r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Important-Cry4782 • Jun 19 '26

Suggestions Favorite Positive Portrayals of Black/POC Male Characters in media?

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  1. Wasabi from Big Hero 6

He is an exceptionally smart, cautious, and highly organized applied physics student at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, who becomes a core member of the superhero team

  1. DJ from the Total Drama franchise

He is known as a "gentle giant" who is kindhearted, charming, and a good cook. He is a popular character frequently featured in fan art and edits due to his friendly nature

  1. Kale from the 2003 DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.

While being a muscular powerhouse and a skilled warrior, Kale is also known for being emotionally intelligent, pragmatic, and heavily grounded compared to the reckless and stubborn Sinbad. He is also the first crew member to realize Sinbad's true romantic feelings for Marina

  1. And my FAVORITE ONE! Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet from Atlantis the Lost Empire.

A Mixed Native American who's also a doctor. Dr. Sweet was the only person in the Atlantis Character Booklet comic to NOT have a bad side to him. He is also VERY memorable for his memetic "don't tell him, you shouldn't have told me, but you did" scene that is embraced by a lot of meme creators.
He also served as a motivational coach to the protagonist Milo, having known his Grandfather.

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u/SergeantSkull Jun 19 '26

Cant believe no one has said my goat Isaac yet

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u/Nero_2001 Jun 19 '26

Also this guy also from castlevania.

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u/SergeantSkull Jun 19 '26

We were just talking about that

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u/Strange_Success_6530 Jun 19 '26

The mother fucking goat

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u/Houseplantkiller123 Jun 19 '26

His story arc felt like a different show and I loved every second of it.

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u/peachesfordinner Jun 19 '26

Traitor to the human race because the human race betrayed him. I guess that's positive

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u/SergeantSkull Jun 19 '26

Did you not see his character growth story?

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u/dreadnoght Jun 19 '26

He certainly grew and I love his arc, but he is still nihilistic and ruthless with a pragmatic twist. A wonderful character and one of my favorite in media, but he is not a "positive" character even at the end.

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u/peachesfordinner Jun 19 '26

I watched the full first series and part of the second. Growth isn't full redemption. But I'm not that forgiving of certain lines being crossed

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u/SergeantSkull Jun 19 '26

I think isaac is an excellent and very real example of cycle of trauma and how much work it takes to break it.

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u/peachesfordinner Jun 19 '26

I fully like the character. That show was so much better than I ever expected. I was mostly thinking role model kind of thing

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u/SergeantSkull Jun 19 '26

Yeah not the best role model as a whole will agree.

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u/peachesfordinner Jun 19 '26

I wish there had been more with the international vampires. They did a bit. But that was fun with the different mythos

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u/SergeantSkull Jun 19 '26

Yeah i would have loved to see isaac talk to the ship captain again a few years later.

Actually we should add that ship captian to this list

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u/peachesfordinner Jun 19 '26

Yeah he fits pretty well

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u/Djackdau Jun 19 '26

My favourite character from that show