There’s a new Superman series out where Lois Lane has a slightly darker skin tone, isn’t there? And, from what I gather, it’s very popular.
A part of me initially felt “Why don’t they just make these characters match their old appearance?” Then I realized, we’ve been recycling the same media properties a hundred times, and they all started in an age when we depicted everyone as being white (and once in a while, had a racially charged stereotype as a token character). So maybe just like some properties get emotionally darker, maybe we can tweak a few to be skintone-darker and not lose anything.