Dude's shooting blanks. Ate too many mushrooms.
I see, and what female is Bowser spreading his seed too?Birth control and contraceptives.
Dude's shooting blanks. Ate too many mushrooms.
I see, and what female is Bowser spreading his seed too?Birth control and contraceptives.
Himself. He uses a Super Crown to turn female princess, then self-impregnates. Hence why the kids mistake Peach as their mom, cuz being inbred got them too pummeled by the stupid stick to notice the difference. It's a dumb plan B, but Bowser was never top of the class, so eh.I see, and what female is Bowser spreading his seed too?
Which game is this in? Because i kinda wanna play it.Himself. He uses a Super Crown to turn female princess, then self-impregnates. Hence why the kids mistake Peach as their mom, cuz being inbred got them too pummeled by the stupid stick to notice the difference. It's a dumb plan B, but Bowser was never top of the class, so eh.
Pshah, Miyamoto's authority on the matter is nothing in the face of pervy fan-canon! You can take my word for it, I've got a PhD in Monkey Business.According to Shigeru Miyamoto, the Koopalings are not actually Bowser's kids. His only offspring is Bowser, Jr. And the mother is unknown.
Mario's Creators Answer Burning Questions About The Series
Ahead of Mario's 30th anniversary, we decided to reshare this interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, where we asked a series of strange questions about the notorious plumber and his world.www.gameinformer.com
I see what your did there!Pshah, Miyamoto's authority on the matter is nothing in the face of pervy fan-canon! You can take my word for it, I've got a PhD in Monkey Business.
It typically is done to raise the stakes. In the Matrix for example Agent Smith set a trap for Neo to capture Trinity. Neo was already much more powerful than Smith at this point and if it came down to a fight, Smith was already doomed. However by putting Trinity in danger it raises the tension for the audience because now it isn't a matter of if Neo can win, it's a matter of if Neo can save Trinity.Why are these people being saved? What does this actually do in the context of the story and, even more importantly, what does it do for the audience?
Simply root for the hero, nothing more.What form of engagement is being encouraged in these interactions?
Does this matter? Person saves person is all that is important here. Of course this is typically heteronormative characters because the vast majority of the audience is heteronormative. Especially when it comes to action fantasy in which this trope is most commonly used.Are they, for example, gender normative characters?
Yeah you are probably right. But the softening up of her hard exterior is likely more that her hard exterior is able to drop with him. She doesn't have to keep that hard shell around her with him because Micheal isn't exactly a weak character in the film's cannon either. She let's her shell down because Michael isn't trying to claim her as a prize (much the way the covens wanted her, either as an arm piece or as a weapon). So it's not that she becomes more feminine in order to be with Michael, she always was feminine, she just is able to let the badass shell around herself relax with him. Which I guess you can interpret in that way but in doing so she doesn't sacrifice her character for the man either. She remains that badass the moment shit goes down, and never gives way to the man throughout the series.Selene in the first Underworld movie, for example, is a pretty gender non-conforming character. She's tough, assertive, violent and callous. She wears a lot of leather. Part of her character is that she refuses to play a feminine role, in contrast to the other female vampires (particularly Erika). She's very literally not like other girls, even in the context of the film's narrative, and this is what makes her an empowered character. She does protect Michael and ultimately develop romantic feelings towards him, but this is actually a negation of her established masculine character. She has to soften and become more feminine in order to end up with a man. There's a slightly weird implication that her "butchness" is merely the result of the trauma of her family being murdered.
Yet in the end the man dies, and it's Sarah who has to defeat the machine in the end. So he saves her a couple of times, in the film but at the end of the day he fails.Conversely, Terminator is literally a damsel in distress movie. Sarah Connor is a defenceless girl who has to be protected against a murderous cyborg by a tough man from the future (who also kind of abducts, brutalizes and torments her) and who is secretly in love with her because he saw a picture of her once and gets to fuck her as a reward for all his hard work saving her
I maintain my list hold up lolOn the subject of the whole damsel in distress thing and the lists being generated, I think there's a misunderstanding here.
A story where X saves Y is very different from a story where X saving Y is the crux of that story.
