User blog comment:Blinkn/Correcting an Oversight/@comment-821254-20120111020927/@comment-3317214-20120111103807

I agree that it's not a bad thing for for any white heroes to have beautiful brown skinned women by their sides, just as it's not a problem for black heroes to have white love interests. And I don't think that the guys at Marvel have a problem with it either. But with a far greater population of white heroes, there's just a greater probability that a heroe's love interest will be white. I don't think it's anything intentional from them, thinking that the characters would be lessened by having partners from other ethnic groups, it just kinda turns out that way. And I certainly believe that just because they haven't gone there, it doesn't mean they wouldn't. But yeah, sure, if there are people who are offended by it, then I certainly wouldn't mind Marvel coming out and throwing other black characters into the picture.

Also, I want to touch on the Heimdall thing again. I don't think that was a case of deciding to make that character black. I think it just worked out that way because they wanted the actor for artistic reasons. And it's just in the film that a black guy plays him. But I don't see it as making the character itself black, but instead, just having a black actor portray him, as most characters' ethnicity (such as Heimdall's) doesn't affect the story, and so is for the most part, interchangeable.