Jonny Quest: apparently it's super offensive.

And I'm not talking about how Two white men, a white boy, and their colored boy-servant came and saved villages of color as the Great White Saviors...
 I get it in this day and age Hadji can be a problematic character...  but I'm not even talking about that.
A group of friends and I were planning to go to a Halloween party and we had chosen the group theme of Jonny Quest. I was going to be Jonny,  a female friend was going as a Gender-bent Race Bannon, another male friend was going to go as Dr. Quest, token female #2 was going as Jessie Bannon and Lastly, another friend was going as Hardrock. I feel sorry for Luis, who spent 2 weeks working on the Hardrock costume.

We purposely avoided Hadji to avoid any offensive content but the rest of the Jonny Quest cast is Guilty By Association. Now we can't go as ANY Jonny Quest character and we're scrambling to figure out how we'll go as a group.
Luis actually suggested we keep our costumes and he'd go as Harvey Birdman, but it was shot down... (Now I'm curious if he actually has a Birdman outfit) because Jonny Quest being banned. Indiana Jones, Cowboys, Any costume that could be offensive to any culture are banned. No Braveheart, no Samurai, no Che, not even Scarface becaise he's offensive to Cubans... No religious costumes... which basically reduces the theme to generic monsters or superheroes and not all of them. But back to Quest, Jonathan Quest.

Remember many years ago when I posted about Robert Rodriguez getting the Jonny Quest movie?
He's no loger attached. Now the director of LEGO Batman is helming the JQ movie... or at least he was a year ago.
Why hasn't this movie gotten any traction?
The hypersensitive era in which we are living now prohibits the existence of a Jonny Quest movie... Mostly due to Hadji. And even in the 90s when they try to take away. Stereotypical Magic they made him into a hacker and now that's another Indian stereotype. It's like they can never win with Hadji, man.

The only way they can win is by embracing Hadji.
That includes the Sim Sim Salabim parlor tricks from the 60s. And have them established as parlor tricks he had learned to scam tourists when he was a street urchin. Have him be intellectually gifted and be a hacker. The reason Hadji is "such a nerd" is because he doesn't want to squander the gift of a new life given to him by Dr. Quest. His natural thirst for knowledge paired with a desire to prove his worth to Dr. Quest.