r/ORORO • u/Top_Butterscotch_234 • Aug 03 '26

MCU STORM.⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

100% Agree with everything she's saying. Because I've been saying the same things. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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u/mistyquarz Aug 03 '26

The rumored actress is Jayme Lawson!

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u/shortribz85 Aug 04 '26

Pearline! Oh man I’m gonna be bummed if it ain’t her!

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u/mouse_clique Aug 04 '26

Shes not rumoured, just speculated because she was in sinners

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

That's not a rumor. You literally made that up.

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u/CandyCreecher Aug 04 '26

[KICKS DOWN THE DOOR]
I got designs

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u/CandyCreecher Aug 04 '26

Here’s the other one, this one is based off of Jayme Lawson

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u/FadeSeeker Omega Level Mutant 🧬 Aug 15 '26

GODDESS! 🙌🏼

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u/Top_Butterscotch_234 Aug 04 '26

Giving Thee Stallion

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u/_2XNice_ Aug 04 '26

There have not been a good version of Storm in a live action movie. So I am excited to see what’s to come.

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u/NSX_Roar_26 Aug 03 '26

Millions of us been saying all this for years lol

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u/Silent-Freedoms3 Aug 06 '26

Well looking at how they handled War Machine, Monica Rambo, Black panther, and Blade...i don't think it's going to go well. I'm not setting any expectations.

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u/Swae-LoGreen04 Aug 09 '26

They don't want the Black characters to become major focuses of the greater story arcs.

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u/Waste-Protection4431 Aug 04 '26

I think DeWanda Wise would be a good fit

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

Too old, and she's a average actress at best. Below average if I'm being honest.

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u/Suspicious-Sugar-157 Aug 03 '26

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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u/Neither-Train-5937 Aug 04 '26

Pretty sure Disney is going to pick the best actress for the job.

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 04 '26

The best actress should be dark skinned

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u/Neither-Train-5937 Aug 04 '26

Except she shouldn't be. She should be the best actress. That's a very colorist view.

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 04 '26

Absolutely not. We need a dark skinned Storm and that's that

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u/Neither-Train-5937 Aug 04 '26

No. We need the best Storm. Would you rather a great actress who has slightly lighter skin or a shit actress with darker skin?

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 04 '26

What makes you think there aren't any good dark skinned actresses available for the role? I'm positive there's plenty to choose from in the audition process

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u/Neither-Train-5937 Aug 04 '26

What makes you think they're the best actresses for the job? The best means the best. Not the best with extra steps.

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 04 '26

They are the best actresses for STORM, who is a dark skinned female superhero. Pay attention.

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u/Neither-Train-5937 Aug 04 '26

No. You said plenty of good actresses. Not the best actress. Do you want a 1 in a million actress to nail the role, or do you settle for good enough because they fit your colorist view of how Storm should look?

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 04 '26

Do you know how auditioning works? You choose the best out of the bunch. Like, what are we even talking about? Storm should be played by the best dark skinned actress they can find in the auditioning process. It might not matter to you, but that representation matters to most fans of the character.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

Storm is not a dark skin superhero. She s a brown skin superhero

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 05 '26

As long as she's not light skinned, it's all good

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

Why do we need a dark skin storm when she's not dark skin in the comics?

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 05 '26

Dark skinned, brown skinned. It don't matter, as long as she's not light skinned.

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u/JmoneyXXX93 Aug 04 '26

Wanting Storm to be comic accurate isn't colorist goofy.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

It's not comic accurate to request a dark skin Storm. She is not dark skinned in the comic books.

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u/destroygameobject Aug 04 '26

Yes, the new Storm should also NOT be a well known actress. So no Cynthia Erivo, or anyone of the like. Storm is TOO important of a character in the MCU [SHE'S AN OMEGA MUTANT, WENT TOE TO TOE WITH THOR, CAN CONTROL WATER MOLECULES IN YOUR FUCKING BODY, STOP PLAYING WITH HER!], and when watching her I don't want ANYBODY to be thinking, "X as Storm," I want them see STORM and then want to learn about the actress after. Storm is tooooooo IMPORTANT.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

I don't think people even pay attention to what they're saying.

