Video game characters who are absolutely not to be sexualized.

[TooB]

I would've argued that zero suit was less sexualized than the bikini thinh, but clearly that argument is moot now

[Samus Aran]

Fan works really don't matter in this discussion though

Oh yes they do.

Ok look you can't legitimately argue that my Samus baby Metroid unbirthing MS Paint art I made back in 2004 has any real indication of my own (or the fanbase's) ideas about Samus's sexuality

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Fan works really don't matter in this discussion though

Oh yes they do.

Ok look you can't legitimately argue that my Samus baby Metroid unbirthing MS Paint art I made back in 2004 has any real indication of my own (or the fanbase's) ideas about Samus's sexuality

lol

but they actually are extremely relevant because:

1. fanworks are difficult to avoid if you're a gamer who also happens to be an avid internet user
2. fanworks can often serve as very clear evidence of how/when/why/to what extent (etc.) a character is or became sexualized

[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

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

yeah it's not a lot but it's still cheap sexualization. Like imagine if you beat the original Zelda and your reward was Links clothes fading out until it's a naked guy in a speedo showing off his lon lon milky white thighs. It's weird.

I will say rule 34 and she was although clearly not to the great prevalence that we see today after Nintendo put her into a full body latex suit

[Samus Aran]

Fan works really don't matter in this discussion though

Oh yes they do.

Ok look you can't legitimately argue that my Samus baby Metroid unbirthing MS Paint art I made back in 2004 has any real indication of my own (or the fanbase's) ideas about Samus's sexuality

lol

but they actually are extremely relevant because:

1. fanworks are difficult to avoid if you're a gamer who also happens to be an avid internet user
2. fanworks can often serve as very clear evidence of how/when/why/to what extent (etc.) a character is or became sexualized

No, I know, and I agree to a point. But there's a such thing as fan works that go against character to intentionally depict a creator's own fantasy version of said character. In fact, most porn is at least partly this, and much of it is this way entirely.

Because of this, I chose to say that fan works don't matter.

But I will admit that they do matter to a point.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

yeah it's not a lot but it's still cheap sexualization.

sure, i can agree with that, but its practical effect on gamers' perception of samus as a sex object was nil lol

and that remained the case with metroid until brawl changed everyth

his lon lon milky white thighs.

...[glow=black,2,300]Aren't they delicious[/glow]?

I will say rule 34

inspired by metroid was basically negligible in quantity until brawl

[Kalahari Inkantation]

No, I know, and I agree to a point. But there's a such thing as fan works that go against character to intentionally depict a creator's own fantasy version of said character. In fact, most porn is at least partly this, and much of it is this way entirely.

Because of this, I chose to say that fan works don't matter.

But I will admit that they do matter to a point.

yeah of course hentai gets fantastical but there are almost always obvious, broad, common themes that are very clearly inspired by the way a character is depicted in their source material

fanworks matter extremely strongly lol

[don't let's]

Cortana
[Spoiler][/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

they made her an absolute mommy in halo 4

[silvertone]

requesting Link being pegged by samus!!! (the tall samus not the short manlet verision in super smash bros) !!! thanks

[Thyme]

kirby

he is shaped like a platonic friend

[Kalahari Inkantation]

a platonic friend

i'm not even sure how kirby could be sexualized to begin with lol

[spoiler]

No, please Boyah, I don't want to know. [/spoiler]

[Nyerp]

toad

[TooB]

Sonic....

Nooch

[YPrrrr]

a platonic friend

i'm not even sure how kirby could be sexualized to begin with lol

[spoiler]

No, please Boyah, I don't want to know. [/spoiler]

He literally sucks things into his mouth

Plus vore