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white male, are well-lit and clearly discernible. In this scene, Deathstrike
is stripped of her individuality and framed as being unimportant and an
inconsequential character through the lighting in comparison to the other
two characters involved.
In the film, Asianness becomes linked to technology through the
apparatus utilized to transform Yuriko into the adamantium-infused
Deathstrike, at which point she becomes representative of advanced,
albeit fantastical, technology. Later in the film, it is discovered that
Deathstrike is forcibly being subjected to doses of a fluid secreted from
the brain of Stryker’s son, Jason, which acts as a mi