“Jeph Loeb told the writer’s room not to write for Nobu and Gao,” Shinkoda said. “This was reiterated many times by many of the writers and showrunners that ‘Nobody cares about Chinese people and Asian people. There was three previous Marvel movies—a trilogy called Blade—where Wesley Snipes kills 200 Asians each movie; nobody gives a shit, so don’t write about Nobu and Gao,’ and they were forced to put their storyline down and drop it.”

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Shinkoda’s accusations against Loeb are particularly galling given how Daredevil was often a series in which a white hero squared off against hordes of often faceless and nameless adversaries of Asian descent who were all literally members of an evil cult of ninjas who worshipped a demon. This was also one of the more glaring issues with Netflix’s Iron Fist, a series whose second season Loeb introduced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2018 while wearing karate gi, a move that many people saw as a racially insensitive response to critiques of the series.

Though Loeb’s no longer the head of Marvel’s TV offerings, we’ve reached out to both Netflix and Marvel for comment about the accusations being leveled against him and will update if and when we hear back.

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