I’m a firm believer that when you’re a creator, your intentions when making a piece/product are effectively on full display. And ever since they began, woke writers have always communicated a need for attention and narcissism.
I also believe in this idea. I feel as a writer, what you put down is a fingerprint of your soul, your beliefs, your everything. Depending on the story you want to tell, what you believe in shines through even subconsciously. So all these current day woke stories taking front and center queer messages first over world values second tells a lot about how little they care about anyone but themselves. Even the “heroes” are as self-centered as them and treated like it’s a good thing. Well it’s not,
You hit the nail on the head. The characters they create are gay because they want attention for being gay, not because they're communicating anything compelling in the character.
As often told, a bunch of ticked checkboxes don't make a person. Therefore those characters are bad because they only tick checkbox after checkbox without being a full person.
Dude, The Critical Drinker once said something along the lines of, "Trending Ideas in storytelling eventually fade, but True Storytelling lasts forever." Again, something along those lines.
@@Dan-gs3kg Yep; like how DC Comics used THE REAL OBAMA to represent "the US President", which not only ages the story much faster, but also reveals the creators to be fools when it comes to politics, AND, worst of all, they misrepresent Obama. Obama is portrayed as supporter of our heroes, when as shown at Benghazi on 9/11/2012, Obama would actually throw our heroes to the wolves.
Nice to see the backlash growing and growing. The more these pompous studios resist and cater towards a non existent audience, the more they'll keep bleeding money. Happy July 4th 👍👍💪💪 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@nightmarerex2035 People misunderstand George Soros. He's minor and not involved in entertainment, just funding activism. he'll be backing the france chaos. Blackrock and ESG Investors are the ones that do that, but ever since Budlight and ESG becoming debated, even Larry Fink, head of Blackrock, has admitted they're losing somewhat.
@@EndymionTv Dude James "the map" Gunn is part of the herd .. Bending his knee is the only reason why he still have a job.. And he will lie about anything to get a demographic... Having a topic about wokeness while defending him doesn't add up brah..
Guide on how to make a woke character: 1: give them a sh1t ton of plot armor 2: give them a sh1t ton of unnecessary pronouns 3: give them an appearance that will satisfy twitter warlo- social justice warriors, not the players 4: give them a voice of VA that 100% matches with character you want to create. 5: Congratulations, you fucked up the franchise! Get yourself a Bud Light and cheer!
I would rather not have them at all. I'm over it. Give me the ability to decide what's in my game. Take Mass Effect 4, for instance. I want them to allow us to decide the sexuality of the characters. This way if you want them to be gay, more power to you. If I don't, more power to me. Everybody is happy, we play the game a lot, DLC gets made, and sequels follow this. If they make the characters woke, i want nothing to do with it, as will be the case with many others. No DLC for you, and no sequels. Yes, that's what happened with MEA. Bugs and animations didn't kill it. Woke agendas did.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Because you're not asking anyone to act at that moment, nor are you even employing talent. You're basically asking people to phone it in, because they just have to be themselves. For instance: 5 voice actors play every character in the Simpsons. You see what I mean?
Honestly the most inconsistent of all the Transformers continuities. It ranged from having the best versions of characters, to full-blown character assassinations like Arcee.
The worst part about Arcee is that one of the guys who worked at Hasbro saw that his daughter liked Transformers, so he made Arcee for her and any other girl that liked Transformers. The fact is that Arcee was made to be an icon for girls, but by making her trans, they're basically taking that from her. And this would be the second time they've done this with her. And guess what? The first time it happened was because Simon Furman(the writer) had a problem with female Transformers, so he made Arcee a MALE character that was FORCEFULLY changed into a female by a mad scientist named Jhiaxus(pronounced ge-axus). Sure, they retconned it later, but it's not a good look to be taking inspiration from someone who's clearly sexist, which is ironic since these same people have a problem with shit like that. And what's worse is that Simon ruined who Arcee is as a character, by making her a cold blooded killer who was even willing to harm her fellow Autobots, and that's not who she is. She's supposed to be fierce, but also gentle, much like in Transformers Prime, where she wanted revenge, just like IDW Arcee, but Tfp Arcee wasn't willing to harm her own friends just to get it, and eventually just let it go. Simon may have done a few good things for Transformers, but still did messed up shit.
Bro, I’m fine with Arcee being a lesbian. Hell, her original G1 voice actor was lesbian. But a forced trans girl? Yeeeeaaaaaaaah. Someone should really start teaching the “sometimes, it’s okay to not explain” rule to the subject of female Cybertronians.
