Guilty Gear Voice Actor Steps Down To Make Room For Black Women
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Guilty Gear Xrd games, won’t be returning in the upcoming
Guilty Gear Strive after stepping down to “support more work for Black actresses behind the mic.”
“I happily stepped away so they could cast more appropriately,” Fitzgerald wrote on Twitter, responding to questions about actor Laura Stahl’s recent announcement that she’ll be voicing Ramlethal instead. “The character is black. I am not black.”
Ramlethal Valentine was introduced to the Arc System Works fighting game franchise in 2014’s
Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- as a boss character before becoming playable in a post-release update. Although an artificial human being in the game’s story, Ramlethal has long been considered a Black woman due to her skin tone, so much so that the existence of alternate colour palettes with lighter skin have caused some minor controversy in the fighting game community.
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The Simpsons’ biggest scandals from Morrissey’s outrage at being portrayed as ‘racist’ to the white actor who voiced Apu
Apr 21 2021, 11:35 ET
THERE S panic on the streets of Springfield thanks to a recent episode of The Simpsons which satirised Smiths singer Morrissey.
The vegan singer, 61, was outraged at the way he was treated by the show s writers and he s not the first.
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An overweight meat-eating character modelled on Morrissey drew the singer s fury in the latest Simpsons scandalCredit: Fox
Morrissey was annoyed about an episode which features a character called Quilloughby who has a quiff and was once in an indie band called The Snuffs.
Morrissey brands The Simpsons hurtful and racist after he s parodied on newly-woke show
During Sunday’s Panic On The Streets Of Springfield, Lisa Simpson was seen making an imaginary friend in the form of depressed singer Quilloughby
Quilloughby, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, was a vegetarian and was a member of indie band The Snuffs - seemingly styled on The Smiths rocker, 61
Morrissey s comments come after Hank Azaria apologised to Indian-Americans for his portrayal of convenience store owner Apu on The Simpsons
The character has appeared in hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons since its debut in 1990
In 2017, a documentary The Problem With Apu claimed the character promoted racist stereotypes about Indian immigrants