are black/minority characters in comics one-dimensional?

i'm just thinking of some of the black characters: John Stewart, Black Panther, Spawn, Storm, Cloak, Luke Cage, etc.

they're all like super serious, it seems like there aren't many personalities

Cyborg?

Taken from Wiki (this is just DC) some of these must live as something other than a stereotype.

* Amanda Waller (Suicide Squad, Checkmate)
* Amazing Man I (Will Everett)
* Amazing Man II (Will Everett, III)
* Amber (ally of Jericho trained by Adeline Kane Wilson, operative of Searcher's Inc.)
* Betty Clawman (New Guardians)
* Big Thunder (Bulleteer miniseries)
* Black Lightning
* Black Racer (from the New Gods)
* Blindside (from Relative Heroes)
* Bloodwynd
* Bronze Tiger
* Bumblebee
* Cal Durham (Aquaman ally, turned to waterbreather by Black Manta)
* Carla White (Darkstars)
* Cascade Sovereign Seven
* Catspaw (Legion of Superheroes)
* Chunk (Flash ally)
* Coldcast (Justice League Elite)
* The Commander (New Gods)
* Computo II (Legion of Superheroes)
* Conjura (Super Dictionary, 1978. Backwards magic like Zatanna.)
* Crimson Avenger III
* Crispus Allen (The Spectre)
* Crystallex (Raphael Harris, becomes living crystal and morphs. In stasis at S.T.A.R. Labs San Francisco. Teen Titans)
* Cyborg
* Director Bones
* Doctor Midnight (Beth Chapel)
* Doctor Mist
* Empress
* Epiphany (member of the DNAngels, US government agent. First appears Superboy #88 July 2001)
* Eran Shadowstorm (Centaur Protector of the Realm from the Wizardworld series in Warlord)
* FerAlyse (Jackee Jones who went by the street name ZuLuLu. A feral denizen of Chicago's Netherworld)
* Firestorm III
* 4D (Ultramarine Corps)
* Flex & Thermal (Suicide Squad)
* Freedom Beast
* Gary Washington (Checkmate operative)
* Gear (Legion of Superheroes)
* Ghost Lion (Hypotheticals, JLA Classified #16-21)
* Glenn Gammeron (Intergalactic Bounty Hunter from Mi'ran. Ally of Martian Manhunter. Justice League Task Force #28-29)
* Gravedigger (Captain Ulysses Hazard, Men of War 1-26)
* Green Lantern III (John Stewart)
* Healer Randolph (One of Tomahawk's Rangers, an ex-slave turned folk healer)
* Hero Cruz
* Impala
* Invisible Kid II (Legion of Superheroes)
* Jackie Johnson (Easy Company)
* Jakeem Thunder
* Jet (Formerly of the New Guardians, now a Global Guardian)
* Jim Corrigan (African-American police officer, ally of Jimmy Olsen and Black Lightning)
* Jody (ally of Tomahawk)
* Joto (now known as Hot Spot)
* Josiah Power
* Kid Impala (Ultramarine Corps)
* Kid Quantum
* Lady Liberty III (Battle for Bludhaven)
* Machiste (sometimes ally of the Warlord)
* Manhattan Guardian
* Martin Ellis (woke from coma in Justice League Quarterly #17 with powers of Tempest, Joshua Clay)
* Maximum (Supermen of America)
* Microwavebelle (Hero Hotline)
* Mister Bones (DEO regional director)
* Mister Miracle III
* Mister Terrific II
* Mohammed Ibn Bornu (North African warrior hero from the Cadre of the Immortal)
* Mongrel (Blood Pack)
* Muhammad X
* New Moon (a member of the Moondancers. First appeared in World's Finest Comics #295 September 1983)
* Northwind
* Nu'Bia (Wonder Woman ally)
* Obatala, Lord of the White Cloth
* Onyx
* Orpheus
* Pantha (Teen Titans)
* Philippus (Amazon ally of Wonder Woman)
* Rush & Silence (mentioned in Superman v2 #179, August 2002)
* Samosa (one of the Kid Lanterns from Green Lantern Mosaic)
* Scrap (One of the D.E.O.rphans from Titans vol. 4 #26. Scrap had magnetic powers)
* Sela (Atlantean warrior woman 3,000 years ago. JLA Obsidian Age)
* Shango the Thunderer
* Shondra Kinsolving (A doctor with telekinetic healing abilities, ally of Batman)
* Skyrocket
* Sojourner (Henrietta Jessup, a member of Artemis' HellEnders.)
* The Solution (Teen Titans tryout, Young Justice ally)
* Sonik (Superman/Batman ally from World's Finest)
* Star Boy (Legion of Superheroes)
* Steel III
* Steel IV
* Stoneyard (mentioned in Superman v2 #179, August 2002)
* Superman & Supergirl of Earth-D (from Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths)
* Superman (Harvey Dent) (Tangent Comics: Superman #1)
* Ted & Terri Trapper (private detectives from the Super Dictionary, 1978)
* Technocrat
* Tempest (Joshua Clay from the Doom Patrol)
* Thunder (Anissa Pierce)
* Tina Ames (Power of "Bio-Energy"; could become living energy, from Superman Family 188 & 192-194. Joins the DNA Project.)
* Tyroc (Legion of Superheroes)
* Underground (mentioned in Superman v2 #179, August 2002)
* Vixen
* Vox
* Vykin (Forever People)
* Wilson Forbes (Daily Planet reporter from the Super Dictionary, 1978)
* Wyldeheart (ally of Damage)
* Xero
* XS
* Zeke (One of the D.E.O.rphans from Titans vol. 4 #26. Zeke had super strength)

