The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
If New Exiles taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t design a character’s costume where it looks like you forgot to give them a bra and just scribbled on two gold discs at the last second and that you shouldn’t wait until your second last issue to break out imagery like this:
– wincenworks
The gallery of the Spooky Lady category from our Overwatch Halloween Contest comes in two halves. Huge thank you to all the participants!
Artist credits are on the caption of each image. We’re glad to display all of them as the evidence that Blizzard could do so much better for Halloween – even the simplest ideas prove that there’s more to novelty female costumes than “sexy witch”, whitewashed undead or shameless exotification.
Sexy Gentlemen category entries can be viewed here.
Spooky Ladies ½
~Ozzie
The gallery of the Spooky Lady category from our Overwatch Halloween Contest will come in two halves. Huge thank you to all the participants!
Artist credits are on the caption of each image. We appreciate and encourage all the creativity and ideas that went into those non-sexualized Halloween skin designs.
Sexy Gentlemen category entries can be viewed here.
Spooky Ladies 2/2
~Ozzie
PS: We’re withholding Female Armor Bingo posts this week to properly display and promote all the contest artwork. Bingo Sunday will come back next weekend!
Joan of Arc
Jeanne d’Arc
@sisterofsilence legit looking armour ideas for sisters of battle
Yes plz
There are so many ways to depict warrior women as majestic and powerful, even if you limit yourself to European stylings of particular eras.
More the shame that so many people seem determined to recycle the same ridiculous outfit ideas over and over.
– wincenworks
Though I gotta point out, the first image seems to portray Joan in a scalemail boobplate, which makes me think the artist didn’t take a real armor as a reference. My hope is they would portray the scales as skin-tight on male pecs as well.
~Ozzie
I do like this as an example of a design that is a pretty faithful alternative gender for a male character and, as part of that, a pretty good demonstration of how little modification to costume is really needed.
The only real gripes are the reduction in muscle tone and the indication that there’s bandages/strips of cloth used to hold boobs in place: That’s actually really dangerous and something we should really stop depicting as though it were a good idea.
– wincenworks
(edit: Thank you to those who pointed out the unfortunate de-aging when compared to Hanzo’s default skin, which this is a gender flip of. Also thank you to those who wrote in to notify of Sarashi, which is a specifically Japanese technique using special bandages – while it is not clear on this model, this technique is too often depicted with regular bandages. The heels would be a lesser gripe.)
@the-hittite submitted:
Magic: The Gathering’s Commander decks are going to be released soon, and as usual with Magic, the women commanders are something of a mixed bag. Presented here without comment. If you want to learn more about these characters and the stories behind them check here.
Bonus male empowerment:
Sadly, while taken as a whole Magic is a major mixed bag, it’s pretty clear from a casual examination of their site shows which side of the fence the marketing crew is on:
Sigh.
– wincenworks