User blog comment:Blinkn/Correcting an Oversight/@comment-3317214-20120110145836/@comment-4054197-20120110202124

I had some other thoughts on this, but as usual, it would be very difficult for me to raise them without often sounding like your echo, Prof. Well said. My own, personal, overarching criterion for a "valid" alteration of a detail such as ethnicity (or anything, really), is that it doesn't harm the continuity. For example; any new universe can start from scratch and make Nick Fury, Heimdall, and whoever else whatever shade they would like. 616 Nick fury changing colors however, well... did we ever get an explanation for that? My point is; I expect an explanation (or at least a tongue and cheek acknowledgement) for alterations to established details.