The outrage community does it again. This time, though, it’s about an alien. Poor E.T. must be shaking his head at us right now.
Further proving there is no length that the knuckle-dragging racists won’t go to, the latest outrage involves actress Anna Diop being cast as the orange alien Starfire for the live-action Titans series. Yes, you read that right. The lowest common denominator of society is upset that a black woman is portraying an alien. Are you rolling your eyes yet?
We’re not even going to give the idiots any publicity by listing their names – if you really want to, you can go look at any comment section thread about this casting – but the sheer stupidity actually hurts. One moron even mentioned that it’s cultural appropriation. Lolwut? Of an alien?
We’re going to state this in the simplest terms possible: Starfire is an alien. She isn’t from this planet and, quite frankly, anyone can play her. Diop is an excellent choice for the role and it’s good to see that Geoff Johns and company are giving the chance to upcoming actors and actresses. We don’t need any more CW alumni as superheroes…
Starfire black makes no sense as Ciri on Witcher being black too. It seems netflix wants to make notable character in movies/books/series black. Im not racist, im just saying, you cant make a character from comics/books thats been with us for a long time change becase you feel like it. Feels like they wana spite people and make public rage, then we get dumbasses like this Edward Wallace dude writting random shit about “how it s peoples falt” how its community that is agressive, how were all racists. Disney Fucked up Star Wars, Netflix fucks up loved characters, and the people are blamed cuz they dont wana ride single color cars but they wana pick their own color. The future is grim, for all of us.
SJW trash site. I never saw a racist statement, only that she doesnt look at all like the character (true) and that the costume and her look on set looks like a 90′ prostitute which is also true.
They had a picture of her on the first poster where she had orange skin and straight red hair that looked convincing. But the end product looks like shit compared to this and the original.
And thats a fact and not racist.
I bet none of these SJW sites would write anything when for example Blade would be portaited by a white guy.
Here we go again, as soon as we disagree with you lefties you throw out the racist card. No all we want is a true representation of the character from the comics. I don’t care if she plays starfire just give her Orange Skin and straight pink hair.
For me it doesn’t matter if the role of Starfire is played by black actress as in the comic book Starfire is black (tanned) person (alien). However Anna Diop is not a suitable person to play that role in my opinion. She is too dark, too chunky, and she has a bad hair day in every episode. Startfire should be pretty, sexy, smooth wave hair, and the skin is tanned, not dark like Anna Diop.
Overall it’s a good movie accept the Starfire’s look that make people/me turn off.
The people defending this series are like the people defending the new ghostbusters movie. If you disagree, you’re a mysogenist. If you hate starfire’s casting, you’re a racist. Personally, the actress isn’t an issue. But if they don’t have the resources to make her orange, like they did with gamora, then they should have hired a tanned latina. I’m neither black, white nor latino but idiot race baters like the author would probably still consider this comment racist. the hair should have been straight and maybe a bit frizzy. her speech patern should have been more odd. And lastly, if they wanted the costume to be more “alien” looking then they should have stuck with an alien space look, not a drag queen look.
She does’nt look like starifre at all. They took her only becuase she is black. That’s blackwashing, and racism toward white actors. Stop racism.
No need to change the actor, just paint her orange, problem solved. I wanted her to be orange, fly around shooting green lasers, picking up cars and shit. But I think DC wants to start switching up some comic characters with different races to i guess reflect social diversity. If that’s the reason, I’m not mad at that. More power to em.
I think you are being purposefully dishonest. Starfire even in the pictures YOU USED YOURSELF looks like a white woman with a slight orange hue. If we said “I don’t care if they cast a black woman but you need to paint her orange” you would still be crying racism because we are trying to erase black people. The fact that your ignorant and bigoted hypocrisy is pissing us off doesn’t make us racists. It makes you a hypocritical racist for crying about Scarlett Johansson playing a robot yet saying a black Johnny Storm is okay.
Orange yellow black, she’s doing a great job, but needs to lose that coat.
Shes orange yes, but so far im loving it. so i dont care. I love it all regardless
I don’t care much what race she is…. she simply doesn’t look at all like the comic book character and I find it odd that this discussion has taken on the role of “racist”.
FACT: EVERY Other character in the show is strikingly close to the comic in appearance
Starfire does Not….. I still like the show and will watch it, but the “Look” of actors that resemble the characters, of course, is a big deal – knocking people and calling them racists for bringing it up is unfair and immature.
I hate that they have a black girl as Starfire. COME AT ME !!
I am getting really tired of this Starfire never had a big ass nose or the features black people have. IF any other race other then white should be her it would be asian because there was a version of her that had really slanted eyes and a more Asian or Polynesian face structure however that was just for one version of the comic. It was really cool style and that version of the comic ran for a while. Infact the girl who played the voice of Moana would be more acceptable and true to the feel and look of the character then this lady
ALSO I am tired of people saying ” not like they could get an red head orange girl” news flash …
THERE ARE ORANGE/RED HEAD GIRLS ALL OVER Scotland( I am one of them) with long beautifulBRIGHT VIRBANT FIREY RED hair and cute little noises and a sweet face that looks just like hers in the MAJORITY of the comics! ..=_=
No joke GOOGLE ” red head girl” and every single one of those woman looks more like Starfire then this actress.
I hate hate HATE that she is black here not because I think blacks are ugly or that this lady is Ugly or anything like that. HOWEVER her face and hair pattern looks all wrong for the character SORRY but it just does. Race is more then just skin tone and this was done just to get fucking POC points this character never had the kickass /sexy /deva /fierce/ black lady face that is more dominating looking okey. Why do you think no one is complaining about Beast boy looking asian-ish because in the comic his character had eyes and features that looked kinda asian… come on guys THINK.
