Wonder Woman will get changes of clothes! This is genuinely revolutionary… now let’s just hope it’s an actual full-body, protective dive suit and not a bikini with a snorkel. Dive suits tend to be naturally sexy on their own, and have great action potential – like that time Gina Carano beat up Ewan MacGregor:
-wincenworks
Original post with the full gallery available here.
I think it’s worth emphasizing that not only do cheesecake designs on serious characters insult the audience – they represent massive missed opportunities. Every time a company decides to go with “sex sells” instead of a solid design it means that all kinds of great potential is flushed away sight unseen.
– wincenworks
A quick reality check on the fact that every lazy “sex sells” female* character design accounts for another wasted chance for greatness.
~Ozzie
*Not to say that male characters don’t fall victims to creative bankruptcy in their own right, but they still manage to have A LOT more cliches and archetypes to choose from and not be reduced to fap fodder by default.
Art Credits:
- Red Knight by fluxen
- Virginia Hankins
- Legend of the Cryptids – by Wonchun Choi (AKA Doo)
- Second Crusade by Craig J Spearing
We may have featured some of these before, but they’re so beautiful they deserve a second appearance.
– wincenworks
It’s one of those designs that makes me think there should be a custom bingo card for it. A bingo that includes squares like “WTF am I looking at?!”, “Over-accessorizing” and, of course, “Extreme racial/cultural insensitivity”.
~Ozzie
You know – most designers are happy commodifying and dehumanizing one culture at a time… in this case it’s like they were trying to cram as many as possible into one drawing of a generic pretty white girl.
That’s impressive… in a sickening, terrible kind of way.
– wincenworks
more about exotification in character design on BABD | more about cultural appropriation in costume design
Thank you to icykitty for sharing the trauma of a set of armor that may actually be worse than the infamous outfit of Shahde from Prince of Persia.
– wincenworks
I like to think that the all-around badness of
this figure
kinda makes it an unintentional piece of commentary art. As if the designer/sculptor/company behind it was trying to say “You though you saw the worst of sexy female warriors? Nope, they could look like THIS!”.
And it just gets better when you turn it around and consider the anatomy… not only is her whole shoulder clearly dislocated and torso unnaturally swiveled, the sculpt of her underboobastic top makes it look as if she had an extra breast right under her armpit!
~Ozzie