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Sabine Wren

@rainymeadows submitted:

So this is the design for Sabine Wren in season three of Star Wars Rebels.

She’s Mandalorian and artsy and it shows. So far she’s had a different design in each season and this one has been easily the most protective yet. Her chest plate is larger, her sleeves look thicker and she even has a convoree design on one of her shoulderplates as a tribute to a lost comrade. And she’s only 18-19 years old and looking very strong and tough and ready for battle.

I’m sure she’ll look fantastic in the Force Arena mobile game! After all, everybody else who was translated from show to game got pretty accurate representations!

…oh.

This reminds me a lot of the story of how Lara Croft was originally going to have a modest bosom, but then the 3D modeler accidentally extended the polygons too far and was told by his boss to “just leave it like that!”

Only in this case I get the feeling they originally made the model rather true to the design, then just kept getting told “make it rounder” until they started to worry it would be too ridiculous, even for Star Wars.

If they’re going to pretend an armored plate is a sports bra the least they could do is give it some straps.

– wincenworks

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queenbean03:

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

I was bored so I decided to play some Female Armor Bingo with Flip Flappers! For the last three here’s the one and only example of what the male version of the same outfit looks like.

So… everything I could find say this is a show is a sort of Magical Girl type deal and generally seems to be aimed at teenage girls and young women.

Except for various random traits like these costumes and moments like…

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I’m not convinced this is a great way to market to multiple demographics.

– wincenworks

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shattered-earth:

HANZO SHIMADA 2.0

aka. Hipster Hanzo

Print for MAGFEST 2017 and beyond. Please click for better quality tumblr REKT this image XD

 If I ever sell online it’ll be at my etsy!

Now, this is is the sort of empowerment that Blizzard should be providing for their male heroes in these trying times.  Look at that confidence and badassery – plus the sexual empowerment of being willing to let you see all his piercings (or is it just most of his piercings… if you know what I mean)

Here’s hoping someone on the Overwatch team latches onto this idea and lets it inspire their next Hanzo skin.

– wincenworks

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omaaoc:

dragonreine:

harrumphandhuzzah:

lesbianrey:

mirandaputsherbestbuttforward:

knight-enchanter:

Sarah and Scott Ryder covers, side by side [x]

thank god n7 armor conforms to my feminine 20 inch waist

And gives my boobs little hatches, i mean we wouldnt want my boobs to NOT have little hatches they could escape thru before the rest of the body dies

@kathteamonroe this just in on “stupid design for female characters”

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

So, after the posing double standard fiasco on promotional image last year, Mass Effect Andromeda fixed it and gave female and male character the same exact pose in more recent artwork… yet introduced a whole slew of new double standard problems instead, like obvious body type difference and what seems to be the next stage of boobplate: nipple hatches.

One step forward, two steps backwards. This is very awkward, Bioware.

~Ozzie

I’ve been holding back on commenting too much on Andromeda promotion material just because it’s been a wild ride and, as we’ve covered previously, Mass Effect has an odd history of jumping back and forward with quality of female costumes.

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Given the juxtaposition between Dragon Age’s general design shifts and Mass Effect’s I can’t help but worry part of this this problem is that since Mass Effect is science fiction and hence seen as more accessible it gets more interference from Creepy Marketing Guy.

This is doubly a shame since it would be nice if we could have a vision of the future where these kind of double standards are not an issue.

– wincenworks

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Bulletstorm is getting a remaster, so it’s probably time to talk about how Trishka Novak ended up looking more like a pinup model than a “merciless stealth assassin” even after the team fought to cut down on her arbitrary sex appeal.

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What’s interesting is that despite his unwillingness to consider that perhaps, there were some bad decisions made here, Adrian is apparently in agreement with us over the outfits in some other people’s games:

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– wincenworks

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If New Exiles taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t design a character’s costume where it looks like you forgot to give them a bra and just scribbled on two gold discs at the last second and that you shouldn’t wait until your second last issue to break out imagery like this:

– wincenworks