She had an innocent/cutsy face that contradicted her sexy body for MOST of the comics run times … That was ligit a running joke that she was really innocent so she had no clue her actions were sexual on Earth because her culture was different on her planet and bodies were not scene that way.
AND if you want to go by the original her face had high cheekbones and big hair yes but she did not have a big nose or the curl pattern blacks do and High cheekbones can be in any race look at Cher. AND even that version of her was either white or Latino ( no clue if those people are still considered white they were when I was growing up but IDK any more)
I am just happy in the comics still coming out she looks like an Scot girl with a bad spray tan. This series will fail and then they will one day have one with the correct girl…
You want to see who should be playing starfire. You think that there are no Red/Orange haired girls on this planet. You want to keep pretending like its just skin tone thats the issue hear not face and look issue. A face plays a BIG part in a character look at this girl and look at the latest comic they look identical. Just because her skintone is orange dose NOT mean you can cast any race to play the character. All races have different looks to there faces that give off different tones and personalities. Stop just casting black people in live action adaptions of comics JUST FOR POC POINTS because apparently they are a 10 pointer.. and look at the art and find a face that looks as CLOSE to it as possible. LOOK this girl looks just JUST like her with her NATURAL HAIR !!.
Image of a red head who should be Starfire cuz she looks JUST LIKE HER :
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/22/08/26220802763832b198925d17bceea7d7.jpg
Latest 2018 comic cover of Starfire. AND LOOK AT HER FACIAL FEATURES =_=.
https://www.youdontreadcomics.com/comics/2018/1/24/teen-titans-16-review
Starfire is an orange alien plain and simple. She doesn’t disguise the fact she is an orange alien. So if they make the actress, whatever race she may be, look like an orange alien then it doesn’t matter what race they are, at all, but they aren’t even trying or at least promoting her as lovable orange alien that is she supposed to be. Apparently the way she appears in trailer is not even her “true” look, but if that’s case why would they promote her in the way are, which isn’t doing any favors for the show. A black actress, Zoe, played Gamora, but you know what, they actually made her look the alien character she is supposed to be. Hollywood likes to change around characters at their expense, not caring one bit about source material. One big example is Dragon Ball Evolution. They totally screwed up the portrayal of beloved characters of basically of everyone from the show, and just decided to do what they wanted. So people aren’t upset a black actress is playing Starfire, they are upset because a black actress who is playing Starfire, isn’t being made to look like Starfire, and honestly the same is to be said about Raven, who looks like a looner Goth high school kid. I’ve honestly seen a lot black females cosplay Starfire better than she is being presented, but as I’ve said that’s just how she’s being promoted and its apparently not her true form, so to be fair the people in charge are shooting themselves in the Foot…
If she can act and bring starfire to life I don’t care but she’s not orange and she shoots fire wT f over its not fire it’s suppose to be star bolts. For that matter beast boy is not green so i don’t know what they are doing. To be honest I’m not digging the hair or outfit either. not to mention it looks like they are taking away her broken English away due to her not being an alien any more ? I guess. I’m willing to give it a try and im a hardcore comic fan.
Nobody is expecting a white Starfire. Get off that racism bandwagon shit. Some fans would like the characters to actually look like the comics. My vote as a WHITE MALE is a Latina Starfire to better resemble her. All this crying racism is why it’s not dead yet. Pull yalls brain out your assessment and get y’all’s shit together.
I’m impressed how many buzzwords and libtard terms you worked into your article, good job! Real piece of work!
Ummm her pictures until very recently had no African features whatsoever. Sorry but why not make a new character rather then stir the race pot with another forced P.C. casting (like how they ruined domino). The argument she was always “black” it totally invalid.
I’m not white and I do not think that someone as black as her should play Starfire. It looks wrong and it feels wrong, hey maybe we can cast a white guy as the next black panther?
Also the blatant left wing biased and pissy attempt to seem progressive just comes off as pretentious and condescending.
You can’t compare Gamora to this Starfire she had full body makeup to make her look like the character there’s no way they’re making anna diop look anywhere like the character but they got everyone else spot on not to mention she can’t act like Starfire terrible choice I’ve given it a chance to watch and can’t get into it
It’s great they end the column with politics. Starfire is not black. This was a terrible casting choice. Can’t wait for another DC show to bomb. This one, with black Starfire is really going to solidify just how awful a choice this was.
In my opinion, the main issue is not about the color of her skin. because at the beginning she just an orange Alien with unclear race. but for the people who knew starfire from animated series “Teen titans” and people who read the comic book, Starfire has Latina Facial Structure. No racist mean or something. But u know every race has their unique facial structure and stuff so i can see why peope go outrage because of this decision to make Starfire actress is black woman. The skin is not the issue here but the facial and Hair (i think because starfire has long straight hair instead of curly hair). Please make the Comic character more portray in real life not make real life actress portray as the character
Why is some ugly bitch with a ratty wig playing an orange alien? At least paint her orange, and holy shit you people even threw in an attack on the president in your pathetic opinion piece.
I think i got cancer from this people arent racist for wanting a character to look the way it has been portrayed in the past i dont care if you had a black actor who actually fits the roll im just sick of forced diversty in movies to appeal to SJW’s and before you say im some white racist guy im not even white
Well why is there a need to Cast her black there is none it’s not accurate to the comic and that what people want accuracy it’s not reason what if they made Tiana from princess and the frog white in a live action remake people would be outraged it’s reverse racism doasnt make sense right
Idk cyborg cant be a white guy in a cyborg movie it wouldnt be right cause even tho hes fiction his character is black thats at least how i see it
The internet is not furious that Starfire is portrayed by a black actress. Many black girls do Starfire cosplay at conventions and pull it off so much better than the new Titans show does. Starfire is probably the fan favorite in Teen Titans. You can’t deviate so much
It must suck having the important part of your life meddled with fan boys. Focus on the content. Not the fact you’d want anybody but a dark skinned black girl to play her. Y’all even called the woman ugly. What makes her ugly exactly? SMH.
