/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Anonymous No.10391757]

So, accurate cosplay is now considered racist. What the fuck is happening to cosplaying? Why the fuck are people who never read the original material calling this racist in the first place?

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/05/13/youtuber-that-star-wars-girl-and-cosplayer-wanderlust-luca-accused-of-racism-over-starfire-cosplay/

Fuck these people.

[Anonymous No.10391778]

>>10391757
>>accurate
OP, the girl is hot but the costume is shit

[Anonymous No.10391783]

>“Do it better because she’s not black? Star fire is orange, not white. Racist.”

The cosplayer looks more orange than the actress

>>10391778
mte. The girl was sponsored by some basic bitch shit-tier cosplay costume store. Also the hairline on the wig is really not great. If it's lace front she needs to clean up the hairline. If it's not she should already know to buy lacefront.

[Anonymous No.10391786]

>>10391757
Everything about this screams fake controversy to boost low tier costhot’s popularity amongst incels. I’ve never once seen a decent white starfire cosplayer been called out for racism. But sure, SJWs be crazy or whatever click this bait please

[Anonymous No.10391788]

>>10391786

This is so weird even for me as a black person because starfire is that "exotic" racially ambiguous alien color with somewhat ethnic features, but the new version of her in "Titans" looks...bad. You can have a well-styled black starfire but they went way off model with even the hair color and style. The show itself is also tryhard edgy like a lot of live action DC.

[Anonymous No.10391792]

Yea, people have been screaming about cosplaying being racist for a while now. Just ignore them.

[Anonymous No.10391800]

>>10391788
Yeah, I was super disappointed in how they handled her because she could have been fantastic. They got a better wig in season 2 but Jesus. The whole show is styled terribly, though.

[Anonymous No.10391878]

Clickbait but damn, those twitter users are really retarded

[Anonymous No.10391889]

For some reason tan characters are considered black by some people even though they canonically are not, and using bronzer or spray tan to look closer to them is "racist". The community is full of retards so it's no surprise.

That being said, that suit looks cheap as fuck and it's a lazy cosplay altogether.

[Anonymous No.10391898]

>>10391757
Read the whole article and don’t just read the clickbait title dumbass. The person who tweeted that they liked the cosplay over the black actress who plays starfire was being accused of racism. Very few people calling it blackface. I don’t agree with these people but it takes 10 seconds to read the article to see that was just clickbait

[Anonymous No.10391912]

Op didn’t read the article

[Anonymous No.10392259]

the community has gone to shit since a bit more than a decade ago. if you do cosplay for accolades and clout you deserve anything negative that happens because of it.

that being said anyone should be allowed to cosplay any characters they want, and as long as it isnt blackface, it isnt racist.

but as i care even less than i do to put the rest of my thoughts on this, take it for what you will.

[Anonymous No.10392260]

>>10391757
This girl looks like she is either White/Asian, Latina, Middle Eastern, or something else that is at least not 100% White. I'm sure she could tan this dark naturally if she tried.

[Anonymous No.10392370]

>>10392260
Only degens like browns. She needs to stay white for her main demographic.

[Anonymous No.10392411]

>>10391757
>Why the fuck are people who never read the original material calling this racist in the first place?

Entryism. The best way to take over a scene is to kick the people already there out, and the best way to do that is to accuse them of unforgivable, unprovable crimes.
Being racist/sexist ranks only below being a pedo and a terrorist in our culture, and when you accuse a someone of being a terrorist you actually have to provide proof.

[Anonymous No.10392423]

When Titans had it's first leaked pictures, people were already talking about how bad Starfire looked and queue the people screaming racism because it was a black actress. The problem is there are plenty of coplayers both white and black who look fantastic as Starfire. It's that the black community can't stand any criticism of any black actor ever. The dude from Blackish even talked about that problem.

[Anonymous No.10392430]

>>10392423

God, why couldn't DC have given us this instead of the weird pink wig version they used in Titans?

[Anonymous No.10392431]

>>10392423
>>10392423
>It's that the black community can't stand any criticism of any black actor ever.
Most of the complaints are saw were from black people complaining about the shit wig and the backlash was a bunch of white tumblrinas but okay. There were some white people complaining about casting a black person in and of itself and well yeah that’s racist.

