I haven’t watched the special but I wanted to say something about the Miles Morales-example: Pandering and race swapping are real things but it’s important to get the definitions straight. Miles Morales has always been a canon black character in the marvel comics. Therefore, this is not “race swapping”. He’s literally a different version of spiderman (hence why his name isn’t Peter Parker). Something these Movie Giants like Marvel, Disney etc. are doing is indeed pandering, but in this case it’s more in the sense that they are trying to get brownie-points for solely having a canon black lead in a movie without truthfully engaging with their blackness and it means for the narrative. Which is lazy writing as best and a disgustingly bad cash grab at worst.
I haven’t watched the special but I wanted to say something about the Miles Morales-example: Pandering and race swapping are real things but it’s important to get the definitions straight. Miles Morales has always been a canon black character in the marvel comics. Therefore, this is not “race swapping”. He’s literally a different version of spiderman (hence why his name isn’t Peter Parker). Something these Movie Giants like Marvel, Disney etc. are doing is indeed pandering, but in this case it’s more in the sense that they are trying to get brownie-points for solely having a canon black lead in a movie without truthfully engaging with their blackness and it means for the narrative. Which is lazy writing as best and a disgustingly bad cash grab at worst.