‘Mericans are truly stupid. She’s orange. She’s from another planet. She doesn’t understand the concept of race. She’s fictional. She doesn’t speak Spanish she wouldn’t know what a Latina is. If she were real she would leave planet Earth & not waste her time saving people who don’t deserve it. This is true stupidity.
Yeah and let’s make cyborg white and see the outrage in the African American community
Wonder if they would feel the same if a white man played black panther lol
Dude I’m black and even I think that starfire should be played by a Latina. It’s not racist, it’s just how we think the character should be portrayed.
I think the the hole cast suck star fire should be Latino with orange skin are a light black women and Robin was 15 in teen Titans he looks like he was 29 beast buy barly looks green and that kid just don’t fit the part it’s just like what fox did with fantastic four reboot it will suck the actors do not fit the part may be if cw had hold on it . It might be better and when does Robin kill he is not the red hood Robin so this sucks
Hmm.. you seem to have some very strong opinions. Sadly the trailer shows that the budget skimped on body paint leaving starfire a dingy brownish orange yet somehow having the cgi budget to make her a firebender. Point being while you could get enough effects to make a 30 year old black actress a tameranian teenager who can generate green bolts of explosive energy the studio has failed to actually perform on any level. Frankly I have seen better cosplays than this supposedly professional hack job.
It’s kind of like Netflix’s Death Note film where L was black instead of white. Original fans would be upset because it’s just not proper cosplay simple as that.
I agree with Luis. Starfire is more brownish looking than black a light brown person would’ve been good. It would just look more like the comic book character. If they made cyborg white of course people would be outraged because he’s not. IMO
This is such a hateful post! We are all humans and people who don’t like the casting aren’t racist. I’m African and Cuban and I hate the casting and the makeup design. She is an alien, not an earthling. Do something like Gamora in Guardians and use make up or hire a Himba actress!
How ignorant you sound saying the only orange skinned person is serving as president of the U.S., there are many tribes in Nimibia, The DRC and along the Niger river that are orange or red skinned and use Clay’s to accentuate this skin tone. I would be just as outraged if they got a white European girl for the part and didn’t have good costume and make up design. Stop this awful and hateful thinking that everyone who disagrees with you is racist. Christ, people like you make Americans look so much worse than Trump does. Awful
So true
The problem isn’t that she’s a black actress. The problem is that shes going to be playing a “black” starfire which is bs. They’re not going to make her orange, they’re throwing some purple hair on her and calling it a day. As a fellow nerd that hurts my brain. I just want an orange alien
I am all for diversity in Movies its the erasure of all redheads from pop culture that upsets me. They won’t replace a Blond or brunette but all gingers are being wiped from the dc and marvel universes to make way for ethnic versions. I get there army many of us natural redheads left but we can still see what’s going on. The little mermaid, Annie, Mary Jane, Hawkgirl, and now Starfire, they are erasing an entire subculture to make room for a louder culture.
Perhaps that pic is not Starfire. Coming from Diop herself CGI would be used just like Zoe did with Gamora so Starfire is going to be orange.
I have an idea, let’s make Black Panther a Ginger, and Hulk an asian big guy and no one can say I’m racist. The single point of breaking a character just “to make it more inclusive” is plainly stupid, you just broke a character, there are great black super heroes, no need to make them green, or white, stuffing black people everywhere they can, is just being racist in the opposite way…
Lol damn, can you imagine how pissed people would have been if black pather was white XD or if silver surfer was gold or hulk was purple with green pants? Or maybe superman was chinese XD OH shit, imagine if martian man hunter doesnt transform from green to a black man and instead a white man, and that would just piss me off because martian man hunter us depicted as a strong minded wise african american man, not a white man.. you just cant change a characters appearance and expect actual comic book fans to be ok with it. Its like having a dwarf play the role of aragon in lord of the rings or gandalf the grey as a woman. I mean these are reasonable arguements. Has nothing to do with racism. People fucking hate when comic book characters get changed when they grew up in a specific portrayed characteristic. Like luke cage.. You dont take a white man and paint him dark skinned to play an african american mans role. I would have certainly been pissed. I love luke cage. People keep going back to this whole why does it matter because shes an alien and shes orange but i find it hard to look at her the same now because it going to embody a different idea of the character than originally depicted. We all are different. Take an irish man and throw him in the role of a hispanic man and youre are most definitely going to see a huge difference. I like the idea of a black starfire as long as shes beautiful, strong and can pull off the inncent nobility of a 16th century danish princess who’s second language is english and has a yoda way off mixing up her worlds.
I hope you know in the comics the martian manhunter does actually transform into a white man. It has been his main secret identity for decades.
I don’t want starfire to BE BLACK! SHE HAS TO BE ORANGE! I DON’T WANT A DARK CHOCOLATE PERSON TO BE STARFIRE.
Way to hold an intellectual topic and go about in the most ignorant ways we don’t care that Starfire is black we care that the actress doesn’t fit the role is she fit the role more we wouldn’t care for color at all no one really does anymore it’s the fact that she isn’t tall, her face doesn’t give off the expression of Starfire and the fux with the hair, pink really?