[Anonymous No.10392435]

>>10392423

The Titans costume designer deserves to be fired desu

[Anonymous No.10392436]

>>10392435
No one talks about how godawful gar looks. Every costume looks cheap as hell and I can’t watch it

[Anonymous No.10392442]

>>10392436
Yeah they're all awful but some are at least recognizable (spiked hair on Beast Boy, middle part on Raven, etc.) Star just got the shit end of the stick in the worst way. They could have picked an equally pretty black actress with a closer skin tone and done the wig styling way better for her. Instead they turned a beautiful actress into of work stripper tier trash with their poor costume choices.

[Anonymous No.10392449]

>>10392442
They easily could have used the same actress imo. It’s really the styling that sucks ass. A warmer, less cheap wig and outfits that actually look like kory would wear them would have done wonders

[Anonymous No.10392471]

the community has gone to shit since a bit more than a decade ago. if you do cosplay for accolades and clout you deserve anything negative that happens because of it.

that being said anyone should be allowed to cosplay any characters they want, and as long as it isnt blackface (literally painting you face black like they did to make fun in the old days), it isnt racist. if you think it is, than anyone changing their skin pigment to look like a twi'lek is racist too.

but as i care even less than i do to put the rest of my thoughts on this, take it for what you will.

[Anonymous No.10392614]

>>10392435
>>10392436
Designers for tv/movies collaboratewith what the director/producer envisions. The lead designer for Titans just finished pic related, same IP, different director/producers

[Anonymous No.10392621]

>>10392614
Not really sure if this is suppose to be in defense of them. It still looks pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.10392625]

>>10392621
Not defending Titans, defending the individual designer, what do you see that's bad? Explain

[Anonymous No.10392631]

>>10392625
It looks like a shitty tumblr redesign of a female Cap America. There was no need to have her in shorts then some weird crop top. Just do a bodysuit.

[Anonymous No.10392647]

>>10392631
Ok, it's an adaptation of a preexisting early 2000s design from the two dimensional realm of comics and animation. You're criticizing the design itself not the designer. I'd agree that it's outdated and has flaws if this was a brand new character, but it's a literal faithful translation from a 20 year old 2d character to live action. It would be like saying the person however sewed and processed Superman's outside red underwear for the movies did terrible even though that initial design is 80 years old

[Anonymous No.10392648]

Normally I hate this kind of thing but this cosplayer is so insanely shopped and reeks of instaho, so whatever, fuck her.

[Anonymous No.10392649]

>>10392647
This just implies the designer is again shit and couldn't update a bad design though

[Anonymous No.10392650]

>>10392649
>>10392649
>This just implies the designer is again shit and couldn't update a bad design though
nce again, Directors/producer's vision>designer's vision

[Anonymous No.10392675]

>>10392650
Didn't you post this in defense of them though?

[Anonymous No.10392687]

>>10392631
>female cap America
Please abort fake nerd boys I’m begging

[Anonymous No.10392688]

>>10392675
Just admit you’re a dumbass who doesn’t know who stargirl is

[Anonymous No.10392707]

>>10392687
>>10392688
I like how automatically I must be some fake nerd boy because I don't immediately recognize a lesser known DC character whose canon colors are deeper blue and reds. Get the fuck out of here you insecure hags. It still looks like shit and is a bad example of what your designer can do.

[Anonymous No.10392730]

>>10392707

I'm a girl and agree that the designer did a bad job in Titans (I'm the one who said they should be fired), but for as much as dudes call girls fake nerds it's kind of hilarious seeing a guy getting accused of it for once and seeing firsthand that sometimes those accusations are based on ridiculous expectations to have all the knowledge of every small detail of whatever particular area of stuff a different fan likes.

[Anonymous No.10392733]

>>10392730
Funniest thing is? I'm not even a guy, just another female. I've apparently created accusation inception.

[Anonymous No.10392793]

>>10392675
>Didn't you post this in defense of them though?
When you hire a person for an entertainment project, you are hiring them to present a creative variation while still maintaining the creative vision of you, the leader of the project. There are heavy metal artists who've been hired for Disney, french painters who've done horror movies, and indie drama writers who've done superhero movies. It's a business. I am defending the designer, but I'm also giving the designer slack, because why would a director for a tv show or movie want to give a designer 100% full creative control? That's why her work on Titans and Stargirl are tonally different, with titans being more casual wear and blocky suits and Stargirl's costume being textured and accurate to the preexisting design.You can say they're all bad, but take perspective into the mix. I looked through Laura Jean Shannon's non superhero costumes , Scott Pigrim Vs. The world, Elf, formal clothes in Iron man, the Jumanji sequel with the Rock, Requiem for a Dream. They're fine clothes for their respective movie, but if these characters from those movies walked into one world, would they have homogeneity? Of course not, because every design was made with different intentions. It's why there can be a Cyborg on a small DC tv show and a big budgeted DC movie, yet they don't look anything alike, because every design for any project will not be made with the same state of mind