Yup the woke left has gone full circle. Also I'm confused, I thought robots in that universe can't love but are programmed to either protect or destroy. I can't imagine some random robot working under Megatrans comes out as an "Autobot" because Autobots connects their pleasure circuits or something.
@@ravenloh6677 They’re a sentient alien species. Even in G1 they were shown to love and care for one another. So yes, they can have relationships for both genders Though the reprogramming and programming a transformer stuff has died down a little bit over the years.
@@jacksonhopp2003 So are they made of metal or half made of come organic material? Because I remembered the first autobots/decepticons called humans "Organic". I'm assuming Transformers are 100% metal. Can they be easily hijacked by some computer viruses that make them weak?
when a woke character comes into a show, its all about a message they want to tell the world about "gender equality" and they forget about the actual plot of the show
The trick to making a progressive character RIGHT is for them to come naturally to you. Don't just tack things on like accessories. Let is just be part of them, but not their defining points.
it's called just writing the character, the orientation, and identity are only parts of a greater whole that is a character, if all you have to offer is just that and want the character to obnoxiously remind you of that... you could just replace them with a poster and achieve a similar result which honestly is quite insulative to ppl you want to represent
@@ArgentWolf95 I'm a redheaded Irishman, I task you with finding a ginger character that hasn't been raceswapped. What representation do my people have? Ron weasley and the fat incel from megamind😂. Do I think ginger kids are gonna be mentally scarred by lack of characters that look like them? No that's retarded. U must be a narcissist if you need a self insert in every film.
Exactly. I don’t want to see my political ideals in media either, I’d rather not see any. I watch movies/ play games to escape, not to be lectured to about modern political issues.
People don’t understand story telling anymore if you want a character’s sexuality in your story write it to feel normal in your story like wtf. It’s so goofy creatives don’t do that anymore. They want every story to take place in our world. and not develop the world the creative’s story takes place in. I believe that’s lazy as shit. That’s why I like manga and anime and some western shows.
@@KamiAnimeS1i don't think it's the lack of understanding, but morw that there's so many people that current education and circulation are insufficient to help people properly understand how to write good stories. 😊
These tards insist that she’s actually a man pretending to be a woman too -_- No man could ever look like Samus, the designers actually made a beautiful woman
In regards to Arcee, it's supremely annoying that IDW would deviate hard on her lore in order to gain the crumbs of political brownie points. Even more infuriating is that there are subsects of twitter and the fandom that will use this change as an excuse that Arcee being trans was "always a thing" by virtue of it never being mentioned until now. They did the same thing with Spider Gwen.
as a fan of G1 Arcee, I kinda like the concept of IDW Arcee as it's the only time, being a trans make sense, I mean why do a race of giant robots have sexual dimorphism, especially when they dont reproduce sexually... but of course, this was before they recon the story and introduce a whole planet that only consist of female transformers call Caminus... as it turn out, being low in energon turn cybertronain into female..
I saw the Gwen post but thankfully the person who made it (based on the fucking colors of her suit) was made fun of. People were sending images where they put Miles and a nazi flag next to each other because with that logic Miles must be a nazi :D. I was laughing my ass off.
I grew up watching the kids transformers show on netflix, and honestly, it felt like such a disservice to make her trans, she was such a strong character and showed a healthy strong female character, cause strength is in the strength of their character, not their physical strength.
Dragon Age Inquisition also had gay character, Dorian, and he was amazingly well written. He pretty much stole every scene he was in because he was entertaining to watch, with genuinelly compelling story and a strong character development. Him being gay was completely secondary and never his definition.
Dorian was a blast. Personally loved his party banter with Sera. But yea Dorian had a lovely story. Even would flirt back with the female inquisitor for fun, hope he shows up again in dread wolf.
as someone who is looking to take a career in writing, even without the woke content these creators have no flow, all their stories can summed up as "oh and stuff happens with a plot twist and more stuff happens" it's not a story, it's just "stuff happens"
It's because these writers don't have a message other than 'uhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, tradition bad!?' They are completely defined by their negation of the established society, they don't have morals or positive aspirations.