This started off with games, so I'll use two examples, Super Mario Land and Resident Evil 7 (since that's already been listed). In Super Mario Land, like so many Mario games, rescuing Daisy (or more usually, Peach) is the explicit goal. It's the starting goal, it remains the goal, and the game ends when the goal is reached. In RE7, on the other hand, Ethan may set out to find Mia at the start, but it's really not the driving force of the game. If anything, it subverts it, since Mia tries to kill Ethan early on, 'dies,' then helps him later, and potentially dies at the end - all this in the midst of a story with twists and turns that's more about survival. There's no point in a Mario game where Daisy decides "screw it," helps Mario, and shows she's just as capable.
So, yeah. One of these things is a damsel in distress story, one of them isn't. And it's very rare that a story has a "dude in distress."
The funniest thing in all that being the reading of the film that actually Sarah Connor being butch Mommy is her idea of how to be a strong woman and in the dream sequence she gets to be more feminine letting her hair down / having longer hair thus her look in that film is her being performative in itself by going with a specific look at attitude because that's why she believe people expect and will give her more impact from first impressions rather than people getting some other impression of her if she appeared more feminine........Don't even get me started on T2 with full butch-mommy-realness Sarah Connor. That film is the gayest shit straight people have ever thought was cool.
I remember reading somewhere that one thing people tend to do is conflate Sarah Connor being a good character with being a good person. She's a great character, but she's (as of Terminator 2) a pretty terrible person. Obviously as the audience we have meta-knowledge the other in-story characters lack/don't believe so we sympathise with her really terrible predicament. Watch the way she goes about trying to kill Miles Dyson; she moves like a Terminator does. Like that's a thing I only noticed much later; and another is that until the confrontation at the Dyson's, the movie is slowly humanising the T-800 and terminatoring Sarah.I don't know if I would call Sarah's transformation empowering, she is basically driven insane by the events of the first film. Her badassery is a result of a psychotic breakdown in which she is humanities only hope. It's really a very interesting character dynamic honestly.
It's my headcanon that when the T-800 is treating Dyson's wound and glances back at Sarah, it's realizing that she's about as close as a human can come to being a Terminator.Watch the way she goes about trying to kill Miles Dyson; she moves like a Terminator does. Like that's a thing I only noticed much later is that until the confrontation at the Dyson's, the movie is slowly humanising the T-800 and terminatoring Sarah.
I don't see how what you described makes Selene "gender nonconforming." That she's a female is never questioned.Selene in the first Underworld movie, for example, is a pretty gender non-conforming character. She's tough, assertive, violent and callous. She wears a lot of leather. Part of her character is that she refuses to play a feminine role, in contrast to the other female vampires (particularly Erika). She's very literally not like other girls, even in the context of the film's narrative, and this is what makes her an empowered character. She does protect Michael and ultimately develop romantic feelings towards him, but this is actually a negation of her established masculine character. She has to soften and become more feminine in order to end up with a man. There's a slightly weird implication that her "butchness" is merely the result of the trauma of her family being murdered.
Calling T1 a "damsel in distress movie" is a statement that's technically true, but really simplifies things. You have Sarah (the damsel), who goes through an arc to the point that she defeats her would-be assassin, while saving her would-be protector (to an extent), yet this is also in the context of the real target being John.Conversely, Terminator is literally a damsel in distress movie. Sarah Connor is a defenceless girl who has to be protected against a murderous cyborg by a tough man from the future (who also kind of abducts, brutalizes and torments her) and who is secretly in love with her because he saw a picture of her once and gets to fuck her as a reward for all his hard work saving her. Sarah is also not like other girls, and this is used to foreshadow her transformation into an empowered character at the end of the film. It was never going to be Ginger in that role, was it?
Sarah being buff is gay?Don't even get me started on T2 with full butch-mommy-realness Sarah Connor. That film is the gayest shit straight people have ever thought was cool.
I still disagree there though.As for RE7 not counting based on the claims about Damsel in Distress Mia would fall under the "Useful damsel" subcategory.
Did you actually watch these movies? This is the very definition of an action hero.Mostly because in them they're for the most part not impossibly skilled and mostly outmatch their opponents vastly lol.
Again, this just comes across as you being pissed off that anyone likes them. This happens with every popular character. Countless times, I've seen someone hold up a male character as the pinnacle of storytelling without half the Internet losing their minds.No just that they're being propped up as example of how to do things right when they're Buckaroo Banzi but female and not actually deliberate parody characters.
