>>96613786Allow me to disagree with you.
While I don't think pushing diversity itself is bad, my problem with the typical characters Marvel creates for this is that they only have this "diversity" going for them. And that is really detrimental for the process of character design, which ends with the drop in quality we're used to see now.
You see, in character design, an intention to fill what you consider is a hole in your world building (like Marvel thinking they don't have enough diversity), should never come before the actual character design process.
Sure, there may be exceptions, and excellent writers won't forget to construct the personality and background for the actual character to work out.
But most people aren't "excellent writers". Hell, most people don't even push diversity for the sake of filling a hole, but to push an agenda.
And personally I don't know a single instance where letting your own personal views get in the way of your writing and have more priority than the actual story has not been bad for the quality of a piece of work. Pushing agenda and preaching how wrong "the other side" is and how right you (the author) are will always push people away. People don't like to be told what they must think, no matter the side.
So, with the current trend on identity politics and dozens of precedents, whenever I see an author proudly admitting they're pushing diversity, well that's just a huge red flag for me on the quality of writing I can expect to find.
I mean, I guess you're kinda right, the problem is not introducing diversity, is wanting to push your personal agenda instead of just writing something meaningful. But the thing is that "diversity" is one of the popular agendas to push for nowadays, so we are there.
Also, I find aberrant that "diverse" now just means "brown skin diverse". It used to mean a diverse cast of personalities, or even racial diversity beyond humans in fantasy settings. I wonder what happened to those times.
