East Africans will never be portrayed in cartoons because American media is only concerned with portraying its own black population, which is almost entirely descended from West African slaves. The fact that black people from other parts of Africa have radically different facial features would break most American leftists' minds.
America does have a growing population of East Africans but it'll probably be decades before they get proper representation.
Easy to understand why: All diversity initiatives, organizations, and movements are strictly about giving African Americans special treatment and protections. They don't actually care about people from any African nation.
Well, she was made to have darker skin in the original comics.
In her first appearance, she shares the page with a black man who is not drawn or colored in any sort of similar way to imply they are both black.
not at all, the only significantly mixed east african group would be Copts, because theyve been invaded like 3 morbillion times by greeks and persians and libyans and semites and turks and whoever. Bantus never really went to east africa
Huh, I swear I've read that a lot of people in the Horn of Africa region are mixed with Arab
9 months ago
Anonymous
they are, but not really to the extent of African Americans. Mind you me and the other guy thought you were talking about Bantus, which they didnt mix with that much. Also "east africa" spans from Sudan to Mozambique and goes all the way inland to Rwanda. A large portion of the africans there are non-bantu
9 months ago
Anonymous
Specifically along the coast of the Horn that's somewhat true, but not to a significant degree. The largest concentration of East Africans is in the Ethiopian Highlands by far, and they have pretty much no outside admixture.
not at all, the only significantly mixed east african group would be Copts, because theyve been invaded like 3 morbillion times by greeks and persians and libyans and semites and turks and whoever. Bantus never really went to east africa
American Leftists only like black african-americans, not africans. Did you guys forget about the Woman King and Cleopatra movies that Will Smiths wife made? american black leftists hate west africans, and they hate other varieties of africans even more. Theres even people saying that Black Supremacist groups are trying to export themselves to Sahel and Subsaharan Africa to spread a narrative about the evil coloniser Berbers and Arabs (a bit funny considering that sahel africans were usually equal to or sometimes surpassed their northern neighbours militarily and economically). Theyve been unable to make inroads into East Africa because the whole Wewuz thing, despite mostly being targeted towards Egypt, kind of pisses off the other east africans since they consider themselves related to Ancient Egypt. A bit like how Ancient China heavily influenced ancient vietnam, korea, and japan and such, or how the romans and greeks viewed each other as civilised
I'm sure the (real) idea that Africa is ethnicly speaking the most diverse place on earth would please them but completly break them when they realise that mean not everyone look like they come out of the horn of Africa.
Yeah pretty much, they could easily explain her appearance as "My parents moved here from Ethiopia in the 90s" and it'd actually give her a kind of interesting background. But nah just totally redesign her to make her look like a less than attractive slave-descended black American.
People shat on it vociferously when it was revealed. They still do. They're just drowned out by the endless tide of brown simps posting about their Korean waifu. She's literally nothing like Lois Lane, she's essentially an OC with the name stapled on.
New April was designed by a guy. >Men hate wimpy men
Most men are nice and aren't like that. Most men don't get mad at other men for not being masculine enough unless they have a mental problem.
Some people would still care, but yes, much of the backlash originates from her being turned into a fat goblin. If she was raceswapped but still designed to be attractive, the board would be spammed with colonizer and April Sexo memes.
>Casey is sexswapped (but not a troony) >April is raceswapped, but still hot >Both are in lesbians with each other
Hmm... I still oppose race and sex swaps on principle, since it is the cowardly tactic of parasitic subhuman homosexuals, who often do it as an act of ideological colonization. It's fine as a one-off "What if?" or a silly little fan art AU thing. It's not fine when it's some corporate wienersucker trying to make it a permanent thing for someone else's long-running creation.
I just want all of you to know that OP is a disingenuous homosexual. The uglificatiom of April O'Neal is directly tied with the race swapping, as the only people interested in race swapping are people who also think and mildly attractive woman is objectification. If you have to respond, just remember to sage all the fields. Frick jannies.
Yes, if the latest April was attractive, well-written and a complex character with secrets, flaws and engaging interpersonal relationships who was also black - she'd be loved (if not universally, because you can't please everyone).
Fat, Tumblerite Black History Month is disliked because she's ugly, annoying and written to be 'right' - as in we're supposed to sympathise with and agree with her.
Her skin colour is only a part of why she's hated; if you changed nothing about her but made her white, she'd still be shit.
>Fat, Tumblerite Black History Month is disliked because she's ugly, annoying and written to be 'right' - as in we're supposed to sympathise with and agree with her.