Just looking at the examples I specifically referenced; Carol is one of several characters in the MCU and people can just avoid her movies if they don't want to watch anymore of her and Rey has yet to appear in any Star Wars content outside of the Sequel trilogy.They're also the mainline newest lot in said franchise and considering how some franchises have gone you can almost bet they'll be brought up again and again.
And was laughed off by people with common sense who saw it for the pathetic attempt to scapegoat video games for gun violence that it was.The funny thing is MK still gets used like that. The Whitehouse montage under Trump used MK Xray moves and fatalities when trying to pin a mass shooting on video games.
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim that it sold poorly? What you've said thus far just sounds like conspiracy theories.Something smells off here and I think I know why.
It's the Unit sales trick. They report on Unit sales not revenue. It's an old trick if you cut the price and get more sales you report the sales numbers not the actual revenue numbers
I sincerely hope you meant this as a joke.Well yes because it is policing women's bodies by proxy.
Please stop. You know exactly why people have an issue with oversexualized female designs. You're deliberately interpreting it in the most cynical way possible to demonize them. This is not "policing women's bodies", "Sharia Law" or whatever other dog whistle you want to toss out.If we take the argument that Anita and co tend to use that video games and media impact the real world and the claim Anita made at Vidcon 2016 that the efforts to change video games are to change the wider culture of the world. Then well it raises quite a number of questions about why people want female characters to be toned down and made less sexy........It wasn't even as though MK 11 was going back to the more classic character looks, with a number of the characters it seemingly covered them up even more.
Not really unless you mean The Last Action Hero which was a deliberate parody for the most part.Did you actually watch these movies? This is the very definition of an action hero.
Generally the Male character isn't crap because we left the Era of Doc Savage etc a long time ago. Also people weren't ever pushing for Doc Savage to be the way all male characters are writtenAgain, this just comes across as you being pissed off that anyone likes them. This happens with every popular character. Countless times, I've seen someone hold up a male character as the pinnacle of storytelling without half the Internet losing their minds.
And was in the comic (and it's suggested in the MCU too) going to be the main lead for the MCU going forward so yeh Civil War 2 will be Captain Marvel vs some-one and Captain Marvel will be the main lead in team ups.Just looking at the examples I specifically referenced; Carol is one of several characters in the MCU and people can just avoid her movies if they don't want to watch anymore of her and Rey has yet to appear in any Star Wars content outside of the Sequel trilogy.
True but it was still the go to example for violence.And was laughed off by people with common sense who saw it for the pathetic attempt to scapegoat video games for gun violence that it was.
People didn't buy it then and they sure aren't buying it now.
Only that Battlefield V announced massive numbers of sales then somehow didn't hit the numbers despite them being now much more than Battlefield 1 target wise.Do you have any evidence to back up your claim that it sold poorly? What you've said thus far just sounds like conspiracy theories.
No, unfortunately not, this is the reality that things are happening in where people are going after depictions of women in the hopes to impact real women by doing so.I sincerely hope you meant this as a joke.
Yes there are reasons. Here's some possible onesPlease stop. You know exactly why people have an issue with oversexualized female designs. You're deliberately interpreting it in the most cynical way possible to demonize them. This is not "policing women's bodies", "Sharia Law" or whatever other dog whistle you want to toss out.
Video games have been the targets of moral panics for decades. Many recent waves of panic have come from the political right. Now, some of the same dubious claims are being repeated by The Geena Davis Institute (GDI) on Gender in Media. Their new report on video games and masculinity includes many long-debunked claims about video games.
The report also insinuates video games are relevant to “white male police violence against people of color.” Not only is there no evidence for this particular claim.....
The selection of research also warrants greater scrutiny. For instance, the report highlights one 2010 study of video games, failing to note the experimental findings were later debunked. The GDI report suggests that playing more violent, sexualized games reduces empathy toward female victims of violence. However, they cite a study that has been discredited for, among other things, claiming to be a randomized experiment when it was not. Some research in this area has been retracted, which they fail to note. The report only refers to only studies supporting its aims, while avoiding an increasing wealth of studies that find video games are associated with neither violence nor aggression, nor sexist attitudes and behavior.
I'm talking about Commando, the Rambo movies, anything Steven Seagal has been in and The Expendables.Not really unless you mean The Last Action Hero which was a deliberate parody for the most part.