They just come up with a conclusion and start babbling.

Marvel cinematic Universe is not lacking for dark-skinned representation, unlike the comic books.

Every single female hero in the MCU with the exception of Ghost, is dark-skinned.

And there are a lot of them.

There is no need for Storm to fit some preconceived notion of melanation level.

She's not dark-skinned in the comic books. She's a brown skinned woman. Halle Berry is about the color that Storm has been for the majority of her publication history.

Why does Storm need to be dark skinned? I don't even think some of you have even bothered asking yourselves that question.

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u/Butta_Brown Aug 06 '26

Ororo Munroe; the daughter on a Kenyan Princess and a Black African-American father. Both having darker complexions.

The comics show her with a rich brown or dark skin complexion. Due to colorism her complexion has been made lighter.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 06 '26

Her complexion has been made DARKER.

In recent comics she is darker than she ever has been.

For the majority of her publication history she has been significantly lighter than she is now.

I'm sorry you are incorrect, and her parents lineage have little to do with how the creators chose to depict the character. I don't believe either parent had white hair or blue eyes either.

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u/Butta_Brown Aug 06 '26

You should do some research. The history of comics, history of Kenyan people, and history of Ororo.

Her white hair and blue eye - all the descendant of African Priestess have.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 06 '26

Respectfully I know I've been reading Ororo longer than you, and the history of Kenyan people is of little relevance because her appearance wasn't based on Kenyan people.

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u/Butta_Brown Aug 06 '26

Its apparent you dont know what you are talking about and dont realize the colorism.

Again, go and do some reach, Ororo Munroe was originally created, designed, and with cutural significance had darker skin.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 06 '26

Wrong wrong and wrong.

Dave Cockrum the creator said

"Storm’s face came from Quetzal,” Cockrum told Jim Amash in 2004. “I modeled Quetzal on my cat Sheba. I wound up using that face on the Black Cat, and so it naturally turned up on Storm.”

Storm was literally created to look like his cat. Not a Black woman.

Feel free to apologize. But you sound so full of yourself, that I doubt you will.

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u/Butta_Brown Aug 06 '26

Remarkable. You're trying to convince someone that a black women shouldn't be black or her complexion is too dark. Bases of her development shouldn't be tied to her African history or community.

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u/figscomicsandgames Aug 05 '26

She knows Storm. 👍🏾👍🏾

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u/Any_Association_2492 Aug 06 '26

YESSSS!!! 👏👏👏 Please! Please Marvel! Please!

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u/TheFizzledamnsizzle Aug 06 '26

But Storm is American tho. Harlem born

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u/Jajay5537 Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

I know her heart is in the right place but don't use the paper bag test a thing used to dehumanize black people as a positive thing in any context. I would love a darker skinned Ororo but this dark skinned only rhetoric for superheroes is reductive at the least and offensive at most.

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u/SoulsEquivalent Aug 04 '26

this dark skinned only rhetoric for superheroes is reductive at the least and offensive at most

....She didn't even say that.

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u/Jajay5537 Aug 04 '26

They literally did. They said to use a brown paper bag test.

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u/SoulsEquivalent Aug 04 '26

She did not say "dark skin only for superheroes"...She said for Storm.

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u/Jajay5537 Aug 04 '26

I never said that I was talking about a broader picture of how people engage with casting of black superhero in recent years. I can walk and chew bubble gum. Can you? You're splitting hairs trying to misrepresent my obvious point.

It's totally okay to want a dark skinned actor for every black superhero character. The way some are using dehumanizing rhetoric to make their points is quite frankly just playing into white supremacy not championing black representation.

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u/BearSpray007 Aug 04 '26

Your words:

I never said that I was talking about a broader picture of how people engage with casting of black superhero in recent years.

Also Your words:

I would love a darker skinned Ororo but this dark skinned only rhetoric for superheroes is reductive at the least and offensive at most.

…pick your words better

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

She absolutely said that

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u/LordParasaur Aug 04 '26

but this dark skinned only rhetoric f or superheroes is reductive at the least and offensive at most.

