In its continuing effort to woke its comic book characters, Marvel Comics has now race-swapped one of its iconic superheroes who’s historically been white and replaced him with a Native American who is “non-binary” and has “they/them” pronouns.
The new story follows the efforts of the Avengers to “fix” the alternate earth called Earth-6160, an earth where all the people who became heroes with super powers in other realities never quite came into their abilities. For instance, on Earth-6160, Spider Man never appeared because Peter Parker was never bitten by a radioactive spider. Along with Parker, all the other heroes also missed their calling on this alternate earth.
So, the Avengers decide to steer those who are super heroes on other earths to take up the mantle on Earth-6160, too.
But when it comes time to steer Clint Barton — played by Jeremy Renner in the Marvel movies — into his role as the uncannily accurate archer, Hawkeye, the Barton of Earth-6160 refuses to take up the bow. Instead, a new person takes up the mantel of Hawkeye, and the character couldn’t be more woke.
After Barton refused to agree to take on the role that other Bartons on other earths have, a new character named Charli Ramsey becomes the Avenger’s archer. And his pronouns are “they/them.” For Ramsey, you see, is an American Indian who claims to be “non-binary,” or genderqueer.
The series writer, Deniz Camp, took to his X account to sell the new character, writing, “First appearance of our Hawkeye; we worked hard to make them cool, different, and yet undeniably ‘Hawkeye.’”