@@mechgouki7999he thing is a character being gay, trans, etc isn't necessarily a bad thing. But if you make it their only defining trait then it is tacky. Not only to those who don't like LGBTQ+ but also to LGBTQ+ because they have been reduced to a caricature or a parody not a character. I can understand for example if a person being gay in the 1890s and it is creates a good character driven story that merely doesn't merely just hit the diversity checkboxes then it is fine. However, it is an acquired skill to write a good character that fits on the context. Not to mention trying to fight with executives (something many writers don't have a choice in) Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In FFXVI there is a gay character but it the writers don't make it a sticking point. It is just a badass with magical powers who just so happens to be gay, he strives for the betterment of his people, he is a highly lauded imperial commander of an elite division, he is a Dominant of Bahamut one of the most powerful summons in FF history. They created a more compelling narrative with this character, Dion, and people overall like him because it isn't forced or shoved down your throats.
This. My problem we supposedly "woke" entertainment isn't with the wokeness. I'm a progressive so I'm fine with diversity and representation. What I'm tired of is seeing how "diversity and representation" so often goes hand in hand with poor storytelling. When I'm looking at what comic books to buy I'll generally avoid anything that prominently features LGBTQ+ characters, not because I'm a bigot but because I want my entertainment to actually be entertaining.
FF16 is pretty impressive with its character acting. Small pauses in their dialogue, a slight tone shift, and subtle facial expressions hint at so much for the characters. You really can’t afford to not pay attention during mainline quest cutscenes. I’ve got issues with the game, but I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t impress me far more than annoy me. A rarity in modern, high-budget games.
I love Dion. I actually got into an argument with a member of the wokewaffe about how his sexuality has fuck all to do with his personality. He's very complex and entirely relatable. I have nothing in common with this identity but I relate to him a lot. On a similar note, and ironically, Kotaku entirely dismisses Jill's journey and personal growth as irrelevant because she's pretty, and if you ask me, that's as anti-feminist as it gets. It's thanks to Jill that Clive was able to accept his past and grow as a character. I doubt Clive would've made it that far by himself. The beauty of a power couple.
A homosexual prince/princess/noble who can't break out of his shell, being forced to marry someone they hate, eventually breaking the shackles and going their own way in life is an amazing trope imo. I remember a Japanese light novel story about a young princess who was in love with her maid, but forced to marry a fat rich duke. Her entire character was built around this topic, rebellion against the system, individuality, questioning existence and social constructs that make you unhappy - instead of marrying the guy she hated she ran away with the maid, she was a fencer instead of a proper lady with etiquette, she always got in trouble for her behaviour, people trying to abuse her shaped her personality. I'd love to see that trope more
Ok but it wasn’t. Jill’s presence made him protect her and finally walk a different path (he could have done this at any point, even without Ifrit he can take on an army) but she had little to nothing to do with Clive’s acceptance of himself. Clive and Jill’s “experiences” since the fall of Rosaria are boring because we don’t know what happened to them, it was all off screen and just described as “the horrible things they made me do”, and even then it falls in deaf ears when Clive is strong enough to take down entire groups by himself and Jill was a god of Ice that could destroy entire civilisations if she so pleased. They both say and took the punishment, for no reason. They chose to do as they were told because what Jill did in the end where she storms the mother crystal and kills the priest..she could have done that at any time.
It's like Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. Their same-sex relationship isn't the only thing that defines them, it's just seen as normal and no one really bats an eye about it or draws too much attention to it every 7 seconds like Western Characters. Their relationship is also more convincing and mature than Usagi and Mamoru's.
In fact, I've heard the author of Sailor Moon regrets making Michiru and Haruka a couple based on how Western audiences hyper-focus on that and not their other traits. Plus it made most dubs incredibly awkward because the anime ramped up their relationship considerably.
@@NotMyRealName6 Maybe in English, in Latin American Spanish it was toned down without losing their special bond, I watched the show when I was 7 years old and never felt awkward about them being a couple, and it wasn't thrown at our faces when I figured out they were together (on my own) I was like: oh, ok, I don't care, to me they were so strong in terms of power that, that was matter to me.
I like Mamoru! 😂 but it is hilarious that they are together just because they fell in love in their past lives seeing that he’s in college and that sailor moon is 14
Same sex is still Homosexual and that is a sin, do you know it is traumatic for kids who have to be indoctrinated into this sinful lifestyle? Think about the kids.
You're 100% right when you say their sexuality and pronouns are more important these days than storytelling. It's an insult to any sexuality, culture or other diversity tick when this happens because it puts out the message that this is all that matters about a person. Not they are good ppl or anything like that ... nope just the diversity tick. It's shallow and pathetic.