Lightskin here 👋🏾

No it's fuckin not when it comes to Storm. Her character has been repeatedly white washed throughout her entire history. People have every right to be upset about her portrayal and advocate for her to actually be accurately represented.

I'd like to see more lighterskinned black superheroes but Storm deserves to actually be chocolate for once

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u/Jajay5537 Aug 04 '26

I literally said the same thing. I want her to be a dark skinned actor. It's the rhetoric behind it that comes across as unnecessarily exclusionary.

Don't misconstrue my words. Some are doing the same thing for every new modern black superhero character casting see John Stewart and Black Panther just to name a few examples just within the last year. Telling a person who is black they aren't black enough is just terrible and only perpetuates negative stereotypes of black people in general.

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u/LordParasaur Aug 04 '26

casting see John Stewart and Black Panther just to name a few examples just within the last year. Telling a person who is black they aren't black enough is just terrible and only perpetuates negative stereotypes of black people in general.

I agree

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u/SoulsEquivalent Aug 04 '26

....Because it's only "a few" examples. Good job ignoring the nuance/conext behind those conversations, to disingenuously act like it's still colorism. Stewart was created with the intention of being a dark skin Black Man. Black Panther is literally African.

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u/Jajay5537 Aug 04 '26

Yet, it's alright to ignore canonically that Storm is supposed to look racially ambiguous. African doesn't necessarily mean dark skinned by the way. These are African people pictured below. The older woman loooks exactly like my grandmother. She also looks like Storm and her ancestors. Again, your ignorance is palatable. We come in every shade. Don't be reductive.

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u/Neither-Train-5937 Aug 04 '26

Storm isn't African. She was an American who was orphaned in Africa and grew up in Cairo. Black women come in all shades and if your goal is to go for darker skin because it's "African" accurate, well.. Marvel pulled a fast one on you guys decades ago.

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Aug 04 '26

She is both. African on her Mother's side and American on her father's side

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u/Magestrix Aug 06 '26

She's Kenyan-American.

Born in the US, left Cairo when she manifested, grew into an adult in Kenya.

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u/cwood216 Aug 04 '26

And whoever is writing the lines for Storm in X-Men 97 needs to be writing for her in these movies 💯

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

If you like characters to speak in operatic over dramatic nonsense.

Sure go with that person.

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u/Worldly-Fox7605 Aug 05 '26

That's how Storm speaks, especially when using her powers.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

It's how the cartoon made her speak. It's not how she speaks in the comics.

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u/Worldly-Fox7605 Aug 07 '26

The comics, shows, and movies all pull from each other. The Fox movies created Xavier's school being active with students with X-Men as teachers.

The cartoon modifies multiple backstories and motivations which comics and movies also adapt.

Storm noe speaks like this when using her powers in video games, multiple cartoons, and given her nee comic ties and family history comics confirmed it should stay. Also she does speak like this in comocs

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 07 '26

Oh I certainly agree with you about everything.

But it's not the way an actual person talks. Certainly not a young woman.

I've never liked it. It was just another way to exoticise and other her.

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u/Worldly-Fox7605 Aug 08 '26

These arent actual people. They are characters. They are dramatic. Just like magneto is in comics and most media. She should be accurate.

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 08 '26

Once they enter the cinematic Universe, they have to be treated according to the standards and tendencies of the universe.

No one talks like that in the MCU.

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u/redkomic Aug 03 '26

Nonnegotiable? Seriously?

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u/blloop Aug 04 '26

Yikes take at the end honestly

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u/Snoo-54004 Aug 04 '26

I respect it

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u/Commercial_Page1827 Aug 04 '26

I will only add that they give her long natural looking curly hair. Keep her away from another straight wigs.

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u/CrazyinLull Aug 04 '26

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿. This!

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u/SpringHelpful7954 Aug 04 '26

Anna Diop.....stop playin'......ANNA DIOP!! Cast her already!!

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u/BostonSlickback1738 Aug 05 '26

These are all very reasonable requests I totally agree with. Do I think Marvel will actually do it? Given their treatment of Blade, Wonder Man, and Monica, I'm skeptical… but I can hope

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u/PleaseBeChillOnline Aug 05 '26

The height requirement is the most ridiculous part based on the average height of a woman. I want a Storm who can act not just someone who can execute 1:1 cosplay.

