new mutants critical – Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth

So. New Mutants trailer. “Leave those kids alone,” indeed 😐

So yes, Fox managed to cast a Native American actress as Dani. But they chose to continue to whitewash Roberto de Costa–an Afro-Latino character whose mutant power manifested when he was attacked in a instance of anti-black racism (the comics don’t get a pass, either–they’ve often been guilty of this since the post-Claremont era began).

They have also whitewashed Cecilia Reyes, an Afro-Latina, and it looks like she’s been put in an at least slightly villainous role. Which I could see being a reason that Rosario Dawson noped out of the role. Dawson was good casting–she even had Puerto Rican heritage like Reyes.

Aside from the whitewashing…yeah, they said it was gonna be a horror movie, but the Demon Bear saga they’ve said they’re drawing from is NOT a “lock up a bunch of vulnerable, if powerful, teenagers in some creepy ass mental hospital” kind of horror. And I’m not happy 😦

My babies 😦