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Eve being the Norman Osborn to Kaitlyn's Peter Parker?

I would agree if the casting directors were putting out a casting call for black actors for the Human Torch for the sake of diversity, but I don't think that's the case. Maybe they originally had a white actor in mind, but Jordan's audition or previous body of work was more impressive. Maybe he won the role on his own merits and not as a token hire.

Actors like Will Smith and Halle Berry made entire careers out of playing roles that were originally intended for white actors because they had the best audition etc. And I bet that a lot folks that are whining about this didn't bat an eyelash when Angelina Jolie played a black woman, or Ben Kingsley played an Indian man (both roles being of real people, not fictional characters), or Hugo Weaving played an Asian man or the countless other "white washing" that has been going on in Hollywood for decades.

Hopefully, if Jordan knocks it out the park, all the controversy will blow over. But us nerds can be a stubborn bunch.

I had read that it was more the higher up editors who were the ones who had problems with the Xorn/Magneto thing than Claremont. The only thing that he did that affected Morrion's plans was the Cat-Beast thing, and the fact he wanted Storm for his Xtreme X-Men run (fun fact: Morrison had originally planned for Cyclops to have the affair with Storm). But count me amoung those who didn't care for the Xorn/Magneto thing. My biggest issue was Morrsion's reasoning: that he was to finally taking Magneto out of the equation and for the X-Men to move past him. Well the problem was prior to his run they already did. The dude was sitting crippled in Genosha no longer a threat to them (despite being a ruler of an all-mutant country).

After Eve of Destruction, there a was a ton of storyline potential with Genosha that writers could've worked with for years that I was so looking forward to and Magneto's new role in that would have been an interesting to read about. But nope, first storyline in, Morrison wipes that all away to prop up a cliche' evil twin villain who's only been used once since (briefly) during Joss Whedon run on Astonishing. I had let that slide, but then he brought back Magneto only to turn him practically Nazi (yeah, yeah, Sublime influence *rolls eyes*), all that character progression, all those years of stories, ignored for a storyline. He couldn't just leave the character dead to accomplish ultimately the same damn thing. 

I had no problem with the Cyclops/Emma affair myself, it makes sense when you think about all the times Jean was borderline cheating on Scott for years. And I enjoyed most of Morrsion's run. It's only E Is for Extinction, Planet X, and Here Comes Tomorrow are what I didn't care for. 

The Dark Knight series was the perfect balance. It borrowed heavily from comics but applications of the many stories referenced with the original screen play was brilliant.

If they ever did a live action Dark Knight Returns, I'd say he'd be perfect to play an ageing Joker.

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