"Diverse" works that aren't woke - when diversity does not fuck a movie/game/book/show up

[Mister Mint]

90’s cartoons managed to do it alright.

Not really a cartoon, but there were definitely things in the 90s that took it too far.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Not really a cartoon, but there were definitely things in the 90s that took it too far. View attachment 3293233

Yeah, but that wasn’t really in your face or shaming you for being white or anything.

 

[Liber Pater]

The Searchers, arguably.
It's not a clear-cut pro-White film, but it's not a two-dimensional representation of racial conflict either.

 

[Tism the Return]

Cobra Kai does it pretty well as far as recent shows go.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Community

They actually added more tokens in the final season and everyone was fine with them.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Annihilation is an excellent movie with a very diverse cast and not a sound was made about it.

My friend and I were talking about this as soon as we finished watching it in theaters. He unfortunately saw the Ghostbusters reboot and the first thing he said to me was "this is what the ghostbusters reboot wishes it could do in terms of quality"

 

[do you like my hat]

"The girl with all the gifts", both the book and the movie. The movie is probably one of the few cases where race-swapping the cast doesn't hurt the story. Although the teacher is one of the few genuinely decent adults involved in the plot (obligatory dark past tho) so I'm not sure why they changed her to a white lady, but eh.

 

[MysticMisty]

Lando Calrissian? I hear Billy Dee Williams complained that he didn't want to be the token black guy in Star Wars, but I'd be very surprised if anyone thought of him that way.

I've encountered exactly one person who thought Lando was the token black guy and had a major hateboner for him. To his credit the guy was black himself, but that was about it since his explanation for why he sucked didn't make a lot of sense. Granted he also thought chicken and waffles is racist as fuck so there you go.

But yeah at least before the sequel trilogy no one made a big deal about Lando, people thought he was a cool character with a cool sense of style and the fact that he was black is irrelevant.

 

[Anti-Social Social Club]

I think Ms.Marvel (Kamala) was pretty good, I remember being pleasantly surprised about it. Although I think most people see it as the "height of woke" in the comic book industry and by extension they view Kamala as a flagship character for that trend, the volumes I read were really anything but that and I felt that the writer (I forgot her name) tried to avoid Kamla falling into that trap. Her biggest problem was getting tied down to Captain Marvel (Carol) but that's not exactly her problem, the KSD just couldn't come up with a proper transition for Carol.

Brooklyn 99 fits the bill. It has ethnic, racial and sexual diversity yet manages manages it balances being funny while bringing up serious topics. The characters all have flaws.

 

[Toolbox]

The first game in the new wolfenstein trilogy, Wolfenstein The New Order. Basically has a burger king kids club diversity sheet, including a woman who is wheelchair bound for the majority of the game and a literal retard, but doesn't push any woke bullshit with any of it. They are treated like actual characters and are developed well, including the guy who has a chunk cut out of his head. And the gameplay is about some of the best there is in an FPS. The only inklings of modern message bs is one cutscene on an alternative path and optional notes you can collect and read that imply one of the main characters, after willingly having sex with nazis in order to kill them secretly, later aborts her bab(ies) and thinks of it as killing additional nazis or some nonsense. But again this is just an implication on one character and you could easily say they're unreliable. As for the story over all it is some crazy cool dark alternate history plot, with classic comically evil nazi characters that aren't based on modern politics.

They did have to go about and ruin this whole set up in the second game (the prequel is still great though) and then trash it altogether in the third.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Without a hint of irony. Captain Planet.

Not sorry.

 

[mr.moon1488]

I thought the Elder Scrolls games did a pretty good job of this. There were numerous different groups, and most of them had pretty complex love/hate relationships with each other, and very distinctly different cultures, which is a fairly realistic way to present things.

 

[Dysnomia]

Jem. The band was diverse. The Starlight House kids were diverse. But it wasn't in your face and everyone was just presented as regular girls with their own personalities.

 

[That Chris Guy]

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Without a hint of irony. Captain Planet.

Not sorry.

You're not wrong. There was never any blame laid on race, only bad people committing crimes.

Helps that their rogues gallery were never portrayed as redeemable too.

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

Pretty much anything from before 2012 I guess. As a sci fi fag I can watch things like Star Trek TNG, DS9, Babylon 5, BSG 2004, etc with their loads of diversity without getting that same pervasive sense of being beaten over the head with the fact some woke quota is met

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Power Rangers. Turbo, SPD, and RPM had black red ranger and Ninja Storm had a Hindu red ranger, but they didn’t whine about race as they were more focused on delivering cheesy one liners in Super Sentai stock footage.

 

[MaxPayne]

Dead island (Sam B. is an honorary Aryan) and Aliens

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Power Rangers. Turbo, SPD, and RPM had black red ranger and Ninja Storm had a Hindu red ranger, but they didn’t whine about race as they were more focused on delivering cheesy one liners in Super Sentai stock footage.

Mighty Morphin was pretty diverse too... even if they accidentally did a racism in hindsight. The red ranger, though they didn’t know it when he was hired, was Native American. The blue Ranger was a white, possibly Jewish gay guy, the black ranger was a jogger, the yellow ranger was an Asian and the pink ranger was a white girl.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Mighty Morphin was pretty diverse too... even if they accidentally did a racism in hindsight. The red ranger, though they didn’t know it when he was hired, was Native American. The blue Ranger was a white, possibly Jewish gay guy, the black ranger was a jogger, the yellow ranger was an Asian and the pink ranger was a white girl.

For some reasons, Megaforce used the same demographics as Samurai: white Red Ranger, black blue ranger, white yellow ranger, Hispanic/Islamic (don’t know exact race) green/black ranger, and Asian pink ranger.

 

[John Titor]

Enter the Spiderverse. Miles was not trying to be Black Spiderman and his race is completely irrelevant.

On the manga front, Level E had a story about a FtM transgender struggling with finding a partner and it's written in a way woketards wish they could write.

I also remember this kid's show called the Puzzle Place and starred puppets of kids of different races. The diversity moral usually boils down to "don't be a dick". There was an episode where some of the kids were mocking the token White kid's tradition (some kind of Swedish dance or something) and he called them out on it and said they wouldn't like it if their traditions were mocked. Try making that today.

One of my kids is rewatching Malcom in the Middle, and it wasn’t until the third season or so that I realized how diverse it really was. All of Hal’s friends are black dudes and aside from a joke or two about it, it’s never mentioned

They even made fun of Lois for having an SJW moment because she was sperging over an advertisement that had a Black janny selling malt liquor.