DC planea un Flash negro, Warrior dice: "¡Wally no es negro!"...

El sitio de chismes Bleeding Cool especuló hace unos días acerca de la identidad del nuevo Wally West (que debutará en el anual #3 de Flash), argumentando que ahora será afro-americano, para cuadrarse con la identidad que podría adoptar en la serie de televisión.

Hoy los rumores cobran más fuerza, y las reacciones de los trolls ya se dejan venir:

"dbw8906 – Yay everyone can be gay and multicultural!!! We can just insert “minority X” into any story line and people will buy it like HOTCAKES! DC 2014 – 4.99 for 25 pages of the gayest most racial hero EVER, damn you republicans! No reason for story, just slap a represented group on the cover and watch the re-orders roll in."

Pero también los (fumados) argumentos a favor:

"I think I was rather loudly saying back in 2010-2011 that I saw the way forward for Barry and Wally coexisting was to make them more different… and that I thought Wally would work fine as a person of color. (And that I see Flash in a JLA movie as being, effectively, a young Will Smith character.)

Now, had they maintained Wally’s continuity, the big hurdle would be that Wally plays into too many stereotypes. (In fact I think I said the reverse that Barry be the black one because it plays into more benign stereotypes while averting others entirely. Things like bowties look less douchey even.)

I think you can go a step further and suggest that the Flash might work better as a woman, thematically, if you’re playing with psychotherapy archetypes. In a Jungian sense, The Flash is something of a Cinderella figure. Cleverness. Injustice. Tranformation. Power. Shoes. Running. Time Limits."

Sin embargo, de entre tantas opiniones de fans, es sólo una la que mantiene a la industria a la expectativa: la de Óscar.


Vía: Bleeding Cool