Video game characters who are absolutely not to be sexualized.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

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i don't care how much of a tw*nk he is, you sick freaks

[YPrrrr]

I never thought of Link that way until he put on that gerudo outfit in botw

[TooB]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

Contemporary Nintendo already does the bulk of the work on that front.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

I never thought of Link that way until he put on that gerudo outfit in botw

link has been a common subject of lewds since well before botw, lol

but yeah his popularity exploded thanks to that outfit

[YPrrrr]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

Contemporary Nintendo already does the bulk of the work on that front.

I mean they literally made her in a bikini a reward in the first game

[Kalahari Inkantation]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

Contemporary Nintendo already does the bulk of the work on that front.

I mean they literally made her in a bikini a reward in the first game

that's quite different lol

that was a 5 second still image as a mild fanservice reward for completing the game exceptionally well

meanwhile she's become context-free tits&ass mcgee in recent smash games and other m

[YPrrrr]

I never thought of Link that way until he put on that gerudo outfit in botw

link has been a common subject of lewds since well before botw, lol

but yeah his popularity exploded thanks to that outfit

Well yeah, rule 34

Just talking about me

[Kalahari Inkantation]

lol even the strict heteros can't help but feel teased by trap link

[TooB]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

Contemporary Nintendo already does the bulk of the work on that front.

this is true. But still...

[Samus Aran]

Metroid fanservice has always been pretty tame. But the introduction of the Zero Suit really was the beginning of the end, and Nintendo made it far worse in the Smash Bros games.

I feel like these bits of fanservice were pretty tasteful, though the Zero Suit one is of course a little bit questionable lol







Outright sexualization beyond simply showing a bit of skin in a flash of feminine fanservice definitely goes against her character, though.

Fan works really don't matter in this discussion though because they're outside the realm of canon to begin with.

[YPrrrr]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

Contemporary Nintendo already does the bulk of the work on that front.

I mean they literally made her in a bikini a reward in the first game

that's quite different lol

that was a 5 second still image as a mild fanservice reward for completing the game exceptionally well

meanwhile she's become context-free tits&ass mcgee in recent smash games and other m

I dont think it is much different really. She never had any developed character - she was supposed to be a man through the majority of development. Then they decided it would be cool to reveal the bounty hunter was actually a woman as one of the endings which they immediately took further to strip her down as far as they could with 8 bit graphics lol

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Fan works really don't matter in this discussion though

Oh yes they do.

[YPrrrr]

But yeah zero suit samus is way more sexualized than her origin for sure.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

As much as I love it, Samus shouldn't be.

Contemporary Nintendo already does the bulk of the work on that front.

I mean they literally made her in a bikini a reward in the first game

that's quite different lol

that was a 5 second still image as a mild fanservice reward for completing the game exceptionally well

meanwhile she's become context-free tits&ass mcgee in recent smash games and other m

I dont think it is much different really. She never had any developed character - she was supposed to be a man through the majority of development. Then they decided it would be cool to reveal the bounty hunter was actually a woman as one of the endings which they immediately took further to strip her down as far as they could with 8 bit graphics lol

sure but again in practice that's basically nothing, intent of the developers be damned lol

samus as a character was just not at all sexualized by the gaming community en masse until brawl, and i will submit irrefutable evidence of such if i must