LEVEL, Sweden's biggest gaming magazine, has an editorial where they talk about the upcoming Metroid: Samus Returns and how Nintendo now has the chance to make Samus into a feminist icon.
More specifically, they want her body to be "muscular, believable and replace the fat butt she's had in later titles with a fit one that makes sense for her profession as the toughest bounty hunter in the universe".
They're also saying that Samus Returns will introduce Metroid to a new generation which is very genus minded.
Basically: - make her into a modern, feminist icon - replace the fat butt with a fit one - focus on her being tough instead of sexy
Do you agree? Basically the want Super Metroid Samus (left) and get rid of the softer looking Zero Mission Samus (right).
Nathan Butler
>Implying feminists like muscular girls Look at the facebook screenshots. So many butthurt women. This thread isn't politics.
Adam Moore
Yes it is. The representation of women in games is a hot political topic and discussed everywhere.
Luke Taylor
Goddamn it why can't Samus just be a pretty but stoic muscle girl in a power suit. Why are people so obsessed with tarnishing the character.
Anthony Thompson
>replace the fat butt NOOOOO REEEEEEEEEE >makes sense for her profession as the toughest bounty hunter in the universe She's the toughest because of her power suit you morons. It's powered, it's not her muscles making it move. She wouldn't be able to anyway, it's too heavy. She doesn't need to be strong for her job. She can be all squishy. Actually being as light as possible probably would be an advantage since it means less mass and less resources needed for life support. But Samus overeats a bit and it makes her butt THICC.
Jeremiah Mitchell
In 2014, maybe. This is gaming if anything.
William Clark
thicc samus = best samus. If they just made a video game with her in this suit on the right it would have been way better.
Henry Thomas
To be fair to the magazine, she doesn't look muscular on the right.
Would you use the same argument about Halo's Master Chief? Would you be OK if he stepped out of his armor and showed a heavily overweight butt?
Are you kidding? The feminist topic in games is as strong as ever.
Jaxon Adams
>alienate your core audience due to a loud minority this has gone well in every single case throughout history haha
Henry Evans
>Would you use the same argument about Halo's Master Chief? Would you be OK if he stepped out of his armor and showed a heavily overweight butt? You have no idea how much I wouldn't give a shit. It would just be funny desu.
Jaxson Cruz
Samus isn't supposed to be thicc in the first place. See this from a political view about how women are misrepresented and stop use your dick to think. Your brain is in your head.
Do you think most Halo fans would think like you?
Mason Perry
Super Metroid and Zero Mission were good games. Anyone who gives a shit about this is not a gamer
Just make a good game that isn't a cutscene snoozefest like other m. Jesus fuck I'm sick of women in gaming
Andrew Harris
>Do you think most Halo fans would think like you? Not sure honestly. It could be cool if they made a point out of it. e.g. if he was actually all feeble and sickly (a bit like Darth Vador). Isn't Master Chief semi-fused with his suit anyway? Yeah I wish they would have made the whole thing super gross kek. But yeah, no, probably not good for marketing. I don't think guys care all that much about male characters though. But it does sell a bit better to have bad ass ripped dudes for some reason.
Chase Barnes
Let's piss off the Swedes by sexualize Samus.
Who with me?
Owen Morgan
I fucking care. THICC Samus is my waifu and if they make her STICC I'm gonna kms.
Oliver Bailey
>- replace the fat butt with a fit one
Fine. This would make more sense, anyway.
>- focus on her being tough instead of sexy
Why not both?
>- make her into a modern, feminist icon
No. Here's the thing about legitimately strong women: They neither need feminism, nor do they want it. They became strong by earning it, not by whining for it, screaming about oppression, and trying to bully dissenters. Samus wouldn't be affiliated with such frivolous horseshit, she has better things to do.
Leo Jones
This reminds me of a really fucked up rule 34 comic where samus kept shitting herself. Like, the federation had to pay people to keep things quiet because she'd shit herself every time the fight started and they needed to keep her reputation for propaganda reasons. I don't think there was sex or nudity, just lots of samus running around with bulgy brown tinted zero suit looking embarrassed. I didn't read the whole thing though. The freaky part was I remember the art being high quality.
