However, Supergiant Games appears to have learned its lesson with the excellent Hades, starring the chaotic bisexual prince of the underworld, Zagreus. The otherwise incredible Transistor made some questionable choices in gay-coding almost all of its villianous antagonists and pitting them against the supposedly stronger heterosexual bond between protagonist Red and her male lover. Overwatch has drawn praise from some for confirming both Tracer and Soldier 76 as a gay woman and gay man respectively, but these reveals were done outside the game itself, and Blizzard has done little to nothing to affirm their identities in-game. Erica is a trans woman who is repeatedly called her deadname (her now-unused birth name) and subjected to general transphobia from other characters.įinal Fight/Street Fighter’s Poison is often brought up as a great example of a trans character, but was originally made transgender due to concerns about players not wanting to fight a woman, and Capcom has faced repeated pressure over the years to alter the character’s treatment and presentation. The most immediate example that springs to mind is Erica, a recurring character in the bizarre puzzle game Catherine. ![]() ![]() Good representation shouldn’t be hard, and yet we still see bad representation.
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