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womeninfictionandirl · 5 months

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Misty Knight by John Yandall

#Misty knight #John yandall #art #artwork #marvel #marvel universe #marvel superheroes #marvel comics #marvel heroes #marvel heroines #marvel superheroines #superheroes of color

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artphotographyofmen · 7 months

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Power Man by Alex Ross

#Alex Ross #power man #powerman #Luke cage #art #artwork #marvel #heroes for hire #black superheroes #superheroes of color #marvel characters #marvel heroes #marvel superheroes #marvel comics #marvel art #marvel men

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dianaof-themyscira · 2 years

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Miles Morales by Travis Moore

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writingwithcolor · 4 months

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Black woman’s skin turns blue from powers; is this whitewashing/erasure?

Anonymous asked:

I have a character in a comic I'm hoping to write one day. She's a light skinned black woman(she's half white if that helps!) living in New York City during an 80s themed post nuclear apocalypse. The comic's main characters are all rock stars, so a lot of the character design elements revolve around the different rock genres. The character in question is in a glam rock band, so there's lots of bright, saturated, crazy colors involved in her design. The problem I'm having involves this one story beat where she gets mutant superpowers that give her electricity and sound based abilities. Her skin turns cotton candy blue as a result of the mutation. I'm hung up on whether or not this might fall under some kind of skin lightening or white-washing trope since it's a fairly light shade of blue. I designed her mutant look before her human look, so this was well before I'd even figured out what race she was, and I simply thought the shade of blue would compliment both the electricity powers and the fact that her hair is dyed pink. Is there a way I could still make this work? Or am I worrying about nothing?

Ideally, it would be nice to keep her brown skin tone. There’s a common comic and supernatural trend where Black people’s skin is covered up by a suit or Black-coded characters are an unnatural color (blue, green, purple, etc).

This is more of an issue when:

There are no other Black characters of those identities besides the covered up/ ones with unnatural skin colors.

The creator adds this change to make them "special" because they do not believe Black characters, with features commonly associated with Black people like dark hair, skin and eyes, are acceptable enough for the character to stand on their own.

The supernatural special Black people are treated well by the story. The "non-special" Black people have unhappy stories and misfortune.

Other races of characters do not get their skin covered up or changed. Only the Black ones and/or BIPOC in general.

I think a quick fix for this would be for her skin to turn blue when she’s actively using her powers, at random, or other specific times, besides constantly. If she needs to be more consistently “mutant looking” Are there other ways she could change without her skin color changing or changing completely?

People with glitter on skin, light surrounding their face, and blue braids. Images from pexels.

More ideas that keep her skin brown

Hair

Her hair color changes blue or your color of choice (which could include body hair too, which would give her a more “otherworldly” appearance).

Note: If her hair is curly or natural, please keep it so! At least, the powers shouldn't change it straight.

Eyes

Her eyes glowing brighter or colorfully during power-use.

Note: If they're usually brown, they could stay brown when powers not in use, like Marvel's Storm in some versions.

Storm by Marvel Entertainment//20th Century Studios.

Skin and body

Blue patterns appear on her skin.

Blue glow or sheen to her skin without fully changing the color.

Her skin projects color and light.

New growths or changes to body, such as ear shape, wings, etc.

No matter what you decide, please make clear in your tale that she’s a Black mixed race woman. And have fun!

More reading:

How Special is Too Special? The Politics and Characterization of Stacking Special/Abnormal Traits on Mixed Race Characters

~Colette

#Black women #skin color #supernatural #superheroes #description #asks

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jaeryale · 1 month

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Bat dad with his league of assassins murderous son

Lets hope that the bat duck tape is strong

Quick batfam doodles are my new obsession enjoy!

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spacebubblehomebase · 3 months

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First post of 2024! And ofc, it HAD to be my favorite boys! Also, I'm never gonna be normal about Damian's green sleepwear that I'm about 50% sure he stole. (Why else would it be that size? XD) So, what do you guys think Damian's all upset about this time?

-Bubbly💙

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comickergirl · 10 months

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Took suggestions for the color wheel challenge over on twitter. It was super fun! Would love to do it again, either over on twitter or maybe here on the ol' blog. :D (Not sure when, but. Someday! XD )

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myhyperfixationisiforgot · 1 year

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Young Justice was such a wild show. Like. It's based off a 90's comic by the same name. It contains exactly 1 (one) character from the source media, who they immediately change beyond recognition. It used Dick Grayson's Robin and Wally West's Kid Flash, but made Roy Harper the old jaded one. Instead of Wondergirl, they gave Martian Manhunter a niece. They invented a brand new Aqualad. A random 90's villain gets shunted into Arrowette's role, arguably gets the most compelling emotional story of the entire show, and turns out to be related to half the villains they ever meet.

They're a secret black ops team made entirely of teenagers. At one point several of them die onscreen. The martian almost murders several people. There's kind of a pseudo incest plot. There is an episode that takes place almost entirely through mandated therapy sessions.

The show does actually bring in a second character from the original Young Justice, in an episode where Artemis almost dies only to be saved by Secret, the ghost of the villain's sister (who was a member of the original comics team). In the same episode, Superboy and Miss Martian trick a classmate into thinking there's an alien invasion using a Loony Tunes character. Neither of these events are ever mentioned again.

The timeline of the show means that Dick Grayson became Nightwing at 15. They accidentally create Beast Boy because Miss Martian has been impersonating his mom. Aqualad ends up as the leader of the Justice League.

Five years go by between seasons, resulting in a completely different show. I could make the argument that Young Justice was Weisman's OC fanfiction of the comic series. Everything after season 2 is unwatchable. This is the show that got me into fandom. I adore it.

