The Dark Knight Rises, Bane is hispanic and Ras Al Ghul is an immortal Arabic warlord in the Batman comics, his daughter Talia as well. Christian Bale in Exodus, Gyllenhall in Prince of Persia, Fox in Wanted(I doubt most people even read the comic though tbh, the movie is an overall improvement though imo), and the Ancient One in Doctor Strange are all I can think of rn off the top of my head.
Hell didn't a white guy get cast as MJ in some movie? Am I misremembering?
Dude there are diehard Halo story/lore fans. Some of which even know the weapons down to their model number. It's a big community.
I wouldn't say I'm angry at this point, just annoyed and tired of this silliness tbh.
It's a part of who the characters are. Who we are is in part defined by our appearance. People want authenticity in their characters. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
On top of that, it's not cool to erase anyone's race in anything. Personally as someone who is mixed race but presents primarily as african american, it's super fucking annoying.
Instead of getting new meaningful characters, or spotlighting the existing black characters we get hand me down white characters who are palette swapped like Mortal Kombat ninjas. It's like saying the only good black character is a white character with dark skin.
Citation needed. You can't even quantify this statement.
Surprisingly, you don't speak for all Halo fans.
Come on, this isn't difficult. Most people can only name the leads in any form of entertainment they consume. Why do you think Halo is different?
This is an adaptation. Shit gets changed in adaptations. It always happens. Characters are removed. Some are added. Some are combinations of other's. It's the nature of the game.
Their skin color has about as much to do with their roles in this story as their haircuts. It's irrelevant.
The one thing I do completely agree with you on though is what you said about hand me downs. I totally get that. When I hear about shit like race bending a super hero, or making Thor a woman, that's just dumb to me. It's an easy way out for meeting the diversity quota instead of making something that matters.
But I don't find these two comparable at all. The Keyes aren't poster faces. They're important, but nobody plays Halo for the Keyes. They're background, secondary characters, and in adaptations, those are the first to get changed, removed or added in order to serve the story the writers want to tell.
I don't know what their reasons for doing this is. I'm not defending their reasoning, cause I don't know. Maybe they felt the cast was too white. Maybe they just saw this one actor and thought damn, he'd be perfect as Keyes.
I just don't see the problem with what they did actually is. I see no problem, and I still see no solid arguments against it. I'd be agreeing with you more if Jonhnson was turned white, Cortana black, or Master Chief was to be played by Gwendolyne Christine.