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Line 490: * The ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series is a pretty bad offender (but then again, they are gaming equivalents of ''[[Top Gun]]''): ''[[Ace Combat 2]]'' had a single significant female character, namely the optional wingwoman Kei Nagase. The other potential wingman was a [[Scary Black Man]] and the [[Player Character]] [[Featureless Protagonist]] is referred to as male. The unpre-[[macekre]]d Japanese version of ''[[Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere]]'' is, thus far, the biggest aversion of this trope in the series. In addition to the [[Ill Girl\|Ill]] [[MacGuffin Girl]] Rena Hirose, it gave us the [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry\|Fitzgerald sisters, Cynthia and Fiona,]] who pretty much determine the late-game missions in the Neucom path. With Erich Jager, Keith Bryan, and [[Evil Mentor\|Abyssal Dision]] on the male side, ''Electrosphere'' comes as close to gender parity, as an ''AC'' game can. ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies]]'' gave us Yellow 4, the [[Cartwright Curse\|Doomed Love Interest]] of the hero's rival, and the only female in her squadron. ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War]]'' featured the ''other'' Kei Nagase, the only female in the entire game until the brief late-mission appearance of Bartlett's old flame. ''[[Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War]]'' goes for a Token Enemy Female again and gives us [[Badass Spaniard\|Marcela Vasquez]], the only female boss-level ace and the only woman to get her own interview. Also, out of 169 [[Nominal Importance\|named aces]] in the game, only 9 are female. That's about 19 to 1 male-to-female ratio. ''[[Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation]]'' tried to address this issue by showing a part of the story through the eyes of Melissa and Ludmila, two female refugees wandering the war-torn Emmeria, looking for their daughter and fiance, respectively. Also, it had a Token Enemy Female, Irena Dvornik, as well as allied pilot Lanner.