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by oneoff786 1331 days ago
Seems like a stretch. There have been many characters using the name Captain Marvel, male and female.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(Marvel_Comic...

Miles morales is a different person. He is not Black Peter Parker. They coexist in context dead or alive or across universes or whatever.

If you watch a marvel movie you’ll see it’s mostly character drama, not superhero theatrics. The superhero alias is not the character.

The MCU captain America is currently the Falcon, a black guy, who is objectively much weaker (not a super soldier or powered in any way. He does have fancy flying tech but they’ve tried to convey that he’s clearly inferior). One of the more nuanced and better MCU entries directly addressing the inherent supremacist nature of superhero culture and the cultural implications of just switching the race of a cultural icon. Imo, those are actually important relevant themes to drudge through. They’re not forced woke ideas forced upon people. It’s very problematic if you can’t explore such ideas without criticism for trying to do so rather than critical responses to the ideas themselves.