DARK QUEEN (BATTLETOADS)
The official character
DESCRIPTION:
<<... This is me?! You can't be serious!>>
Guys, don't make Dark Queen angry!
She is Dark Queen from Battletoads ('90 VS New design)! My "ironic" protest against the censorships and the distortion of iconic characters 😈
It's a set created as a joke and which aims to be absolutely ironic, albeit with a grain of truth.
In fact, nowadays it happens more and more frequently that iconic characters who made sensuality their strong point, are revisited to adapt to modern times.
This might make sense, but what I find objectionable is that today, sensuality, feeling sexy and beautiful, is seen as discriminatory or necessarily offensive towards women.
So much so that sometimes it leads to actual censorship.
I have always thought that a woman should be free to express herself and show herself however she likes, so I don't want to believe that showing off my femininity and my pleasure in dressing in a certain way is seen as offensive or as a way of commodifying the body. .
There are beautiful characters who perhaps don't have such realistic and credible characteristics, but who we have always admired for this too, because they made us daydream.
The version of Dark Queen from the most recent Battletoads caused a lot of discussion in this sense: as a femme fatale dressed in tight latex, she ended up wearing the clothes that could be those of an evil general, sweeping away every trace of her characteristic sensuality.
And you, which of the two versions do you prefer? :D