Just so we’re clear, Chandra, Torch of Defiance wears the most practical version of her armor to date. (The least practical goes to the manga adaptation of The Purifying Fire.) But compared to the armor designs worn by other residents of Kaladesh, it seems a little out of place.
For those curious regarding the fore-mentioned manga:
Essentially the spectrum highlights the problems that happens if a company like Wizards sets a vague design for a character then tries to “fix” it (depending on their priorities on any given day) without ever changing it in a meaningful way.
In this case, if you compare to the previous images of Chandra from the official Magic the Gathering imagery, the changes are:
the-one-potato submitted (first image; bingo and other images added by Ozzie):
This is a Yu-Gi-Oh equipment spell card. It might give the wearer a big boost in their attach stats, but what it doesn’t say on the card is that the defense of the wearer will drop even more…
(Yu-gi-oh has lots of bad cards, it’d be a bad idea to send all of them your way, but this one is so BABD-appropriate, I couldn’t hell myself)
Seeing how bingo-qualifying this… thing is, I checked out what those harpy lady sisters who can be equipped with the “shield” look like… Let’s agree the anime didn’t disappoint my morbid curiosity. Also, apparently English version of the card censored out the protruding nipple spikes:
I didn’t cross out the “More advanced armor = skimpier”, cause the harpies seem to wear this spiky atrocity on top of their usual bodypaint “clothes”:
~Ozzie
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I feel like if this is Google Image search’s best guess for your tabletop wargame promo image then you either need to go back and revise your design or change the type of tabletop games you’re making.
(it’s a co-op board game, which comes closest to “RPS” in your tag list. Mayebe time to add a “board game” tag?)
We received this submission a while ago but wanted to wait until the Kickstarter had expired. Not only is this game a textbook example of double standards, it’s also a textbook example of the creativity we see in so many of these productions:
The canonical blonde Black Widow is Yelena Belova and a completely different person to Natasha Romanov (played by Scarlett Johansson in the movies) and looks, almost exactly like this model:
So I’m not sure if they just outright stole or if they had the some genius idea for how to make them “totally different” that Marvel did. Either way, she’s still a better design than the fore-mentioned “the Diver”:
Even there shameless Ripley rip-off has to have boobsocks:
And the worst part is, based off the default Investigators that come with the game’s most basic package – it looks like they started with an intention to make all the designs actually just… be good.
This@eschergirls post made me seek out what’s up with art in that Zombicide expansion… Let’s agree the search wasn’t fruitless.
What do random physics-defying golden bikini boob-and-butt posing supermodels with viking-like names have to do with a tabletop game about zombie apocalypse is anyone’s guess.
~Ozzie
PS: Before someone types out “there’s an empowered dude in the set!” as a response, take note how Konrad’s body is not displayed in the same manner as Undraal’s and Arbwal’s. He’s basically over-accesorrized Conan (and also anotherNord character with Pict blue tattoos, because screw research!).
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So the upcoming Satyxis Gunslingers are apparently primarily to remind us that evil is sexy, see how they compare to the other female units being released in the same period.
I’ve marked nothing like male equivalent since well, Cryx’s male gunsligers are spectral wraiths in robes, it’s just extra that they don’t even compare with the other army units they’re releasing.
