"NOW THIS FICTIONAL CHARACTER WONT FUCK ME, A STRAIGHT MAN."
THEY RUINED HER, by doing what the original creator intended in 1996.
THEY RUINED HER, by doing what the original creator intended in 1996.
G*mers, 1996: Oh sweet, some girl on girl action, let's go 
G*mers, 2024: Nooo what is this evil, HITLER WAS RIGHT 
Hating women with agency if they don't choose men. It's consistent between 1996 chuds and 2024 chuds.
I wonder if the 1996 dudebro would get upset if the hawt lezbian akkktion they want, male gaze focused and all, actually involved intimacy, tenderness, and a lasting relationship instead of "we have additional sex for you also, senpai" open-ended plausibility for the dudebro watching it.
I think if they hinted at women having agency without men, it would be very poorly received. That is, if it wasn't given an AO rating for pornographic content.
I was there for the 90s, and the sheer tackiness of the everywhere horniness in marketing was laughably bad, even by many modern standards. For example, it wasn't uncommon for video game advertising to not even feature much of the actual game, just horny pictures and edgy remarks about what a loser the potential buyer is (for some reason hating their potential buyers openly was a common marketing strategy back then). CW for nudity in the first picture.
Lara Croft was advertised for the male gaze as much as possible, though her actual characterization was pretty much ignored in such marketing stunts.
You know, g*mers don't appreciate how good they have it these days. I remember that last pic, but I had no idea who Guts was at the time.
I agree with you there.
I was actually put off from actually playing Tomb Raider games in my teenage years because the advertising made me think the games would be simultaneously horny and hostile to me while I played them. "You wanna see my boobs? TOO BAD LOSER BUT KEEP PLAYING!" or some crap like that.
The Lara that actually is and dare I say was was very different than that but I didn't even find out for a long time.
My very first awareness of Final Fantasy 7 was a full page horny picture of Tifa saying "you want a piece of me, big boy?"
I had no idea what the actual game was like; it was just horny because horny sold.
That top Pic is a game called Forsaken, I remember seeing it at blockbuster and being really curious, cause the box art was that woman's face against that same background with nothing else.
Lol it's actually a 6DOF space shooter
It may have been a decent Descent-like but the marketing was so obnoxiously 
that even teenage me was put off by it.
im sure any deception of man would be met with criticism. Too effeminate is brainwashing. strong but dumb is demeaning. strong and smart is Chad rolls eyes.
I think if she literally dated Illidan Stormrage it might work for them
I heard they cast a black guy to play MLK Jr. in that new biopic, smh how far will these wokies go 😤
If you read between the lines in that Toby Gard quote it's obvious it was intended the whole time. You don't say "has no interest in romance with men". You just say "has no interest in romance". The "with men" is very important. She has interest in romance, just not with that gender.
I just think all depictions of Lara Croft should have enormous cans that are made up of like 4 polygons
Now I want this also. The rest of her can get more polygons. Top tier lifelike skin that you can see the pores on aif you zoom in enough. Individually modelled hair. Ray tracing out the butt.
4 polygon pyramids on the chest though.
a polygon for each inch of my dick and balls while im jerking them to her, the way god intended. none of this woke stuff
Without even looking further into this I assume that Lara having less in her figure, looking like she can actually do all that outdoorsy athletic stuff, is also contributing to the predictable reactionary Epic 
tantrum about this.
I'm fairly certain Lara was a lesbian in the originals. That was before the conservosphere deemed that even same-sex relations were a threat to cis-heteronormativity.
I remember when they rebooted the Tomb Raider movies a few years ago and nerds were mad that the actress didn't have big boobs
They tried giving her a male love interest in Angel Of Darkness but that game sucked and it was dumb so I'm happy with Lara being a lesbian.
If you couldn't figure out she was gay from the first reboot game I don't know what to tell you.
