Blah blah geneseed and all that but I think it would improve the game environment if there were space marines of color, yknow? No reason beyond big E being a white guy (and the fascism the game fails to properly criticize) for the elite genetically engineered fighting force to be all white dudes
I just woke up and could mention at least a handful without looking them up, and im probably missing some really important ones because im groggy and stupid.
Im not even taking into account the ones we never got a description of what they look like, they could have any skincolour outside of the readers bias.
And also, just look at the new primaris bareheaded sculpts. They are so beautiful and full of personality, and absolutely lends themselves into trying out to paint different skintones.
Even the Emperor Children, a legion whose gene-seed is known to radically change the appearance of the marines to look just like Fulgrim have darker skinned marines.
Are there people on like Reddit claming space marines can’t be black? Yeah, but they are idiots who don’t care about the source material and just want to fight some stupid culture war. And I feel like leaning into and entertaining that anything they say is even remotely legitimate is harmful to the hobby as a whole.
(no im not gonna touch the subject that the emperor is middle-eastern because his art doesn’t really reflect that and that is really on GW)
Sorry but “One in four people on this cover is obviously black! Racism is dead!” Is not actually the scorching take you’re presenting it as.
I am going to be the last person to expect perfection from any profit driven corporation and I’m not trying to argue that GW is uniquely evil or something, but this is an extremely fair criticism of WH media at large.
Literally everyone in this thread pointing to the handful of obviously black characters from official art and minis as proof that GW has met its diversity quota and has nothing left to improve on are actually the ones who sound like chugs arguing that any more than one black dude and a lady per cast is ‘woke.’
OP is not personally attacking your blorbos, why tf are we going after them harder than the actual fascists who ar in this fandom and on this website?
Here are the people you’re empowering to comment btw:
