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Since the Internet seems to agree Gamergate II is officially under way, I had been thinking about the "Galbrush Paradox" (tl;dr male protags being as boorish, incompetent, clumsy or otherwise as hard to take seriously as Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island is a generally accepted or even enforced default. Do that for a female protagonist though and you'll be branded every -ist and -phobe under the current zeitgeist). In all the talk that I had heard about that thought experiment a decade ago, I don't think I've ever seen anyone answer or list any character examples that dare to challenge the Galbrush Paradox.
To my complete lack of surprise, the Japanese examples completely overshadow the western piggu examples.
Right off the top of my head are two examples. Izuna from Izuna: Legend of the Unemployment Ninja. She's a bratty, adorable dumbass who gets an earful out of everyone she comes across in both games and can fall victim to every awful status ailment her roguelike series can throw at her.
Second example? Basically everyone from Senran Kagura. Everyone from that series is a sexy goofball coping with the horrors of war and making honest mistakes on the way.
I dare you to find a western example of a Galbrush even a fraction as lovable as these girls.
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Since the Internet seems to agree Gamergate II is officially under way, I had been thinking about the "Galbrush Paradox" (tl;dr male protags being as boorish, incompetent, clumsy or otherwise as hard to take seriously as Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island is a generally accepted or even enforced default. Do that for a female protagonist though and you'll be branded every -ist and -phobe under the current zeitgeist). In all the talk that I had heard about that thought experiment a decade ago, I don't think I've ever seen anyone answer or list any character examples that dare to challenge the Galbrush Paradox.
To my complete lack of surprise, the Japanese examples completely overshadow the western piggu examples.
Right off the top of my head are two examples. Izuna from Izuna: Legend of the Unemployment Ninja. She's a bratty, adorable dumbass who gets an earful out of everyone she comes across in both games and can fall victim to every awful status ailment her roguelike series can throw at her.
Second example? Basically everyone from Senran Kagura. Everyone from that series is a sexy goofball coping with the horrors of war and making honest mistakes on the way.
I dare you to find a western example of a Galbrush even a fraction as lovable as these girls.