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The other elephant in the room is minor, but it's got to be addressed: Kratos is a dark olive-skinned Greek, and has traditionally been voiced by black men. That's always introduced a particularly special texture to Kratos' entire arc, especially as he's wrestled more with the man he was and is desperate to move beyond. I've known a fair share of black men who recognized the depths there in both T.C. Carson's and Christopher Judge's performances, immediately clocking the innumerable black fathers who had to abandon the boys they were so they could be better men. Again, these are things Hurst can likely pull off, but there's so much less depth to be mined there when our hero is a surly white guy audiences have just met, one who never stands out from the people who eventually come to hate and fear the Ghost of Sparta as he rampages through cities. When we, presumably, see the glimpses of Kratos' Spartan past, the ashes of his murdered family grafted onto him as permanent penance, it's hard not to think it will mean less watching already pale skin go one or two notches down the pantone chart.

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