Black Widow wielding Mjolnir
melredcap submitted:
This outfit doesn’t actually hit that many squares on your (awesome) bingo card, but it’s still so, soooo bad. Leaving aside the question of whether Natasha’s clothes need to change when she picks up the hammer (they don’t)… and leaving aside that awful duckface pout and pose (eeergh)… can I just say ‘yuck’?
- Lingerie-shaped
- Looks nothing like (Thor’s) version of the same outfit
- Cleavage… maybe?
- Boobplate. BAD boobplate.
- Thigh-high boots (okay, barely)
- No pants
- Metal worn directly on bare skin
Can’t tell from this frame whether or not she’s wearing a thong, high heels, or underwear, or whether it covers her back (though I guess the cloak does even if her stupid metal bustier doesn’t); and if you want to count the wingy helmet, you could argue for ‘sharp ornamental edges’. 😛
I’m as excited about Natasha proving to be worthy of Thor’s weapon as anyone else, but WOW is her resulting look stupid.
Also I would not leave the question if Natasha’s clothes needed to change aside. All the evidence suggests that heroes who wield Mjolnir (out of which Captain America is probably the most famous example) don’t usually go through magical wardrobe transformation.
So not only did the comic makers decide for an unnecessary redesign, they made it awful (and painfully generic) to boot. Seems like goddesses can’t get a break at being designed with idiotic costumes.
~Ozzie
So that’s who bought Madonna’s Gaultier bra!
– wincenworks
Funcom’s “Mankini-Gate” double standard
pkudude99 submitted:
An interesting article over at Massively about the recent “Mankini” April Fool’s joke that Funcom put in, but then their upper management pulled: http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04/10/chaos-theory-funcom-flubbed-it-with-the-secret-worlds-mankinig/
I think it was stupid of their management to do it, as does the article author. Why is this allowed for a woman:
But not this for a man:
There actually is a male version of that Egyptian outfit that shows quite a bit of skin too, but nothing like it does for the female version,but there are plenty of female-only outfits that are very scanty too. The worst of the lot is this one:
That’s why the April Fool’s joke worked so well — Funcom was poking fun at their own propensity for the double-standard. And that’s why I’m so upset with their management’s decision to pull the mankini outfit.
For grins, here’s a shot a blogger friend of mine took before they got yanked:
You’ll note the 3rd male in the shot is wearing a traditional speedo, and that’s been left in the game. I don’t see that it exposes any less skin than the mankini. I just don’t get it.
Well I suppose it was too much to hope that every executive in gaming would be as cool as Mark Long.
But really, after people have laughed and supported the joke is not the time to shut it down and try to pretend that it never happened.
Especially since the whole point of a mankini is that you can never unsee it.
– wincenworks
Apparently fans speculated it to be a copyright issue (but it’s highly unlikely)… Maybe Funcom wanted to be safe than sorry for not asking 20th Century Fox about official Borat licensing or something? ;P
~Ozzie
