Oh pirate ladies, why be genuinely intimidating or interesting like pirate men, when you can show boobs?
Funny thing how they literally copied characters from Pirates of the Carribean, not caring about either Disney or the actors suing for infringement… but for “sex sells” reasons they had to add in some generic deep-cleavaged lady who looks absolutely nothing like Keira Knightley.
Dunno if it’s more insulting to the actress, cause someone didn’t think her face was worth using like mugs of Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush, or respectful, cause in that case those boobs would be painted on her.
~Ozzie
Oh look, another game that decided to advertise itself with web banners portraying generically pretty pale ladies with overemphasized cleavages next to guys covered in ridiculously bulky and ornate fully-covering armor! How ORIGINAL!
20 points to Hogwarts house of whoever manages to explain how on earth do the blue dress lady’s boobs don’t spill out.
~Ozzie
PS: Also, what’s wrong with purple dress one’s hand?
World of Warcraft (the Movie)
clearlyiwaswrong submitted:
I don’t know if you’d seen these already but my eyes just rolled into the back of my head. Thanks for the crotch shot.
And of course the male equivalent is the opposite of sexualised.
Those posters sum up PERFECTLY the problem with gendered double standard in depicting fictional characters and how it traverses through various media, as an MMO gets adapted into a movie.
Everything about those characters that should be equal, isn’t: makeup, costume, posing.
@nicholaskole took notice way back of how male orcs are big and unequivocally monstrous, while female ones are just conventionally pretty ladies painted green with small fangs (and that Garona’s mixed ancestry is not given justice either). Basically this:
Also reminds me strongly of @krudman’s take on sexual dimorphism in character design.
We assure you, WoW the Movie, designing big badass orc women (and/or sexualized orc men) isn’t that hard! We have a couple examples in our orc tag.
~Ozzie
edit: A number of people have rushed to remind us that in according to the character’s particular lore, she’s a half orc. While correct, this doesn’t address any of the key problems such as her pose and attire, that audiences unfamiliar with the lore won’t know that or that the character is essentially promoted as a sexy orc-like lady in juxtaposition to a powerful, well protected and dangerous orc man.
World of Warcraft (the Movie)
clearlyiwaswrong submitted:
I don’t know if you’d seen these already but my eyes just rolled into the back of my head. Thanks for the crotch shot.
And of course the male equivalent is the opposite of sexualised.
Those posters sum up PERFECTLY the problem with gendered double standard in depicting fictional characters and how it traverses through various media, as an MMO gets adapted into a movie.
Everything about those characters that should be equal, isn’t: makeup, costume, posing.
@nicholaskole took notice way back of how male orcs are big and unequivocally monstrous, while female ones are just conventionally pretty ladies painted green with small fangs (and that Garona’s mixed ancestry is not given justice either). Basically this:
Also reminds me strongly of @krudman’s take on sexual dimorphism in character design.
We assure you, WoW the Movie, designing big badass orc women (and/or sexualized orc men) isn’t that hard! We have a couple examples in our orc tag.
~Ozzie
edit: A number of people have rushed to remind us that in according to the character’s particular lore, she’s a half orc. While correct, this doesn’t address any of the key problems such as her pose and attire, that audiences unfamiliar with the lore won’t know that or that the character is essentially promoted as a sexy orc-like lady in juxtaposition to a powerful, well protected and dangerous orc man.
Seems like League of Angels 2′s marketing strategy is “Shoot our own foot by presenting in multiple examples just how devoid of any creative thought our game is. You’re welcome.”
If that wasn’t enough proof of creative bankruptcy, their homepage is literally playing the Game of Thrones theme on loop.
Yes, they’re SO unimaginative, they don’t care about an inevitable lawsuit from a big media corporation. Not the first time we’ve seen such mentality.
I’m curious what the Chinese ad says.
Until someone proves me wrong, I’m gonna assume it translates roughly to “Pale, Thin, Generically Sexy Lady in Bikini Armor: The Game”.
~Ozzie
edit: thanks to @sunnyzhp22 and @cla-w for the translation:
「女神聯盟」
Goddess Alliance
「快來收集性感女神」
Come and collect those sexy goddesses!!
Well that’s both underwhelming and exactly what I’d expect from LoA. As if turning women into collectibles wasn’t a sleazy idea already, they’re also are not even offering any variety of those angel/goddess characters. Isn’t the point of collecting to have different items with something in common?
~Ozzie