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

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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.

Malcolm in The Middle always was truly unique when it comes to portraying people of different races and backgrounds. We got Hal's friends, who are educated black dudes with good jobs, Stevie who is a black disabled kid, and yet he did't let his disability hold him back, and not to mention this scene.


"You white boys are the same, i got dark skin so i must dance with the birds and listen to the spirit of the wind? i got news for you, i work for a living, i'm baptized and i'm proud of it!"

It's like Malcolm in the Middle treated non-whites as you know... people.
 
Malcolm in The Middle always was truly unique when it comes to portraying people of different races and backgrounds. We got Hal's friends, who are educated black dudes with good jobs, Stevie who is a black disabled kid, and yet he did't let his disability hold him back, and not to mention this scene.


"You white boys are the same, i got dark skin so i must dance with the birds and listen to the spirit of the wind? i got news for you, i work for a living, i'm baptized and i'm proud of it!"

It's like Malcolm in the Middle treated non-whites as you know... people.
Even "owning the bigots" was tastefully done there too. If we had a racist grandma like theirs, we would troll her with Black friends too.
 
Final Fantasy IX had one of the most diverse casts in an RPG. You had a boy with a monkey tail, a young black mage, two girls that belong to a tribe of horned summoners, a rat lady that fought as a dragoon, a weird clown looking thing with a massive tongue, and a large green skinned man with massive firearms and dreads.Steiner was probably the only full on human out of the entirety of the main playable characters.

Then you had the temporary party members like Blank, who looks like some kind of Frankenstein experiment, and General Beatrix who wears a fancy looking eyepatch.

On top of all that, they were all interesting and well written characters. Their off the wall character designs didn’t carry them.

… Oh, we’re talking about real world diversity? Whoops.
 
Having been a recently film, it's amazing that Bill & Ted Face the Music did not trash the title duo so that their daughters, Billie and Thea, would be the new faces of the series going forward. Even though the only white male musician that is recruited the past is Mozart, he too is not belittled for his skin color, sex, or social class. It was a good conclusion for the characters of Bill and Ted while there could be potential for daughters to be the focus in a spin-off entry.
 
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The Magic School Bus - Several characters are different races. It's just about these kids going on some crazy fieldtrips with their teacher Miss. Frizzle.

Holes - A subplot in the past has a romance between a black man and a white woman. The black man named Sam is killed by the towns folk and the white woman Kate becomes a criminal after he is killed. After Sam is killed it stops raining at Camp Green Lake for 100 years.

Sayonora - A 1950s film about a romance between an American man in the military and a Japanese woman. They both know the risk of being together but risk it anyway.
 
Holes - A subplot in the past has a romance between a black man and a white woman. The black man named Sam is killed by the towns folk and the white woman Kate becomes a criminal after he is killed. After Sam is killed it stops raining at Camp Green Lake for 100 years.

Awesome book, awesome movie.
 
I liked Scream, seemed a little woke at the start but turned out not to be.
There was a lesbian who was bullied, but it seemed like the original plan was to have her be a killer because her best friend started hanging out with the popular, show got cancelled before it could tell the full story and had different producers for season 2
 
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Recently saw Matilda the Musical. It had a theatrical run despite being a Netflix thing, so I saw it in the theater.

A lot of characters were race-swapped, like Miss Honey and Mrs Phelps. It seemed like that they were trying to fill some kind of race quota, but other than that, it wasn't all that woke.

Still kept some politically incorrect things in there, like the fact that the Trunchbull is quite clearly a closeted lesbian, a psychotic one at that. My mom also thought that the opening song was very pro-life in nature.
 
Menace II Society - two 21 year-old black/Armenian brothers who didn't even finish high school, let alone go to film school, managed to make one of the best movies of the 1990s. No bullshit moralizing, just a really downbeat movie that doesn't pull any punches.

Also basically every Walter Hill movie - you always get a diverse cast of criminals, crooked-cops, ruthless military guys, mercenaries, etc. but it's never patronizing and they all are constantly throwing around slurs at each other.
 
