Insert Perry Off-White Joke Here
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?The role of Daily Planet Editor-in-Chief Perry White in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie has been cast, and it’s Laurence Fishburne. A guy who is not white. I’m not reporting this because I think it’s some kind of shocking news; in fact, I’m totally okay with it. Rather, I’d like this post to be a PSA, or sorts, and would like to quote my good friend Justin Aclin regarding the matter: “How can you get upset about casting ANYONE as Perry White? You could cast Margaret Cho as long as she says ‘Great Caesar’s Ghost.'”
Exactly. Perry White is a minor supporting character in Superman. Who cares who plays him? You know what his defining characteristic is? It’s not that he’s white — it’s that he runs a newspaper and says “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” That’s it. Everything else doesn’t matter in the tiniest degree.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.