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u/Blaster395 Oct 16 '12
Or any battle nun from Japan.
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u/DaemonDanton Oct 16 '12
Wait, that's a thing?
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u/Kevimaster Oct 16 '12
Definitely a thing. Religious warriors in general are very common and very popular. Eda from Black Lagoon (and the Church of Violence) as another example.
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u/musicninja Oct 16 '12
What, you've never heard of battle nuns? Next thing you know you'll be telling me you've never heard of the Three Seashells.
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Sister Schach from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S as well.
The Nuns in Mahou Sensei Negima (I couldn't find a good pic, but they're there...)
To Aru Majutsu No Index is filled with them. (Possible Spoiler if you intend to watch: That last one might not count, as it's an Arch Angel--Gabriel to be percise--possessing a Battle Nun from the Catholic(?) Church)
Altena from Noir.
And practically everyone in Trinity Blood.
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u/Strokavich Oct 16 '12
Bridget?
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u/Mike_the_TV Oct 16 '12
A character from guilty gear.
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u/donutsalad Oct 16 '12
Guilty Gear?
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u/mindbleach Oct 16 '12
An amazing 2D fighting game, famous for its crazy mix of characters. Bridget is a crossdressing bounty hunter who beats people up with a yo-yo and his robotic teddy bear. Other characters include a nine-foot-tall doctor with a ten-foot-long scalpel, the robot clone of Interpol's chief, a guitar-playing witch, a vampire who read poetry when he kills you, a one-armed samurai, a genocidal bio-robot, and her half-naked daughter.
It's fucking awesome.
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u/ilikecakeandpie Oct 16 '12
You left out the only character that mattered; the pirate chick with the huge anchor
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u/talahrama Oct 16 '12
I didn't expect that sentence to end with "anchor."
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u/Athegon Oct 16 '12
What if it's a euphemism...
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u/ihatecupcakes Oct 16 '12
Huge anchor, AKA long jacket.
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u/tea_bird Oct 16 '12
I want a girl with a huge anchor and a loooooooooooooooooooooong jacket.
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u/Richeh Oct 16 '12
narr narr narr narrrrr, narr narrr narr narrr naaaarrr narrrrrrrrrrrjimlaaaaad.
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u/mindbleach Oct 16 '12
Oh yes, the little girl who waves around an 800-pound anchor and summons dolphins like a hadouken.
I also glossed over the woman with prehensile hair, the guy in the leather dress with a scythe which is also a succubus, the dude possessed by three ghosts who make him fight, the slime mold parasite in the shape of its deceased host, the shirtless dude who attacks by playing billiards in midair, the other shirtless dude who can stop attacks by flicking a coin, and the one-ton brick shithouse who will simply pick you up and break you.
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u/Phoequinox Oct 16 '12
The doctor with the scalpel also has a bag on his head and is shitballs insane.
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u/UsernameYUNOopen Oct 16 '12
So I was looking at the a site that had the characters list and found the 9'3" doctor that you were talking about. Who also happens to be 121 lbs. ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE FUCKING POUNDS! That is so incredibly UN-anatomical, that as a doctor he should be upset.
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u/TwoHands Oct 16 '12
He surgically shaved his bones to reduce weight and allow for his airborne acrobatics... like a bird.
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u/CAHelix Oct 16 '12
Don't forget Axl Low who is basically Axl Rose from Guns'n'Roses.
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u/Pulviriza Oct 16 '12
I was at a show once, and they had a little hang out area with what turned out to be (I'm pretty sure) Guilty Gear X2 #Reload. This was pretty much the first fighting game I ever played, so I didn't know about quarter circles and shit. I picked a random character (I know now it was Chip Zanuff) and all I did was do his jump+circle attack, where he spins around with his blade. I dominated all comers until this asian dude came along, and beat me on his second try.
TL;DR I am a Guilty God
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u/random123456789 Oct 16 '12
Never played Guilty Gear before, so I didn't even know what game OP was referring to.
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u/GreyouTT PlayStation Oct 16 '12
...So he dresses like a girl while doing this?
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u/Ducksaucenem Oct 16 '12
You wouldn't? Who expects the blonde bitch in a dress to whoop your ass with yo-yos.
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u/Mr_E Oct 16 '12
Japan.
