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** A much earlier issue from the 1980's had a similar set-up, but with a much more negative message. Hawkeye is unfairly kicked off the team in favor of [[the Falcon]] (an African American), and Falcon ultimately quits because he hates the idea of only being asked to join the Avengers to serve as the [[Token Minority]].
* A major criticism concerning the introduction of Miles Morales, a black/hispanic child who replaces the [[Ultimate Universe]] version of Spider-Man after he's killed off. While, legacy characters themselves aren't exactly a problem no matter their race (not to mention that the future, half hispanic, replacement for Spider-Man is a very popular character), except that Miles Morales was ''specifically'' created to be a black version of Spider-Man. The creators and current EIC defended this as 'not being political corectness', but when you kill off a white character for no reason other than to replace them and their replacement's entire reason for creation being 'to be black', it ''really'' comes off as having a [[Token Minority]] version of Spider-Man.
* In more recent times, concerns have arisen regarding a growing tendency by certain authors over putting heavyhanded socio-political commentary and [[Author Tract]]s in lieu of plot or good writing. This reached a nadir in 2016 when [[Marvel Comics]] published an issue of ''Angela, Queen of Hel'' that's all that [[Up to Eleven|and then some]]. The issue has since gone down in infamy as the source of the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/unsolicited-opinions-on-israel Unsolicited Opinions on Israel???]] meme.
** In 2016, ''another'' controversy in Marvel erupted with the release of ''[[Captain America]]: Steve Rogers'', which revealed Cap to be a sleeper HYDRA agent, and thus by implication [[Those Wacky Nazis|a Nazi]]. Combined with the general writing of the issue shoehorning in contemporary issues as part of the [[Red Skull]]'s propaganda speech (while unintentionally humanizing him), this has led to myriad [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/captain-hydra-captain-america-hail-hydra-edits Captain Hydra] [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] and related accusations of characters and whole comics' credibility being sacrificed in the name of pushing a political agenda.
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