The Monster Hunter series has been a mixed bag when it comes to armor design, and as we’ve shown before, Monster Hunter World has proudly followed in that tradition. We’ve seen that they can do actual armor for both the men and women characters, so what the fresh hell is this? This is high level armor, too. This is what the male version looks like, by the way:
I guess I’m impressed that the characters can hand-mold monster carapaces into boob cups?
-Icy
Red is for the High Inquisitor skin, Blue is additionals from the Celestial Empress skin
Clickbait Title: You Won’t Believe What Character Blizzard is Adding to Heroes of the Storm!
Having blocked out most of my memories of playing World of Warcraft (and I didn’t do raids), I didn’t remember Sally Whitemane, so boy was I surprised to learn she led a religious order!
I’m not sure how anybody took this character seriously as an authority figure of any kind. Her outfit looks like something out of a fetish lingerie catalog. The HotS design is almost exactly the same as her original WoW model, which really highlights how much effort Blizzard is putting into doing women better.
Not to mention, her first alternative skin is some kind of scissors accident, rather than, for example, her Horseman version? Yeah, she became one of WoW’s Four Horsemen (the only woman in the current lineup, of course).
I mean, give her some padding on her exposed stomach, and that would be a fine alternate skin! But she does have a lot of skull motifs all over, so maybe they thought it would be too similar-looking to Sonya’s Death Knight skins.
-Icy
h/t: @evjazurian
So… the Fate series started with a frankly amazing female character, Saber* but since then they’ve… well they haven’t been really respecting the concept that they started with. This one however… well it looks like they decided they need to go back closer to the original look while still trying to find ways to pointlessly sexualize her.
From episode 2 onward of the latest series the opening credits of Fate: Last Encore are just ninety seconds of this version of Saber hacking up literal shadow opponents in a shadow maze in a manner to flaunt her T & A.
Kind of disappointing for a series that is supposed to be about all manner of mythical heroes, now seem
– wincenworks
* Yes, we are aware this is technically not the same character due to Fate’s obsession with alternative universes, and the universe in Last Encore being very alternative… but putting “identically named variants on a broad character concept” doesn’t parse as well.
So, Darksiders III is coming out in November and of course we’re getting the promo videos and Fury looks… well the kindest thing that can be said is that she looks better than the comic indicated she would.
Naturally this has led to a certain demographic deciding that her appearance is… unsatisfactory and they last year they needed to declare their discontent and declare it representative of “gamers” and alleges that the design above makes her “armored up to the point of being unfeminine and almost no more clearly recognizable as woman.” (actual quote, after having a year to edit it)
I mean…
– wincenworks
When I first watched that trailer, what struck me most is how SERIOUSLY it takes itself, while having a heroine who looks just. that. silly.
And gamer dudebros apparently think that THIS is “SJW pandering”, REALLY? Being encased in skin-tight metal, including a boobplate so ridiculous and badly designed it doesn’t even warrant breast support of a basic bra?
So now, in salty dudebro terms, both this and this is a “politically correct” armor “too unfeminine and no longer recognizable as a woman”:
~Ozzie
Chardonnay in some VERY empowering armor X3
Based on this post!+30 Attack
+50 Defense
+10 Speed
+200 HPalso crotch window XD
I love the tasteful arrangement of the loin cloth, the way it rises and falls – teasing the audience not just with the glory of the crotch window – but also allowing us to imagine how his buttocks might be exposed.
So inspirational, so empowering.
– wincenworks
“Unsung Hero #1″ by Chris Casciano
Do you love the rough, painterly metal aesthetic, and illustrations of people in armor? Well, then do I have the art series for you!
This definitely looks like a realistic armor, which means that while it may not be designed with aesthetics first, this piece feels real. It definitely looks like a portrait of an actual knight. I love these kinds of works because they normalize women in armor. She looks like just another knight, and wouldn’t that be nice, if woman fighters were seen as normal and mundane as men. Not to mention, the style is wonderful.
I definitely recommend checking out the Iron Cast series.
-Icy
Okay… so the bright side of this is her backstory (ie a fantasy adaption of the legend of Elizabeth Bathory) does not specify that she is in fact undead… so it’s possible she’s just terrible looking and not yet one sexualized corpse. Not likely though, based off the intro animation.
I’m honestly at a loss about how someone decided that the best way to communicate ruthless, soul stealing necromancer was… underboob.
Though I suppose I’ll have plenty of time to consider it in the nightmares this is going to give me. You’re welcome.
– wincenworks