Bit of an odd headline that one hey, what exactly are we on about then?

In the wake of some leaked Sony emails, Spider-Man creator Stan Lee has come to the defence of executives who laid out some rules for Spidey and his alter ego Peter Parker. The emails in question made it clear that Sony bigwigs saw the webbed man as staying true to his original roots, with Lee’s comments here from the Guardian:

I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly…But again, I don’t see any reason to change the sexual proclivities of a character once they’ve already been established. I have no problem with creating new, homosexual superheroes.

It has nothing to do with being anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Latino, or anything like that,” he said. “Latino characters should stay Latino. The Black Panther should certainly not be Swiss. I just see no reason to change that which has already been established when it’s so easy to add new characters. I say create new characters the way you want to. Hell, I’ll do it myself.

I guess we’re not likely to see Peter become Petra and grace the cover of Vanity Fair any time soon then.

[source:guardian]