I'd say they tried harder to make her relatable and not quite as hard to make her a #girlboss, or whatever. The problem is that they've made her a character with three major traits >I want classmates to stop calling me "Puke girl" >I puke when I get anxious >vague interest in journalism
And all of that is a symptom of the movie's bigger problems with writing a coherent script. So many things happen in Mutant Mayhem just because the plot needs them to or because it's a reference to the 87 cartoon. But because they stripped out too many things in an attempt to make a modern, relatable reimagining of the turtles, it all comes off as clunky and weak.
Remove the puke gags and she's an okay character. Still needs a different name, but I hated Splinter more than I dislike April.
Also that homosexual is clearly lying. April looks surprisingly out of place, even with her giant Oompa Loompa proportions, compared to every single human in the movie looking like a horrendous lopsided abomination. Of the three humans that get any notable screentime, you've got Baxter looking like a derange gremlin made of feces, Cynthia Utrom who looks like a thumb with mold on top, and April, who has a balanced, even face that is just oddly out of proportion with her obese body and tiny hands and feet.
He's a very contrived, boring character who comes off as gullible and pathetic. Jackie Chan's mumbly, awful voice acting didn't help things at all. His character arc literally had to be shouted out loud by a different character just so they could be sure the audience understood the flimsy characterization they were trying to do by having the bad guy say >I'm your Father you have to listen to me!
Yeah, not the best version of Splinter. Not really sure why they even got Jackie to voice him, but I guess they needed another big name. TMNT 2007 did great with its voice cast, especially with Splinter.
Most of the celebrity VAs were a total fricking waste of money, either way. Seth Rogen was the only one who you could tell who it was, because that fat moron can't voice act. Everyone else either had so few lines or was putting on such a thick cartoony voice that it didn't matter who the frick voiced them. Paul Rudd can keep the role of Mondo Gecko, though
9 months ago
Anonymous
Paul Rudd was fine. Though I would’ve preferred maybe someone else like Robbie Rist.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Since they wanted to make a series spin-off from the movie anyways, it would have made a lot more sense to hire voice actors that wouldn't cost them millions per episode.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Guess they’re either gonna shill out the money for all the celebrities or get soundalikes. They can definitely get the four teenage actors for the Turtles back for the show.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Guess they’re either gonna shill out the money for all the celebrities or get soundalikes. They can definitely get the four teenage actors for the Turtles back for the show.
It's always soundalikes. Rogen and Jackie Chan were in kung fu Panda too, but never the shows.
Well she doesn't look black.
yes she does
you couldn't at least draw it you hack?
>you couldn't at least draw it you hack?
Not OP, but cope and seethe, commissiongay. Your time is up.
>cope and seethe, commissiongay
what?
better
Make the nose a little wider
If you can recognize that she's black, then she looks black
She looks Amharic or Oromo, who are both black. Not all black people are Bantu.
East Africans will never be portrayed in cartoons because American media is only concerned with portraying its own black population, which is almost entirely descended from West African slaves. The fact that black people from other parts of Africa have radically different facial features would break most American leftists' minds.
America does have a growing population of East Africans but it'll probably be decades before they get proper representation.
Easy to understand why: All diversity initiatives, organizations, and movements are strictly about giving African Americans special treatment and protections. They don't actually care about people from any African nation.
In her first appearance, she shares the page with a black man who is not drawn or colored in any sort of similar way to imply they are both black.
Disney already did that but today beauty and woman cannot be in the same sentence
Aren't a lot of east Africans mixed though?
Most american black people are like 15% white or more on average too. There's basically no such thing as a pure nig in America.
No, that's a bit of a myth. Most East Africans are descended from an ancient lineage that wasn't subject to Bantu expansion. They're their own thing.
Huh, I swear I've read that a lot of people in the Horn of Africa region are mixed with Arab
they are, but not really to the extent of African Americans. Mind you me and the other guy thought you were talking about Bantus, which they didnt mix with that much. Also "east africa" spans from Sudan to Mozambique and goes all the way inland to Rwanda. A large portion of the africans there are non-bantu
Specifically along the coast of the Horn that's somewhat true, but not to a significant degree. The largest concentration of East Africans is in the Ethiopian Highlands by far, and they have pretty much no outside admixture.
