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/fresh-dork]

Rest of these attempts. feels like the creator is going. "OKAY what if we made Iron-man but hes a black girl and stole her tech from Iron-Man and actively refuses to give it back. EVEN though she shouldn't have such a weapon," and got shocked when folks didn't like Ironheart.

we made a bitchy supervillain thief with minimal talent who threw away a massive opportunity. why don't people like her?

I find the biggest issue with these race swaps is that the creators just claim the haters are racist.

that's just strategy for the past decade. look at house of the dragon - they prepped the racism narrative ahead of episode one, but shelved it when the shitty race swap was popular. it's built in excuses for bad writing.

YOU took a fan-favorite character, changed their skin tone, and called it a day and GOT shocked when people didn't like it!"

let's make ariel, the face of 90s disney animation, a black woman and then argue with people who object to it.

[u/Scared-Jacket-6965 → u/fresh-dork]

God I hate the "Your Insert BAD term" as defense for hating horrible things. Cause it's deflection at its finest, look at Iron heart, her whole character is she STOLE Ironman's tech. A black character who is stole her way to fame.

Like every time they have that same defense pre-made and pre armed. It's kind of sad, cause this is funny! It's idiots not understand why the hatred is valid and it's sad cause they blame everyone else. Pattern recognition 101 and these people failed that course. Sorry if I devolved into frustration.