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
DRAGON AGE II REF – AVELINE OUTFIT TURNAROUND
A proof that Dragon Age (and BioWare in general) knew how to do female armor right for a long time, even if they weren’t always all that self-aware and have some bingo-worthy designs on record.
~Ozzie
i’m still so into the alice in wonderland armor
A closer look at that awesome Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland armor that we featured before and which inspired the Bunny Rule.
~Ozzie
I literally just read somebody suggesting that the “iron man” in all new all differen avengers van’t be pepper potts because the armor has no boobs….what ._.
But Rose, how can fans possibly believe it’s a G I R L in there if the suit doesn’t have BIG IRON TITTIES?! [/sarcasm]
In case anyone wondered what All-New All-Different Avengers is:
Regardless of who this particular Iron Man is supposed to be, Pepper Potts rocks the boobless Iron Man suit just fine. Ask Stjepan Sejic (seems this artwork was deleted from dA. Here’s it’s archive.com copy).
~Ozzie
People really need to stop playing their faith in boobcups. They’re not necessary if you have boobs, and by now everyone should know that the boobplate does not guarantee boobs underneath:
– wincenworks
more on Iron Boobs | more on boobplates
edit: found another post about gendering Iron Man’s suit!