Villains have their own fanbase and POC villains are treated more like monsters of the week. I was just musing that there were a couple of aspects of the story that would have been very, very bad to put a POC in that role.
I totally agree. There would have probably been a bit of a racist reaction to a brown actor playing Khan, as there is always with female or POC characters. Especially since there are some aspects of Khan's story that don't make him a very sympathetic character to everyone.
And, now that I think of it, it's sort of defunct because they showed a POC as a suicide bomber, which isn't any better or less offensive.
True, although at least they showed the reason why the dude became a suicide bomber in the first place. I teared up a little during that whole part of the movie because you could see how desperate he was to save his kid and how much he hated himself for what he was about to do.
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I totally agree. There would have probably been a bit of a racist reaction to a brown actor playing Khan, as there is always with female or POC characters. Especially since there are some aspects of Khan's story that don't make him a very sympathetic character to everyone.
And, now that I think of it, it's sort of defunct because they showed a POC as a suicide bomber, which isn't any better or less offensive.
True, although at least they showed the reason why the dude became a suicide bomber in the first place. I teared up a little during that whole part of the movie because you could see how desperate he was to save his kid and how much he hated himself for what he was about to do.