picking characters for diversity sake instead of the character? she hints at two points. one of them is staying true to the comic book characters, but fair enough if you think that movies should deviate from comic books depictions and storylines to become their own film (i think they're great sometimes, unless they take away the essence of a long established character). the thing about Hollywood is that when they put out movies with characters with long consolidated histories (in Michelle's case she refers to the caucasian ones i guess), and sometimes the histories have deeply cultural roots or gender traits, it feels very patronizing to minorities such as herself when minorities that don't even look the part or resemble the part play the role, thus creating an uneasy feeling that it's really done for diversity sake. not everybody feels the same and i think she's right to represent a large portion of minorities that feel patronized when they are not given their own identity but are just there to fill in a role for diversity sake. now, that's not to say that every movie with a minority playing a traditionally white character is questionable (Idris Elba in Thor was badass, the new Johnny Storm looks fine, the new Aquaman i can see making more sense than the comic book one honestly etc), but there are cases where its just obvious and unnecessary and need to be recognized.