I think that would count, don't you? I mean, there aren't a whole lot of role models for IBS sufferers out there, except rogue legacy.
Xavier Jackson
>focus on her being tough instead of sexy what part of the game, aside from death animation and the end card, focused on her being sexy? these fucks should play the actual games before opining on them,
Ayden Gomez
More shots of her outside of her suit starting with Prime 2. And Other M was a fucking movie. And a mistake.
Jeremiah Hall
They're going to make the villain "Father Patriarch" instead of "Mother Brain"
Christopher Campbell
That would actually be more in line with Samus' original design. Unless I'm mistaken, the booklet for the NES game mentioned her being like a 250 lbs woman even without the suit, stronger than most men, etc.
William Davis
Nintendo, and the rest of Japan, give 0 shits what Sweden fucking wants.
Leo Carter
What frivolous bullshit. You literally see her inside of a fucking suit of armor for 99.9% of the game. Luckily Nintendo doesn't really seem to take shit from these people usually
Colton Carter
It wouldn't work.
They tried it with Tomb Raider and there's metric shitloads of rule 34 of her being fucked like a slut every way imaginable, along with her character model being made sexier anyways. Like Elizabeth from Bioshock, when they even made her DLC version's titties bigger again.
Noah Green
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Camden Davis
Hopefully this will be the beginning of a new trend where women are made big and powerful. I hope they remake Aliens and transform Ripley into a 7'6" Amazonian beast that punches aliens to death in one blow. Fuck the manlet marines and their expectations for what women should look like!
Zachary Price
Am I the only one here who think her ass looks really fit and muscular on the right pic? Rather than thicc/fat I mean.
Cameron Nguyen
Isn't this what they tried to do with Other M, and the game was complete dogshit?
I don't want Samus to be a character. She's just supposed to be a silent uncharacterized player avatar in a robot suit who takes off her suit/helmet at the end of the game if you don't suck. I don't want "muh strong independent womyn" shoehorned in.
Xavier Roberts
I guess you're right. She looked pretty strong in the SNES version. I didn't know she was supposed to be this yuge though. You know what, this could cause a lot of conflicts among feminists if exploited correctly. >being super strong isn't feminist! it's a patriarchal standard transferred to women!
Nicholas Roberts
samus is a trap
Brandon Thomas
Only in your fanfic Brianna.
Jaxon Williams
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Christopher Thomas
Sorry mate, but that's definitely not a fit ass. It's thicc as fuck. Or fat if you want.
Charles Robinson
How would feminists react to Samus receiving an absolute thrashing? Literally nothing wrong with it, men get fucked up all the time. It would be bad ass. But they might start calling it misogynist porn or something.
Logan Martin
>Isn't Master Chief semi-fused with his suit anyway? Nope, or at least he isn't in the books. (Though how canon that is is debatable, I'm sure.) What you're probably thinking about is the port in the back of his head that links his nervous system to the suit and AI...crap.
Okay so he's linked to the suit, but he's not physically dependent on it (he is, however, emotionally dependent on the AI that lives in the suit, so potayto-potahto) and can take it off whenever he likes.
Easton Lopez
Nintendo is not about SJW virtue signal politics. Nintendo is about fun first. Samus will never be feminist. If Nintendo can say this they will win gamers trust and look like they understand what has been going on and why politics never made gaming fun it doesn't it never did anything helpful for gamers and games. And it hurts the video game developers the most.
Isaiah Mitchell
>is OK with replacing the fat butt with a fit one >is not OK with making her into a feminist icon
user, part of making her into a feminist icon is to make her body more believable. You're literally contradicting yourself here.
Ethan Morris
OK. kek thanks for correcting me I feel like I should know these things.
Liam Garcia
Whole concept of women doing soldier stuff is quite absurd.
Thomas Torres
>Japan >obeying Swedecuck SODOMITE ORDERS
Never gonna happen. Give THICC AF SAMUS OR GIVE ME DEATH
Jason Smith
>muscular
I can work with that. Hope they don't insert the feminist shit though.