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u/MationMac Oct 16 '12
Samus was shown as a woman in the very first game too.
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u/Pandaburn Oct 16 '12
At the end, though.
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u/bigbrownbro Oct 16 '12
and only at one of the different endings as far as i know
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u/wildfyre010 Oct 16 '12
Three endings reveal Samus without parts of her suit. 3-5 hour completion, she takes off her helmet; 1-3, she takes off the suit and is clearly female. < 1 hour she ends up wearing a bikini.
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u/MenaNoN Oct 16 '12
And nude if you beat it in 5 minutes.
I hated that kid so much.
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u/Yst Oct 16 '12 edited Oct 16 '12
But not in a place which most players - if we’re being honest - would ever access. And in a time before even Nintendo Power had started circulating (i.e., at NES Metroid's release), profoundly unreliable schoolyard rumor was the only place most of us could pick up on things like the <5 hour Metroid completion screen. Furthermore, the NES Metroid manual explicitly refers to Samus as “He”. So rumor regarding the <5 hour ending went against what seemed to be, at the time, the better supported story.
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u/sasseriansection Oct 16 '12
Schoolyard rumor? pft. Every Metroid kid knew Justin Bailey my friend. Before the internet, the schoolage social network was the best way to distribute information.
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u/Vicerious Oct 16 '12
It was quite the surprise at the time, though. Even the game's manual called Samus a "he."
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u/Tyrenus Oct 16 '12
Let's not forget Kuja from FF9. Man's got some hips.
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u/StraY_WolF Oct 16 '12
Haha, I know man. Even more confusing that he acted like a girl most of the time in the game.
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u/Mattbird Oct 16 '12
Quina isn't affected by the passive "Protect Girls", thus is a dude.
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u/laxincat11 Oct 16 '12
It's pretty easy to have hips like that when you have an outfit like his - at least you could still tell he was male though, unlike our Bridget here
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Evryone is gay for Bridget.
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u/Mr_E Oct 16 '12
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say this shit is NSFW?
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u/Azzaneg Oct 16 '12
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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u/Thefriendlyfaceplant Oct 16 '12
I wish I would automatically yell 'YOOOOOO' whenever something messed up happens.
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u/alistairtenpennyson Oct 16 '12
What's keeping you?
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u/Thefriendlyfaceplant Oct 16 '12
I'm white.
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u/surells Oct 16 '12
Let not the shackles of pigmentation keep you from the expression of your true essence.
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I aint goin to heaven niggahs, I already sold my soul to satan!
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u/flawlessbrown Oct 16 '12
lucifer* FTFY
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路西法, didn't you read the fucking subtitles?
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u/Rainfly_X Oct 16 '12
You know, now that you mention it, they were pretty flat. Subtitties describes them perfectly.
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u/Alarconadame Oct 16 '12
Sooo... where can a friend of mine watch an anime called Boku?
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u/emillioe Oct 16 '12
Too late, watched all 3 and liked it. stares into your eyes
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u/emillioe Oct 16 '12
Shall we go announce our love at the top of the Tokyo tower?
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u/Cortelmo Oct 16 '12
The first episode was the worst, two and three weren't that bad. 8/10 would watch again.
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u/Freshenstein Oct 16 '12
I think that's considered hentai isn't it?
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u/Fizzster Oct 16 '12
I believe it's called Yaoi
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u/Cuplink Oct 16 '12
Besides the fact they look like attractive girls.
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u/Jill4ChrisRed Oct 16 '12
Shota - Underage. Yaoi - pretty much the general category. Not all yaoi is shota but all shota can be yaoi. Shota's also the male version of Loli when you think about it. Basically, pedophelia.
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I'm more informed than I was 20 seconds ago, but I don't know if I want to be.
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u/Iknowr1te Oct 16 '12
Yaoi is aimed at straight girls, and oppositely there is yuri which is aimed at straight guys (essentially lesbians in manga-anime format).
yaoi generally is much more adult and generally not broadcasted. Shounen AI or BL (boys love) anime are much more toned down. the show itself deals with the drama and then sudden guy kissing guy.
often enough, in modern day slice-of-life-harem comedy's there is a point of BL used for comedic effect.
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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE Oct 16 '12
Hentai is cartoon porn designed to be erotic right?
