@BloodNinja I don't know about NEVER the case, I mean some people really are just that ignorant, closeminded, and cruel that they legitimately don't want other people to exist because of minor inconsequential reasons. But for the most part you're right.
@dartmonkey Okay Samus is a woman, now what? What's the significance of her female-ness in the series? She presumably had maternal instincts which is why she let the Metroid live, which then died in the next game to save her life. Then we had Metroid Other M which continued deeper into 'female-ness' and was arguably one of the worst written Metroid games and made Samus into a damsel in distress, and a dumb one at that. A woman who had no agency outside of what a man told her what she could and should do. Maybe we should get better writers before we try to tackle anything deeper than 'good guys good bad guys bad'.
Samus being female was incidental. She wasn't cool because she had lady parts, she was cool because of what she did. Maybe we should focus on having more incidentally female characters and not be so wowed that a female can do cool things. Because honestly that's kind of condescending. 'Wow, I didn't know a lady could be so competent!'
I just want to say I find it highly ironic that you praise Metroid for female empowerment and complain about Streets of Rage and Street Fighter showing panty shots when literally the reward for beating the game faster is to see Samus in less and less clothes until she's in her panties.
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Re: Soapbox: Super Metroid Showed Me I Had The Right To Exist
@BloodNinja
I don't know about NEVER the case, I mean some people really are just that ignorant, closeminded, and cruel that they legitimately don't want other people to exist because of minor inconsequential reasons.
But for the most part you're right.
Re: Soapbox: Super Metroid Showed Me I Had The Right To Exist
@dartmonkey
Okay Samus is a woman, now what? What's the significance of her female-ness in the series?
She presumably had maternal instincts which is why she let the Metroid live, which then died in the next game to save her life. Then we had Metroid Other M which continued deeper into 'female-ness' and was arguably one of the worst written Metroid games and made Samus into a damsel in distress, and a dumb one at that. A woman who had no agency outside of what a man told her what she could and should do.
Maybe we should get better writers before we try to tackle anything deeper than 'good guys good bad guys bad'.
Samus being female was incidental. She wasn't cool because she had lady parts, she was cool because of what she did.
Maybe we should focus on having more incidentally female characters and not be so wowed that a female can do cool things. Because honestly that's kind of condescending.
'Wow, I didn't know a lady could be so competent!'
Re: Soapbox: Super Metroid Showed Me I Had The Right To Exist
I just want to say I find it highly ironic that you praise Metroid for female empowerment and complain about Streets of Rage and Street Fighter showing panty shots when literally the reward for beating the game faster is to see Samus in less and less clothes until she's in her panties.