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Cleo_II posted...

So its still inspired by Egyptian mythology with no Egyptian representation in the movie. Wakanda was also a made up place but still had African representation. Anyway this is my own personal reason not to watch it. Im not calling for its boycott or anything.

Yes exactly. It's been one of the major criticisms of a lot of superheroes flicks. Dr. Strange got endless shit for casting that Irish woman which the studio has only recently admitted was a mistake. The fucked up the mandarin in IM3 only to later retcon that in Shang Chi. The casting of Gal Gadot is still controversial.

Progress is being made of course but I think Alan Moore was pretty spot on here:

The superheroes themselves largely written and drawn by creators who have never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them, much less the rights of a Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster would seem to be largely employed as cowardice compensators, perhaps a bit like the handgun on the nightstand. I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation (1915) as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks.