Thank you for mentioning this because it's one of the primary reasons the rest of us are NOT experiencing "superhero" fatigue". I've seen too many "reviews" where the reviewer (usually white and male) neglects to mention the importance of this factor. I've had this fight online before. That the primary characters in any genre story are non-white is of great importance to those of us who are not white! It's not the only important thing, but it matters a lot to us, and I'm tired of reading reviews where it's treated as if it doesn't matter., and never mentioned.

And it's awfully convenient that white men are experiencing "superhero fatigue" now that most of the stories being told aren't about people who look like them. Black, Asian, and Latino audiences aren't tired because stories about people who look like us are just now being told and many of those stories have some relevance to our real life stories.

Black women were only introduced into Marvel about seven or eight years ago in Black Panther. Before that it was twenty years of white men and nobody was expressing "fatigue"! My mother passed in 2021 and she was so excited by black women's existence in the MCU that she was totally into the Avengers and MCU movies. This was a woman who'd never seen heroic black women on screen and had to wait until she was in her 70s to see it. I cannot express how much it meant to her and me for both of us to see that.

So when white men whine about Hollywood making too many superhero movies all I hear is them being upset these movies don't star straight white guys anymore. That might not be what they're saying but that's what I'm hearing. But

Hollywood is going to keep making these movies until PoC get tired of them not because white guys are tired. Their tastes and money don't get to decide anymore what the rest of us going to see. Our money does.

Sorry for the rant but this really bugs me and I'm a huge Blue Beetle fan! I'm glad we got this movie.