Chromatic Recasting
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| See also: | Race and Fandom, Genderswap casting, racebending, Social Justice |
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During discussion of whitewashing and racebending in Western media fandom, fans sometimes recast popular media sources entirely with actors of colour in order to make a point and challenge traditional assumptions about how media should look. In January 2010, this became something of a meme, sparked off by two DC and Marvel recastings posted by handyhunter on Livejournal (the original posts have been lost and sadly are not archived).
In the words of bossymarmalade, writing in January 2010,
The point of this meme is NOT to insinuate that white characters are the only interesting or important ones. It it NOT to mean that diversity in media is as simple as "browning it up" a little. It is NOT to devalue the chromatic characters who already exist and are awesome.
What this meme is for is to disturb the idea that white actors can and should play not only canonically white characters, but also canonically chromatic characters. It is to offer imagination fodder that also issues a challenge: movies already want us to re-imagine chromatic stories as white ones, so why shouldn't we re-imagine white stories as chromatic ones? It is, not least of all, to have some fun imagining people who look like us in these iconic roles.[1]
The following list includes both recasting of white characters, as well as original casting for textual sources with chromatic characters.
Comics
- handyhunter - Chromatic DC[dead link] and Marvel[dead link]
- bossymarmalade - Chromatic Marvel
- st_aurafina - Chromatic Marvel
- liviapenn - Chromatic Marvel
- greenet - Chromatic DC and Marvel
- second_batgirl - Chromatic Power Rangers
- katarin - Chromatic DCU
- helens78 - Chromatic DCU
- poisonivory - Chromatic DCU
- nextian - Chromatic Lucifer
- elspethdixon - Chromatic Daredevil
- riseupwithfists - Chromatic Young Avengers
- frausorge - Chromatic The Umbrella Academy
- yifu - Chinese-cast Full Metal Alchemist
- mercredigirl - Chromatic Legion of Super-Heroes
Movies
- trascendenza - Chromatic New Trek and DC Comics
- plazmah - Star Wars, Bollywood style
- dealan311 - Chromatic Star Wars
- dharmavati - Chromatic Disney Movies
- cidercupcakes - Chromatic National Treasure
TV Shows
- entwasian - Chromatic Buffy
- lyrstzha - Chromatic Buffy and Angel
- gavagai - Chromatic West Wing
- ishie - Chromatic West Wing[dead link]
- thisficklemob - Chromatic and Gender-switched West Wing
- miakun - Chromatic Friends
- otempora42 - Chromatic How I Met Your Mother
- eviinsanemonkey - Chromatic Supernatural
- chaos_erevos - Chromatic Supernatural
- azuire - Chromatic Supernatural
- amazonziti - Chromatic Supernatural and Chromatic Disney Princesses
- eumelia - Chromatic New Doctor Who and Torchwood
- gnimaerd - Chromatic Robin Hood (BBC version)
- maggie33 - Chromatic House
- sugargroupie - Chromatic Farscape
- kernezelda - Chromatic Farscape
- amazonziti - Chromatic Bones
- setissma - Chromatic Bones
- wistfuljane - Chromatic Firefly/Serenity
- lady_ganesh - Chromatic Star Trek Spin-Off
- maggie33 - Chromatic Leverage
- ranalore - Chromatic Leverage
- yahtzee63 - Chromatic Alias
- minxy - Chromatic Stargate SG-1
- hestia8 - Chromatic Spooks
- fly_to_dawn - Mini Chromatic Merlin
- fly_to_dawn - Japanese Recast of Merlin
- indefiance - Chromatic Avatar: the Last Airbender
- crossedwires - Chromatic Avatar: the Last Airbender
- tallycola - First Nation Water Tribe in Avatar: the Last Airbender
- rheanna - Chromatic Fringe
- ranalore - Chromatic Fringe -Chromatic Fringe
- leroichevalier - Chromatic Game of Thrones
Books
- such_heights - Chromatic Harry Potter post
- dhobikikutti - Chromatic Chronicles of Narnia
- toujours_nigel - the Iliad, Bollywood-ishtyle
- heather11483 - Chromatic Lord of the Rings
- gehayi - Chromatic Lord of the Rings
- innerbrat - Chromatic Discworld Series
- wingstodust - J Drama version of Malinda Lo's Ash
- wingstodust - Chromatic Demon's Lexicon
- andromache - Bollywood A Song of Ice and Fire
- maggie33 - Chromatic Gossip Girl
- handyhunter - Chromatic Kate Shugak series
- denenkyuu - Chromatic Sherlock Holmes with Red Cliff Actors
- recumbentgoat - Chromatic Alice in Wonderland
- wingstodust - Chromatic The Dark Divine - Kdrama style
- weirdsociology - Lymond Chronicles Favorite Characters (Tumblr, December, 2013)
- rhaenys-martell-targaryen - Chromatic A Song of Ice and Fire
References
- ^ bossymarmalade (January 11, 2010). "starring fyvush finkel as krusty the clown". Dreamwidth. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2022.