Unfortunate Implications/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* The designers of ''[[Final Fight]]'' were told that it was a cultural taboo in America to show a male hero hitting women, so instead of female gang members, the enemy characters of Poison and Roxy were [[Bowdlerization|replaced by male characters Sid and Billy in the SNES version]]. Poison and Roxy were brought back in every subsequent adaptation, but since then they've been canonically depicted as shemales, possibly because Capcom thought it would be less controversial or because they just found beating up transvestites funny (or though Americans wouldn't mind beating up transsexuals where they would mind beating up women, which is ''also'' problematic). To add further confusion, Poison's and Roxy's genders have switched between being female or shemale depending on the localization. Both of them are still considered shemales in Japan, but Poison is now a post-op male-to-female transsexual and Roxy is completely female apparently.

* [[Legend of Kay]] has rats as villians, and at several points speaks of them with hostility and refers to them as dirty. This wouldn't be too bad on ITS own, seeing as this is how rats are often looked upon... But unfortunately, they were given horrifically stereotypical chinese accents.

** Then there's {{spoiler|Lemuria}}, where the Senate is depicted as a bunch of short-sighted conservative fools who refuse to believe that {{spoiler|the world is withering away due to the seal on the power of Alchemy}}. Of course, the King is correct. [[Take That]], democracy!

*** In fact, the leader of {{spoiler|the King's political opposition is called [[Meaningful Name|Conservato]]. Also somewhat subverted by the fact that King Hydros is the oldest of the Lemurians (and by extension, the world)}}.

** Depending on how you interpret it, [[ME 3]] has an even worse one because it's presented as a moral lesson. {{spoiler|The Synthesis ending can be read as saying that differences between sentient races are insurmountable, which contradicts the game's own canon, and that working to remove those differences by making everyone part synthetic and part organic is the only way to cooperate. Yep, you can't work with your neighbors unless you each swap a kidney, it's the only way to work past your differences.}}

*** {{spoiler|The change -of-tune is all the more egregious as, depending on the player, you can have already ended the only major conflict between organics and synthetics and befriended a synthetic AI.}}

 

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