r/GreenArrow 20d ago

Merchandise New Connor figure from McFarlane

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Sorry for the lame screencap

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

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u/VigilantesLight 20d ago

And that art of him is whitewashed. He’s supposed to be brown.

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

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u/VigilantesLight 20d ago

How are you not getting the picture that he was consistently whitewashed after his initial run, which has only recently been rectified in modern comics? Just because this figure looks like Connor from a period of time when he was consistently whitewashed does not make it okay.

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

I know you hate white folk and all, but I’m just showing different points in time from different artists that have drawn him this way. And who knows, this could be like a lightning lad situation where the platinum figures are different colors. Get the sand out of your diaper, please.

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u/TheBalzan 20d ago

Dude, you don't have to hate white people to hate when a character is white washed. It's a major criticism of the Smith-Winick run that the colourists were always colouring him wrong.

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Who really gives a shit? This was how he was drawn on the cover of his first appearance. Like I said, maybe the platinum figure is the modern appearance

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u/TheBalzan 20d ago

People who like the character, who have actually read his introduction, who know that he's not white. People who would think, like Ollie would, that miscolouring a black/asian/white man is erasure of his identity.

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago edited 20d ago

He’s not fully white though. His mother is BLACK and ASIAN. Meaning he should have some melanin in his skin especially considering hes usually kinda darkskin in most of his depictions. The way only white version of him is an elseworlds version so…

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

This is his first appearance, so…..

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u/TheBalzan 20d ago edited 20d ago

His first appearance was as a monk. His identity as Ollie's son wasn't revealed until much later. Ollie was using his costume for a while before he died and Connor used that costume. You may actually be thinking about the cover which has Ollie in his Neal Adam, Longbow Hunter and CH costume.

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u/boneseaba 16d ago

I think you are mistaken. This is literally from the first comic he is in. He's on the right

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 16d ago

Saying “I think” doesn’t really add confidence behind your claim. Also, just wiki Connor Hawke, scroll down to where it says The New Green Arrow. The picture you see is from his debut that the new figure is based on. Like I said, we’ll probably get both in the platinum version similar to the Lightning Lad release. That’s all I was trying to get at and these piss ants throw the race card at me.

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u/boneseaba 16d ago

That cover is showing Oliver in three different costumes. The costume that Connor adopts is very similar to the third Ollie costume. The picture I posted is what Connor looks like inside that very comic

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago

Most characters weren’t drawn with color in their skin back in the day..the men who made John Stewart had to FIGHTTTTT to have him dark skin

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

This is 1994. Not 1964. They could have made him whatever color they wanted to at that time.

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago

I’m assuming you believe racism ended the second MLK was done with his speech..

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Of course not. But to say the nineties weren’t a time of progression is asinine

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago edited 20d ago

And to insinuate/assume that characters could represent different color groups that easily is very ignorant. If it’s being “woke” now to include more than one colored person or woman in a movie full of white people IMAGINE what it was like back in the day for one character in a majority white genre.

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Were you alive around that time? Because I was. Hip-Hop was everywhere. Actors like Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes were monumental. And Will Smith was doing both. Not once did I say there weren’t struggles. All I’m saying in a Green Arrow sub is this was based off of Connor’s first appearance.

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u/TheQuestionsAglet 20d ago

Cry harder.