You can’t change our minds! And I’m not racist! I have a black girlfriend and Im Asian. WE WANT THE STORY TO BE ACCURATE. IF DC THINKS YOU CAN JUST CHANGE THE SKIN COLOR OF A TEEN TITAN THEN LET’S HAVE BEAST BOY PLAYED BY A WHITE MAN WITHOUT BODY PAINT. Is it too much to ask for a teen titans movie where the people look like they did in the cartoon?
should have cast a latino, because that would be more fitting
Blackwashing
Your next line is ” there nit such thing as blackwashing”
I bet 100$ that the person who wrote this article is a black woman. Let me ecolain this to you. We are not mad cuz it is a black ctor. We are mad because starfire aint BLACK. She is orange. Ish. She is like, a white person, but just a little bit orange. Jesus. Its not that just because we says a black person shouldnt be playing a white characters role that we are racis. Get you shit together
Fu## off, she is too damn ugly to play Starfire and is only character she is allowed to play in the cast is Blackfire
Yeah right black fire is hot as fuck, this woman is ugly as shit and black fire doesn’t have dark black skin she has black hair and tan skin like a Moroccan or Nicaraguan
Yeah, no way in hell I would ever watch this. ? Nothing towards the actress but let’s get real… Starfire does NOT look like that. So disappointing and an insult to the original animation ???
Like, she can play Bumble Bee of Titans East, who is STILL a very important character.
So many closed minded people being turned off by skin, but want to shout they’re not racist and prejudice. Why not look past the colour and view the person, just because Starfire’s skin isn’t white. It’s not even white in the comic, she’s orange, she’s an orange-ish alien princess from Tamaran. leave her alone, if you don’t like it. don’t watch it and if you want a more accurate thing, become a director or an actor/actress.
well you idiot the whole point of starfire is she is an orange alien not a black woman with pink hair as she is being depicted in the show.
Dude it has nothing to do with her not being a white actress. This actress looks awful overall for this part. There are people with Orange and Red clay colored skin, this woman is very dark and her wig looks atrocious. Stop thinking people are racist for no reason. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. I bet you’re just another white American “liberal” as you call yourselves. We don’t want or need you to speak for us and call racism every 2 seconds. Here in Africa we have much bigger problems, especially south of the Sahara. I am from Morocco and we all think you guys are a joke, not because of your president but because of how ridiculous it is that you claim to want equality and freedom and diversity but then shame and slander anyone and everyone who thinks differently from this standard you’ve set that you learned from the media and the internet. Disgusting. Open your mind to your fellow humans
You dumb racist idiot. Nobody is asking for her to be white. They’re asking for her to be ORANGE, not black. Just like Zoe is GREEN to play Gamora in Infinity War. Did you see any problem there? No. The actress can be Hispanic, Asian, White, Black, Purple, Blue, it doesn’t matter. Just paint her Orange as she should be and nobody would complain. Talk about being “closed minded”… you’re such an hypocritical racist idiot and you don’t even realize it. SMH
I think they have the same mentality as the people who defended the new ghotbusters movie. If you don’t like it, you’re a bigot.
“So many closed minded people being turned off by skin, but want to shout they’re not racist and prejudice. Why not look past the colour and view the person, just because Starfire’s skin isn’t white.”
Because you are HYPOCRITES! If they changed Cyborg into a white man your tune would be the exact opposite!
“It’s not even white in the comic, she’s orange, she’s an orange-ish alien princess from Tamaran. ”
You are seriously going to try and pretend that she isn’t clearly modeled after a white woman? No European features at all huh?
“leave her alone, if you don’t like it. don’t watch it and if you want a more accurate thing, become a director or an actor/actress.”
You see i actually agree with you on this but the problem with this is if we do then we see articles like “racists boycott teen titans and make it fail because of a black actress!”
If you want to be fucking culturally appropriate simply getting a Latino as the actor for her. Much more fitting. Cyborg is already African American why do they need to take the comic and change it.
Except… Starfire isnt fucking black lol this pc shit is so stupid. Its not racist to want a proper cosplay dumb shit mother fuckers.
Well we’ve seen the photos now,and she isn’t orange at all. She looks like a clown prostitute. The other don’t look good either but Starfire is by far the worst looking one so far. This show looks just as bad as Marvel’s Inhumans. Like very little effort is being put into it,
laughed a lot with your comment, damn!! and it pisses me a lot that beast boy is not fully green
So let me get this straight we are racist because a character who is orange is being changed to black when there is all kinds of body makeup and it would be so easy to make her orange? I think you saw we were upset about who was playing her so in your mind you instantly labeled us RACIST but we wouldn’t care if there Mexican Asian Pakistani or white as long as there in orange body paint we are fine so stop labeling people racist because they don’t like something about production then say there white so they must be because that makes you racist to blacks are not immune to scrutiny
Skin color has nothing to do with it. I just think she’s not a good choice to play Starfire.
