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Call me a SJW (I'm not sure why that's a pejorative), but I don't care about who's cast based on anything other then their acting ability.

It's a pejorative because it means you're an ideologue who's not very well informed on issues, don't understand how to analyze statistics, and are racist and sexist while pretending you're anti-racist and anti-sexist.

Just wanted to address that first. Doesn't mean you're personally an SJW, but that's what an SJW is.

Again, you're very protective of the chemical composition of a fake character's skin tone. Why does melatonin require a new writer? Are your standards regarding melatonin applicable only to skin or do you also get upset when eye color is changed? Or is that something irrelevant to you just as skin color is to others, like me?

Insert long list of things you said that don't address my point here... You're deflecting.

Wolverine is a character from comics. He was created ages ago by an artist to look, act, etc a certain way. To have certain abilities. To fill a certain role in certain comics. He is an established character with established traits. The artist made him that way for a reason. Not only that, he comes from a very visual medium. This isn't the same as if he was a character in a classic book without pictures. Like say in Bond novels or Game of Thrones. A big part of what Wolverine IS is his look.

When casting a role sometimes you have to deviate a bit. Age and height aren't obvious characteristics so they're generally the first to go. You can't look at someone and just KNOW how old they are and so it's easy to fake a different age for an actor. Height can be movie magicked away, ask Tom Cruise. Hair and eye color too. Traits that are less noticeable like eye color tend to be the 2nd to go. Few people are going to zone in on them because they just don't take up much space on the human body. And so it progresses.

You can recognize that sometimes those things have to be done to cast a good actor (ignoring eye color because none of your black haired blue eyed options were quite as good) and not be bothered. But if they cast a black Wolverine that changes something big, and obvious, and immersion breaking. And goes against the look and feel of the character design entirely. None of the examples you gave above fall into that category of change. That's why most people didn't care. The closest you have is Bond, and even that's not so obvious a change. It could've (and I say should've, they got lazy) be altered on the actor to make the character fit.

Your entire argument seems to be that Hollywood should stop caring if someone looks the part because you personally don't. That'll never happen. And it shouldn't. Looks matter in a visual medium. And your opinion isn't shared by the vast majority.

Stop trying to avoid the point and attacking examples that aren't relevant to the point. You're talking about little things and trying to pretend they're the same as skin color, a big obvious characteristic that changes the visage of a character in a visual medium. They aren't, and you know better. There's also a point at which a character becomes it's own thing. And in part owned by the fandom. This doesn't just apply to people and casting. If someone went and tried to alter the iconic Mickey Mouse design to make him a white mouse it'd be freaking weird too.

TLDR - You don't finger paint over the Mona Lisa to make her a brown person. Nothing you've said addresses this point. You're just saying "I don't care." Well, good for you. Others do. And they're not wrong for doing so.

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