#it's a mashup of four different early 2000s superhero shows given a weird color scheme and a sanding into a new show #i love it with all my heart #dc #young justice #robin #kid flash #superboy #miss martian #artemis crock #young justice invasion

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tooquirkytolose · 14 days

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Wild to me that I've been posting comics on tumblr for a decade, and when I set them up side by side you can *really* see how much practice has helped me

Consider my first 2:

With my latest 2:

Imagine what they'll look like a decade from now :^)

#i cant believe the princess contest and superhero one are 10 years OLDDDD 😭#the superhero one has characters that i made when i was 16!!!!#i still think of them often and i say to myself..one day...one day I'll do it...#the difference is staggering tbh #even the comics from 2018 are looking a lil rough to me rn #also olivia my beautful olivia im so sorry i colored ur skin in so ashy what was i thinking

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hofudlaus · 2 years

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White tie chat

#i love white tie tuxedos ok...#mlb #ladybug #chat noir #my art #wanna do a colored one with chat blanc i think that could be rad #also a catwalker one #cus hes fancy #didnt realoze at the time but buggachat update prob subconsciously made me draw this #thinking about superheros in white ties..... white tie tux shoes r so stupid i love them they have little bows on them #also cat tail with a white tie... poking out from the coat tails.....#i drew these on a plane #last time i was on a plane i also draw a white tie.. there seems to be a theme going on..#ml #also that glasses dude is my oc lol

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sciderman · 5 months

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thinking of spider-man's first silly little suit (and his silly little webwings)

thinking of you all the time (webwings)

#how i love teenage peter parker and would die for him. silly little guy.#i love how casually superheroes just came up with their superhero names in the classic comics.#well! i'll be spiderman i guess!#mr fantastic is the best one though. he just wanted to be called that. i bet he was sitting on it for years.#bet he called himself that in his head for years. and now finally he has an excuse to get other people to call him it.#reed richards you are hilarious #same as the green goblin actually he's so funny. “i'll make it my favourite color! green!”#superheros and villains are so funny when you think about them.#sci speaks #i dont know why superhero media is trying to trick me into taking these guys seriously. theyre so stupid goofy. all of them.#batman?? you want me to take a guy who runs with the name batman seriously???

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artphotographyofmen · 7 months

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Cyborg by Brendon and Brian Fraim

#cyborg #Brian Fraim #brendon Fraim #Victor stone #vic stone #art #artwork #dc comics #teen titans #dcu #dc universe #dc superheroes #dc heroes #d.c comics #d.c. comics #superheroes of color

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dianaof-themyscira · 2 years

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Captain America by Tom Reilly

#tom reilly #art #artwork #captain America #Sam Wilson #marvel #marvel superheroes #marvel heroes #marvel universe #marvel comics #superheroes of color #black superheroes

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kaetor · 2 years

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For the color palette challenge, idk why but the first time I heard “Could have been me”-by The Struts, I immediately think of Tim Drake like how this would be the background music if he gets the chance to change into his new hero name+costume in a heated battle and this would be the mark of him out growing the Robin mantle

yoo! I like this song a lot it makes me nostalgic because it sounds a lot like a lot of songs I used to listen to when I was very small. I'm using your ask as an excuse to draw Tim in one of my many designs for possible new codename costumes for him >:)

(id in alt)

ask game

#tim drake #dc #dc comics #dcu #batfam #red robin #i gotta post those little designs i did for him #im not 100% sold on them but some of them are solidly solid #its simply that the doc that has all the tim designs also housed a superboy and Every Other Robin so it'd take. so much. to describe #outfit/costume designs take the most words to describe and superhero costumes r the worst because I cant just say things #like 'shes wearing a pink tank top'#anyways.#color palette challenge #song palettes #k-art #cleb art

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theshadowrealmitself · 11 months

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Back to the Spiderman au I have where Peter has radioactive venom and accidentally bites Miles when the kid is trying to help him, and because he’s so full of guilt at accidentally doing this to the kid (especially in one of those universes where people absolutely hate the x-men and stuff, being mutated might ruin that person’s life), he takes him under his wing to teach him everything about his new powers and before he knows it, Miles is working alongside him as a new hero

For that au, I’m now thinking about that version of Peter trying to rescue Gwen, and in the end the only thing that can help her is for her to be turned, so he shares his venom, and to Peter it’s this incredibly horrible event where he’s dragged another person into this life of being mutated, but Miles, who is next to him and has never once been unhappy about gaining powers, is like “welcome to the web warriors!!! you’re one of us now!!! :D”

#my incredibly self indulgent spiderman au #originally I was thinking that only Peter gets all his hair changed to red and blue because he’s both born as a mutant #and later turned radioactive #but actually I think it would be fun if every person who gets turned gets their hair changed into their color scheme #miles gets red and also keeps his black hair #what would Gwen get?#if it’s like her ghost spidey alt self maybe white and pink hair?#Spiderman #spider man #spider-man #peter parker #miles morales #Gwen Stacy #I like to imagine that while Peter has all this angst attached to his backstory and being Spidey #Miles is just enjoying every second of it #not to say that Peter doesn’t also enjoy being Spidey #just it’s balanced with the angst #Miles hasn’t really experienced that angst #yet?#I kinda wanna keep him just a happy superhero doing good because it’s the right thing to do without trauma pushing him towards it #y’know?

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spacebubblehomebase · 3 months

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(3/6) "R is for Redemption." 💚

Damian Al Ghul Wayne is the fifth Robin. He was a child who grew up with conflicting ideals. Yet ever since he put his new title into action, he realized that much of what he was raised to be was wrong. Hoping for repentance, he chose to find his own path and show everyone that his past doesn't completely define him. To prove to the world that people could change. Robin gifted him with a better purpose, gave him another chance, and so he now patrol the streets as a Guardian of Gotham to give unto others what Robin gave to him. -Bubbly💙

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