not at all, the only significantly mixed east african group would be Copts, because theyve been invaded like 3 morbillion times by greeks and persians and libyans and semites and turks and whoever. Bantus never really went to east africa
American Leftists only like black african-americans, not africans. Did you guys forget about the Woman King and Cleopatra movies that Will Smiths wife made? american black leftists hate west africans, and they hate other varieties of africans even more. Theres even people saying that Black Supremacist groups are trying to export themselves to Sahel and Subsaharan Africa to spread a narrative about the evil coloniser Berbers and Arabs (a bit funny considering that sahel africans were usually equal to or sometimes surpassed their northern neighbours militarily and economically). Theyve been unable to make inroads into East Africa because the whole Wewuz thing, despite mostly being targeted towards Egypt, kind of pisses off the other east africans since they consider themselves related to Ancient Egypt. A bit like how Ancient China heavily influenced ancient vietnam, korea, and japan and such, or how the romans and greeks viewed each other as civilised
I'm sure the (real) idea that Africa is ethnicly speaking the most diverse place on earth would please them but completly break them when they realise that mean not everyone look like they come out of the horn of Africa.
Yeah pretty much, they could easily explain her appearance as "My parents moved here from Ethiopia in the 90s" and it'd actually give her a kind of interesting background. But nah just totally redesign her to make her look like a less than attractive slave-descended black American.
What, you waitng for her to eat fried chicken? Looking for the stolen bike and the watermelon? Is it the lack of hiphop swag and dreads?
Don’t waste my time. Who’s the artist?
It's AI-generated.
My pc
It would still be a shitty, pointless race swap. They aren't good on principle. They're never good.
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April being white doesn’t define her character in any regard. Artistic license is perfectly valid.
Neither does her being black, making and race swap pointless. Thank you for invalidating your own argument.
No. Artistic license is never pointless. Creativity is king.
Putting limits on race swaps and saying only white characters can be changed is not creative.
have a nice day moron
You first
Then where are the daily outrage threads on Luz!Lois Lane?
People shat on it vociferously when it was revealed. They still do. They're just drowned out by the endless tide of brown simps posting about their Korean waifu. She's literally nothing like Lois Lane, she's essentially an OC with the name stapled on.
It's not a raceswap if April was originally black
Every single time.
>WE WUZ REPORTERZ N SHEEEIT
I don't know you shitstains push this narrative. She never was black, even in the original comic.
2012 is cute and 2018 isnt terrible. 2023 is so bad though
>2018 isnt terrible
Are you blind? 2018 April looks like shit
Right, so it is a raceswap.
Well, she was made to have darker skin in the original comics.
>
The creators have stated her dark skin was a coloring error.
>if nu-April was a new character, nobody would care
Well yeah, she actually looks like April instead of a fat black Irma.
Would bleach.
>tfw no TMNT 1970s exploration film with a Blaxploitation April and the Turtles dancing to disco
Baaaased
Women hate beautiful women the same way Men hate wimpy men
Any guy who’s ever had a girlfriend or wife or close female friends knows what I’m talking about
Any girl who is prettier than her is a “bitch” and any guy who likes beauty women is “shallow” or “creepy”
That’s why female animators especially love making underage characters fugly so they can call anyone who doesn’t agree a pedo
No seriously
Watch how women will hype up the UGLIEST b***h in the group
Lesbians are even crazier with it
New April was designed by a guy.
>Men hate wimpy men
Most men are nice and aren't like that. Most men don't get mad at other men for not being masculine enough unless they have a mental problem.
You're damn right, that's a certified bad b***h. Get the fatass off my screen and replace it with this.
Correct. I don't want to see blackwashed characters, nor do I care for them.
Some people would still care, but yes, much of the backlash originates from her being turned into a fat goblin. If she was raceswapped but still designed to be attractive, the board would be spammed with colonizer and April Sexo memes.
Would she get bleached by Casey?
Does it count if they're both women?
>Casey is sexswapped (but not a troony)
>April is raceswapped, but still hot
>Both are in lesbians with each other
Hmm... I still oppose race and sex swaps on principle, since it is the cowardly tactic of parasitic subhuman homosexuals, who often do it as an act of ideological colonization. It's fine as a one-off "What if?" or a silly little fan art AU thing. It's not fine when it's some corporate wienersucker trying to make it a permanent thing for someone else's long-running creation.
I would care, anon. I'm tired of underaged April so I would accept the race swap if it meant no more jailbait April.
honestly same, I want April to be more mature again. Make her a woman, dammit, not some kid.
