| umegames said: well whose to say exactly that it is intended to be an award? If i had a heavy varia suit, jumping around, turning into a ball, running through lava filled caves...i think id only have my boxers on too. what would you wear? a sweater, jeans, khakis... just a thought |
Well, yes, it makes sense for her to not wear a lot underneath her massive body armor, but there's still a couple of things that need to be considered here
1. When you are creating fiction, you create all of the parameters which determine the way your character interacts with the world. Samus wearing her udnerwear or the Zero Suit under her armor makes a certain amount of sense, but only because that's the world in which the designers chose to place her. This doesn't need to be worried about too much because, as I said before, the fact of her being sexy under the suit isn't really a problem.
2. There is a world of difference between exploitative and non-exploitative presentations of sex in art. Ripley running around in her underwear in the first Alien movie was, according to many metrics, sexy, but it never felt exploitative because of the way it was presented - though of course some people would argue this point I guess. Even if you choose to see the presentation of Ripley as exploitative, though, there are ways to show sexy women that are not exploitative of the fact that they're sexy. Metroid has managed to do this all of once, and that was in Metroid Prime, not so much in the ending as in the concept art where they had a layered cutaway showing Samus under the Varia suit. In every other Metroid game, Samus's body is leveraged as a reward for performance, which is pretty much the perfect example of exploitative representations of sex.
Just so I won't need to reiterate this beyond this post: there is nothing wrong with sex, there is nothing wrong with liking to look at sexy ladies, and there's nothing wrong with actually liking the sex reward system in Metroid. It's just that it undermines the particular strengths of Samus's character, as the faceless voiceless unstoppable bad-ass hero.
@TheRepublic:
Thank you.
