If you haven’t heard of Kate Beaton’s Strong Female Characters, then 1) where have you been for the last three years, poor soul? 2) please, catch up immediately (links below)!
Obviously, those two strips are the most relevant to BABD, as Georgia O’Queefe and Queen Elizatits demonstrate how skimpy outfits are so totally acceptable as long as you can argue they’re part of your cultural heritage and how you never need to worry about getting hurt, cause sexy distraction is the best protection.
One question remains… why is this supposed to be a parody? Clearly, that’s how writing empowered feminist (and totally not contrived) characters works! Best inspiration ever.
And always remember, kids:
~Ozzie
A frighteningly accurate excerpt from Cracked’s The Evolution of Fictional Characters by Medium
This reminds me of something, but I can’t quite put my finger on what… Hmmm
Frankly, I’d say the penultimate image should give her boots with way taller and less comfortable heels than that. Then again, this comic came out in 2010, FOUR YEARS before the Samus rocket high heels.
Now, we’re well into 2015 and it still stays topical.
It’s a sad world where the parodies are so accurate they might as well prophetize the future of franchises.
~Ozzie
more adventures in the disadvantages of impractical armor, wyvern knight edition.
This looks like something for bikiniarmorbattledamage to write about
You know, while this doesn’t help me understand the outfit, it does provide insight into what this move is about:
Here I was thinking this was some sort of sleazy over the top seductive gesture, but clearly she’s just trying to confuse an archer who looks ready to exploit her weakness.
One of her weaknesses.
No seriously that outfit makes no sense.
– wincenworks