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Here we go again

whereismywizardhat submitted:

Time to add to Langrisser’s sins against basic sanity in costume design

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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

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shattered-earth:

As excited I was about ME:A being announced, this (i’m sure very fast) concept art put a bad taste in my mouth. Just goes to show how silly poses for women are so ingrained into artist’s heads that they probably did it without thinking, not realizing how they broke her out of perspective (check her shoulders and feet against the man) just to achieve it too. I mean they were probably drawn separately but no one was like wait a second… lol

Happy space adventuring!

Even with equal amounts of body coverage, Mass Effect characters can’t escape the double standard.

I think kaaaaaaaaaaaaaldwin puts the problem with original picture really well in here:

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~Ozzie

Personally I am hoping that the E3 demo armor was chosen for conveying more dynamic motion and this is just a side effect of marketing people going overboard with it.  

It is good though that they’re now promoting the female option right away and I do hope that the rest of the armors will be more like what we saw last year.

– wincenworks

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The sad part is, Ciri’s shoes here actually look wearable compared to way too many designs we’ve seen.

Most designers not only put female warriors in high heels inappropriate for the character’s activities. They also create footwear that ignores how feet work and would require them to be broken or liquefied… because body horror is sexy?

The ubiquity of “women’s feet = high heels” thing is quite scary. Awkwardly arched, nearly vertical “Barbie” foot shape is so prevalent in portrayals of women that there’s a generation of artists who apparently think that’s how female anatomy works.

It still amuses me that parodies of Samus Smash Bros “jet boots” understand that a heel this high needs thick platform under the ball of the foot, while the original barely had any sole in front part of the shoe.

~Ozzie

Personally I love this bizarre tendency for people who are are emotionally attached to having high heels in games insist that there’s a scientific reason for Samus and other women having high heels.

Like, high heels have these great and obvious martial applications – but literally no military or martial art has ever chosen to employ them… because it would be unfair to the enemy?

– wincenworks

more about why high heels on action heroines break the suspension of disbelief in fiction | general high heels tag on BABD

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Lucas submitted:

There is a new upcoming film called Justice League Gods and Monsters. It’s an alternate universe with a different JL that uses brutal methods to maintain the order.

Here are the 3 protagonists, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.

(That is not Diana! It’s Bekka from New Genesis.)

Look at that V cut that goes to her waist, i have no idea how that protects her (or even works at all) but at least she has a helmet, shoulder pads and a (rather unconfortable looking) neck protection right? The uniform is so weird you can barely recognize her as Wonder Woman.

These 3 are supposed to be the opposite of the original heroes. Superman is the son of the villain, Batman is a vampire that sucks his enemies and Wonder Woman is… sexually agressive.

Machinima will show a companion series, here is her episode (only 6 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWLqnjFN64

She acts cocky all the time, waits until her boyfriend asks for help to go save him and after defeating the giant robot she rips his clothes off and has sex with him. 

Might as well change her title to “Empowered Woman”.

Wow. It’s like the design process for this character incorporated hours of surfing TV Tropes and trying to find how to incorporate as many of the “sexy” tropes as possible.

I’m kind of impressed… it must take hours and hours of dedication and work to make something this painfully generic, soulless and ridiculous.

– wincenworks

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Lucas submitted:

There is a new upcoming film called Justice League Gods and Monsters. It’s an alternate universe with a different JL that uses brutal methods to maintain the order.

Here are the 3 protagonists, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.

(That is not Diana! It’s Bekka from New Genesis.)

Look at that V cut that goes to her waist, i have no idea how that protects her (or even works at all) but at least she has a helmet, shoulder pads and a (rather unconfortable looking) neck protection right? The uniform is so weird you can barely recognize her as Wonder Woman.

These 3 are supposed to be the opposite of the original heroes. Superman is the son of the villain, Batman is a vampire that sucks his enemies and Wonder Woman is… sexually agressive.

Machinima will show a companion series, here is her episode (only 6 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWLqnjFN64

She acts cocky all the time, waits until her boyfriend asks for help to go save him and after defeating the giant robot she rips his clothes off and has sex with him. 

Might as well change her title to “Empowered Woman”.

Wow. It’s like the design process for this character incorporated hours of surfing TV Tropes and trying to find how to incorporate as many of the “sexy” tropes as possible.

I’m kind of impressed… it must take hours and hours of dedication and work to make something this painfully generic, soulless and ridiculous.

– wincenworks

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Even during the fables 90s Comics  Era the absurdity of costumes was too overwhelming to ignore.  This page comes from Doom Force Special, a parody of comics of the day by Grant Morrison.

Perhaps something to remember the next time a creator from the 90s goes on a rampage complaining about how people these days are too sensitive.

– wincenworks

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A trend I’ve seen in positive female armor examples… I find neither good nor bad but just thought-provoking… In many of positive female armors, the ladies have a long, often untied and fancy (even sexy) hair. That kind of hair is usually very impractical in battle (blinds, someone can grab it), and while dudes can sometimes have freely flowing long hair, long hair is mostly girls’ thing in pop culture. Your thoughts, what is the okay-ness of giving a lady warrior long fancy hair, and why?

Largely we don’t address the long hair issues because the solution is pretty straight forward (as shown by the-hero-dies aka Kevin Warren):

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As for the okay/appropriateness – it generally depends on the consistency and suspension of disbelief.  It’s common practice in all kinds of media to have named characters go without helmets do they can be easily recognized and in more than a few productions the men have equally impractical hair styles.

When it becomes a problem is when products signal that some men are practical and/or warriors by giving them close cropped hair styles and then give women with equal responsibility fancy hair styles because they have an arbitrary checklist of traits all women need.  Such as:

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Then it’s terrible because it showcases the double standard, objectifies women and destroys the visual story telling by mixing the messages on what a character’s appearance is supposed to tell us.

– wincenworks

Gifs from this Regretroid Music Video