Menace II Society - two 21 year-old black/Armenian brothers who didn't even finish high school, let alone go to film school, managed to make one of the best movies of the 1990s. No bullshit moralizing, just a really downbeat movie that doesn't pull any punches.
Indeed, fantastic film.
Also basically every Walter Hill movie - you always get a diverse cast of criminals, crooked-cops, ruthless military guys, mercenaries, etc. but it's never patronizing and they all are constantly throwing around slurs at each other.\
I watched Extreme Prejudice for the first time recently and appreciated the diversity and the "nigger-faggot" scene, lol.
 
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The Silence of The Lambs did a lot to portray the reasoning as to why being a transgender, or trans person, is not something that should make you special. Plus, it didn’t have to do the 41% joke that has become famous on the Internet — it showed a wild fascination as to why both serial killers and cannibals are who they are.
 
The Silence of The Lambs did a lot to portray the reasoning as to why being a transgender, or trans person, is not something that should you make you special. Plus, it didn’t have to do the 41% joke that has become famous on the Internet — it showed a wild fascination as to why both serial killers and cannibals are who they are.

There was the awkward disclaimer that Buffalo Bill was not actually trans, but oh well.
 
The titular Gargoyles are from Scotland, and one of them (Lexington IIRC) is confirmedly gay. They were brought over to Manhattan by not-quite-so-evil mastermind David Xanatos, a guy of Greek descent. Their main ally Elisa Maza is half-Latina, half-Black. Her mother is even a legit African immigrant.

Minor characters also tended to be fairly diverse with only the occasional mention of their racial background. One that always struck me well was the blind war vet who became a celebrated author and later taught Hudson how to read via Braille books. The guy was black, and that's it.

And there's quite a number of episodes delving with diverse cultures as well. For instance, they dealt with the tale of the Jewish Golem in the Czech Republic, a kid who could turn into motherfucking Cu Chulainn in Ireland, a native guy in the US-Canada border who was in doubt about the true value of his native heritage in the face of modern science, a former villain who went into the Australian desert seeking for redemption in the Aboriginal Dreamtime, so on and so forth. None of them bashed you over the head about inclusion or whatnot. It did have some incisive, lesson-to-be-learned shit here and there, but those were treated with actual care and came off as decent lessons as well. Read a book, don't play with guns, preserve nature, etc.
It was all but stated he was a veteran of the Vietnam war, or something around the time am I correct on that?
 
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There was the awkward disclaimer that Buffalo Bill was not actually trans, but oh well.
To be fair, he wouldn't have been as trans was understood at the time. The doctors easily picked up that he wasn't distressed by his gender or sexuality in any significant manner but that he was a miserable nut case in general. Trans was just "the answer" he managed to stumble in first and got obsessed to point that nothing could convince him otherwise.

Bill didn't have any special issues with his gender to start with but he did hate himself and he couldn't cope with life. He found about transitioning and how it could make him better, because of course he hates himself when he supposed to be a woman. Unfortunately doctors didn't agree with him and didn't play his game. Him being so nuts and having gotten obsessed with idea, rather trying to get accurate diagnosis and treatment for his actual issues, goes with his next idea of a woman suit because it fits him being right and there being hope because he was right.

Bill was basically just desperately looking explanation for his feelings, any explanation that could lead out. If something else had gotten him first he would have gone with that cult, hobby, religion, hard drug or gang, and gotten equally obsessed and willing to do awful things for it. That's why Hannibal says he isn't trans, the desire for transitioning was clearly just a cope for something else. Clarice was better off looking how an obsessive mind works, not gender identity issues as they were understood back then.
 
the desire for transitioning was clearly just a cope for something else. Clarice was better off looking how an obsessive mind works, not gender identity issues as they were understood back then.

Huh, interesting.

Guess we have more evidence now in favor that they ALL want transitioning as a cope for something else? Undiagnosed mental problems?
 
It was all but stated he was a veteran of the Vietnam war, or something around the time am I correct on that?
Exactly.

Another episode I remembered was when Broadway toyed around with Elisa's gun, and ended up shooting her in the gut by accident. Nowadays it would be the perfect excuse to do an anti-gun diatribe, but instead they went with a perfectly reasonable gun safety angle. The point of the episode was very much "Guns are not toys, and they should not be left around unsafe".
I'm still not conformed that Greg Weisman bent the knee to the woke crowd. But I guess he already had a propension for that shit.
 
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