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Old 17-01-19, 16:54   #661
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I missed yesterday react but I will explain what I mean.
This provokes man I mean that Lara communicates with the reader, with us! The way she dresses to bikini and more in front of us. She always has to explain her hot clothes for some reason, maybe she was captured, etc.
That's why I wrote she's like Catwoman, she's sexy and dangerous, she's badass.
The thing is, Classic Lara owned her feminity. She didn't pander it arround to reach her goals (the ones who actually did it was the marketing team, not Lara "herself"), which is why I found your claim a bit weird.

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Yeah but that's different from Catwoman. With Catwoman, it's part of her whole schtick. I mean Selina Kyle is a former prostitute. As a user pointed out here yesterday, Lara did it once, and it was extremely out of character.
Exactly. I found it so out of character, which is why questioned it in the first place
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Old 17-01-19, 17:48   #662
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Exactly. I found it so out of character, which is why questioned it in the first place
What kind of situation ?
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Old 17-01-19, 17:50   #663
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Holy ****. I just saw the outfit announcement in a facebook post and the backlash is real omg. The third most reacted feeling is the 'Grr' one, and pretty much 90% of comments are people complaining of the tribal outfits.

I really did not expect such a global dislike for the outfits, even if the majority of TRF has already complained about it.

EM really need to stop being stubborn and stop with the these outfits. It's pretty clear people don't want them and there is no way they aren't already aware of that.



God forbid people cosplay as the characters they want. The aberration!
They can cosplay who they want to, did I say they couldn't? No I ****ing didn't, I said I found it odd.
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Old 17-01-19, 18:14   #664
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What kind of situation ?
Lara using "sexy clothes" on purpose to provoke men
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Old 17-01-19, 18:39   #665
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Lara using "sexy clothes" on purpose to provoke men
Ah I don't remember this ^^'
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Old 17-01-19, 18:43   #666
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Lara using "sexy clothes" on purpose to provoke men
The only time I can sorta see your point is during the Japan level in Legend...even then she was wearing an outfit fit for the party. IIRC her "sexy clothes" were never used in game, it was an option for players to use at their will.
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Old 17-01-19, 18:48   #667
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Ah yes, because Lara was a pretty woman and wore shorts she was a disgusting slut. Thank god she covers herself from head to toe and wears nothing but tactical gear and animal skins, she’s much more respectable now!

The internalized misogyny is strong with you bunch.
So true. It's crazy that people have such a issue with a woman being "sexy".

Bring back this please....



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Old 17-01-19, 18:55   #668
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I don't think people have an issue with a character being sexy, but it's more the fact that people mostly abused her image and transformed her into a sex fantasy/sex doll on numerous occasions thanks to the marketing team's encouragement. It's even worse when you consider resources were spent on Underworld's DLC to create a bikini outfit pack. Do I need to remind people tools were created to enlarge Lara's breast by fans? Don't you all remember "Remarkable new Title this"?

It's one thing to be sexy, it's an other to use the female body as a selling point.

Right now Square is trying to make Lara attractive without requiring to reduce the amount of clothing or enlarging body parts. I'm again not arguing that Underworld's default outfit is of bad taste (quite the opposite), but they're focusing on taming down the audience's hormones first before slowly going back to more iconic outfit I guess?

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Old 17-01-19, 19:01   #669
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Yeah but that's different from Catwoman. With Catwoman, it's part of her whole schtick. I mean Selina Kyle is a former prostitute. As a user pointed out here yesterday, Lara did it once, and it was extremely out of character.
That BS with Catwoman being a prostitute because of Miller's Batman: Year One got retroactively changed years ago.
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Old 17-01-19, 19:02   #670
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And what right do they have to judge people and destory the character just because some people are attracted to her? It's ridiculous.

Not an excuse at all, like I said before if CD didn't like Lara Croft as she was they should have just ended the franchise or handed it over to someone else to develop.
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