jade – Bikini Armor Battle Damage

freakin-edikan:

judgmentfist:

queen-gaymer:

Idk who they hired but I’m LIVING for these improvements

they did actually say who they hired! brendan george, a character artist

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

A lot of readers tagged us under this.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that the 2 ladies have some breast support now, but their breasts are still very clearly accented by their clothes for some reason. The designs are getting better, sure. It’s definitely an improvement from a Child’s-Small-size Halloween costume with shoestring (not even a better version than Ozzie’s Green Arrow), but we can do better.

I do hope that Brendan George continues to work hard with his team toward getting that “more mature and respectful” aesthetic that he wants. He’s not all the way there yet, I think.

-Icy

Definitely looking forward to more positive changes to Mortal Kombat character designs in the future, but so far it’s merely a step or two ahead of writing checks they cannot cash for “Doing women better”. Especially when the bar was set that low.

Because are we really supposed to celebrate an exchange of a giant boob window for a smaller boob window on Kitana?

And can we please remember that zombie Jade was never as desexualized as dudebros insist she was? At least her living version completely got rid of gratuitous cleavage… she still wears pin-thin heels throughout all skins, tho >_>

Once again, I’d encourage our readers to not settle for the smallest, safest improvements in female (and/or otherwise marginalized) representation. I get it, we’re starved. But we have the right to ask for more.

~Ozzie

micdotcom:

15 female video game protagonists that aren’t objectified or tokenized

Unfortunately this list is not completely accurate. A few of the characters within it are sadly objectified by the creators:

Lightning has many great outfits, she also has many horrible outfits and outfits that actually look more complete with the addition of a ballgag and blindfold.
Samus has both the issue of the long standing tradition of “the better you play the more undressed you get to see her” and well, her inclusion in Super Smash Bros.
Nancy Drew, amazingly, has one game where Nancy is required to dance in what can only be described as a Catwoman fetish outfit in order to win the outfit (with the option of dancing for tips later) *. This incidentally, is more or less the only time you get to see Nancy in the games.

So yeah, while there are more heroines we could add to this list – it’s kind of a shame that 20% of those on the list have exceptions.

– wincenworks

* We should stress, the issue here is not Go-Go Dancing itself, but rather that this was awkwardly shoehorned into the for no reason other than they wanted to have a conventionally attractive woman in a fetish outfit dancing. Seriously – this is not a reasonable way to obtain a cat-burglary costume with security countermeasures inbuilt.