An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

[u/Morr4Seiya]

Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up

I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them

Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?

[u/Ok-Letter3963]

Mind you, all of the changes to Mulan 2020 were meant to specifically pander to China, which is ironic because China ended up fucking hating this movie.

[u/foxfire981 → u/Ok-Letter3963]

I mean that's often what happens when people not in the group try and pander to a group. They fail miserably at the attempt and it becomes insulting.

Another example: Miles Morales Thor. Basically did a "if Miles was Thor and everyone was black it would basically look like Harlem." A Hispanic creator was responsible. Black comic fans were not impressed.

[u/benx101 → u/foxfire981]

“By Odins fade!”

Odin is revealed to be bald

???

[u/chaotic4059 → u/benx101]

Bald and has a beard. So he literally could've just said "by Odin's beard" and it would've been fine

[u/Competitive-Song7535 → u/chaotic4059]

But that wouldn’t be insensitive!!!

[u/OakNogg → u/benx101]

Tbf how else is some white guy supposed to express the exaggerated swagger of a black teen

[u/APreciousJemstone → u/OakNogg]

One of the writers was a black guy.

[u/Scaalpel → u/APreciousJemstone]

My best guess it was a case of "middle-aged writer has no fucking clue how teenagers speak".

[u/OakNogg → u/APreciousJemstone]

Of that line of What If there were several black writers but this particular issue was written by a Hispanic dude (not white my bad) but the point still stands. And in fact up until that issue, it was the only one not written by a black writer.