I remember it being something we took to heart as kids and it just staued that way.
You know when your a kid the “lead” boy always got with the “lead” girl. When we’d play Power Rangers as kids, all of us black kids use to make believe that Zack was the real leader (we called him “Jason Zack” this is a TRUE story

) and we’d fight over who was gonna be the leader and date “Kimberly”.
Then Tommy showed up and CRUSHED the buildings. NOBODY wanted to be Jason. It was all about Tommy.
I always got to be Tommy because my parents brought me a Dragon Dagger for making All A’s