I don’t think that costume, that a female character deliberately wears into battle and dangerous situations, provides enough protection to qualify as armor…
You know who you are
– wincenworks
Bringing this back to remind anyone that outfit doesn’t have to be explicitly an armor or armor-like to qualify for this blog.
As long as a female character deliberately wears it for battle, it counts.
~Ozzie
I don’t think that costume, that a female character deliberately wears into battle and dangerous situations, provides enough protection to qualify as armor…
You know who you are
– wincenworks
Bringing this back to remind anyone that outfit doesn’t have to be explicitly an armor or armor-like to qualify for this blog.
As long as a female character deliberately wears it for battle, it counts.
~Ozzie
‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ May Be Game Of The Year – But There’s One Big Problem (contains spoilers)
While most critics are busy either wildly celebrating Batman: Arkham Knight or raging over the poor quality of the PC port, this article talks about a very important point – the inevitable diminishing of the female characters.
I feel it would be dishonest not to hold their costuming as at least partially accountable. When developers put all their design focus on making the female characters appear sexy and exposed, then it greatly reduces the options for the kind of roles they can have in scenes. The can either be:
- Vulnerable and some sort of device (decoration, instrument, prize or joke but never a person)
- Spectacularly over powered in a attempt to subvert the costume and play the “so badass their costume doesn’t need to make sense” card
Since Batman games always put Batman as the hero, it means there’s scant few opportunities for the second option and they usually only get one bite of the apple. Ivy in Arkham Asylum, Catwoman in Arkham City and now in order to make Harley Quinn formidable (instead of the Joker’s puppet) they gave her what’s actually the most practical outfit in the series to date:
(Yes it is actually an upgrade on Arkham Asylum and Arkham City)
This is why video games, comic books and video games based off comic books can’t have nice things.
– wincenworks
SU Knights
While Crystal Gems, much like Sailor Scouts, aren’t the kind of warriors who really need armor, those are nevertheless very cool stylized redesigns which I’m glad will join other cartoony armors among our positive examples.
So glad, in fact, that I’m introducing ‘cartoony armor’ tag for designs like these: not necessarily realistic or 100% practical, but larger-than-life only in positive, non-sexualized ways.
~Ozzie
Here we go again
whereismywizardhat submitted:
Time to add to Langrisser’s sins against basic sanity in costume design
This is Priestess Mariel Sarlus. I mean, I know nuns are often sexualized anyways, but really?!?
One of the things I always find truly baffling about a lot of these designs is they’re not trying to find integrate the fantasy setting with the sexy design… they’re just cutting windows and adding clothes you’d find in a modern day lingerie catalog (or sex shop).
I mean… unless I’m supposed to believe that part of her role as priestess is to set some sort of example for pubis grooming.
– wincenworks