[ SECRET POST #2388 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2388 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Val and Matt]


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03.
[My Chemical Romance]


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04.
[Little House on the Prairie/GoT]


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05.
[The Venture Bros.]


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06.
[Once Upon a Time in Odessa]


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07.
[Gabriel Knight]


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08.
[Dangan Ronpa]


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09.
[America's Cup]


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10.
[Legion]


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11.
[Trailer Park Boys]


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12.
[Warehouse 13]


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13.
[Sugar Bits]


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14.
[Touhou Project, Assassins Creed, Madoka Magica, Rise of the Guardians]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 030 secrets from Secret Submission Post #341.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

My feelings about this, let me show you them

[darkmanifest]

Yeah, the issue of Bayonetta is...weird. She seems to dance back and forth between being a self-aware parody of female hypersexuality in video games, and being an example of the same played ridiculously straight. In the latter case, I feel like Bayonetta is unique in not being portrayed as passively sexual, she's extremely aggressive and in-your-face, and her sexuality is part of her power and her personality, not something random that has no explanation and is just a byproduct of her being female. A woman like Bayonetta would indeed have been persecuted as a witch back in the day, but instead of being an innocent victim, she actually did sell her soul to the devil, and she (and her female rival and best friend) will destroy you.

That said, watching an angel make her debut by spreading her legs and rubbing one out on the floor (hello, Joy) is not my idea of either prime entertainment or scathing commentary on female sexuality in fictional media. It's just...no, stop it, I want to kill things and play an awesome woman without having to deal with this shit for once. It seems like there's always a creepy compromise with getting really great female characters and relationships in media - if it isn't blatant tits and ass, it's wide-eyed cutesy moe stuff, and it doesn't seem fair. Why can't Bayonetta and Jeanne kick ass and strike the occasional sexy pose without directly shoving their crotches into the viewer's face? Like I said, it's weird.

Re: My feelings about this, let me show you them

[croik]

I think that's my issue with it, too. After the very first teaser I was excited to play a DMC game with a kickass lady, but the sexualization is just SO over the top, for me it goes past "sexy and badass" into a joke. When she's riding around on a snake with giant fists pounding in the direction of her spread legs I just have to roll my eyes and laugh. Sure, it's a parody. But if they'd spent a little less time on the fanservice and more on making a memorable story, it would have been a better game.