As a straight guy, does this kinda thing annoy anyone else? She’s a strong female character in video games, but just because she’s a woman, designers made her a sexualized super model in skin-tight spandex. It feels pandering at best, and sexist at worst
Not a video game, but my personal gripe was when GitS SAC had awesome everything except for the weird out of place (and ugly tbf) outfit on MC Kusanagi.
Yes, we know. That’s why it’s funny. But it still makes the point.
But have you ever seen them make a “zero-suit” version of a male armoured guy?
Don’t recall Master Chef or the Doom Marine running around in their skintight underlayers.
Additionally, Samus debuted in a game with no characterisation, and iirc, you only found out she wasn’t a man when she stripped down at the end of the game if you did well.
As a straight guy, does this kinda thing annoy anyone else? She’s a strong female character in video games, but just because she’s a woman, designers made her a sexualized super model in skin-tight spandex. It feels pandering at best, and sexist at worst
Yeah, but I would wear skin-tight spandex if I looked like a super model, so it’s pandering to me specifically and I’m fine with that.
Not a video game, but my personal gripe was when GitS SAC had awesome everything except for the weird out of place (and ugly tbf) outfit on MC Kusanagi.
Did I just have a stroke? That’s a lot of letters that I can’t quite decipher
Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex (the original TV series); Main Character
I dislike feeling pandered to, yes.
You know this is the same character, right?
Yes, we know. That’s why it’s funny. But it still makes the point.
But have you ever seen them make a “zero-suit” version of a male armoured guy?
Don’t recall Master Chef or the Doom Marine running around in their skintight underlayers.
Additionally, Samus debuted in a game with no characterisation, and iirc, you only found out she wasn’t a man when she stripped down at the end of the game if you did well.
Halo is a girl?!?
This is the main character from Metroid, Samus Aran.
Is she Halo’s girlfriend?
Just work colleagues, Samus was rumored to be in a problematic relationship with her boss but that’s nonsense.
Then who is metroid? /s
It would take a Mother Brain to figure that out!
It definitely annoys others, but in this case both characters are the same woman.