The Laura Croft game we all deserve
It’s 5am and my eyes were so blurry that I legit thought “wow look at Shia LaBuff”
I love the smell of male empowerment in the morning
As our previous reblogs prove, empowered male equivalents to Lara Croft are always welcome on BABD!
~Ozzie
h/t: Way too many loyal BABD readers to count! Thank you all for the heads up!
GENDERBENT LARA CROFT COSPLAY
Genderbending cosplay is nothing new, we see it all the time. Usually it’s hot chicks dressed as sluttier versions of male characters, but we rarely see manly-men, like Dr. Teng above, dressed as scantily-clad lady characters.
I’d actually kind of like to see this idea pushed all the way to the opposite end of the spectrum — like dudes cosplaying as super suave and macho versions of half-nekkid chicks. I wonder if the character’s would even still be recognizable.
(top pic via Anna Fischer)
CHECK IT: More cosplay posts on Albotas.com
BUY: Cosplay Made In Japan (Japanese Edition)omg
I fucking love this!
@bikiniarmorbattledamage some empowering male cosplay and a lovely example of giving men the same skimpy outfits as their female counterparts. A truly wonderful cosplay, if I do say so.
Always open to a sexy male take on Tomb Raider! We had a CG 3D one and 2D colored pencil one on the blog already, so real life version is welcome as well!
This really is an equal opportunity sexy costume.
~Ozzie
What if Lara Croft was a dude? (via videogamesmademegay)
10/10
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So empowered! I’m sure @bikiniarmorbattledamage would agree.
We were certain we had this on BABD before, but to our surprise, apparently not!
Time to fix that mistake!
~Ozzie
The gallery these images come from is available on deviantArt here, it does contain NSFW male nudity.
– wincenworks
While, of course, a few of the usual offenders were present – overall there seems to be a trend of improvement in gender representation in games being nominated for awards.
Pictured above:
Even Until Dawn, a horror/slasher game with the obligatory shower/walk around in a towel trope, seems pretty good for depicting the women as dressing for the situation rather than the camera and a presumed straight male audience.
It really goes to show much you can accomplish when you’re not trying to fit worn out gender tropes and boob windows into everything.
– wincenworks
Lara Croft still doesn’t know how to put a damn top on
Lara Croft still doesn’t know how to put a damn top on
One day… one day we may see a Tomb Raider game where the Lara has gear that looks the bare minimum for what she should have brought or will be about a power fantasy. The current trend of making everything gritty and “realistic” while having Lara in a tank top and basically slowly killing herself by scratches and abrasions really needs to go.
In the early games she at least came across as an unstoppable badass… now she comes across as unable to understand how clothing works.
– wincenworks