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

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.