Another great example (also from an Eastern studio): Kimberly from SF6. She’s a ninja who loves neon, 80s music and street art. She’s a fully fleshed out, likable character who just happens to be a young black woman. That’s an actual good role model and good representation western studios should (but won’t) take more inspiration from Japanese studios now
Kimberly is a fleshed out character because capcom consulted their black colleagues on how kimberly should be. Which speaks to the representation within game development; if you represent diverse game developers the you get more “meaningful “ “diverse” characters that arent one note; and stilted
@Valentien23 Correct. I think the real issue starts with the studios. Spiderverse is another example where they hired culture consultants as well as talked to Spider India and Punk voices actors(who were indian and a black British man) to help make the characters authentic. You can't except as an example, a Japanese man who has never met or befriend an Nigerian person before to authenticly portray a Nigerian character or fantasy world without doing a lot of research and getting cultural consultants. I feel like the main reason why so many people fail at this is cuz they never cared or were interested in that authenticity, they just want to go "HEY LOOK AT ME EVERYONE, I GOT A NIGERIAN DUDE IN MY GAME!!! SEE HOW I CARE ABOUT DIVERSITY?!"
Dion unironically was my favorite character outside of the core (Clive, Jill, gav, cid, a certain returning character you (the player) reunite with under drake's tail. He was written very well and wasn't lecturing us about his lifestyle. Nor did his relationship feel forced. Like you said, he's the shining example of what any LGB character should be
Not only gm did he have the best boss fight in the game but also has the best send off when (spoilers so don’t go into the bottom alright) He dies in such an awesome scene of pure valor facing off against god himself to save the main character and his brother
I've always loved the way the Japanese did their characters, it was a huge inspiration to me growing up when creating my own characters. Way back in high school I did a little video game based on a comic my brother and I created (currently remaking it). Two of characters (male) were lovers. This was a bit of a shock to a lot of people, but they loved their story and their character. Their sexuality was not treated as important, though you understood why and how they fell in love, it was what they were going through, and how one of them, who starts out as rather racist almost towards the main character (who is part of an alien race despised by many) begins to change. Everyone loved those two characters, and kept asking about them.
That's the point the 'creatives' don't understand. Write a character, that they happen to tick some 'diversity box' should not be important to the character you wrote. See Ripley from Alien, written without a gender and so both men and women auditioned for the part. Weaver did the best job, so it was Ellen Ripley.
@@Sorain1 Exactly, It is funny too, because back then people were shocked that the two characters did not behave in any sort of stereotypical manner. Their relationship was modeled after what warriors of the old world viewed as "ideal", so many were fascinated by this. Today, the weirdo types get angry, because I don't talk about, or focus on their sexuality or try to sell a message lol.
Just a couple of things to point out about the Transformers section of this video: 1: Arcee was only trans in a single comics continuity. Her origin story in this continuity was that a mad scientist put her through a forced gender reassignment surgery and the physical and emotional trauma from the process drove her completely batshit insane and turned her into a violent sadistic psychopath. Years later, some editor who probably had five gender studies degrees decided that the origin was "problematic," so they cooked up an even stupider and crappier origin story where they retconned Arcee as Galvatron's transgender brother. In every other continuity, she's female (or at least has a feminine-coded chassis.) 2: Again, "budding" was only a form of reproduction in one continuity. It was basically asexual reproduction through mitosis.
Not helped that writer that wrote that, also wrote Arcee as creation by the Autobots to cater to cringe ass feminists in the G1 comics. To that I say… Mate, this is Transformers. Not South Park. You want to make fun of someone’s political beliefs? Do it somewhere that doesn’t impact a character’s introduction or legacy! Plus, there’s the fact that kids were reading this shit! Yeah, the mostly male audience first time seeing Arcee? A creation by feminist stereotypes. Good job…
@@minimalbstolerance8113 I know that, they’re cringe and shouldn’t be pushing for their rights while pushing others down (especially since that goes against the message of what the feminist movement used to be). But how can you fuck up one of the first and popular female transformers characters 2 times. And both times she’s used to making fun of gender politics or certain groups, especially since the TF fandom is one of the most accepting fandoms I’ve ever been in. This is a franchise about giant robots in a huge war or them trying to find a new home after their’s went to shit. Not a cringe boomer comic you see at the back of a newspaper!
whats wrong with doing that? I mean if thats so wrong then any action movie in western places can only have white men or what because thats the main target audience?
@@xgray2012 And they'll try to rebut with something like "it's just one small change, unless you're a bigot it shouldn't be so important to you". Except that same idea can be thrown back at them: if it's not something important, why bother changing it in the first place?
