r/Invincible • u/ManyMention6930 Battle Beast • Apr 02 '24

Is Mark Korean-American in the comics as well? DISCUSSION

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I thought his race/ethnicity was something present in the comics but I’ve been reading through them and have found no mention of it so far

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u/redeemer47 Apr 02 '24

Is everyone here blind? I’m looking at comic panels right now and Debbie is clearly Asian

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u/Da_reason_Macron_won Apr 02 '24

Yeah, I don't know people are talking about. No way in hell this is a white lady.

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u/GlaceBayinJanuary Apr 02 '24

Comic Debbie always seemed Italian or some type of Spanish ancestry to me. While Italian was not considered 'white' back at the start of the 20th it is now so...? I guess we'd have to ask Kirkman.

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u/LexeComplexe Apr 02 '24

Wtf makes you think she's Italian? I am genuinely so confused how anyone could think that. There is nothing about her that speaks Italian to me

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u/DepartureDapper6524 Octoboss Apr 02 '24

She has olive-ish skin and very black hair

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u/GlaceBayinJanuary Apr 02 '24

It's just my knee-jerk reaction. I can't say why because it's just the answer my brain gave me. While there's nothing about her that spoke Italian to you I guess it could be possible that me and you are not the same person [Citation Needed] and as such we have differences in life experience?

Looking further into this it seems Kirkman intentionally left it vague. Given that there's no real answer we all just get to see what we see. We're both right!

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u/Xciv Apr 02 '24

Yeah it's vague for sure. It's like how a lot of anime characters are racially ambiguous and asians see them as asian characters and caucasian people see them as caucasians.

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u/poembug Apr 02 '24

When I was a kid, I thought Superman was asian. Because he had black hair, olive skin, the animations didn't give him retinas, and Dean Cain who had asian blood was Superman on TV at the time. People latch on to different, wacky, unintentional shit especially if they don't look into it that deeply.

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u/GlaceBayinJanuary Apr 02 '24

Superman has been drawn by a lot of people and his look has changed a lot. Lots of people having lots of different ideas of what he looks like with regard to race makes sense. I always saw him as being vaguely Jewish what with the dark and somewhat curly hair and his alien name being kinda Hebrew ish sounding.

It's all subjective and there's no right answer. If Dean Cain was your formative version of Superman then him having Asian blood makes sense.

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u/badgarok725 Apr 02 '24

she does look like she could be Italian, plus the wine