What do you think of Native American X-23/Wolverine? #RacialDraft
— Racial Draft Podcast (@RacialDraftPod) October 19, 2022
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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
What do you think of Native American Barry Allen? #RacialDraft
— Racial Draft Podcast (@RacialDraftPod) October 13, 2022
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
What do you think of Native American Logan? #RacialDraft
— Racial Draft Podcast (@RacialDraftPod) October 4, 2022
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
What do you think of Native American Batman? #RacialDraft
— Racial Draft Podcast (@RacialDraftPod) October 9, 2022
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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24. Deathlok (Native American Delegation) – Racial Draft Season 2
This non-canon backstory for (Native American) Deathlok — as per Joaquin — is as follows:
Timothy StandsAgainst, after transferring his mind into a new body, flies away in the form of The Vision, only to leave behind a body which still has his soul and continues to live. After arising out of the operation table, he wanders with no recollection as to who he is.
S.H.I.E.L.D. finds the Mind Stone in Tim’s makeshift laboratory. After sweeping the area, they leave, but find a man that resembles Dr. Timothy StandsAgainst wandering the road. The organization puts him through a battery of tests, only to find that his mind is dead, but he still lives.
They experiment on him, apply robotics and cybernetic weaponry on him, and inject his body with self healing chemicals — toxic to a normal human, but he can’t die. He becomes a General amongst the Deathlok regiment. But considering the body of Timothy has a soul, it must find its mind to be one. For he knows he will be nothing but a mindless zombie, continuously following orders.
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13. Vision (Native American Delegation) – Racial Draft Season 2
This non-canon backstory for (Native American) Vision — as per Joaquin — as as follows:
Timothy StandsAgainst is an MIT Alumnus who graduates at the top of his class with a PhD in robotics, artificial intelligence of computer science systems, and biomechanics. He is quickly recruited by SHIELD, and after spending nearly a decade with the organization, he’s diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Unable to find sufficient treatment or surgery, he becomes desperate to carry on his work after being so close to a breakthrough for biomechanics. After months of failures in experiments, he can feel himself getting sicker.
Timothy goes to one of SHIELD’s top secret holding facilities. He bypasses security protocols and manages to find the Mind Stone, a relic SHIELD has kept since the Avengers battles. He grabs it. Upon doing so, his mind is FLOODED with ideas, blueprints, and schematics of unplanned technology. Finally, a way to heal himself. He puts this pebble of forbidden knowledge in his pocket and quickly leaves the facility.
Off in a secluded cabin, and after grabbing much-needed equipment and tools, he quickly begins to build. His body grows weaker, but the Stone gives him the drive to keep going. Finally, he builds a new body. A ghostly pale shade covers the exterior. Knowing the stone will be the driving force, he straps in. Using the technology he quickly learned, he activates the machines. The A.I. quickly takes over the functionality of his brain, slowly shutting it down and shifting his consciousness to his new body.
The lights go out and the machines shut down, leaving only two bright eyes piercing the darkness. He feels nothing, yet with his memories stored in the gem, he’s beginning to remember who he is. The “visions” of what he has done are starting to mess with him. Unsure of his path, he slowly learns of his powers. Super-strength, intangibility, super intelligence, a mind beam, and quickly becoming a technopath. The “Vision” comes to life.
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