Summary
Water is wet, the sky is blue, and gamers are mad about women.Star Wars Outlawsdropped a new trailer this week and there has been a surprising amount of backlash towards the protagonist who many are now calling “ugly”.
We’ve seen this a lot in the past few years, from MJ inSpider-Manto the player character inFable 4to Jesse Faden inControl. It’s become a conspiracy theory among gamers that developers are purposefully ‘making women ugly’, with one of the examples thrown around a lot this year being Poison Ivy who, inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a literal child.
It’s entangled in a lot of other online conspiracies, but the major one you’ll see pop up in these threads about Outlaws' so-called “ugly” protagonist is thata company called Sweet Baby Inc.had a hand in it. They’re a narrative consultancy firm, but many gamers believe they are pressuring developers into injecting their games full of ‘woke’ themes. Apparently, ‘ugly’ protagonists fall under that umbrella, although many more are in agreement that Outlaws' lead isn’t ugly at all and just looks like a normal woman.
What Gamers Are Saying, And What Everyone Else Is Replying
“People are calling the Star Wars Outlaws protag ugly and [I don’t get it] she is literally like, objectively so pretty,"@shitterly tweeted. “Like if I saw her in real life, I would be obsessed with her.”
“People mad about the Star Wars Outlaws girl being ‘ugly’ is fu**ed,"@windows95ssbm said. “Sigourney Weaver was the hottest woman alive in 1979 and you’re mad that type of girl is making a comeback? Couldn’t be me. Wouldn’t be me.”
“She literally just looks like a normal woman, and honestly considering she’s an outlaw in the Star Wars universe, she’s a total looker,"@sith_artadded.
We sawsimilar anger towards Horizon Forbidden Westwhen Aloy was revealed to have slightly bigger cheeks and, as many people do, hair on her face. That’s just how people look. Even more bizarrely, a lot of the anger towards Outlaws' protagonist stems from her having a ’70s hairstyle and fashion. But Outlaws is set during the Original Trilogy era… which came out in the ’70s. That’s why she looks so much like Sigourney Weaver who I promise you is not “ugly”.
Star Wars Outlaws
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Star Wars Outlaws follows Kay Vess as she bids to out manoeuver the galaxy’s deadliest criminals. An open-world action-adventure game from Ubisoft, it also features grand space battles and a deep story.
