Theatrical Gender as a Performance


Someone swapped the models in Arkham Asylum so that Batman and Catwoman were inverted.

I like to dismiss games like Arkham Asylum as “bad art” (sometimes still, “fun game”) but it’s interesting how differently the characters are represented. Embarrassingly bad, really.

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  1. cartomancer says

    Someone did the same thing a few years back with Revolver Ocelot and an egregious, mostly-naked female cipher called Quiet in one of the Metal Gear games.

  2. says

    cartomancer@#1:
    Someone did the same thing a few years back with Revolver Ocelot and an egregious, mostly-naked female cipher called Quiet in one of the Metal Gear games.

    Aaaaah, that was the Metal Gear game at which I stopped playing Hideo Kojima games. Not because of the egregiousness, but because of the over-exposition and general stupid hyper-concern with pointless detail.

    I’ll have to look that up, it sounds like more fun than the entire game.

    (I couldn’t tell what was more egregious about the quiet – that she was naked all the time, or that she was apparently Kojima’s ideal woman: silent. It was a bit obvious but I suppose it thrilled his incel fan-base.)

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