See my above post.Generally the Male character isn't crap because we left the Era of Doc Savage etc a long time ago.
No these days they do that for guys like Devil May Cry's Dante or God of War's Kratos. When characters are popular their fans always treat them like the greatest thing since sliced cheese and of course we get a bunch of copycats. Hell, they were doing it with Iron Man when his first movie came out. Or did you not notice how so many MCU heroes are immature manchildren who have to go on a journey of self discovery but gets their development reset for each new appearance?Also people weren't ever pushing for Doc Savage to be the way all male characters are written
Civil War 2 is the only comic event with Carol as a lead (which she shared with Iron Man). And by your own admission, you don't even know if she will be the main lead in any movies outside of her own.And was in the comic (and it's suggested in the MCU too) going to be the main lead for the MCU going forward so yeh Civil War 2 will be Captain Marvel vs some-one and Captain Marvel will be the main lead in team ups.
And what does that have to do with the topic at hand? Again, no one took this seriously and it was another thing people used to clown on the Trump Administration. MK being a boogeyman for game violence ended after the 90s.True but it was still the go to example for violence.
Has anyone at Netherealm claimed this about MK11?Only that Battlefield V announced massive numbers of sales then somehow didn't hit the numbers despite them being now much more than Battlefield 1 target wise.
'Hey, I can play this game too. Here's possible reasons why people get upset over women not being "sexy" enough for them.No, unfortunately not, this is the reality that things are happening in where people are going after depictions of women in the hopes to impact real women by doing so.
Yes there are reasons. Here's some possible ones
1) They're prudes
2) They struggle to stop from fapping and or get distracted in the actual game and get killed
3) They think anime butt poses and sexy female characters are the reason rape happens.
4) They're embarrassed by the content and concerned about people seeing it
5) They have self esteem of body issues.
6) They're people who have a sort of warped view of how women should all be modest etc.
Impossibly skilled is somewhat relative.I'm talking about Commando, the Rambo movies, anything Steven Seagal has been in and The Expendables.
Action movies in general have impossibly skilled protagonists with over the top feats. Or are you trying to claim that every film Arnold Schwarzeneger was in was a parody?
Kratos has:No these days they do that for guys like Devil May Cry's Dante or God of War's Kratos. When characters are popular their fans always treat them like the greatest thing since sliced cheese and of course we get a bunch of copycats. Hell, they were doing it with Iron Man when his first movie came out. Or did you not notice how so many MCU heroes are immature manchildren who have to go on a journey of self discovery but gets their development reset for each new appearance?
We shall see. She was technically meant to be the lead in some of the Avengers stories in the comics too.Civil War 2 is the only comic event with Carol as a lead (which she shared with Iron Man). And by your own admission, you don't even know if she will be the main lead in any movies outside of her own.
It's always going to be the boogeyman and it just seems weird really that people are going to claim the reason they won't play MK games was lycra bodysuits when it's probably the most gory on the market and the people into gory stuff tend not to be that prudish. Meanwhile those who hate sexy character often don't like blood and gore either.And what does that have to do with the topic at hand? Again, no one took this seriously and it was another thing people used to clown on the Trump Administration. MK being a boogeyman for game violence ended after the 90s.
No because we only have unit sales number released seemingly.Has anyone at Netherealm claimed this about MK11?
Funny thing is instead of coming up with points to deflect I can counter yours.'Hey, I can play this game too. Here's possible reasons why people get upset over women not being "sexy" enough for them.
1) They don't buy the games for the gameplay.
2) They have low self esteem, can't talk to real women and can only connect with pixelated breasts.
3) They don't know porn exists.
4) They never cared about games in the first place.
5) They're mad real life women don't look like the ones in games and hate when fictional females are depicted in a more realistic/less sexualized light.
Exactly and that was the entire point. It was a case of she who fights monsters.It's my headcanon that when the T-800 is treating Dyson's wound and glances back at Sarah, it's realizing that she's about as close as a human can come to being a Terminator.
Why though?Does this matter? Person saves person is all that is important here.
Noone is actually heteronormative. That's literally the point of heteronormativity.Of course this is typically heteronormative characters because the vast majority of the audience is heteronormative.
He doesn't fail though. He succeeds.Yet in the end the man dies, and it's Sarah who has to defeat the machine in the end. So he saves her a couple of times, in the film but at the end of the day he fails.