I don’t know why everyone’s being called racist because they don’t want a beloved character to change, it’d make sense to say that this is a different person all together who takes up the mantle of starfire, I’d be completely ok with that, it’s the fact they’re changing a pre existing character drastically. People have been waiting for a good teen titans show for years and when a stable charades unjustly changed its going to be upsetting
Diop as Starfire is annoying. Not because she is black – necessarily. It is annoying, because knowing that this will have a TV budget, one can safely assume they will not give Diop a full body treatment, like was done with Saldana. What is most likely, is she will spend most of her screen-time looking nothing like her character. If she does end up orange and with red hair and green eyes, then there is no problem with the actress being black. The second problem with Diop is she 30. 30. Come on. I know that the show is Titans and not TEEN Titans, but still. They have cast a 30 year old to play an immature, canonically 15-25 year old character. This problem is compounded when looked at alongside the choice to cast Teagan Croft as Raven. If the idea was that the Titans had grown up and that they’re not little kids anymore, fine. But, commit. Croft is 13 years old. What the Hell? (Also, a 13 year old probably does not have the chops to capture Raven, but that’s conjecture). Raven has suddenly been made a child. And she is supposed to be a contemporary to a 30 year old? What is wrong with getting actors who are around the same age to play a group of people assumed and portrayed to be right around the same age? And Croft is an outlier, her closest team member has nearly 10 years on her. Why? Another worry about casting Diop is that given Starfire is an alien and clearly her cartoon appearance is not being used for reference, I am afraid that the creators will have Diop speak in her natural Senegalese accent. In an effort to make her sound different from her teammates, I fear they will only further cement her as African. If a dark skinned black woman who speaks with an African accent is who get for Starfire, then I may be unable to enjoy the show. At that point, she won’t be an alien. She’ll be an African with superpowers.
I am equally afraid that budgets will force Raven and Beast Boy to appear in their actor’s tone. Which will make it difficult to enjoy. The Teen Titans cartoon – while not necessarily a perfect canon reference – really nailed the appearances. The Titans are sort of ragtag, misfits. They’re teens who don’t have a home and don’t necessarily go together, but team up. Robin was white, Cyborg was black, Starfire was orange, Beast Boy was green, and Raven was gray. They looked like misfits. Now, without Cyborg, it may be 3 people with white skin and a black person.
Also, a note on Raven. I know this is minor and slightly off-kilter. But, Raven was always like a comic-book crush of mine (and I know she is a common one). And by casting a child, the possibility of the live action version meshing with the other versions, dies for me. I know it’s small and niche, but it kind of sucks. Now, the only real world Raven is going to seem like a little sister the team lets tag along, and less like a character worthy of her own full fledged respect.
Next thing you know they’ll make Batman a black guy however I bet the black community all across America would have been super pissed and upset if they would have made the Black Panther or white guy
Does it really make a person a racist because they don’t agree with the casting choice I personally do not agree with it I think they could have got somebody better that looks more like the role nowadays Hollywood feels the need to put a black actor or actress in a white normal roll so they don’t look racist Watch the Teen Titans and you’ll understand what I’m talking about Starfire does not look like an African American so because she doesn’t look like Starfire those that say so must be racist huh stop being so sensitive and get off your soapbox
Why all of this crap discussion of racism or apropiation over an orange alien girl, just recast Starfire with an asian actress and problem solver
Where is the outrage? I heard of the supposed Outrage before I heard about the casting. It looks like people are just assuming there is outrage and attacking all of those “supposed racists” out there.
Im ok with it, as long as her skin is orange. Its not about a racial bs. As a reader i dont want to see a white Cyborg, or a black Dick Greyson. It feels wrong because they are trying to fill the spot left by Vic Stone because he is in the JLA movie. The point is, the actress could be asian, latina or whatever as long as the character is true to the comic with orange-ish skin.
I’m not trying to be racist by any means. (I know you probably saying that’s what racist people say) Race specifically has nothing to do with the issue or the acting talent. The issue is a long-time loved character doesn’t look like she has for many years. I know back in 60’s and such most heroes were made white and so on. That’s the time things were in but these characters are and have been iconic. So it’s frustrating to see characters like this get the race treatment because someone is offended their race isn’t being portrayed appropriately. Now a bit of this has been corrected over time in comics and even cartoons with to me no issue because it explains things just as well. Look at the Justice League cartoon 00’s. So originally Green Lantern was a white guy. Then they fixed it by having a different character that was black become the new Green Lantern, John. Made perfect sense and worked fine. They didn’t just change the character’s race, but they introduced a new character to support more races. Then obviously as time went on you started getting characters of different races become different heroes in both DC and Marvel and they became popular too like for instance in African American list: Aqua lad, Cyborg, Spawn, Static Shock, Storm, Vixen (which is doing an amazing job on Legends in my opinion), Batwing, Black Panther, War Machine, Luke Cage, Steel, President Superman, White Tiger, M, Falcon, Blade, and several others. Most of these are great (not every superhero is a great hero even the white ones) and had real character and story development. Even in 2011 comics Spiderman became a different race, but the character isn’t Peter Parker, but someone that has taken the mantel of Peter Parker. Also another interesting fact is there is more than one Wonder Woman who was black but not Diana, but one of her sister’s. So lot of ground work has been laid for heroes of all races now and more still to come I’m sure. Give these characters some more spot light and opportunities as their character’s race. Or like I said give any person that is not white a very known popular white hero, but change their character. So really that’s the main issue. Not that another black actress has been cast. She does a great job personally in what I have seen her, but I feel she might be a little too old for this part if they are going for teenager and not young adult Starfire. Granted if a lighter skinned actress (similar to Halle Berry or Beyonce) played the part then more hardcore fans would have been a bit more accepting of her appearance I would think. However, it’s over a done and they picked their person. I just hope she does Starfire’s character justice and (for me) most importantly do not ruin the one thing about Starfire which I love and is a bit cute and that being the way she talks in her accent sometimes mixing up words. So even though it’s not what all us hardcore fans wanted, let’s cross our fingers and pray this actress does justice to our character in every other way!
Thank god someone else sees it, it’s not a race issue, it’s a character issue. People don’t like seeing a classic character changed. Starfire never has looked African American and is normally depicted as Caucasian or perhaps another lighter skinned race. Its a shame that you cant criticize an actress choice without being called a racist.
