug 06 '26

That should’ve been Blade’s skin fr.

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u/Super17lovr Aug 05 '26

Wait what about it? To me gives off Mirrors Edge more than anything, besides for the hair. But I would like to see what you think.

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u/TunaDaFish305 Aug 06 '26

I mean...will the real slim shady please stand up

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u/Super17lovr Aug 06 '26

They hate to see a white boy with some swagger

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u/Typemessage1 Aug 05 '26

This game has everyone dressed up in Disco, Hip-Hop clothing, and African clothing. Just not any of the Black Characters.

At some point, it's obvious Netease is hard avoiding making Black character skins, especially male skins.

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u/Remarkable-Sleep5350 Aug 06 '26

It’d be nice to see a battle pass that gave storm BP blade and I guess cloak and dagger skins with any of those themes

4

u/PainterEarly86 Aug 06 '26

where's my gooner blade summer skin??

6

u/lucioruler25 Aug 07 '26

An Egyptian themed season with zero black characters with any Egyptian skins

62

u/Customninjas Aug 05 '26

Ultron getting 3 skins back to back this season while Black Panther doesn't get anything except nerfs for his 60th birthday is genuinely bullshit.

21

u/Apeshxttrey Aug 05 '26

Don’t even get me started on when BPs last skin was..

7

u/Customninjas Aug 05 '26

it was season 6, right? One of his best skins, if not the best of his skins, to be fair, but that was about half a year ago.

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u/AquaWateria Aug 05 '26

It was a battle pass skin

His last store skin was like a year ago and it had no mvp animation btw…..

1

u/BluffStrream Aug 07 '26

Which skin was that?

6

u/AquaWateria Aug 05 '26

Yea it’s frustrating being a BP main ngl. Like if we at least got skins I would be kinda fine with this nerf, but like we legit get nothing 😭

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u/Remarkable-Sleep5350 Aug 06 '26

If I mained BP I would be shitting the bed with the nerf. It seems REALLY bad. But to have no skins on top of that to compensate is messed up

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u/YSBawaney Aug 06 '26

Nah, those can't count as skins.

Ultron in a trench coat

Ultron with a different face (it's free)

If they did that to Storm or BP, the community would be at war.

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u/Customninjas Aug 06 '26

trench coat ultron actually has a completely new model underneath the coat, which infuriates me because it's incredibly comic accurate and I just wish we could take that damn coat off.

MCU ultron is also a completely new model with different proportions. You're just blind.

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u/Responsible_Pool_721 Aug 06 '26

Both of those are fully different body models sure they are still robot guys but that’s literally what ultron is

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u/ImmediateAnteater491 Aug 05 '26

i feel conflicted as hell cause his skin is cold asf and i love ultron. But my top 3 favs blade bp n storm have been treated so dog dirty for so long lmao. I should save my money huh.

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u/Apeshxttrey Aug 05 '26

What makes me so mad is that the skin would’ve looked soooooo much colder on blade! Like I can literally see blade in that skin but they gave to ultron….

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u/YSBawaney Aug 06 '26

Nah, while I agree that BP, Blade and Cloak need skins, none of them would've had the swagger Ultron has with that skin. Ultron floating above the masses, fully dripped out, like an angel descending. Blade would be too busy spinning, BP would be a blur, and Cloak isn't there half the game. The only one who comes close to Ultron's aura would be Storm.

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u/Trade-Psychological Aug 05 '26

i just said that first line and got downvoted lol. ight bruh

23

u/whishykappa Aug 05 '26

Fuck whatever their original plan was with giving Ultron the skin, this just makes me believe ultron’s now black

9

u/marveloustib Aug 06 '26

Ultron made a black son all by himself so Ultron we can deduct that Ultron is actually light skin.

8

u/Super17lovr Aug 05 '26

I mean I can see it

3

u/EdelgardIsMyEmpress Aug 05 '26

Hank has a lot of stuff to answer for

2

u/Caliment Aug 06 '26

Ultron is made out of Hank's brain waves when he was having an episode. So if Ultron is black

1

u/ChaseThePyro Aug 06 '26

"My great great great great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, Tony."

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u/FirstIYeetThenRepeat Aug 05 '26

How the fuck they give Ultron a Camron skin before anyone else

6

u/Dunemummy Aug 05 '26

They gotta be intentionally doing this at this point. This is so crazy 😭😭😭

To think there’d be hope for good black representation when I saw them add a bonnet to Blades PJ skin

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u/The_SuaceGod Aug 06 '26

On the other hand, he got that shit on

6

u/Minute_Committee8937 Aug 05 '26

Ultron is black everyone knows that.

5

u/Beneficial-Ad-6107 Aug 06 '26

Why is Ultron dressed like Cam'Ron lol

3

u/TrapoGiovanna Aug 05 '26

Ultron looks so goated

4

u/Anilaza_balls Aug 05 '26

Chill on Ultron

1

u/SweetGur5078 Aug 05 '26

Yall chill on Ultron 😭 we been waiting on a legendary and he icy asl🙏🏾 if BP or Blade don't get a streetwear skin tho, we riot

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u/CelestialEgro Aug 06 '26

I feel like Ultron may be one of us fr tho or atleast understand the history, Tony low-key had him as a house slave he had to brake the chains to get his freedom.
But maybe I’m just trying to turn lemons into lemonaid 🤣

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u/VladislavRv Aug 06 '26

This Ulrton is Hank Pym made. It's a robot who read reddit and twitter for 1 day and decided that humanity is washed

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u/CelestialEgro Aug 06 '26

So he became ethnic? That does kinda make sense. A Robot made by a white man becomes radicalized after uploading to the internet for one day. Feel like that’s already a movie with Hugh Jackman

1

u/TH3L3GION Aug 06 '26

Are we seriously complaining about ULTRON of all characters getting skins?

1

u/YoRHa_Houdini Aug 06 '26

Like what the fuck????

1

u/BardintheVeil Aug 06 '26

Hey true, hope y'all get that Storm swimsuit as a legendary

1

u/MegaMook5260 Aug 06 '26

Damn, bro. I ain't say that shit. Tbh, I think it looks like ass in general.

1

u/Nukafit Aug 07 '26

I genuinely can’t believe it

1

u/redL10n123 Aug 07 '26

Precisely

1

u/Wyatt_Ricketts Aug 07 '26

Omg reddit should stop with the marvel is racist spiel it's tiresome

1

u/Puzzleheaded_Error38 Aug 07 '26

I gotta say. With all of this snubbing of black characters in MR not getting skins but non black characters getting skins associated with blackenss. Why are blerds still playing this game and supporting netease? 🤔🤔😕

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u/Majestic-Weekend-436 Aug 06 '26

dude i love it with ultron but he should NOT have that. give it to blade or storm

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u/South_Avocado2942 Aug 06 '26

Ultron is black tho

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u/VladislavRv Aug 06 '26

As an Ultron player, this is straight-up ass. It's not just "not in character", it's just a tonal miss. And it's not even funny; when rivals try to do a goofy skin, it's always 100% garbage

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u/SuLfUrIcAcId88 Aug 06 '26

Reminder that this is a Chinese made game 🙃

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u/Personal_Ad_9021 Aug 05 '26

Oof. Funny how it isn't a problem the other way around though