I just want all of you to know that OP is a disingenuous homosexual. The uglificatiom of April O'Neal is directly tied with the race swapping, as the only people interested in race swapping are people who also think and mildly attractive woman is objectification. If you have to respond, just remember to sage all the fields. Frick jannies.
facts
>If it wasn't terrible, people would like it.
Check out Mr Galactic Brain here.
Yes, if the latest April was attractive, well-written and a complex character with secrets, flaws and engaging interpersonal relationships who was also black - she'd be loved (if not universally, because you can't please everyone).
Fat, Tumblerite Black History Month is disliked because she's ugly, annoying and written to be 'right' - as in we're supposed to sympathise with and agree with her.
Her skin colour is only a part of why she's hated; if you changed nothing about her but made her white, she'd still be shit.
>Fat, Tumblerite Black History Month is disliked because she's ugly, annoying and written to be 'right' - as in we're supposed to sympathise with and agree with her.
I'd say they tried harder to make her relatable and not quite as hard to make her a #girlboss, or whatever. The problem is that they've made her a character with three major traits
>I want classmates to stop calling me "Puke girl"
>I puke when I get anxious
>vague interest in journalism
And all of that is a symptom of the movie's bigger problems with writing a coherent script. So many things happen in Mutant Mayhem just because the plot needs them to or because it's a reference to the 87 cartoon. But because they stripped out too many things in an attempt to make a modern, relatable reimagining of the turtles, it all comes off as clunky and weak.
Not to defend the new movie april, but she does look like someone who would hang around in the sewers
Boobs too small
She's not ugly and is a clear homage to the April everyone can agree they like so yeah
April O’Neil was fine in the new movie
>Garbage Twitter take is garbage ragebait
Remove the puke gags and she's an okay character. Still needs a different name, but I hated Splinter more than I dislike April.
Also that homosexual is clearly lying. April looks surprisingly out of place, even with her giant Oompa Loompa proportions, compared to every single human in the movie looking like a horrendous lopsided abomination. Of the three humans that get any notable screentime, you've got Baxter looking like a derange gremlin made of feces, Cynthia Utrom who looks like a thumb with mold on top, and April, who has a balanced, even face that is just oddly out of proportion with her obese body and tiny hands and feet.
Why did you hate Splinter?
He's a very contrived, boring character who comes off as gullible and pathetic. Jackie Chan's mumbly, awful voice acting didn't help things at all. His character arc literally had to be shouted out loud by a different character just so they could be sure the audience understood the flimsy characterization they were trying to do by having the bad guy say
>I'm your Father you have to listen to me!
Yeah, not the best version of Splinter. Not really sure why they even got Jackie to voice him, but I guess they needed another big name. TMNT 2007 did great with its voice cast, especially with Splinter.
Most of the celebrity VAs were a total fricking waste of money, either way. Seth Rogen was the only one who you could tell who it was, because that fat moron can't voice act. Everyone else either had so few lines or was putting on such a thick cartoony voice that it didn't matter who the frick voiced them. Paul Rudd can keep the role of Mondo Gecko, though
Paul Rudd was fine. Though I would’ve preferred maybe someone else like Robbie Rist.
Since they wanted to make a series spin-off from the movie anyways, it would have made a lot more sense to hire voice actors that wouldn't cost them millions per episode.
Guess they’re either gonna shill out the money for all the celebrities or get soundalikes. They can definitely get the four teenage actors for the Turtles back for the show.
It's always soundalikes. Rogen and Jackie Chan were in kung fu Panda too, but never the shows.
And you think these people like sexy women?
First three from the first row and Harley look okay, there are better examples out there
Why does this look so bland and weird?
It's AI art
She looks like she has bastard children with racist white men
I would care, because the dark skin pairs better with the yellow than light skin with a light color jacket. Give me more color contrast you cowards
Give her the Lois Lane treatment and just make her "half korean" as an excuse to draw her as white looking, but with a permanent tan for some reason.
Casey pumping her will be said contrast
Raceswapping is stil lame but the attempt to uglify everything is worse.
How long until we start getting troony-swaps? Or is that too risky?
>be American
>worship blacks like gods
>Obsessed.
>If Nu-April looked like this, nobody would Care.
thats a lie
No, it'd still be a problem because it's still a pointless raceswap.
So Latinx April?
Latinos are lighter than that
Latinas can be from whitest white to blackest black.
If she looked like that I'd watch the movie and commission porn of her
At least it looks more like the og.
The newer one is just bootleg Shrek without the Scottish sexyness.
well. it's still blackwashing but at least there would be a new set of lewds i guess.