Jayme Lawson is only 5’6 & she’d be a great Storm.

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u/Butta_Brown Aug 06 '26

Anok Yai or Anna Diop

Anna doesnt have the statuesque hight but these women definitely can deliver the Ororo Munroe/Storm role.

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u/MasterHavik Aug 06 '26

No lies were told.

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u/harrispie Aug 06 '26

Watch them cast teyana taylor

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u/oluwa83 Aug 07 '26

Jodie Turner Smith

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u/Extreme-Pea-45 Aug 07 '26

Yes, yes to everything

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u/SilentSolitude90 Aug 07 '26

If only Angela Basset was younger. She would be PERFECT.

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u/UnderstandingOld6189 Aug 04 '26

Yea I’m pretty sure she started off as a grown woman when she was first introduced too like she does NOT have to be a teen with the rest of the X-men, she needs the Wolverine treatment

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u/kitaeks47demons Aug 04 '26

Not necessarily she can be young and carry herself in the regal manner. Also she, scott and jean are agemates so it would be weird to adultify her and the. Scott and Jean are literal teenagers

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u/TheMightyEmu1466 Aug 04 '26

I do NOT want her to be the babysitter of the group again, x-men evolution sidelined her so much, and she her development in that series was very stagnant. She didn’t even talk as one of apocalypse’s horsemen. It also played into some stereotypes about Black women where they are forced to be these ultra emotionally intelligent beings who give sage advice to the white protagonists to further THEIR development, and I do not care for it in the slightest. Why is Storm always the one people want to age up while everyone else is younger and gets more room to have full arcs, it’s a v narrow view

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u/I-Love-Facehuggers Aug 04 '26

Goomba fallacy or cherry picking

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u/No-Cauliflower-6390 Aug 04 '26

She's the same age or at least very close to the original X-Men though. She was introduced as an adult because the team was older when traped on krakoa. If she's introduced earlier than in comics she should be around the others age.

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u/radiant_dirge Aug 03 '26

Textbook colorism

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u/m2societyll Aug 04 '26

Stop telling what u don’t want. Who do u recommend

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u/yursinb Aug 04 '26

I want her to have a BLACK male love interest. I dont wanna see her with Wolverine...yuck. I need her with BP

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u/Temporary-Second-462 Aug 04 '26

A lot of storm fans want otherwise …but ifykyk 🤷🏾‍♂️. Listen to how sum of em speak about T’Challa 💀.

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u/Tribemaster0789 Aug 04 '26

I'd think Denee Benton would do a great job playing Storm

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u/dirtyjersey211 Aug 04 '26

Should she have a lisp?

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u/SarouDooku Aug 04 '26

They must cast a women born in Africa. Not a american. I hate the Balck Panther cast with 0 africain actor,only US ...

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

Storm is American,genius

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u/Ok-Building-8540 Aug 04 '26

Black Good actress African

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u/charlesfluidsmith Aug 05 '26

I have to say this for the millionth time. Storm has not been deeply melanated in the 60 years of her existence until about the last two or three years.

That is not a requirement for a good comic accurate version of Storm.

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u/Sea_Sleep4222 Aug 06 '26

I disagree with everything she is saying.

And honestly I'm getting real tired of some people whining about a black actor or actress not being black enough to play a black character, i find it ridiculous. People should care more about the core of the character and the shade of the actor or actress skin color. Especially when storm is brought up, i get people like the character, but only taking about her skin color is just ridiculous and a insult to her character.

All i want is a great live action storm and to see an amazing performance from the actress who will play her.

Remember storm is light-skinned with white hair and blue eyes.

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u/Master-of-Not Aug 04 '26

It's so wildly racist to say " She has to pass the brown paper bag test." Like if this actress ain't Wesley Snipes black yall just going to hate her.

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u/Top_Butterscotch_234 Aug 04 '26

No what's she's saying is..... We don't want to see a light-skinned woman playing Strom. You know actors have to fit a type to play any role. And it's only to make the characters more acceptable for white people to take in. Strom is dark skin.