I think Stephen Hawking has really reinforced that 'genius in a wheelchair' character, so it may be becoming a cliche. I also want her to be fallible...Charles Xavier always seemed too perfect and saintly. And you're right......comic books, even if my story isn't so far fetched as some, can allow anything to happen. The Walking Dead is relatively believable, but characters like Michonne seem against type. Thanks for your reply.
....hmmmmm, military research scientist accidentally disabled by the very same biological weapons secretly cooked up by the military....great opportunities right there! Thanks for the inspiration.
So she is the 3rd generation. Her grandfather's entry was due to his natural talent at mechanics and luck in eventually flying Hueys in Vietnam. Respect, expertise and hard work allow his child to grow and excel within the military (Colin Powell is an example of the possibility of AA officers in the 80s and 90s) The character is thus from good stock.
forgive me for saying this... but writing is not always about making a statement, sometimes it's just about writing a story, telling a story, and the characters should be whatever the writer wants them to be. WingedFox, if your mind, your imagination came up with a black, Hispanic, white, blonde or redhead, tall or short, it doesn't matter... all this racism deliberation is moot. You are the one telling the story, and by you I mean your mind... your world... your emotions and your thoughts. Should your mind come up with a character who is a black-lesbian-single mother-drug addict-former KGB assassin... that's the character you should run with. let go of all this politically correct bull. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, got three characters that were controversial back at the sixties - a black woman, a Japanese man, and a Russian man, all officers in rank (in accordance to the Star Trek world). look how that worked out
I understand what you say. But I also think a lot of the story,the conflict,comes from having such issues. An interesting point you raise,though,because in Star Trek I don't think any issues arose in a storyline because of the ethnicity of those characters in the show,but only in the viewing public.
What concerns me is the idea of making a character black just to be black. You really need to be able to write authentically, so I'd be very careful about writing a black woman if you are a white man. Not that it can't be done, but it is very hard, especially in a place like the US military, where white privilege is especially established.
