For Dark Girls Who Never Get Asked to Play Storm

The Nerd community is a really tough bastard to please. The Black Nerd community, maybe even more so. Still, because we rarely get what we want, throwing us a really big bone is often a good way to buy yourself some goodwill and keep our adamantium claws firmly in our hands a bit longer. Storm is probably the biggest get out of jail free card that may never get played. Last year, Bryan Singer announced that they had found their next Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm for the X-Men: Apocalypse film. Now, you probably noticed… they are young. Like, could be Famke Janssen’s kids young. But that was to be expected, considering that the Apocalypse film was essentially going to be set in the “First Class” timeline with no wonky time travel going on this time (new powered-up Kitty Pryde not included). So, we weren’t going to get the old Scott, Jean and Ororo in their Hollywood Geriatric state, and that’s fine ’cause bruh, that’s actually a good thing. So, we can talk Sansa Stark playing Jean Grey (I’m going to need more convincing) or Tye “You might remember me from Mud, actually naw, you probably don’t” Sheridan playing Cyclops, but come on, fam. You’re on Black Nerd Problems right now… you know we’re gonna talk about Ororo Da Literal Gawd. I do not come to bury Alexandra Shipp. I don’t know Alexandra Shipp. I like her politics though. I like that she likes President Obama as more of my black friends complain about him (*cough*Omar Holmon*cough*).

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