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Any reason all the female Indian heroes have singh last names not kaur middle names? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by dilroopgill@lemmy.world to c/comicbooks@lemmy.world

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They all have no last names, instead their middle name is their last name, and its singh, this is sometimes the case but it is fairly rare compared to them having last names and the middle name kaur irl. Every woman seems to be a singh tho, even the wives of singhs are singhs.
Is it just accidental misrepresentation?

Woman have the midde name kaur, very rarely singh, and they still have last names. Also find it odd how no Singh is ever religious or seen as a sikh when its very uncommon for them to be that way irl, even agnostic its a cultural identification, not about religion. Just find it odd how often Singh is used when they make an indian in any comics not just superhero related, but nothing about them is singh, they more represent indians fron any other state?

The accidental misrepresentation has irked me a bit since i heard of khan noonien singh, like its reversed, the mughal khans and sikh singhs killed each other quite a bit, and they made the middle name a last name and the last name a first name. Just a foreign exotic scary sounding name I guess. Apparently the crestor couldn't remember their cab drivers name so they made some weird mashup of brown ppl names. Like naming a villain Christ Muhammad , or jesus alluh

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[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, at least with start trek they had pure intentions, Kim Noonien Singh, was a friend of a creator, they named two characters off of him merging one being Noonian Song. He was trying to find an old friend by naming characters off him. One of the cases whee they do have the last name singh.