Zeek Arkham said it best with regards to the previous controversy surrounding the Transformers: Earthspark series. "We really went from Transformers: The Movie, where Megatron murdered Ironhide by shooting him in the face with his arm cannon, to Transformers with pronouns. Woke culture ruins everything." And he’s right. The last great Transformers series was Prime, where Arcee was a kick ass female and the series didn’t have an ideology shoved in your face. Christ I miss the G1 days….
@@AwesomeShrekkuside from the animation errors and typical "Megatron’s evil plan of the week plot”, it had more heart and soul than what constitutes as now.😎
I miss the 2000s and early 2010s era of Transformers. Just like with Star Wars, that was the last period of greatness before the woke plague infected the franchise in full force.
The bit about giant robots that turn into cars is spot on A race of sentient beings that essentially have no gender to speak of, and never seek out any particular kind of intimate companionship, shouldn't be worried about human concepts such as body modifications, and gender identities
Logically, they'd want long term companions in the sense of the word itself. Your fellow worker in the factory, or soldier in the trenches, or student at a desk. The person standing beside you. For de-facto immortals like them, trusted companions should be worth the world, and presumably would be the great ideal in their own fiction.
Yeah what the heck was that all about? Y'all are supposed to be making sure cybertron doesn't fall under the clutches of megatron what's all this? What happened to the original plot?
I remember watching Transformers and thinking how amazing to see humans interacting with giant robots. I never looked at them as having genders because they were alien robots that didn't reproduce like humans. I guess Hasbro has to start showing "pregnant" transformers now in order to even make any concept of "gender" transformers valid. I fear for Optimus getting pregnant one day in a comic. It's fan fiction gone horribly wrong.
@@arkbien9303 Why? It's just a new thing and a show adapts to the people watching it. People were angry about more female characters, then about one voiced by a black dude, and now they are angry about trans characters. Who tf cares? As long as at the end of the day I'll see big robots beating each other up I really couldn't care less. Or do you feel less represented when there are too many female and trans characters?
@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 These are alien robots. It would be like your microwave trying to tell you that it's a male who wants to be a female (or vice versa). It's still a microwave. I'm just trying to understand the logic of this, even if they use "he" or "she" or whatever for these robots. If voice is the only thing to identify them by gender, I would imagine it wouldn't take much to swap the voice modulators out to sound different. Otherwise, I see no pregnant robots because they are robots.
My playthrough of 16 right now. Honestly Jill is still a big part of why Clive is still sane and holding on, she's very important even if she doesnt hold main character status.
I think the problem is more so jrpg females character arcs normally evolve around helping their male counter parts instead of having their own end game goals, ambitions, and stories that don't have to deal with their love interest. Their stories normally always end with them supporting their man one way or another while he has story shit to do. Now I personally cope this up to the female not being the main character, as I read plenty of Shojo battle manga like Yona of Dawn for example and the roles are reversed. I think it's more a "she is not the main character" thing than a sexist thing. But then again other stories like across the Spiderverse, Berserk, and Vagabond don't have this problem so what do I know?
@@froggylegs1499 It's just a story choice and character archetype, I don't really understand what the problem is, because Jill still has her own storyline as well. It's also culturally Japanese tradition. Her story is about the themes of slavery, vengeance, and redemption. Both Clive and her are fighting for a cause they believe in, that Cid gave his life for. (she's the right hand of the Cid faction as far as I am concerned)
@@froggylegs1499 It's not that Jill doesn't have her own goals. She went through the same stuff as Clive, and so her goal to make a better world for bearers and dominants is the same as Clive's. Their goals align so it makes sense for her to want to support the person most likely to succeed.
Woke Media: This character is X Y Z even before the movies comes out The Left: OmG sTuNnInG aNd BrAvE In Conclusion: How to make gays characters right: Let audiences figure it themselves instead of "In your face" approach
any actual 'XYZ' person and/or leftist ive ever known is tired of it too and also hate companies doing shit like that. only people saying like stunning and brave are weird article website writers that aint seen the sun in 5 years man, like i get the point but bro dont group an entire political group that represents like a third of the population as being some braindead zombies that fall for all that "diversity" stuff
Thank you for this video. Nice to see level headed people. I love strong female characters. We all do it is how they are written that makes us not like them.
Critical Drinker did a similar video. Mostly focusing on today’s definition of “Strong Female Characters”, but it applies to men also. Basically, woke characters aren’t relatable. They’re flawless and don’t have an uphill climb so to speak. Normally a character has flaws and challenges. As the story progresses, the character overcomes these challenges and learns a lesson by the end. Today’s movies completely skip that and is widely promoted by people like Kathleen Kennedy who focuses on women overshadowing the male characters
exactly. you know that "reject x, embrace y" meme saying that has ben going around? We should do one for writing: Reject Representation, embrace relatability.
