![]() With Musa, who was Asian in the cartoon, played by a white actor and the Latinx fairy Flora missing, many online have accused the show of whitewashing the diverse show. These substitutions, however, are not without controversy. The cast of 'Fate: The Winx Saga', Netflix's live-action reimagining of 'The Winx Club'. Villainous trio The Trix, meanwhile have been blended into one evil character, Beatrix (Sadie Soverall.) Flora, meanwhile, has been replaced by Terra (Eliot Salt), who says she is Flora's cousin in the Netflix show and has similar control over plants. ![]() Technology fairy Techna is nowhere to be seen, and the fairy with power over animals Roxy is also absent. The show also introduces some new characters while cutting out some others – though they are sure to return if there are more episodes. Musa, for example, no longer controls music but instead is an empath, a power that's equally a blessing and a curse as she feels the emotions of everyone around her. However, some of these characters have been reimagined for this new Netflix show, which is aimed at a 2021 young adult (YA) audience rather than a younger one. Returning characters from the Nickelodeon version include Fairy of the Dragon Flame Bloom (played by Abigail Cowen), Fairy of the Shining Sun Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen), Fairy of Music Musa (Elisha Applebaum) and Fairy of Waves Aisha (Precious Mustapha.) In the Netflix version, a number of the characters will be familiar from the animated version, though with a new set of actors replacing the American voice cast for the cartoon, which included Ariana Grande, Keke Palmer and Dynasty's Elizabeth Gillies. The story comes from The Winx Club, an Italian animation that ran on Nickelodeon from 2004 to 2009 and in a revived version from 2011 until 2019. Fate: The Winx Saga is streaming on Netflix now, and tells of the adventures of a group of fairies at a magical high school.
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