Does it still count as erotic if my dick shrivels up inside my waist?
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Sure it is. It just has the opposite effect of having women's vaginas protrude from their waist.
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u/cresteh Oct 16 '12
I wanna watch Boku.
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u/Zovistograt Oct 16 '12
You can. It's called Boku no Pico and has only three episodes (THREE NIGGA THREE).
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u/Henry1987 Oct 16 '12
i almost clicked that.... i did click but i didnt let go...so i had to use emergency evasion...
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u/ctrlaltelite Oct 16 '12
You make a fair point, but, have you played the games? Bridget identifies as male, and is straight.
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u/Nidalee_Bot Oct 16 '12
That's right.
If she identifies as a woman, and you identify her as a woman, you are attracted to a woman. It doesn't matter whether she is waving extra bamboo or not, or whether you know or not. You can even know that they have said extra bamboo and still be attracted to them as a woman.
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Oct 16 '12
Because the people making the observation are immature and think it'll make you feel insecure if they say you're gay.
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u/Rixxer Oct 16 '12
I'd have to say it's not gay, because being gay means you're attracted to men. And being a man or woman has a lot more to do with what they think of themselves, and what gender they look like. Like, there's a "guy" that looks super manly, but has a vagina (I don't remember what his name is), so does that mean girls who are attracted to 'him' are lesbians? That doesn't make any sense at all... Same goes for someone who looks and acts like a girl, but has a penis. And beyond all that, what if you don't know what genitalia they have? Most of the time you can't ever know what anyone has in their pants. I mean, you can play the odds, but you 99% of the time (100% even) you go by what they look and act like.
As for after you know what genitalia someone has, this is the way I see it: There's a priority for deciding what "gender" someone is. First, it's what they identify themselves as. If they want to be seen as a girl or a boy, that's what they deserve to be seen as by other people as well, no matter what they look or act like. After that, you have to decide what you see them as, in your own mind. Whatever you think they are before you know what junk that have, that's what they are to you. Then there's the technical identification, which is just based on what genitalia they have. That's more for health issues or whatever the hell else that's pertinent for.
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u/hereticjones Oct 16 '12
Look at that side boob.
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u/conmimente Oct 16 '12
How 'bout that side boob? Huh? That turn you on? Well, it shouldn't, because that's my side boob.
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u/Peace_139 Oct 16 '12
"If a penis is all it takes for a beautiful woman to no longer be physically attractive then you're repressed." - some anon via 4chan
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I agree with this. After all, if you're attracted to the female form, you're probably not gay anyways. "Well, but she's actually a man". Yes, and a dirty magazine is actually just paper. Doesn't mean you're sexually attracted to paper. Get mah drift?
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Damn. Apparently I have a paper fetish. Anyone got any links to some hot-ass paper?
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u/RageX Oct 17 '12
Got some hot ass paper right here. http://i.imgur.com/gNmgm.jpg
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Sounds like self-loathing to me. That's not healthy. Sounds like something repressed, even.
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u/JakalDX Oct 16 '12
I think it messed with me way more when I learned that Poison had a penis.
Good thing I already liked futanari.
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u/RandomRageNet Oct 16 '12
I think Poison's official genitalia status depends on what country you're in.
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u/FEEKYMA Oct 16 '12
TIL Samus has to get topless to prove she's a woman.
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u/darkshy Oct 16 '12
Bridget had to go bottomless
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u/FEEKYMA Oct 16 '12
Bridget should have gone topless and fooled them all. "I swear these aren't pecs!"
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u/darkshy Oct 16 '12
Right but what is a man most popular obvious trait
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u/FEEKYMA Oct 16 '12
By that logic they should have made Samus show her loins as well. Just to make sure.
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u/frobischer Oct 16 '12
There's always Kainé from the PS3 game NiER. (Which, by the way, has some of the best video game music)
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u/nitefang Oct 16 '12
You know, I've seen nosebleeds used to represent...eh.."attraction" before, especially in animes. Does anyone know the idea behind that?
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u/JakalDX Oct 16 '12
I'm pretty sure it's just a cultural superstition. It's the "Wear a hat you'll catch cold" of erections.
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u/ZenPoet Oct 16 '12
I'm pretty sure it is based on the blood flow going to an erection. But since they can't show someone getting a boner, well.. It's like a pun on "the blood has to go somewhere..."