[Anonymous No.10392799]

There were only one or two idiots accusing her of black face. If the tweet made by another person saying something critical about the black actress wasn’t made there wouldn’t be any idiots calling the cosplayer blackface. Every time cgl whines about some rando being accused of black face it’s always just 2 randos on twitter. Stop acting like 2 twitter retards are the whole community and give some REAL examples, not two twitter randos

[Anonymous No.10392840]

>>10392707
>lesser known
My dude she was an entire plot point in the DCAU and had multiple comic runs as a central character in the last couple of years. Don’t get in DC arguments if you don’t read DC it’s not rocket science.

[Anonymous No.10392846]

>>10392840
>plot point in the DCAU
>comic runs as a central character in the last couple of years
Really twisting your panties over some lesser known character shit over there. Even your gotcha examples are she was a plot point for a early 00s show and got a couple of comic runs. Just take the fucking L and move on.

[Anonymous No.10393262]

>>10391757
>https://boundingintocomics.com/

This is some bizarre /pol/-tier website that kept coming up on my feed when the Vic drama was going on. They kept posting stupid shit favoring Vic that read like it was written by an ESL faggot. I can’t believe it’s still around.

[Anonymous No.10393927]

>>10391889
It's a black character sweetie
Fuck white people

[Anonymous No.10394281]

>>10393927
fuck black "people" and monkeys like you, negroid

[Anonymous No.10394972]

>>10391757
that link is so fucking baity i can't even believe people are dumb enough to think this is legitmate.

>>10391786
Fucking this.

[Anonymous No.10394977]

>>10393927
>>10394281
I love watching people bait and then getting mad no one replied so they reply to themselves. It’s fucking hysterical.

[Anonymous No.10394988]

>>10394977
Anon wanted a way to be angry at a retarded bait about an orange alien article without being ridiculed. Embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.10395098]

>>10391757
Ray Cism is a pretty notorious guy these days.
But you should be cancelling OP image over the stupid amount of filtering and shooping instead. Like holy fuck she ruined her Lunar Empress Lux with it even though the rest of the costume was otherwise alright.
Part of it is the poor lighting too, should hire a proper photog to do a shoot.

[Anonymous No.10395640]

>>10391757
mutts care to much about skin colour

[Anonymous No.10395705]

>>10391757
all the replies have like 1 or 2 likes nice fake outrage
No one fucking cares or actually thinks this is racist

[Anonymous No.10397271]

>>10391757
no one actually thinks this is racist. what we should really be talking about is that horrifying shoop job on her face. this girl’s face always looks like a badly drawn 2d painting

[Anonymous No.10402345]

>>10391889
She's not even tan. She's orange.

[Anonymous No.10402359]

>>10402345
Why are you necroing a bait thread?

[Anonymous No.10402360]

[Anonymous No.10403377]

>>10392707
why would you even assume she is a female captain america when she has a staff and not a shield
>character whose canon colors are deeper blue and reds
so she could be a female spiderman, superman or wonder woman even?

[Anonymous No.10405746]

The original writer who came up with Starfire liked her casting in Titans.

[Anonymous No.10405805]

>>10405746

The issue is not her casting. It's poor costume design imo. The actress is beautiful and she could easily make a great Starfire but they sort of missed the mark on all their designs to me, especially her.

[Anonymous No.10405843]

>>10405805
The costumes are all over the place but the 2 Robins and Deathstroke look better than nearly all costumes in superhero films a decade ago.

Starfire as Shaft is also kinda cool.

[Anonymous No.10405845]

Starfire is a cat alien in the comics. Her race evolved from cats: https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Tamaran
Good luck casting her "right".

[Anonymous No.10405866]

>>10405746
>implying that means anything
You shove a bag of money in front of someone and they'll say anything you want.

[Anonymous No.10406975]

>>10405866
Marv Wolfman didn´t make a dime of the show outside of some of his comics being reprinted due to it. His opinions on the show are public and not hard to find.

Most comic writers don´t get a dime of work for hire jobs for the big 2 being filmed. DC at least thanks a handful of them in the credits since BvS.