Riverdale

Several Archie Comics characters were reimagined with different ethnicities/sexualities for the show.

• Reggie Mantle recast/reimagined as Asian-American
• Veronica Lodge reimagined as Latina
• Toni Topaz introduced as a queer Latina character

Strong female leads (Betty, Veronica, Cheryl) drive much of the plot, but men are not systematically mocked or vilified as a message.

• Betty and Veronica as dominant problem-solvers
• Cheryl Blossom as a forceful matriarch-in-the-making

Prominent, central LGBTQ+ content including Kevin Keller as an openly gay main character and Cheryl/Toni's ongoing same-sex relationship.

• Kevin Keller as openly gay series regular
• Cheryl Blossom's coming out and relationship with Toni Topaz
• Cheryl explicitly discussing repression of her sexuality

Diverse cast in a contemporary small-town American setting, plausible but a deliberate departure from the comics' largely white roster.

• Veronica and the Lodges as Latino family
• Reggie reimagined as Asian-American
• Josie and the Pussycats as Black characters with expanded roles

Occasional social themes around sexuality, conversion therapy, and town corruption, but generally folded into the melodrama rather than sermonized.

• Cheryl's storyline involving a conversion-therapy 'sisters of quiet mercy' arc
• Themes of family acceptance of queer characters

Some father figures are villainous, but this is noir-soap plotting rather than a thematic indictment of masculinity or the West.

• Hiram Lodge as a criminal patriarch
• Various corrupt male authority figures

Radically darkens the wholesome Archie source and reimagines characters' identities and sexualities, with some changes identity-driven.

• Wholesome teen comic recast as a dark crime soap
• Cheryl rewritten as a queer character
• Reggie and Veronica's ethnicities changed from comics