Sorry. I don't think I was being as clear as I wanted. Comics are comics and the films are the films. In the IM films, there are few if any non-US heroes (depending on how you count Natasha). The comics can be completely liberal and representative (and I hope you agree that they are not), and it still doesn't make the films any better in those areas.
I mean that if all the heroes are white, and the only time we see non US brown people they're villains that says something (I would say that IM1 handled race issues badly all around, including the problems you mentioned). I don't think that Jimmy Woo has to fight Mandarin but there is no Jimmy Woo or any other Asian hero who doesn't bite it after fifteen minutes of screen time, then no, perhaps they shouldn't have Asian villains. I'd be okay with Tony fighting Mandarin and Jimmy Woo fighting the Green Goblin or whatever, but with an all American, mostly white cast, I'd really prefer that they lay off the foreign people of colour as a source of villainy.
I would say the franchise has a duty to make an entertaining film. Obviously they should pull from the comics where they can, but if it's full of American xenophobia, racism and unfortunate implications, I, for one, am not going to be entertained.
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I mean that if all the heroes are white, and the only time we see non US brown people they're villains that says something (I would say that IM1 handled race issues badly all around, including the problems you mentioned). I don't think that Jimmy Woo has to fight Mandarin but there is no Jimmy Woo or any other Asian hero who doesn't bite it after fifteen minutes of screen time, then no, perhaps they shouldn't have Asian villains. I'd be okay with Tony fighting Mandarin and Jimmy Woo fighting the Green Goblin or whatever, but with an all American, mostly white cast, I'd really prefer that they lay off the foreign people of colour as a source of villainy.
I would say the franchise has a duty to make an entertaining film. Obviously they should pull from the comics where they can, but if it's full of American xenophobia, racism and unfortunate implications, I, for one, am not going to be entertained.