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So only Pokemon has non-white characters? What other Nintendo properties and IPs have non-white characters? (hexbear.net)

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The only character with any melanin seems to be Super Mario (get it? because he's Italian? eh, probably not even from Southern Italy).

Having watched the recent Pokemon Presents, it seems that the next Smash Bros. game is just going to be white, white, and more white. But more than that, does Nintendo have any major BIPOC representation aside from Ganondorf? That chap seems to be the only Black and/or Arab guy around. And he's the villain so that's going to irk even more people.

Idk. Quite a pity that at best you're getting Asian representation, not that that isn't important or anything. Only the Pokemon games have any sort-of BIPOC representation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any the anime like IPs have black characters (e.g Fire Emblem, Xenoblade Chronicles) some part of the main cast.

Any one that includes a character created self insert will likely have PoC options now (e.g Pokemon, Splatoon, Animal Crossing)

Mainstay series may occasionally have PoC races or rando NPCs (e.g Mario has black people in New Donk City)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I guess the problem is more-or-less the Super Smash Bros. series itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, because titular character is designed after the original target player in mind, a generic japanese boy.

There's a big reason why in JRPGS for instance, it's almost always a young looking japanese sword wielding boy, disproportionately compared to literally any other weapon they could use.

Because Smash tends to use titular characters, it will disproportionately look like they have no PoC

Xenoblade Chronicles could have probably had a representative, if people 1. actually bought a WiiU, and 2. actually played Xenochronicles X, so that Elma would have been playable, but to the rest of the world, JRPGs is always a niche audience if its not named Final Fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for explaining.