Honestly I am hoping the Cuphead Show will put an end to everyone drawing all of the humanized versions of the characters as white. When the game first came out and had a big ass fanbase, I was excited to see King Dice human fanart since he's basically Cab Calloway (I am a huge Cab Calloway fan) only to he disappointed when I saw everyone drawing the same snooty looking white man. And it wasn't just Dice, it was everyone, it was just white after white after white with people giving Devil or Wheezy only a slight tan occasionally.
Maybe it's my fault, maybe I expected too much, maybe I just listen to too much 1930s jazz and big band music made by black people and watched Harlem Nights too much that my mind quickly went to there because I always thought the game and movie were similar in a weird sort of way (Casino/Club settings, Cups being too fast to get into trouble and needing to quickly get out of trouble because his life depends on it like Quick, I always pictured Dice as this professional, classy, business man type character like Sugar Ray, who knows how to get the job done ect ect.)
(Harlem Nights movie pictured below)
And here's the argument I came across years ago to excuse the drawing of all of the characters as white, "Wouldn't portraying the characters as black only enforce bad characteristics and stereotypes upon black people ? Y'know, as sleezy, untrustworthy, troublesome, mischievous ect, ect." and my answer as a Black Person would be, no, no it would not, at least in my opinion it would not.
Am I saying it's wrong to draw the characters white ? No. I'm just saying, with the impact black people had in the 1930s with music and other entertainment (even though we scarcely got credit for it) it wouldn't hurt to draw some of the characters, especially the one who is based off of a black musician (Dice) as black and like bruh, he was voiced by a black woman in the games and by Wayne Brady in the show, the only reason why people only continue to portray him as a white man is because white is the color of his die, which honestly, the logic Die White = Skin must be pale white is just as bullshit as the argument for when people draw anthro animals as human and use the Fur White = Skin Must Be white or the logic I saw people use to gang up on an artist who drew Human!Eva from WALL-E as black "Her exterior is white so she must be white !", it's just bullshit.
(I'm not even gonna mention how I think that Cuphead and Mugman are based off of The Nicholas Brothers because that'll just take too long)
Edit: Also let me bring up a pattern I've seen of white!humanized King Dice fanart depicting him as more feminine while black!humanized King Dice fanart tends to depict him as more masculine. Like, do I even have to point out the things with that or are y'all seeing it too ?
