Racial Draft

Tag: NativeAmerican

  • 104. Gwen Stacy – Spider-Gwen (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 97. James "Bucky" Barnes – Winter Soldier (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 84. Maya Lopez – Echo (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5


    Alaqua Cox remains the Echo fancast:

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  • 77. Illyana Rasputin – Magik (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 64. Jaimie Reyes – Blue Beetle (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 57. Johnny Blaze – Ghost Rider (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 44. Eddie Brock – Venom (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

    More about Native American Venom:

    Edward Allen “Eddie” Brock was raised in a Serrano Native American household in San Francisco. In the history of the Serrano, their connection to spirituality was disconnected in the 1600’s, leading them to become heavily influenced by Christian colonization. Eddie Brock was born to Carl Brock and Jamie Brock, who died in childbirth due to malpractice in the hospital.. The doctors showed little inclination to provide the Brocks a safe delivery — even though they left the Serrano reserve for a “proper” birth — which led to Carl blaming his son Eddie for his wife’s death and becoming cold and abusive towards him. In his father’s words, he was poisonous to his mother. A parasite.

    Constantly seeking his father’s approval over the years, Eddie excelled academically, but his achievements were met with half-hearted encouragement at best. This led to Eddie acting out and rebelling instead. When Eddie was a teenager, he stole his father’s car and snuck out to get drunk with some friends, planning to sneak it back home before his father noticed. In the process, however, he accidentally killed a neighbor’s young son, leaving him horrified.

    Eddie — who had been raised a devout Christian — was willing to own up to what he had done, but Carl brutally beat his son for his initial refusal to plead not guilty, and bribed the police and prosecution to get the incident covered up and the charges dropped. However, covering up the incident nearly bankrupted Carl Brock, and further amplified his hatred and resentment towards his “screwed-up parasite of a son.”

    Looking for a fresh start, Eddie decided to move East after graduation, gaining entrance to ESU’s journalism program by fabricating an internship, and later romancing law student Anne Weying. Eddie’s big break as a reporter came when he intercepted a letter written to the Daily Globe by Emil Gregg, who claimed to be the serial killer The Sin-Eater. After contacting Gregg, Eddie went on to write front-page exclusives based on his Sin-Eater interviews, protecting his identity under First Amendment source confidentiality protections, until a crisis of conscience and pressure from the police and his editor led to Eddie outing Gregg as the Sin-Eater.

    With that bombshell of a headline, the paper sold out immediately, but the very same day, Spider-Man captured and revealed the true identity of the Sin-Eater, Detective Stan Carter. Gregg, it turned out, was Carter’s delusional neighbor, and Brock became a laughingstock among his fellow journalists. Disgraced and fired from the Daily Globe, Eddie resorted to writing venomous takes for less reputable tabloid imprints. Disgusted by Eddie’s refusal to accept responsibility for his mistakes, Anne left him.

    Dumped by his fiancée, disowned by his father, and with his credibility in shambles, Eddie’s future appeared to be ruined before he could even begin to live his present. And he blamed all these problems on Spider-Man. Eddie began an intense physical workout program hoping to reduce the spiral of shame, despair, and self-loathing that his life had turned into, but it was to no avail. Ultimately, Eddie decided to turn back to his faith, which he had long since abandoned, visiting a Church with the intent to beg forgiveness from God for his wayward ways before ending his life.

    But instead, brimming with hatred for the man he blamed for killing all his hopes and dreams — Spider-Man — his prayers turned vitriolic, as he cursed the holier-than-thou hero who probably lived a charmed white-picket-fence life of privilege and never knew a day of struggle, not like him. How dare Spider-Man look down on him! With the hatred, and rage, and jealousy filling Eddie’s heart, he was caught by surprise by the alien symbiote that had until recently been posing as Spider-Man’s Black Suit.

    Drawn by his hatred for Spider-Man, the symbiote bonded with Eddie physically and mentally, revealing Spider-Man’s civilian identity of Peter Parker, a rival reporter who profited from the story that ruined him. Polarized by the name and face behind the Spider-Man persona, Eddie’s blood boiled, and their mutual hatred grew. Spider-Man. Peter Parker. He wronged them. He hurt them. They should seek revenge. Their bond was forged, and their path was set. Yes, Eddie agreed, they should take the name of those bitter and vitriolic tabloid screeds he was forced to write after PETER PARKER and SPIDER-MAN poisoned everything. “But now, we are the poison. We are Venom!”

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  • 37. Wade Wilson – Deadpool (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 24. Laura Kinney – X-23/Wolverine (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

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  • 17. Barry Allen – The Flash (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5

