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The Burden of Always Having to Be Terrific

Robert Jones, Jr. · 1 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Race-bending established fictional characters is both lazy and greedy.

    Their wordsI tend to dislike so-called racebending (or any identity-bending) of established fictional characters because it strikes me as both lazy and greedy.

  2. Our reading

    A Black character taking up a white character’s legacy feels too much like assimilation.

    Their wordsI don’t even like the idea of a Black character, or any character of marginalized experience, following the legacy of a white character’s lineage, as is technically the case with Mr. Terrific. It feels too much like assimilation to me.

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