Next time someone brings up “historical accuracy” as an argument for some ridiculous double standards in costume design, don’t forget to bring up this Renaissance fashion curiosity. And how conveniently it is never incorporated into male characters supposedly inspired by the era of codpiece popularity.
Thanks to she5los for tagging us in one of the reblogs to this 🙂
Next time someone brings up “historical accuracy” as an argument for some ridiculous double standards in costume design, don’t forget to bring up this Renaissance fashion curiosity. And how conveniently it is never incorporated into male characters supposedly inspired by the era of codpiece popularity.
Thanks to she5los for tagging us in one of the reblogs to this 🙂
~Ozzie
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Some people have been claiming this “hot Ryu” or “hot dad Ryu” pre-order outfit is as sexualized as the Chun Li, R Mika or Cammy outfits… but I have to disagree. If Capcom really thinks outfits should be running on the sexualized outfits sell games principle then they should be giving us Ryu in a fundoshi.
People have already made mods for it on Street Fighter IV and fan art!
I was watching some funny parodies in the internet the other day, about skimpy female “armors” (chainmail bikini!) in videogames and etc. and I felt like making fun of this trope too…hence his vulgar, over-the-top costume. Well, maaaaaybe it doesn’t look that stupid, but it was meant to >_>
[Zalath] in the middle of a battle between demon elfs and a tribe of exclusively female orcs. The reason he’s fighting in such a ridiculous pose it’s because this is meant to be a genderbent parody of ads for fantasy games in general. They tend to show fairly often women in bb pose using arrows and other long-ranged weapons against enemies in close combat LOL
A double feature of a single character’s empowerment 😀
Zalath is truly a rolemodel to numerous other male warriors who don’t know what are appropriate clothes and poses for a man to take into battle! He could team up with Prince Obiect and his friends in a quest of teaching everyone what a real sexy hero looks like.
