This may get me in trouble (and it’s long), but I don’t care.

Hey Hollywood? PLEASE STOP changing preexisting characters and stories to fit new, politically correct and liberalized agendas– PLEASE! It doesn’t work. You’re ruining popular culture to fit the narrative of what you think is going to make you money. And it’s been proven time and time again to FAIL. Yet you keep doing it.

The majority of the people who ingest these types of materials feverishly, the ones who actually pay you on a constant basis to read/watch these characters and keep you alive financially? They don’t want to see it. And not because they’re sexist or racist, but because they LOVE the character they follow for the reasons that they are who they are!

Marvel is struggling in the publishing arena for a multitude of reasons, but I have to tell you, the majority of readers who BUY comics do not want to read Female Thor, Chinese Hulk, or Female 16-year old African-American Iron Man.

**NOW LET ME BE CLEAR**

That is NOT TO SAY these types of characters, archetypes and stories can’t work or stand on their own, but they will FAIL when you take beloved characters that have been around for over 60 years (in some cases) and alter them SO MUCH they no longer even resemble the essence of what made the character so entertaining and popular to begin with.

Those examples above ARE NOT their namesakes. That is they are NOT Thor, Bruce Banner, or Tony Stark. You want an African American super smart teenager who can make all sorts of cool tech? AWESOME! I’m down to read that, really! If it’s good. But if you KILL TONY STARK and this is what comes next, then NO because she’s NOT Iron Man. Tony Stark is IRON MAN.

Sure, take risks with a character, change them, alter them, but the second Bruce Wayne isn’t Batman? He’s NOT Batman anymore. It’s a guy in a Batman costume. Sorry, Dick, I love you and Nightwing is an amazing character (not as a spy, sorry guys I just couldn’t get into that one), but you aren’t Batman and Damon in NOT Robin.

And reboots? In general they do not work. Robocop was a travesty. The Mummy (a reboot of a reboot, btw) with Tom Cruise was so bad it KILLED the new Universal Dark franchise before Russell Crowe could make enough to eat more burgers. Ghostbusters was a complete miss (nothing to do with gender, btw, it was just BAD), Total Recall was useless and even Dirty Dancing had a remake/reboot and OMG I couldn’t even get through it… Yes, I tried. So? Shut up, I liked Glee, too.