Khuutra on 03 August 2012
| KylieDog said: When on the job Samus wears her armoured suit and takes the job seriously, there is no attempted sex appeal by her and she kicks ass, this sort of character is great. When the job is over she ditches the suit revealing herself as the sexy woman underneath, nothing wrong with this as the job and danger is over, nothing wrong with being sexy when appropiate. In some exceptions if a character is forced to lose armour through damage or being captured, but regains it first chance they can it is also fine, that isn't the characters choice. The bad sort of sexy character is one who can prepare and wear armour or full clothing but still chooses to run into battle in bikinis and stuff. |
This is something I am going to grant you in principle because early Lara Croft is fantastic for these reasons: both sexy and powerful. Nothing wrong with being sexy and powerful when you are the engine of your own agency.
Samus's sex has never been treated that way, though. It' a reward for players, which serves to commodify Samus's body at the same time that it removes the player from being Samus, which goes against the idea of assuming the role of the character altogether.
