From ‘The Avengers’ to ‘The Umbrella Academy’: How Asians Are Erased in Hollywood

Films and shows keep missing opportunities to include AAPI characters

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In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, and Baron Helmut Zemo fly to Madripoor, which Bucky describes as “an island nation in the Indonesian archipelago.” This fictional island nation is…