Chase Cruz
>representation in gaming >the literal definition of a "first world problem" >women have it so good in Western countries that one of their chief concerns is that a video game character is "too sexy"
The Left is ideologically bankrupt.
Ayden Clark
holy fucking words, Batman
Parker Miller
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Henry Thompson
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John Allen
Someone thought that much text would make a funny comic strip?
John Gonzalez
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Brayden Gomez
when has someone who has been trained for combat and physical exertion from birth/ young age ever been a fatty? its not body shaming or any of those piss weak whale excuses its fucking cause and effect. althought if a spartan coming out of their armor looks like Obelix it would be seen as a joke. in their lore they are raised as warriors, tools, weapons. even in fanstay writers are not retarded enough to make them land whales or limbwristed faggots, no the only people that do that are self inserting hacks that are now infesting the writers guilds of the world now. in entertainment now we look back with rose colour glasses no only because of nostagia but because of the garbage that is served up to us now, and if you dont like it your a nazi. bait thread caught me, gratz here is a (you) jimmies rustled
Nicholas Richardson
Honestly though, Twintelle's butt is big, but it doesn't look fat like Samus's. Zelda's ass looks a little fatty though, at least judging from pic related.
Jordan Campbell
Its not supposed to be funny, its supposed to make you depressed and stop playing video games, do something useful with your life.
Tyler Flores
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Benjamin Evans
>YFW even a casual cosplayer has a fitter butt than Samus
Jaxon Hall
Is Kimishima /ourgamedeveloper/?
Luke Martin
I know that the only way this article in LEVEL got made is because a feminist fucked a video game journalist prick we've had another serious breach of ethics and many more that flew under the radar it's on it's on again it's back on again. Start digging again they breached the ethics again fuck the liberal video game journalists just mod GATV North Yankton intro scene with the gang yelling fuck videogame journalists and death to VGJ instead. Dumb fucking VGJ. You shouldn't have been a VGJ. Fucking Agh.
Julian Bell
Can you summarize it? I mean I don't generally listen to women talk and I can't bring myself to read their text bubbles.
Adam Parker
>fat butt Are these pissbabies fucking body shaming?
Charles Wright
>tough >sexy
Why not both?
Feminism is fucking cancer; but if a character is supposed to be a badass then they should act like one. I'm fine with Samus looking sexy, I'd like her to act like a soldier though. Stoicism and cold strategy, not femme bullshit, pic related.
Dominic Perry
nah i want her to be hot, aye
Robert Thomas
>(((journalists))) try GG2.0 yeah, cause first one was such great success
Easton Flores
Fuck off kike, most of >us are here anyways because of shit like this OT: I hope nothing happens. Then again Nintendo probably doesn't care about what some blue-haired dyke says.
Luke Ortiz
No. They're not shaming women as a group, they're just saying that Samus - because of her profession and her character - shouldn't logically have a fat butt.
But since Samus does have a fat butt (see OP pic) they're calling out Nintendo for drawing her that way.
Because tough and sexy doesn't mix. A fit, athletic ass is not sexy on a woman. And a fat butt does not display toughness.
Jason Reyes
Samus is trans. Deal with it, shitlords.
Nathan Jackson
Yes. Also, they aren't being consistent about it.
>Be 1990's "Ugh! Look at that 'buns of steel' workout tape slut! Not all of us can get ripped like a man!" >Be 2010's "Ugh! Look at that flabby ass! At least 'try' to make her look tough!"
Best thing to do is ignore them.
Dylan Martinez
>Hi, I'm Lara, and I'm drunk. I'm Samus, and I'm also drunk. >I'm fucked in the head and anyone who behaves the way I do in my series would have serious psychological issues! No way, me too! >Also, I have a urinary tract infection! Wow, what are the odds, I have the exact same problem >Wanna hand out and drink more? Nah, I have to go continue my self destructive behavior for reasons I no longer remember. >Bummer. Oh look, sexism.
And the author never got laid: The End.
Ryder Gomez
Oh does anyone have the link to the article?
John Gomez
It's a printed magazine. Not online.