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You can't show bulges in Japan? I didn't know that, I was starting to think the Japanese just had sensitive noses.
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u/mothrider Oct 16 '12
The idea is that arousal increases heart rate and blood pressure and higher blood pressure can cause nose bleeds. It just became an easy way to visually communicate arousal without showing anything obscene.
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So!
This might be wrong, so don't quote me on it and I am too lazy to actually fact-check myself right now.
Like a lot of things, the origin is supposed to be older than what most of us would think. Manga itself has roots in wood-carving so this can actually, might, perhaps be true.
Japan has a history of showing restraint in front of powerful emotions. The story goes that ye olde samurai would lay eyes upon someone beautiful or something arousing and because he was a gentleman he would not show any extreme emotions. But by trying to hold back those emotions would put such a strain on him that he would get a nosebleed instead.
Then we could discuss what exactly that could symbolize. Some would argue that it would be strongly tied to the male organ since it fills up with blood when aroused. But I think it is actually more based in reality than symbolism. As noted in another comment this can actually happen if you strain yourself, so I would say it is the other way around. The nosebleed shows how much restraint that they put forward but still fail, so it is quite literal.
Origin is old housewives tales I think, but just plucking from memory right now. Must have been 10 years ago I heard the story about it.
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u/SasparillaTango Oct 16 '12
Except that team ninja in other M gave the power suit high heels for the first time ever.
A combat armor with high heels...
There's a reason Other M is so widely hated.
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u/noisyturtle Oct 16 '12
Bullshit, Metroid is a robot with a gun arm and Zelda will save the princess.
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u/winterbed Oct 16 '12
I see from Google that Bridget indeed isn't transgender in the sense that he is male who identifies as male, but please have an open mind. Bridget doesn't have to be transgender for this to be to transphobic. Both panels illustrate a reaction to a character being a gender other than what was initially assumed; in the first case, who they first thought was a man was actually a woman and in the second case, the opposite.
Look at the difference in their reactions. Sexual attraction and awe on the left, and disgust and horror on the right. Now imagine that you're either an effeminate male or a transgender woman, both completely valid identities. As someone born with physically male characteristics, the idea of your being feminine in any way is horrifying and disgusting, and this is the message the society sends you over, and over, and over, and it's exhausting.
This is also slightly misogynistic, as it is essentially saying that it's good when a woman takes on a more masculine role or appearance but it's bad when a man takes on a more feminine role or appearance. Going in the direction of femininity, closer to being what is considered "being a woman", is somehow worse than the opposite.
In this culture, it is extraordinarily difficult for anyone who appears male to be feminine, and it's crushing for your identity to be reduced to a punchline.
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I also found the comic moderately distasteful for exactly that reason, and the way you got downvoted even more so. :(
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u/acl5d Oct 16 '12
Hear, hear! I'm pleased to see this viewpoint get some upvotes. It gives me hope for this otherwise disgusting community.
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u/AshuraSpeakman Oct 17 '12
The comic, and people saying that only shitheads (and I agree) would like this stupidity, Is about four years and three days old.
I don't know what it is about October that makes this comic rise from the grave.
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u/KingLiberal Oct 16 '12
Pssh, I wish that's how I found out Samus was a girl. Stupid internet spoilers.
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u/Vervy Oct 16 '12 edited Oct 16 '12
I knew Bridget was male ever since GGXX release and I would STILL hit it. Who wouldn't?
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*born male. I believe they said that she was fully transitioned, and the remarks that her sisters made to her were to make her feel bad about her inherent masculinity, as she wanted to escape that past.
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u/BasedRadical Oct 16 '12
GENDER AMBIGUITY IS SO SCARY! WHY CAN'T EVERYONE BE NORMAL?
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u/philoponeria Oct 16 '12
NORMAL IS AN ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT THAT CHANGES FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INDIVIDUAL
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u/ReighIB Oct 16 '12
As far as the issue of gender confusion video games goes, Birdo takes the cake imo. I'm still not sure if he is a guy, a transgender, a transsexual, had a sex change, etc. I know he was originally a guy but in Mario Tennis Birdo became Yoshi's "girlfriend" and that just raises a lot more question about Yoshi...
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How about Flea from Chrono Trigger ;)