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*** Especially appalling is that the latter comic, when it provoked a seemingly obvious reaction, was claimed to be an attempt to honor both religions. Since Hart had previously said that ""Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn in Hell", nobody bought it.
**** Then there's the logic of Christianity being in a comic named "'''B'''efore '''C'''hrist".
* One of the biggest examples was Luke Cage. He became almost a [[Malcolm Xerox|black supremacist]]. At the start of ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', Cage opted to remain home and bother no one, as he felt that all people have a right to do so. Throughout the Civil War, Cage fought alongside [[Captain America (comics)]], as he believed that he had to fight for the rights of his child and the country as a whole. Despite this, during Storm and Black Panther's wedding, he suddenly wanted to just up and leave for Wakanda. To make things worse, he wanted to take all of the black heroes, and ''only'' the black heroes (his wife, too), and start a "Black Avengers" team. Not only is that racist (bordering elitist), but it is as good as saying that the whole mess is just white people's fault, and that [[Somebody Else's Problem|only white people should deal with it]]. Combined with the fact that when black protesters started to riot outside the White House (for no other reason than Black Panther left early), and a sentinel driven by Jim Rhodes was downed and the protesters saw who he was, and they called him a traitor and sell-out because he was black, the overall impression from the comic was that the Registration Act was anti-blacks, and that any black people who supported it were [[Category Traitor|traitors to their own race]]. Also, when one of his colleagues asked Rhodey his opinion on Panther, Rhodey called him a racist for no reason. The comic was so focused on race that it drew unfortunate implications against white ''and'' black people: that whites are the cause of America's problems and black people cannot associate with them and that all black people care about is people of their own race. This coming from a man who married a white woman and named their daughter after his white best friend.
** [[Reginald Hudlin]], who may have been responsible for the above, also wrote a story where [[Black Panther]] visited New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and saved the local black community from white supremacist vampires that were sucking them dry ([[Anvilicious|subtle]]). And then there's the time Black Panther visited a world of alien shapeshifters... all the evil warlike ones had shapeshifted to look like white 1920s gangsters, and all the good peaceloving ones had shapeshifted to look like black Civil Rights leaders...and the evil ones were in control and made the good ones fight in a gladiator arena, basically as slaves ([[Anvilicious|even more subtle]]). And then there's the time Hudlin retold the history of the world, retconning Panther's homeland of Wakanda into a [[Mary Suetopia|black utopia]] that was thousands of years more advanced than anywhere else even back in the Stone Age, remaining ahead of the curve ever since, and eventually, in a flashforward to the future, taking over the world and ushering in a Golden Age, shortly after America elects Luke Cage president.
** Regarding Hudlin and Black Panther, there's the way he shoved Storm and Black Panther into marriage. One thing necessary for that was to leave Storm's long time love interest Forge to the sidelines. Forge also happens to be a Cheyenne. So it is all right to trample on another historically oppressed minority for the betterment of blacks?
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** [[Out-of-Character Moment]] aside, one could argue that it's a parody, except it's clearly not a parody of Captain America. It's not a parody of the writing or characterization trends of a distinct era. If it's not the character, and it's not the comic itself, then what's it--[[Eagle Land|oh]]. And this wasn't a one-off; look up "Surrender? SURRENDER?! You think this letter on my forehead stands for ''France''?" on [[Take That/Comic Books|the relevant Take That sub page]].
*** Actually, that scene is probably a meta comment on how the character of Monica Rambeau/Captain Marvel was handled in ''[[The Avengers]]'' in the 1980s. Writer Roger Stern had fleshed her out as a strong female hero, who eventually became the leader of The Avengers. However, Marvel editor Mark Gruenwald wanted to bring back Captain America as the leader of the team, and this was to be done by showing Monica to be an inferior leader compared to Cap. Stern thought doing that to one of the few black female superheroes Marvel had at the time would have [[Unfortunate Implications]], so he refused to write the story and was replaced by another writer. The replacement writer did the story Gruenwald wanted: Monica was [[Brought Down to Normal]], retired the from The Avengers, and Cap became their leader again. You can read more about it [http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/08/11/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-11/ here].
** Fortunately, [[Captain America (comics)]] did realize that he was being an idiot and later said that he did not know why he said that.
* Tyroc from "[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]". Apparently someone back in the 70's pointed it out to DC Comics that just about EVERY member of this HUGE group of heroes was WHITE. So DC tried to change that, and introduced a character named Tyroc. Apparently as a means to explain this long-standing absence of black people in the Legion comics, and possibly due to meddling from the editor of said comic (who apparently had some issues), Tyroc's people (and apparently every black person in existence) were on a hidden island on Earth that's cut off from everyone else. So yeah... this didn't really work out.
** In an active case of [[Writer Revolt]], artist Mike Grell deliberately designed Tyroc to look as ridiculous as possible due to an origin he called "a segregationist's dream".
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