Was Clem African-American ?

[Tyrant]

Pretty sure her mother is Blasian and her Dad is Black.

I am Blasian myself and Clem's mom strongly resembles my mother and other relatives.

[Charles_K]

Originally Posted by marcu5

clem does not look black, her mom looks bi-racial

me thinks the TTG executives didn't make clem dark skinned, because white people wouldn't be very receptive to that imagery

Just look at how people reacted to Rue in the Hunger Games movies.

Anyhow, I think Nateyou drew Clem pretty well with a more "realistic" touch:

http://nateyou.deviantart.com/art/Sk...3Anateyou&qo=1

http://nateyou.deviantart.com/art/Cl...3Anateyou&qo=2

However, Kenny looks completely cartoony. Then again, he does remind me of-a Luigi, numberr one!

[Tyrant]

I thought the movie was mediocre, but damn. I lost faith in humanity.

http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/mov...182705585.html

[Doctanian]

Originally Posted by marcu5

clem does not look black, her mom looks bi-racial

me thinks the TTG executives didn't make clem dark skinned, because white people wouldn't be very receptive to that imagery

Sadly, I think you're right. People are much, much less receptive to dark skin females than dark skin males.

The only thing giving away her "blackness" is her hair, which is very Afro-textured.

[Doctanian]

Originally Posted by Charles_K

Just look at how people reacted to Rue in the Hunger Games movies.

Anyhow, I think Nateyou drew Clem pretty well with a more "realistic" touch:

http://nateyou.deviantart.com/art/Sk...3Anateyou&qo=1

http://nateyou.deviantart.com/art/Cl...3Anateyou&qo=2

However, Kenny looks completely cartoony. Then again, he does remind me of-a Luigi, numberr one!

Exactly. People go crazy over that stuff, and Rue wasn't even that dark. Imagine if she was of a darker complexion.

[Pride]

Actually, that Rue girl's actress looks like she could play Clem if she ever appeared on the TV show
She's exactly what I pictured Clem would look like in real life
Just give her some green contacts and a hat and you got Clem!

I mean, just look!

[Textbook]

Always thought Clem looked mixed, possibly blasian, possibly whack. (That's white and black.)

[Textbook]

As in, "Mariah Carey is whack."

[Tyrant]

She is pretty whack but not for the same reasons.

[Devlonir]

Originally Posted by Tyrant

I thought the movie was mediocre, but damn. I lost faith in humanity.

http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/mov...182705585.html

Same here.. some people.. The worst bit is that people wanna act 'hipster' by proving they read the book through disliking this.. but all they proved is being stupid because they just didn't register the fact that she was described as being dark skinned..

[Eric Northman]

Originally Posted by Tyrant

Pretty sure her mother is Blasian and her Dad is Black.

I am Blasian myself and Clem's mom strongly resembles my mother and other relatives.

I'm sorry, but there is nothing about this picture which makes her look even partly asian. She looks like a light skinned black/caucasian mix woman

[Tyrant]

Meh, you and I see it differently I guess.

[Eric Northman]

Originally Posted by Tyrant

Meh, you and I see it differently I guess.

Fair enough.

[KingOfTheDead]

shes black

[zev_zev]

Originally Posted by Degenerate10

Does it really matter what race she was?

You are right. She is alive, and this is the main thing. She did not very much like the african- american , I think she half afro, half white

[Torby]

Shes mexican-american for sure

[darham175]

I always thought Clem was blasian though for the most part I didn't care about characters ethnicity. I mean just because Lee is urban doesn't mean he can pick locks and just because Kenny is white and from Florida doesn't make him a racist idiot. People are people, it's what you do that should determine what people think of you not what you look like.

[DreadMagus]

Clem's a smurf.

She's short, and wears a hat. Gotta be a smurf.

[Jennifer]

There's actually a really nice article on the making of Clementine in this month's Game Informer that talks about Clementine's character development. They originally planned to have Clementine be the younger sister of the original player character who was a young man who's parents had just been killed and was raising Clem on his own, but this was changed because they didn't want to drop players into a pre-existing relationship, as they didn't think that would work as well in the world of The Walking Dead. When they came up with Lee as the player character, they made Clementine African-American because they wanted it to seem like Clem could be his daughter.

Another interesting thing (although off-topic) in there is that her trademark baseball cap with the letter D on it that was given to her by her father was actually based on a cap that the daughter of the lead artist (Darek Sakai) wears in real life. In fact, Clementine's entire fashion sense (dress with boyish ball cap) is based on Darek Sakai's daughter.

[DreadMagus]

That's pretty darn cool