February 17th, 2012 at 1:34AM

POC that DC whitewashes on a regular basis

fyeahlilbitoeverything:

morallyambiguous:

  • Damian Wayne
  • Rose Wilson
  • Talia Al’Ghul
  • Connor Hawke
  • Vixen
  • (Pretty much any POC character has been lightened up or “European”-ized  at least once in their existence)

Anyone mind tellng me which ones I’m missing?

 Cass Cain gets it pretty bad sometimes. Super pale skin and blue or green eyes.

Shilo Norman and Jason Rusch also fall victim from time to time.

The most appalling thing about Talia is that you can generally tell what kind of role she’s going to play based on her skin tone. Lighter? Good! Darker? Evil!

Artemis in the Young Justice comics has a completely different skin tone (and eye colour) than Artemis in the show. 

Both Cheshire and Shiva get this too, but I don’t know if I’d call it a regular thing.

In her first appearance, Lian was a redhead, but they fixed that fairly quickly. Unless you’re reading Kingdom Come.

  1. amy-says-relax answered: I think you’re confusing “whitewashed” with “characters who are actually half white.” Sorry.
  2. fireladyphoenix reblogged this from morallyambiguous
  3. chameleonlurks answered: wait, rose isn’t white? (i don’t know her backstory)
  4. nolackofloquaciousness reblogged this from shobogan
  5. pintofdicks reblogged this from shobogan and added:
    i dont have anyone to add but it was really baffling in final crisis when shilo normans skin color changed halfway...
  6. nova-bright reblogged this from shobogan and added:
    Isn’t Dick Grayson part Romani? Seeing him as v pale skinned is always a bit of a side eye moment for me, really.
  7. coulbitches answered: ohmg rose wilson is a poc
  8. daggerpen reblogged this from shobogan
  9. shobogan reblogged this from fyeahlilbitoeverything and added:
    The most appalling thing about Talia is that you can generally tell what kind of role she’s going to play based on her...
  10. tomorrowwoman answered: I don’t think that erver made it into the comics though. (Jenni) It was only in previews and the like.
  11. thadthawne reblogged this from morallyambiguous and added:
    Jenni Ognats was at one point turned in to a pail blond girl. It was a coloring mistake that they
  12. thenakedlibrarianontheroof reblogged this from fyeahlilbitoeverything and added:
    I have a real problem with this with Jenny Quantum. Pre-reboot, it was hard to tell, in the art where she was still a...
  13. thecapedraccoon reblogged this from fyeahlilbitoeverything and added:
    Remember that time they did a Flashclan picture with a white Jenni And we all cried??
  14. ragnell answered: Empress, the last two times she showed up.
  15. teddy-assman answered: wait, if connor is 1/4 vietnamese, 1/4 african american and 1/2 caucasian how has he got blonde hair and green eyes just how
  16. bunnybotbaby reblogged this from fyeahlilbitoeverything
  17. fyeahlilbitoeverything reblogged this from morallyambiguous and added:
    gets it pretty bad sometimes. Super pale skin and blue...green eyes. Shilo Norman and...
  18. morallyambiguous posted this
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