I don’t understand how you can say an orange alien looked white and not black. Sorry but if your only issue is that she being played by a black women your prejudice. If she wears orange make up like Zoe Saldana did Gamora it really doesn’t matter.
****But, in all honestly none of this matters they keep casting black people for roles like this & people like you keep getting up in arms and then they do it again. So nobody care junior. Deal with it.******
FYI. M (Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix) is not a black character she is mixed European/Arab-Berber. Just look at the countries her parents are from and her religion.
My god. Lol grow tf up my n***as
As long as she is orange! With shiny green eyes!
I am more interested in why the hiring of a 29 year old to play this part. Not what I expected, but I can roll with that.
I think this is great casting! My only concern is that the negress is ugly as a mud fence and about ten years too old.
She will be awesome.
The series is entitled “Titans” , not “Teen Titans” . So we suppose most of the main characters are legal-age superheroes.
The age controversy as argue is wrongly founded. We aren’t sure if Titans are teenagers.
People need to focus on having integrity and get over this whole being offended thing. I mean, really…..the character is an orange alien…..get over it and enjoy the show ffs.
Alt-right morons everywhere.
wow, if someone don’t like the actress, automatically they are alt-right, maybe white supremacists too? nazis? anti-semitics? trump supporters? no simba, maybe they’re just hardcore fans who don’t like that kind of changes on their characters, Im pretty sure they would be mad too if Cyborg was portrayed as a white guy
Is this Click Bate?
If you have to ask, it most likely is. See Erik Carey’s comment.
They didn’t do auditions on Mars?
“The internet is outraged..” Why talk as though the Internet is one deciding body? It should read: Some people are mad, not the majority, not that that matters, because she’s a fictional character whose race doesn’t actually exist. Why focus on the few whiners???
Where do you find these so called racists? I mean I know racist people exist, but I have been all over comic forums, groups, pages, etc. The only outrage about this casting is the people concerned she won’t be able to do the character justice, and the people exclaiming that people are being racist. I been following the development of the series since it was announced, The 12 year old they cast as Raven has gotten more backlash than the casting of Starfire.
If she is orange who gives a fucc? White people tryna lay claim to aliens now….
People don’t like seeing a classic character changed. Starfire never has looked African American and is normally depicted as Caucasian or perhaps another lighter skinned race. Its a shame that you cant criticize an actress choice without being called a racist.
there not making her orange tho
Except… Starfire isn’t black lol. It’s not racist to want a proper cosplay.
Ever notice how non-whites are casted heavily in roles that require their skin covered? Just saying.
This worked just fine
who cares about if the person is black or white red or yellow or whatever color! if they proved to be a good actor then let them play the part! let the writers write, the directors direct and the producers produce, and the castors cast whom they want for the show/movie I mean in the super girl series john jones is black yet in the cartoon he wasnt really when he went to human disguise and the girl to play Megan was black when she was white with red hair no big deal people change looks on characters all the time!
This is outrageous! Anna Diop isnt orange skinned! Why is Hollywood discriminating against the Orange race?
The question is what dies Tango man think?
I don’t care that she’s Black.
I care that she is 29 and that she can’t fucking Act.
I want a latino John Stweart then
So many racist dumb fucks on the internet
Great closing statement!!!
The reasoning behind race washing, gender swaps, or making a character LGBTQ, is not because they care for a certain cause or color, but because they know that it creates buzz. Buzz = hype = publicly = dollars. It is all about marketing. Theoretically ofcourse but, more often than not, this is the case and even if it is not a popular choice, it still creates the same effect. “Bad publicity is still good publicity.” As they say.
I think it has more to do with her age. That’s the biggest complaint I have heard. The race thing doesn’t really factor here because Star Fire is an orange alien. You can’t race wash something that is orange. But, they HAVE to make her orange to suit the character.
It’s called titans not teen titans. Dick is already Nightwing so this show we have them as young adults in their 20s most likely
That’s what I just found out. Though, her being orange is still relevant. Her being black doesn’t matter and if it’s about the Titans and not the “teen” titans then age doesn’t matter, either. Just staying true to the character does.
I wonder if the confusion wasn’t done on purpose to get people talking about the show. Like I typed before, the main complaint was her age. I think most people think that it is about the Teen Titans and not Titans.
running the risk that, if anything, this will just be met with some childishly vulgar and barely articulate insult, but so be it. I knew what Iris West usually looked like before Candice Patton took the role in the FLASH series and never blinked an eye or considered complaining, so I really wouldn’t care about casting controversies like this if I thought for one second that the desire for equality were genuine and the outrage went both ways. I don’t recall it being “racist” to complain that Tilda Swinton was cast in a traditionally Asian role in DR. STRANGE. And yeah, the Starfire character is orange, but neither she nor ET is confirmed to exist in reality (‘pretty sure that even aliens must first exist before they can be superior to humans) and if it is really so important that this casting make some statement about diversity, then they could just as easily and maybe more appropriately (visually) hired a Hispanic actress. However talented and capable she may be, this makes me think that Ms.Diop’s casting was more politically than creatively motivated to begin with. If Hollywood really cared about diversity, it would create more roles FOR and tell more stories ABOUT people of different races rather than just needlessly stir the proverbial pot with what, for now, appears to be another one of these race baiting stunts used as excuses to call every white person that dares have a different opinion a racist – which solves absolutely nothing even when it might actually be true. That is NOT equality. At best, it’s a form of pandering and of petty table-turning that should be seen as an excuse to start political fights and call it “progress” and, thus, insulting to everyone.
I want an orange actress to play her.
