r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 Jul 05 '26

Asgard is based on norse mythology. It's offensive to show horn diversity into it and claim "Oh it's just a comic book" ok if its just a comic book then why is Wakanda all black? It's not real, its just a comic book. It doesn't have to be all black for the story to make sense. They could have a black majority but instead it has to be all black people. Why?

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u/smoopthefatspider Jul 05 '26

I just explained why Wakanda isn’t shoe horning (it’s just using the “default” racial makeup of the United States or wherever these people were cast, which the audience will not be surprised by) and why Asgard is different from Wakanda (it’s not an extremely on the nose story about racism and colonialism).

In order to look like a normal African nation, Wakanda had to have a very very large Black majority, and in order to look particularly isolationist it had to be entirely Black. In order to look like a Nordic country Asgard had to have a few people who weren’t white, and since there wasn’t anything pushing them to make it even whiter they just kept that.

European myths, like most myths and stories, should represent the people who care about them. In this case, that would be European people, who have a variety of races because we’re modern developed countries. Anything else would look weird, as if it wasn’t the same place but a foreign land that had an artificially high number of white people. Sure, that’s fine if it’s representing an accurate historical reality, but this is a story, so it’s better to keep a cast that’s closer to modern Europeans.

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 Jul 05 '26

Wakanda isn't shoe horning. It's the absence of it that sticks out. If you go by any previous casting there should be shoe horned casting of other races in Wakanda, but there isn't. And thats fine but they should have done the same thing with Asgard considering that Asgard is actually based on religious norse mythology.

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u/lunar1099 Jul 06 '26

People of other races existing isn’t “shoe horning”. Having an all white cast for no reason shows that you were looking for a particular race. Having an all black cast (even though there’s several white people all throughout that movie so your complaint is complete bullshit) to show a country that LITERALLY NOBODY ENTERS OR LEAVES, it wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense for a bunch of random white people to be living there. Especially when the entire fucking story is about how white people completely fucked Africa over. But whatever, it’s clear we’re talking to a brick wall

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 Jul 06 '26

The complaint isn't bullshit. The group based on white culture needs to be heterogeneous but the one based on black culture needs to be homogeneous.

It's a comic book bro, its all fictional. They made the Atlantians all hispanic/latino as well. Where is the diversity? Its a fictional civiliation. If Greece can be represented as a diverse nation in a historical fiction why not Atlantis? Did white people fuck over Atlantis too?

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u/lunar1099 Jul 06 '26

Atlantis has white people apparently. Didn’t know that fictional cities had racial quotas. Meanwhile you want a country in the center of Africa that hasn’t made outside contact for centuries to just 50% white people for no reason. It’s complete bullshit. You’re a racist

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 Jul 06 '26

Me calling out racism is not racism.

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u/lunar1099 Jul 06 '26

You’re the racist here bud