Your Headcanons Are Not Canon: Johnathan Ohnn Edition
Dear Spider-Verse fandom,
Johnathan Ohnn is not blond or blue-eyed. He is a black-haired, black-eyed man with a surname most commonly found among the Hmong people, though is does appear in Korea and China under different spellings. His exact ethnicity has not been confirmed in canon yet. His hair and eye color, however, are not up for debate. We saw both of those things very clearly.
If you want to headcanon him as white, that's fine. But I don't think you get to insist on him having the exact opposite coloration of what canon showed us.
I get it. The idea an Asian man could be powerful and intimidating, in a world in which Western media depicts us (I say loosely, being Central Asian myself) as powerless and weak is hard to swallow. However, even if you want to say Ohnn is somehow Scottish or something... he's just simply, flat-out, canonically not blond or blue-eyed. And people noticing that didn't "not watch the movie". These are shots FROM the movies:
If you want to view him as having the same ethnicity as his voice actor... that man is also not blond, nor blue-eyed, nor is the majority of his heritage even from ethnic groups that commonly have blond hair. Again: his canon appearance is not up for debate. It's just simply not. You can debate your conclusions, but not what's on screen.
Johnathan Ohnn is not blond. I do not know why this is a controversial take. However, I think even a fandom this toxic should be able to agree that a character's in-movie appearance is not negotiable. You can still have your headcanon recolors, but there's no need to belittle people who know how he actually looks. Please make peace with this.
Regards,
Someone who did, in fact, watch the movies
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