Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers?
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Never heard of this trope.
Off the top of my head: War Machine, Black Panther, Blade, Cyborg, Bishop, Storm, Spiderman (Miles).
The only black comics character with lightning super powers I know is Electro from The Amazing Spiderman who also used to be white in old comics.
Is this really a trope? Can someone name 10 black superheroes with lightning powers?
tmyakal@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Miles Morales / Spider-Man Storm (plus other weather, but lightning is there) Static Shock Black Lightning Thunder Black Vulcan
Off the top of my head, I can only get to six. But I don’t think I could come up with that many white heroes with lightning powers.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Found a list with bunch of superheroes with lighning powers. I see that most of top 10 are black-skinned heroes and heroines. But once you go down, most of them if not all are caucasians.
I feel that it is less of a “black heroes mostly have electrical powers” and more of a “heroes with electrical powers are more likely to be black”.