Luke Davis
Who wrote it? Some muslim?
Gavin Cooper
Powerful.
Landon Harris
>- make her into a modern, feminist icon >- replace the fat butt with a fit one
uhmmm... these two dont go together.
Dominic Stewart
No problem with her being /fit/ as long as she SQUATS first and foremost. Can't have too much upper body definition or else she'll look like a fucking tranny. After all, she is a genetic freak alien hybrid spehss mehren. No problem with simply being reasonable.
Tyler Cruz
>nips >ever getting rid of fanservice
Wyatt Garcia
>Sweden >Samus >Discussion between Samus's ass being fit, firm or flabby
Y'all niggas are posting in a Sybb thread.
Robert Hill
Every day I'm surprised that Sweden still exists. They have the national lifespan of Rhodesia circa 1979.
Michael Cooper
Yes they do. Why don't people understand this?
Are you saying her butt need to look fitter, but her upper body can't for some sexist reason?
Brayden Diaz
Feminists have the body proportions of a metroid, not Samus.
Levi Allen
I FUCKING HATE SWEDEN WE HAVE BEEN AT WAR WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE THIS WHOLE TIME, FUCK SWEDES I HOPE YOU GUYS FINALLY DIE OFF AND YOU BECOME 100 PERCENT MUSLIM. MY COUNTRY NEEDS TO FOCUS ON HELPING SWEDEN KILL ITSELF INSTEAD OF THIS SYRIA AND RUSSIA BULLSHIT. SWEDEN IS A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET.
Jeremiah Barnes
Upper body strength doesn't come naturally to women. Nor does it particularly become them. Samus: >Jumps around >Runs at ridiculous speeds >Strafes >Spins >Lifts arm to shoot
Upper body doesn't need to be bulky for these activities, but her legs and ass need to be extremely muscular. Plus, it's sexier that way.
Austin Hall
134401103 Dude... All the Femmistakes do is fuck Leftist stink fist nerd VGJ why do you think the feminist propaganda gets put all over blogs and sites and in games. They fuck developers too. No i am not talking about the gruesome 2some i'm talking all the fucking diversity hires. Dude... you need a straight jacket. But because you scare me. Not because your dumb or ... mentally ill. Because your creepy.
Justin Smith
The NES booklet said she was a dude. As in a man. It was either a mistake or they changed it later.
Michael Bennett
How do we ban trannies from the internet?
Nolan Brown
I'd be fine if they did that, I mean that's basically what she originally was (see pic related)
Samus was a much cooler before Sakamoto turned her into his dainty anime waifu
Chase Hernandez
As usual, they rather appropriate was made by someone else than to make something on their own. And why would Nintendo care what Sweden cucks think?
Adam Jenkins
It was probably made up by the poor guy who had to make game manuals for all of nintendo's early crap without reference material and the game has no mention of samus' gender. Easy to assume male.
Jaxon Watson
Ignore them. Stop giving them attention. Eventually, they will go away.
Anthony King
>we get signal. Main screen turn on. It's you! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ahahahaha. Move zig. Take off every zig. FOR GREAT JUSTICE
Definitely not a translation error.
Wyatt Green
Other M is gay.
Nathan Reed
Don't you think her butt in OP looks muscular already? Don't listen to OP fag. Does Samus's butt in OP pic look fat to you?
Christopher Flores
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James Gutierrez
Do you apply this logic to refugees too? This won't work.
Logan Kelly
>A fit, athletic ass is not sexy on a woman
Says you.
Colton Hughes
>focus on her being tough instead of sexy Why can't she be both? She's never sexualized, you don't know she's a woman until the ending. She's the perfect female character.
Jayden Hall
Well, as always, OP is a faggot. There's really no need to change anything, but if she were to get a redesign, I'd only be okay with a bulking of her lower body. >tfw leg muscle fibers are shown in High Definition through the Zero Suit
Jason Howard
It makes no sense comparing idiots on the internet with horde of rapists and terrorists on the borders.
Jeremiah Wright
134402595 Retard they are affirmative action hires not diversity hires retard. Retard. Fixed retard.