    The reimagined #RacialDraft backstory for Native American Barry Allen is as follows:
    When Barry Allen (Iroquois) was a boy, his parents’ relationship wasn’t going well on the preserve on the outskirts of Central City, and while he prepared to participate in a spelling bee at school, his mother Nora was struggling to encourage him despite working double shifts and trying to get a divorce from his father Henry. Nora and Henry began to argue after picking Barry up from school and sent him to the bookstore in the meantime. When Barry returned, his mother had been murdered and his father had been arrested as the prime suspect, with law enforcement going as far to call him “Iroquois trash,” blatantly showing they had no fair judgment or belief that an Indigenous person could be innocent until proven guilty.
    Fortunately, Darryl Frye, who had secretly been involved romantically with Nora, pulled some strings and was able to take Barry in. For years, Barry visited his father in prison, promising to look over all of the evidence of his mother’s murder case until he found a way to prove his innocence. 
    In this reimagining, Barry’s family is a cautionary tale for the dramatic levels of racially motivated arrests in Native American preserves, and in the US as a whole — we often talk about Black and Latinx racial profiling, but never Native American. Knowing that Barry’s father is innocent and framed yet never gets due process is a great example of this.
    As an adult, Barry’s life of searching for answers about his mother led him to become a forensic scientist for the Central City Police Department, facing discrimination in the workplace and some even stating that he’s the Iroquoian murderer’s kid. 
    Barry became a CSI/forensic scientist not just to try to prove his dad’s innocence, but because of his keen sense of justice and belief that forensic science can overcome, at least to a small degree, the systemic biases against BIPOC by law enforcement. The science can exonerate just as much as it can incriminate, and being someone who is looking at evidence with an objective eye ensures that what happened to his dad won’t happen to anyone else. At least not on his watch.
    But as the years in prison had worn on him, Henry gave up hope. Breaking down in tears, he tells his son that he committed the crime, and that he should let him go and move on with his life. Realizing that all of his efforts had been for nothing, angered and depressed Barry. He returns to his lab in the midst of a fierce thunderstorm, and Barry angrily tears his lab apart.
    Suddenly, a bolt of lightning crashes through his lab’s window, striking him in the chest, and causing him to knock over a shelf of chemical vials and douse himself. After a four-month coma, Barry awakens with strange new powers, setting him on the first steps to becoming “The Flash.”

    Over the years, Barry has had many adventures, and his story has touched the lives of nearly every hero, across time, space, and universes. This reimagined origin is only part of the story.
    The reimagining of the Flash through a Native American lens also encompasses a reimagining of the Speed Force.

    The Great Spirit, also known as the Great Mystery, is often referred to as the God of Indigenous citizens and is considered the God of creation, history, and eternity. The Speed Force is The Great Spirit’s earthly mediator for facilitating communication between humans and such things as Time, Energy, Nature, and Balance.

    The Speed Force cultivates and relies on all life forces as a symbiotic relationship between all the forms of energy, and the Flash, or any carrier of the Speed Force, is usually regarded as a herald or speaker for The Great Spirit. 
    Sometimes, one of these speedster heralds is cast in the role of “Chosen One,” responsible for protecting the very nature of their mediation between the material world and the energies that bind the Multiverse, while also being provided the ability to manipulate it or be corrupted by it (see, for example, Zoom).
    As there are many aspects of the Speed Force and its relationship with the Great Spirit, there are also many heralds. The Great Spirit often takes a personal interest in world affairs and might regularly intervene in the lives of human beings. This allows Barry to make mistakes and embark upon adventures across time and space, learning from those mistakes along the way and encountering other speedsters as he traverses the Speed Force, establishing legend of the Indigenous Speedster known as The Flash.

    This reimagining also comes with a fancast — Jerry Wolf as Native American Barry Allen.

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  • 4. James "Logan" Howlett – Wolverine (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5


    The reimagined backstory for Native American Wolverine is as follows:

    Logan is a Inuit Native American driven to fight in world wars as a Canadian/NA man lost in time; it does not affect his traditional origin, as he could still lose his parents and be experimented on as a Native American as a child in the 1800s and adult in the 1930s (which actually took place). He is James Howlett of the Inuit tribe and their family crest is a Wolf (a tie-in to his last name but is still the illegitimate son of Thomas Logan), him being Native American adds depth to this, as Thomas Logan shuns his son as merely an offspring of an affair and has no affection for James. James’ mother is of the Inuit tribe, Thomas Logan is a full blown Canadian.

    It should be acknowledged that we see fictional Native American characters connected to animals so often that it has become a stereotype. Yet if Wolverine were to be as old as we perceive him to be, and Native, his mutant power would fit in with the sensibilities of a time and place when animals and nature were revered. And although this connection would be rooted in the culture of a Native American tribe, all of us have the means of connecting with this side of him, as all of us, no matter what part of the world we are from, have ancestors who respected nature and animals so much that they embodied them as deities. In this fashion, and in our more environmentally conscious times, Wolverine would bring us closer to an American culture and tradition that respects the earth.

    The hairstyle makes more sense with a Native American as well, as hair is considered sacred and would be stylized daily for a specific iconic look.

    The delegation chooses to fan cast Edsel Pete for his gritty look, charisma, and still relatively unknown profile to subject him to the limelight like a young Hugh Jackman.

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  • Bruce Wayne – Batman (Native American) – Racial Draft Season 5



    Samuel Wayne, the first Wayne to set foot in Gotham, took a Native boy named Bijoux from his tribe (Mohican) and kept him as a servant. Over the years, the boy observed from the background the ins and outs of the Wayne Shipping Corporation. By 20, he could run the company himself. And so he did. As Samuel got older, Bijoux began to work as his proxy, and the business had never been more successful. Soon they were branching out into other industries. By the time Samuel had died, Bijoux had successfully transferred the entire Wayne fortune to himself, changing his name to Bijoux Wayne for appearances. 

    Today, “Wayne” is the last name used by Bijoux’s descendants, descended from a line of protectors of this land older than Gotham itself. And the Wayne name, in its own way, represents the last of the Mohicans, as the common term has been applied. Bijoux was Thomas Wayne’s great grandfather and Bruce Wayne’s great great grandfather. 

    This new origin for the Wayne family lineage allows for Bruce to be Native American, but not affect his family’s wealth or privilege, nor his parents’ eventual deaths.

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  • 103. Eugene Judd – Puck (Native American Delegation) – Racial Draft Season 2

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  • 96. Lex Luthor (Native American Delegation) – Racial Draft Season 2

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  • 85. Dagger (Native American Delegation) – Racial Draft Season 2

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