Unfortunate Implications/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Dead Rising]] 2'', the only Asian person in the story, Rebecca, is [[Butt Monkey|treated the worst by the narrative]]: she's kidnapped (twice), reduced to helplessness by injury, and ends up cold-bloodedly murdered by [[The Mole]]. By the same [[Incredibly Lame Pun|token (ha)]], another black main character is a gold-wearing, pimp-dressed, jive-talking stereotype who becomes the [[Big Bad]] and kidnaps two (white) women. One of the other black characters is a female survivor who can be encountered beating the crap out of zombies. However, her name is LaShawndra and she's basically a Fat [[Sassy Black Woman]] stereotype.

* ''[[Warcraft]] III'' -- The Horde's dialects are based on stereotypes of different races. The playable Trolls are Jamaican (with other tribes sounding Cuban) practicing vodoo voodoo, an Orc hero type uses pretty bad "urban" accents, and Tauren, while mostly unaccented, have blatant cultural commonalities with Native Americans. Thankfully, they had dropped most of the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] stuff before this.

** In ''[[World of Warcraft]],'' this continues to the Alliance expansion race, the Draenei (Teutonic or Slavic depending on what the accent sounds like to whoever it is you're asking), while the expansion's Horde race, the Blood Elves, meet a different stereotype (metrosexual) -- more consistent with the Alliance original races' behaviors. This aspect of this may be a [[Justified Trope]] in that the Draenei and Blood Elves are supposed to be bastions of the opposing faction within their own ("human" Alliance versus "alien" Horde), in turn consistent with each of these races being the only race in their faction to have a class previously exclusive to the other. Both were pretty [[Broken Base|controversial]].

** The female blood elves have a different "problem". They're extremely thin, and some of their emotes are 'preppy cheerleader.'

** In ''Cataclysm'', there is a new playable race, the cunning [[Space Jews|Goblins]]. They are sly, greedy former-slaves with large noses and almost all of their special skills are related to money and banks.

** The [http://eu.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=221003558 Pandaren Monk pet] takes things to hitherto-unprecedented levels. Dear ''Lord''.

* Several examples in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''series:

** In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] 3: [[Morrowind]]'' lore says that the Dark Elves (Dunmer) used to be the Chimer, but their leaders offended the Daedra Azura and they were "punished" with ash-blue-gray skin and fire-red eyes. By the time of Oblivion, they're treated the same as any of the other races seem to be, but the racial implications are still there.