Like a younger transgender Donald trump?
better, a jersey shore girl
As long as she’s orange I don’t care. Now what that means is, if she stays black, I’m pissed, if they replace Anna Diop with a white actress and she’s orange, I’m happy, but if they replace Anna Diop with a white actress and she stays white, I’m pissed. All I care about is that she’s orange.
Thank you.
Why does it have to be a a WHITE actress that is orange? Be honest you just want it to be a person YOU identify with. Why not a light skinned black person turned orange? Or a mixed raced individual? Or a Latina? If orange is your main concern then they don’t have to be white!!!!
Reread his comment. He explicitly says he doesn’t care the color of the actress as long as she’s painted orange. He specifically says that it doesn’t have to be a white actress.
Oh man Shi, you completely misread troy robbins.
Goes to show how dumb some people can be
Do any of those idiots know its 2017?
God some people really need to find a hobbyother than outrage.
Yes it’s 2017. The year when black people have the god-given right to be all types of racist against white people.
Right?! With so many choices out there, one would think it was easy to get a great hobby…
People don’t like seeing a classic character changed. Starfire never has looked African American and is normally depicted as Caucasian or perhaps another lighter skinned race. Its a shame that you cant criticize an actress choice without being called a racist.
No, the internet is not outraged that she is black. It’s bc she isn’t near attractive enough, IE Kirsten Dunst as MJ. She want attractive enough. They can use a black actress or hell an Asian or Latino actress, as long as she’s star fire attractive. Quit immodestly calling our race as a reason for ppl being displeased for a casting.
She is absolutely gorgeous ❤️
YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
She pretty what Yu mean sir
You spoke for yourself. I’ve seen plenty of outrage over her race.
Meaning no offense but Starfire always had the looks of a transsexual character to me, and since I don’t consider men features “attractive”, well…
“attractive”
read
“Caucasian looking features”
Because Diop is hot
She is ugly. I am an African Muslim from Morocco. Say something. You won’t, you will only be vitriolic to white people because you just like to think people are racist for some reason.
Diop is ugly compared to how beautiful starfire is, that Robin is madly in love with her and she gets so much male attention. Caucasian features do not equal attraction. Americans, I love this country and my family came here for a reason but the amount of ignorance and name calling from the left makes me miss Morocco
Attractive is based off of opinion. Quite a lot of people thought Kirsten Dunst was hot… though she doesn’t look like she’d be a super model but a girl next door kinda hot.
But that said, while Starfire is orange, she would fit with a tan skin or white skin way more than black skin.
Frankly, I don’t get why not liking a choice is considered racist. Remember, this is the fandom that was angry when they heard a RICH WHITE GUY was playing a RICH WHITE GUY…
Think about that…. it’s annoying when people use racism as the reason. We shouldn’t have to just accept something just cause you’re black.
If an image of a character is already is set, then when you change it and make it more drastically different, people get pissed.
And it should be noted that Star Fire was a more light orange and sometimes seemed more tannish…
And please understand, if they made Cyborg or Luke Cage or Black Panther white, we would be just as pissed as we are in this case.
And to be honest, if it was a character I didn’t grow up with, I wouldn’t care as much. But I did grow up with the character, and I want a more accurate representation. Sure, her skin was orange, but it was on a much lighter side.
Now, at the same time, it should be noted that special effects and make up weren’t added, so maybe it would look really good.
The fandom is jumping to conclusions. Maybe they’ll make her look the proper part.
But realize people, what we are afraid of is a sort of whitewashing of our beloved characters (except not literally white washing).
Why y’all white bitches be mad?
Because Starfire isn’t black.
Guess what. She’s not white either.
what were saying is they are not gonna do orange body paint we would also be mad if they take cyboarg from black to anything else
Omg can you imagine the uproar if they got a white man to play Cyborg? They’re doing this all the time now. Look at screen adaptation of King’s The Dark Tower. For the whole book series he was a white cowboy, constantly referred to as “White honky” lol. They decided to cast a black man for the role and fans were not happy and the film flopped. People want their beloved characters portrayed in film they way they were in print. That’s all there is to it.
THAT IS ALL THERE IS TOO IT. STOP DESTROYING OUR BELOVED CHARACTERS. PUT THEM ON FILM AS THEY ARE IN PRINT. PERIOD. PERIOD. PERIOD.
WINWEATHERS Beast Boy’s character in this series is also not his original skin color (green) so why are people only attacking the actress for Starfire? To me there is only one explanation and that is people are racist.
Yet, most of you defended Scarlett Johansson’s role in Ghost in The Shell as Motoko Kusanagi. Hypocrites….
Nobody said she was white either, you’re just coming up with things nobody said in the first place
In my opinion, they should have used an Asian actress with red hair, Asians are more orange in skin tone and the character acts more Asian. Also, the Trump jokes are retarded and childish.
Guess what, she is 90% sure she is hispanic. But na sjw only see black everywhere. Shit even a high yellow black would work but na if it aint super dark it dont count the. Dam racists.
Literal African here. I’m mad because this is destroying the image of the character, not because she is black. What the fuck is with Americans always wanting to change people’s color for the sake of “diversity”, that isn’t going to lead to good movies and shows, only the continuation of separation and racial issues in your country (where I live now) I dont know how you lot haven’t realized it yet
What colour skin actor will play Garfield Beast Boy/Changeling
blue
White, which is not as bad as his features could align with some white people but even then the actor that was picked does not look like a good beast boy. Frankly I am just disappointed with the casting in general
Starfire is neither black nor caucasian, she is an alien. Who are these retards.
The problem is this is a straw man. Most want a younger actor preferably Latina as that would match starfires body characteristics better. She just looks nothing like starfire in pics of her on the set.
