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Friday Fun Thread for August 29, 2025

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Arcane (season 1 only for both, haven't seen the rest yet) as cases of very progressive seeming stuff that comes across as both true art and not annoying

Arcane didn't seem obviously progressive to me. The unrepentant revolutionary willing to stop at nothing was the villain of the first season, and his main redeeming quality was his paternal instinct. The roster of heroes includes an acceptably nerdy Chad Beefcake and a heiress of a 1% family who rebels against her privilege by... becoming a cop.

"Anti-capitalism" + lots of LGBTQ* themes and relationships + girl bossing + "diverse casting" up the wazoo.

Also, how many white men can you name in the cast who aren't villains or being set up to be villains?

The daddy, the fat shop owner and the two kids that all die in episode 3, the aforementioned Chad Beefcake, the hairy mascot guy.

For Season 1 purposes:

A bunch of people who die early, someone who isn't white (Chad), and someone you can't tell is white (mascot)

What part of him isn't white?

Jayce is somewhat hispanic coded and his voice actor is hispanic.

The main characters are (per wikipedia cast list): white woman (LGTBQ, voice actor is not white supposedly and she identifies as multi-racial), white woman, hispanic man, asian woman (LGBTQ), black woman.

Major supporting cast is: white male (but not human character, is orange?), white male (villain), white male (villain), white male (diesish, sorta villain), black male, black female, black female, white male villain.

Definitely Netflix casted.

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