Don’t these people have something better to do than to worry about the fact that Iron Fist isn’t Oriental, or whatever word?
“On the other hand, if they had decided to make Iron Fist an Asian, that would have been fine with me, too,” he continued.
In a new interview with Inverse, Roy Thomas, the man who co-created Marvel’s Iron Fist comic, downplayed accusations of whitewashing following the release of his series’ television adaptation on Netflix.
But I would have found it easier to write about a Caucasian, so that’s one reason I probably did it.