As stupid as complaining abot wonder woman’s armpits
can we get a puerto rican to play starfire ? im just sating where my ricans at ;)
Dammit people if the character is orange we need an orange person to play it!!! *sarcasm*
We get Donald Trump to play her.only logical option
LMao!
Starfire should clearly be played by a latino woman, blackwashing a character is extremely racist and disrespectful.
Yes I agree with u because i’’ Black this woman is right
Of course.
Racist A-holes.
Thank you for your virtue signaling. You will be among the last in the cannibal’s pot.
found the stupid one
Zoe Saldona pulled off Gamora and she was green. Don’t see why this wouldn’t work, before anyone panics; Starfire is orange.
No one knew who Gamora was before her movie, Starfire is an extremely popular character who has never looked African American in the slightest bit. Starfire is orange, however, she is also depicted as light skinned. An African American actress is still African American with an orange overlay. People don’t like seeing loved characters changed.
still an ugly racist !
How is that racist? Nobody was complaining about cyborg being black too right? It’s not racism, it’s just the fact that Starfire was a LATINA ALIEN not a black alien…
Its like martian man hunter being green and portrayed as a noble wise african american man who transforms into a african man but the director decided he would be better with a white ego and appearance. Guess we lose because we are racist. Thats the go to stereotype isnt it lol
I could not have put it better myself. The fact is that STARFIRE is not a black character. This is a poor choice, and I for one and my friends shall be boycotting this film.
WinWeathers Starfire is not of any human race. In fact, have you ever looked at her original look in the comics? She had thick hair, big nose, and darker skin. Starfire is an alien. You wanted her to be white because you are racist. There is not other excuse for it.
Starfire is orange in skin color in the comics and yes she is an alien but if you look at many of the DC licensed animated movies i.e. Teen Titan: Judas Contract and Batman: Bad Blood you will see that she has a skin color that is closer to light Brown/Tanned rather than Anna Diops dark brown skin, none of us are racist, we would have rathered someone else that would resemble starfire more to play the role but hopefully Anna Diop can give a well received performance. Goodbye
To everyone saying they are not racist but just want actors and actresses to most closely resemble the skin tone of those represented in comics (even if they are of non human origins), these comics were all created during a period of time that was indeed adamantly racist. There would simply be absolutely no progress if we just tried to emulate comics as closely and literally as possible considering they were all created in the early 20th century. Also, just consider how ridiculous you sound when you say “I know she’s not human and has orange skin in the comics, but orange is closer to white than it is to black, so she should be lighter skinned.” I’ll just leave it at that…
So why not Make new Comics with that in mind made to support None white people? It just seems all kinds of messed up that now one Wants to make new comic that support People of color. They just want to go the easy way and replace what has been made. Saying something was made in a time were white people and light color skin was the go to does not make it right to replace it with a black man or woman but in this case I don’t think she looks anything like any of the starfire. now heres a black lady that fits the look https://twitter.com/cutiepiesensei/status/1095374751613227013 I mean dam she pull the hair and skin tone off and she not white.
No one wants to make new comics that support people of color. sorry had to fix that.
I just looked at original and no she wasnt dark skinned she looked white with brown hair. She is suppose to be golden skinned and in many drawings she looks peach colored or orange. Maybe a light skinned black actress could pull off the look but I saw the costume picture this actress is in and it looks awf. Like more of the pink haired teen titan go chick insteaf
its not racist you idiot, people like you should be beaten.
I guess the people complaining about white washing are racist too. Oh wait, no it only applies when blacks are cast, doesn’t it? Then it’s “diversity”.
FIACH How is this white washing when Starfire is an alien? Stop reaching. Furthermore look at her earlier works. She had thick hair, big nose, big hips…what white girl looks that way? None.
It’s not about early works I’m an African an I am a starfire fan that is not starfire
See I’m an African and I’m not racist
If Dc wanted to cast a “Black American” as starfire they should have at least stayed true to the character, I mean really that’s not the starfire they put in comics or cartoons or cartoon movies, the costume is horrible and quite frankly the hair is not even close.
Don’t listen to them, all this sjw non sense. Good forbidden you criticize anyone who isn’t white. She doesn’t fit the role, period. She just happens to be black, but the character happens to be a ginger tan alien. I can list 25 actresses that would need no makeup to for that role.
You know starfire isn’t a real person right?
Not in the least? Have you ever seen Starfire’s original appearance? She had literally full thick hair, big nose, big hips, etc. What white girl looks like that? Just admit you are a racist…Your character hasn’t been changed because Starfire is literally an Alien. YOU envisioned her as white, that doesn’t mean that is what she is.
Yes an alien with orange skin, NOT a generic black chick with pink/orange hair. Casting a black person makes no sense at all for an orange skin alien.
There are a number of issues but everyone is focused on the pointless race issue.
You have a middle age looking woman for a role that should be played by a younger actress. I was surprised she is only 30, she looks like she is in her late 30s with makeup on.
Candice Patton was 24-25 when she started on Flash and she still looks amazing at 29.
Totally agree with you. Could not have said it better. I hope this film tanks at the theaters.
Zoe did a great job and the makeup artists did even better making her GREEN, she looked like the character and owned it!. Starfire is an ORANGE alien, with long flowing hair. DC did Ana wrong with a terrible costume, worse wig, and ignoring her alien skin tone.
Ok, you went into this article sounding like a pretentious idiot, and you finished it sounding like one. We’re not mad that shes black, we’reached mad she’s not ORANGE. Oh my , not everything is racism. If Gamorra was purple or if rocket was a dog we’d have some issues because then they’reached changing a character trait for no reason. This author.