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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Scarlet Witch wasn't originally Romani.... she was originally still Jewish. You know, since she was Magneto's daughter. The Romani thing came later. So that's kind of a mischaracterization. The Johnny Depp as native american was super wierd, like the black face RDJ in Tropic Thunder. It was cringe @.@.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how people got that take from Tropic Thunder when they explicitly make reference inside the movie to how messed up and wrong it was. Like, that was the joke. RDJ was playing a character so full of himself that took method acting to it's extreme. Am I missing something? Id love to be educated

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago

No, you're right. RDJ's role on that movie was a joke/commentary about both method acting and black face.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

No, you're not, people are taking good intentions too far like usual. The entire joke of that character was that he crossed the line

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

like the black face RDJ in Tropic Thunder. It was cringe @.@.

Did you actually see Tropic Thunder? It's pretty good. His character is meant to be looked down on and the movie makes that clear. It's more of a criticism of actors doing things like black face and playing disabled characters to chase awards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I did! I will admit I don't remember as much of it as I should have as I was not paying full attention at the time. Might give it a more genuine watch again sometime.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Every aspect of Tropic Thunder was absolutely hilarious and if you found that movie offensive or cringe then clearly the jokes of that movie flew wayyyyy the fuck over your head.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Scarlet Witch wasn't originally Romani.... she was originally still Jewish. You know, since she was Magneto's daughter. The Romani thing came later.

She could still be both from each parent's side?

That would make her... Jewmani? Rowish?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never play Jewmani, you can get sucked into the game and it’s like WWII or smth

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BTW I checked Wikipedia and it's hilarious how often her ancestry changed

The character's in-universe backstory and parentage have changed more than once. During the 1960s, she and Quicksilver were said to be the mutant twin offspring of two unnamed parents. Later, it was said the children were given to the geneticist called the High Evolutionary, leaving their true parentage a mystery. In 1974, it was said their parents are Golden Age heroes Bob Frank / Whizzer and Madeline Joyce Frank / Miss America. Wanda then refers to herself as Wanda Frank for a time. In 1979, they are revealed to have been raised by human Romani parents, Django and Marya Maximoff. In 1982, Magneto concludes he and a human Sinti woman named Magda are Wanda and Pietro's parents. In 2014, the AXIS crossover revealed Pietro and Wanda are not related to Magneto. In 2015, the twins discover they are not mutants and their superhuman traits are the result of the High Evolutionary's experiments combined with Wanda genetically being a Witch, born with natural magical abilities. The 2015–2017 Scarlet Witch series reveals that Wanda and Pietro's adoptive parents, Django and Marya Maximoff, are biologically their aunt and uncle. Their real mother is confirmed to be Natalya Maximoff, the previous Scarlet Witch, a Serbian Roma sorceress whose father was the Scarlet Warlock.

Fucking comics smh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It does seem that she usually has 1 parent who is Romani since 1979 though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't her being Jewish depend more on her mother?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

No wonder they changed her to Romani, they got tired of all the questions from The Tribe asking for her mother's geneology to prove she was Jewish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Probably so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You had a point then you said something incredibly stupid, so now I disagree with your existence.