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* A particularly common theme in comics is to have black scientists as well, especially circa the 1970s or 80s, where it would likely have seemed ironic and well intentioned of the writers- Cyborg's parents (and his love interest at STAR Labs), Bumblebee of the Teen Titans, and more. Marvel examples include Thunderball (the ''only'' black member of the universally idiotic thugs in The Wrecking Crew was the brilliant nuclear physicist), Vermin, and streetwise more standard-type geniuses like Hobie Brown, among others. There's also Chimestro (Hood's go to science guy) and Deadly Nightshade from MODOK'S 11.
* Arguably the reason that [[Marvel Universe|Black Panther's]] African country of Wakanda should be lifting into the air and hovering far above the backwards, petty influence of all those... well, every other ethnicity there is... any day now.
* There was a time in the 1980s when [[Marvel Comics]]' two flagship ensemble teams, the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], both had black female leaders. However, there's a reason why Storm caught on with readers and became a very popular character and [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Marvel]] (yes, that [[Nextwave|Captain Marvel]]) did not. Basically, the latter was a girl scout who was as close to being [[The Cape (trope)]] without actually wearing one, whereas the former actually had more than one dimension and is an interesting character in her own right.
** In addition to Storm of the X-Men and Monica "Formerly Known as Captain Marvel" Rambeau of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] and [[Nextwave]], Slingshot naturally gravitated to the leadership role of [[Dynamo 5]], Skyrocket was the field leader of the Power Company, Misty Knight led Heroes for Hire, Vixen briefly gravitated to the leadership role of the [[Justice League]], Jet of the Global Guardians, Vaporlock of Infinity Incorporated, Kid Quantum II of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]], Amanda Waller of the [[Suicide Squad]] ... basically, if you put a black woman on a superhero team, chances are she'll be running the show eventually. Oh, and Bumblebee ended up leading Titans East on the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' cartoon.
* Although in theory ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'' (like ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' itself) is non-discriminatory in its negative stereotypes and ''everyone'' was supposed to be a blockhead, the Superior Squad (a superhero team led by Bart Simpson's favorite comic-book character Radioactive Man that fought supervillains between the 1950s and 1990s) mostly adhered to this trope. The team consisted of six men and two women - and guess which two were the most positively portrayed? One of the females, Lure Lass, was a regular [[Mary Sue]], while the other, Weasel Woman, did have ''some'' flaws but was braver and more [[Badass]] than everyone else on the team, including Radioactive Man himself. In contrast, the two most profoundly flawed Superior Squad members were male, as well as the two ostensibly most powerful: Purple Heart (who later changed his name to [[Bourgeois Bohemian|"Bleeding Heart"]], then to [[Darker and Edgier|"Heart of Darkness"]], then to "Bleeding Heart" again, and finally to [[Bloody Hilarious|"Bloody Heart"]]), who was your standard [[Small Name, Big Ego|Ted Baxter]] type, and RM himself, who was well-meaning but very much a [[Windmill Crusader]] and rather stupid.
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