on second thought

I don't need to be involved in another comic race thread

I think that Mr. Terrific is the best minority character ever. He is the 3rd smartest man on Earth in DC and also is a top hand to hand combatant. He performed a surgery on ALan Scott just by reading a medical book on the procedure before performing it. Alot of "genius" characters do not have any fighting ability and a lot of street leveler fighters usually do not have a genius intellect with the exception of Batman who is really a strategic genius. He can be very serious but he is a cool character. He is tough but very likable and he is the leader of the JSA. I wonder if any other minority character has ever been the leader of a superhero team.

Originally posted by inamilist
on second thought

I don't need to be involved in another comic race thread

Originally posted by masterbruce
i'm just thinking of some of the black characters: John Stewart, Black Panther, Spawn, Storm, Cloak, Luke Cage, etc.

they're all like super serious, it seems like there aren't many personalities

This thread is one dimensional.

Originally posted by masterbruce are black/minority characters in comics one-dimensional?

Originally posted by Kid Kurdy
Just as one-dimensional as their white, yellow and red colleagues in comics.

Originally posted by masterbruce
i'm just thinking of some of the black characters: John Stewart, Black Panther, Spawn, Storm, Cloak, Luke Cage, etc.

they're all like super serious, it seems like there aren't many personalities

Being biracial, all super heroes are cool.

Luke Cage

Since when is Luke Cage serious and 1 dimensional?

...and just STFU no one wants to hear it.

Originally posted by What If...
Since when is Luke Cage serious and 1 dimensional?

Since yesterday, actually...What, didn't you get the memo?

😐

I think I missed it 🙁

always out of the damn loop.

Black Panther
Luke Cage
Storm
Mr. Terrific
Cyborg
Photon
Blade
Patriot
Vixen
Falcon
ect..

All A or B List characters 😐

They aren't one dimensional because they're black, they're one dimensional because they're stupid. Hell, check out what Cage says when he's turned into a white guy.

"I feel like a funky honkey!"

Originally posted by What If...
Since when is Luke Cage serious and 1 dimensional?

...and just STFU no one wants to hear it.

I guess you didn't read the Marvel MAX title Cage, huh?

Said fact is that a lot of black male characters are pretty one dimensional. Seems like every time a write sees a black character they want to slap some gold chains on him, dumb down his vocabulary and make him "urban".

Luke is usually a very cool and complex character. The MAX title butchered him.

Blade was SOOOOO one dimensional before his movie came out

"Maybe your stronger'n'faster 'n me creep. But you ain't the real blade! And only the REAL Mccoy can do THIS, BABY!

Baby? 😆 Obviously great example of white writers back in the day not knowing HOW the hell to write black characters 😆 All they were was jive talkers to them.