Time to come back to Sideshow Toys and probably their best example yet of how much amazing craftsmanship (that sculpt! the intricate paint job! the fabric and synthetic leather details!) can be wasted on super garbage design.
This time, a classic garbage that is Red Sonja in her standard scalemail bikini.
How do the mail bra and loincloth even hold up with such flimsy straps?
What is the point of protecting your neck with metal collar when your heart, guts and skull are all totally exposed?
Why worry about reasonably padding your leg and arm protection, but wear a scalemail bra (that will sand your nipples off) directly on your skin?
“Looks nothing like male equivalent” checked, of course, because of Conan.
Not crossing out “High heels” square, since that (cw: gore) is a reasonable heel size for a horse riding and wouldn’t be out of ordinary for a male character either.
Also note how all those arrows that apparently completely missed Sonja, presumably due to her “costume” being more of a plot armor than anything else.
Reminds me of those couple “bikini armor makes you completely resistant to arrows” parodies we featured before:
Full comics to be viewed here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
~Ozzie
Mercedes Marten (Dragon’s Dogma)
Mercedes Marten (Dragon’s Dogma)
Excuse me, but literally the first concept for this character is fully armored, in reasonable plate, with no Tiddies and with actual pants??
E X C U S E M E ? ? ?
-Icy
Just in case the “no pants” part wasn’t clear enough from the image used by the OP, here’s some concept art for the final design, pants definitely not included:
Sad part is that clearly whoever worked on that studied real armor design… Then presumably got told by a creepy marketing guy that if no boob (and thighs), how woman?
I think it’s reasonable to say that Dragon’s Dogma, both with outright bad stuff and clearly missed opportunities, like this one, belongs firmly on our Wall of Shame.
~Ozzie
Note that the hero is placing the revenge on the monster for being sexually harassed by it – the kind of creepy situation that is way too often depicted “playfully” with female characters, no matter how traumatizing it would be for a real person. Especially if they were victim-blamed as “asking for it” because of clothes they were wearing.
Does it even register to dudebros how terrifying it would be to have someone do this to them? And how duplicitous it is to on one hand claim that fictional characters “choose” skimpy clothes because female empowerment, while on the other hand suggesting that the very same clothes invite (and justify?!) harassment? Like, remember that time some douche compared a slut walk attendee to Hideo Kojima’s mute bikini waifu?
~Ozzie
What a rude demon! It’s good that they got what they deserved. Nobody should be subjected to sexual harassment, whether they’re empowered or not.
-Icy
WARNING: OP’s blog is very NSFW!
