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( BuzzFeed compiled the ugly comments.) “Starfire is not African,” another fan commented.Īgain, Starfire’s skin is traditionally rendered as a radioactive tangerine orange - a completely fictional hue of skin for a completely fictional being - yet some are adamant that the character shouldn’t be played by a black woman: “She is too fat and too dark for Starfire,” a fan wrote. Unfortunately, the trailer was also the first time the more toxic portions of Teen Titans fandom got to see the trailer, and they leveled their skepticism and mockery at a different target: Diop’s appearance, and specifically, her skin color. The trailer was met with a fair bit of skepticism (and mockery), mainly because it featured a flagrantly emo Robin uttering the phrase, “Fuck Batman.” But that strange moment doesn’t mean the show is going to be bad, and for all we know, it could be great. People got their first chance to see Diop in action as Starfire when the first trailer for Titans was released during Comic-Con last week. People are mad that a black actress is playing her. It’s the latest chapter in a particularly ugly ongoing saga about a certain segment of comic book “fans” not getting exactly what they want and retaliating in the worst way possible. But in doing so, she also became a target of social media attacks from people who at best believed she didn’t embody their version of Starfire, and at worst resorted to heinous misogynistic and racist attacks on Diop: Look at this terrible Starfire “fan.” Twitterįollowing the wave of harassment, Diop has turned off comments on her Instagram and minimized her social media presence. With Starfire, Diop, who has appeared on shows like Bosch and Greenleaf, snagged possibly the biggest role of her life.

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Understandably, and largely because orange-skinned, energy-projecting aliens are not real, Titans cast a human actress named Anna Diop to play Starfire in a darker, grittier live-action TV version. Like many female characters you see in comic books, Starfire is a supernatural and unrealistic being - a work of pure imagination. In comic books, two cartoon series, and a new animated movie, Starfire is a female alien with creamsicle-colored skin and a mane of scarlet hair. And it appears that certain “fans” of DC Comics’ Teen Titans have tapped into that toxic combination.

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She has also acted in the live-action films 'Groundhog Day' and 'Jerry Maguire', and had a recurring role on the series 'The Untouchables'.It takes a particular strain of hateful ignorance to harass someone so much that they don’t feel safe on social media. She has provided voice to video games like 'Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!', 'The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest', and 'Kingdom Hearts Re: coded', and is particularly known for providing the English voice of Hitomi in 'Dead or Alive Xtreme 2' and 'Dead or Alive Paradise', and Viridi, the Goddess of Nature, in 'Kid Icarus: Uprising'. She has voiced Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn in the animated films 'Batman: Assault on Arkham' and 'Batman: Hush'. Later, she became very popular for providing the voice for Princess Bubblegum on Cartoon Network's 'Adventure Time'. Hynden Walch is an American actress, voice actress, writer and singer who rose to fame in the early 2000s for voicing computer-animated characters, such as Penny Sanchez on Nickelodeon's 'ChalkZone', Elsie on Disney Channel's 'Stanley', Ace on Cartoon Network's 'Justice League', and Starfire on Cartoon Network's 'Teen Titans'.

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