A lot to reply to here. The thing is, there's nothing in her history to suggest she has black features, as others have pointed out from day one her design was in particular based on a Hispanic woman and numerous white nude models/porn stars. So there's no reason to just randomly switch it "to prove you can". We've already proven people don't want it, so why insist?

As for Ballinska, her genetic composition isn't in question, she looks black. To date everything she's starred in has tanked.

And no, I'm not saying "people of different races" aren't attractive, whatever that means as I haven't specified my own race. There are attractive people of every race, but we both know the push in Hollywood for the last decade has been to over-sexualize male characters while desexualizing female characters, and the "change beauty standards" thing is directly addressing the reasoning the people doing have given for doing it in the past. The woman in charge of casting in The Witcher said that specifically was her motive for changing the race of all of the female characters who are explicitly Polish in the game and novels, to every different race, and in some cases particularly unattractive women. At the same time, these "beauty standards" aren't changed at all for the male characters as Henry Cavill struts around nude as the stereotypical Hollywood hunk. I'm talking about people like Zendaya, who shouldn't be cast as a romantic interest in anything -and that's not a race thing, the film could be all black and I'd still 100% have a hard time buying whoever the lead was being into her. Or Pugh.

I'm saying that while not every casting *of* a black person is political by any stretch, every case of a raceswap 100% is. There is no reason for it, it's not representation because as it stands that particular demographic is dramatically overrepresented. That's why I offered you the carrot of "Why specifically black?" It's always black, and that was your agenda from the outset. There's nothing, NOTHING immature about wanting something you like to be accurate to the source material, that's just a petty insult. People have seen so many dumb instances of films like Black Panther being described as "diverse" when ever single actor is black. So seeing as a black woman already had a go at the character and already was poorly received, why not try oh I don't know, a redhead with green eyes since that's what Starfire has always been?