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Meet Borderlands 2′s Ellie: The “opposite of how most females tend to be represented in games”
I know that videogame characters are a bit out of the usual scope of this blog, but I came across Ellie from Borderlands 2 (above) this morning, and was really impressed with the character design.  I think it’s a great example of how a character can have any build and it looks amazing as long as the design is high quality.
It’s also a perfect example of how a woman doesn’t need a Sports Illustrated bikini bod to look like she can handle herself (actually I think Ellie looks like she breaks airbrushed bikini models in half just to wake up in the morning, then moves on to stacked male superheroes for brunch).
The article shows a few of the other highly non-stereotypical designs considered for the character as well.
If anyone was thinking of doing a superheroine story with a big girl kicking ass, Ellie could be some good inspiration.
The full article.

Woah.  She really doesn’t look like somebody you want to mess with.  Awesome. :D



Insta-reblog! 

Finally. Character design that makes some fucking sense.Not that I have much against the actual design & aesthetics of women in skimpy clothing beating people up (sometimes the costume designs for these kinds of characters actually still look cool even if it’s completely illogical) but it’s very refreshing to break away from some of these ridiculous sexualized stereotypes and have a woman who is actually built for kicking ass. Go Borderlands 2. I still have hope yet for the women in video games.

omg i would get borderlands 2 JUST TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER WOW YES

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Meet Borderlands 2′s Ellie: The “opposite of how most females tend to be represented in games”

I know that videogame characters are a bit out of the usual scope of this blog, but I came across Ellie from Borderlands 2 (above) this morning, and was really impressed with the character design.  I think it’s a great example of how a character can have any build and it looks amazing as long as the design is high quality.

It’s also a perfect example of how a woman doesn’t need a Sports Illustrated bikini bod to look like she can handle herself (actually I think Ellie looks like she breaks airbrushed bikini models in half just to wake up in the morning, then moves on to stacked male superheroes for brunch).

The article shows a few of the other highly non-stereotypical designs considered for the character as well.

If anyone was thinking of doing a superheroine story with a big girl kicking ass, Ellie could be some good inspiration.

The full article.

Woah.  She really doesn’t look like somebody you want to mess with.  Awesome. :D

Insta-reblog! 

Finally. Character design that makes some fucking sense.
Not that I have much against the actual design & aesthetics of women in skimpy clothing beating people up (sometimes the costume designs for these kinds of characters actually still look cool even if it’s completely illogical) but it’s very refreshing to break away from some of these ridiculous sexualized stereotypes and have a woman who is actually built for kicking ass. Go Borderlands 2. I still have hope yet for the women in video games.

omg i would get borderlands 2 JUST TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER WOW YES

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