In an alternate mirror universe where game developers are terrified of making new franchises starring male leads Gears of War, Call of Duty, Doom, Max Payne, Battlefield, and Deus Ex all star Duke Nukem and people get really angry when you say you wish they would try to make some new male leads instead of hammer Duke Nukem into increasingly tonally different games.
Thank goodness female characters in popular video game franchises never suffer from a lack of diversity in appearance or tonal incongruity.
Yes, there is one character who appears in this image line up twice – and it’s not one of the (many) obvious match ups.
This outfit doesn’t actually hit that many squares on your (awesome) bingo card, but it’s still so, soooo bad. Leaving aside the question of whether Natasha’s clothes need to change when she picks up the hammer (they don’t)… and leaving aside that awful duckface pout and pose (eeergh)… can I just say ‘yuck’?
Lingerie-shaped
Looks nothing like (Thor’s) version of the same outfit
Cleavage… maybe?
Boobplate. BAD boobplate.
Thigh-high boots (okay, barely)
No pants
Metal worn directly on bare skin
Can’t tell from this frame whether or not she’s wearing a thong, high heels, or underwear, or whether it covers her back (though I guess the cloak does even if her stupid metal bustier doesn’t); and if you want to count the wingy helmet, you could argue for ‘sharp ornamental edges’. 😛
I’m as excited about Natasha proving to be worthy of Thor’s weapon as anyone else, but WOW is her resulting look stupid.
Sexy is not bad. Stripping is not bad. Wearing sexy boots is not bad. You know what is bad? Pandering is. Being a lazy designer at the cost of catching a wider audience is.
A bounty hunter who runs over rugged terrain does not need stripper boots, she needs something with treads and function that can *gasp* still be sexy. I can picture a hybrid boot design that is feminine but rugged, functional but badass.
You know what conveys things like “boosters” and “power” and “high jump”? Springs, coils, energy cells, treads, jets… you don’t have to be literal but you also might want to show, not tell, what a prop does.
Depending on one’s opinion about what counts for those previously unchecked squares in yesterday’s “Easter-themed” bingo post, Fran WINS THE BINGO up to four times! A few followers pointed out three potentially eligible squares more to cross.
Just look (bolded the proposed additional squares for convenience):
Hey on the Fran bingo card, you can also mark that her nipples poke through. I’ve seen close ups of her chest, and you can see that it’s molded to her nipples. I love Fran but her armor is ridiculous.
Look at the way the top is designed; there’s nothing holding the front up. It’s kinda pretending to be a corset-type thing, but since they cut the stomach out, the bottom part is just dead weight rather than contributing support. The whole outfit should be dragging her breasts down, if it answered to gravity… As is, it’s certainly not lending any support, regardless of whether she’s likely to pop out a boob (which I’d say she is, but that’s more subjective).
So, without futher ado, here’s the updated bingo card for Fran!
Not to mention that those ain’t even boots, it looks like just attached heels. There’s nothing there that suggests to me that those are full shoes and not just some bits strapped onto her suit like some sort of bizarre addition.
