Literally every time I watch an X-men movie for the first time, I’m just like, “Please have Polaris. Lorna needs the love…”
A few years ago, I would’ve been excited about Lorna being in an X-Men film, but also wished she could be in the MCU. Today, I hope more than ever that we get Lorna in the X-Men films.
I hope for this mainly because it’s now the only place we have any chance of seeing her spend time with her sister Wanda for the next decade or two. Even if the chance of that happening in an X-Men film is slim, a slim chance is better than no chance at all.
I was actually really pissed when I played the Third Birthday. Aya was my role-model, and seeing her reduced to a pandering submissive made me physically ill.
Not to mention to see her turn into a living breating definition of fanservice. Yeah her clothes get torn up to basically nothing was there for ‘realism’ ok.
How thoroughly and insultingly Squeenix ruined Aya Brea with 3rd Birthday is THE reason I absolutely refuse to buy or play anything tied to Squeenix, and have stuck to that since 3rd Birthday’s release.
The only time I’ve come close to breaking that rule was for FF15… before Tabata took over and slowly ruined the potential of that. Squeenix needs to make a Parasite Eve 3 that makes 3rd Birthday not canon. I don’t mean retcon 3rd Birthday out of existence, I mean make it absolutely clear that 3rd Birthday never happened and never will.
I wanna say something on this real fast. I’m a guy, so bear that in mind in the context of my post.
A cover was altered to cover up Madelyne Pryor’s underboob.
Frankly, I don’t think Madelyne Pryor needed to have the underboob covered up, given her character.
My priority has been primarily on whether or not something fits the character. This is why I complain loudly about things like the Joker variant of the Batgirl cover, about how 3rd Birthday ruined Aya Brea by reducing her to a fetishized sex object with a horribly sexist depiction, many many more cases out there.
But on the flipside, I’ve also seen complaints about things that I think fit the characters, so I don’t advocate changes like others do. I’m perfectly fine with, and enjoyed, both Juliet Sterling in Lollipop Chainsaw and Bayonetta in… well, Bayonetta. I have no problem with those characters existing as the hypersexual parodies they are because they were created to be that way, it’s part of who they are. Bayonetta, I feel is especially the type that owns her sexuality and uses it as a weapon. I also feel perfectly fine with Power Girl’s boob window, and think the only real problem there is the purpose given to it. So many contrived explanations about “filling holes” or as a distraction, when I can easily see an explanation of taking pride in her body and owning her sexuality in a culture that tries to shame women for doing so.
I think Madelyne Pryor fits in the latter case. She’s established that as a part of her identity, and it makes sense for her to continue to keep that as such. As someone else said, I think altering the character’s wardrobe on a cover like this essentially sends a message of “if you’re the type that likes to dress this way or would want to, you’re wrong for doing so.”
The Spider-Woman cover was a problem because it trivialized her value and worth as a superheroine as mainly being about her sex appeal. There’s no such risk here, especially since Madelyne is sitting on a pile of defeated foes which demonstrates her power.
I can’t imagine that Marvel would ever create a comic about a super hero team with no women.
It would just never happen.
The feminists would go insane.
It’s like they don’t even read comic books. The number of comic book casts with just one woman and eleventy billion dudes is astronomical, especially the further back you go.
The sad typical “token woman” situation, or no women at all, is far too pervasive. It infected the gaming industry once gaming got popular enough for money-focused execs to jump on board and force their own biases into what they’d allow to be made.
Late 90s, we had more and more games with diversity, particularly for women. Then games got big business-wise and suddenly getting a game with a female leading protag is next to impossible and generally only gets to happen if there’s some form of sexism inserted into it. Sometimes blatant, sometimes sneakily included alongside fixing old sources of sexism.
Hells yeah. Though Lorna looks like she’s wearing a sling bikini here. Not exactly complaining, but it does seem odd given Wanda isn’t wearing something similar.
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