@@ni9274 incorrect. Woke characters are communist propaganda and don't have flaws, that's why we don't like them. Final Fantasy 16 has some of the best written women this decade.
@@ArgentWolf95 Communist propaganda ? How having no flaws has something to do with communism ? And why you don’t call male characters who have no flaws woke ?
@@ni9274 communists created the very beliefs you believe in kid. Diversity, inclusion, representation, equity, gender ideology, feminism, Queer stuff, making drag queens an identity in LGBT. The concept of making a character a *representation* is the communist propaganda. This means "strong female characters" have rules of what the can and can't be written like. They have their name too, it's called Gary Stu, and woke ideology does not like male characters because woke ideology sees the identity of man as always an oppressor. So they don't make Gary Stu's. Actually try and learn what we are teaching you instead of being ignorant.
Just beat FF16, and Dions character arc was AMAZING! You don't even pay attention to his sexuality, he was just an amazing character. Square Enix did us all a great favor.
I don’t mind lgbtq+ characters but they have to have more personality than just “I’m gay” or “ I identify as blank and that’s my only personality quirk”
Impossible though. Any gay character is going to be the way you described. Otherwise, why even point out that they are gay? I didn't know about prince dion being that in FF16. Now im certainly not paying for that game lol
@@randalthor6872 A gay character can be likeable. The protagonist of Ang Lee's Wedding Banquet--Patroclus in the Song of Achilles--the man who puts a gun in his mouth minutes into the film Cloud Atlas. Alan Turing from Imitation Game. Homosexuals are *humans* first and foremost. You have to make them part of the human condition which is a lot more than sexuality and more universal than sexuality. The truth is that woke creators understand humanity even less than those they accuse of as being hateful, and they stereotype diverse characters harder than those they accuse of being hateful.
Why can’t it just be balanced and live & let live? It’s almost as if the powers that be glorify most everything non straight almost to the point of obsession..
@@randalthor6872 In Cyberpunk there was a trans character and it was only mentioned once when you got deeper into their quest and its not shoved down our throats. Rare for that to happen yes but occasionally it will
Most of them are self inserts from the writers who lack the knowledge and creativity to do anything unique and different. Which is why a lot of films are currently failing. Lol
@@EndymionTv I have new and creative ideas for screenplays? But because I don’t insert myself into the stories I write? I’m probably not the type of writer most studios want. Lol
@@ViperChief117 Maybe they don't want you as a write because you use question marks randomly throughout the text... I bet you'd get loads of contracts in 2007 tho.
I am 30 hours in FFXVI and I keep being baffled at this narrative that this game is not diverse!!! At every chapter there is diversity and very well written women and middle eastern inspired and looking characters, making me more and more convinced these people haven't gone past the trailer. People don't care about diversity if it is well implemented well in the story and the characters are more than what would label them diverse; it's not rocket science and yet ... When people start shipping or more ROBOTS you know these people are not right in the head.
@@EndymionTv I can't wait to see where it goes and Jill is honestly one of my favourite characters. As a woman who's been playing video games for decades seeing compelling strong diverse women in one game is a breath of fresh air.
It's not diverse in the specific way they want. They want diversity of appearance, not thought. I was a good "diverse" hire because I look different, but had all the same viewpoints. Diverse institutions aren't remotely diverse in actuality
How to make a woke character without them being woke 1. Don't make their wokeness the main focal point. 2. Don't use them as advance an agenda 3. Give them layered personalities like ptsd or a rough childhood or perhaps flaws like addiction or anger management 4. Don't make them a mary sue. Give them some failings. It's really easy to make progressive characters, but they don't need to be woke.
That's not even a woke character at that point. It's just a well written character. A character isn't woke because they're black or gay. A character is woke because being black or gay is their entire identity/reason for existing. They are solely there to push a hollow political message from hack writers who want to influence the viewer and society.
I saw Rise of the Beasts, and I don't recall any moment where Arcee is mentioned to be transgendered. That being said, there is a far worse example of a woke character in modern Transformers media. In the latest cartoon series "Transformers Earthspark," which is geared towards a younger audience, there is a Transformer called Nightshade, which is expressly a non-binary they/them. They have an entire scene of Nightshade explaining to a child what it means to be non-binary and even one where Optimus Prime is educated on what pronoun to use when addressing them.
Actually in the IDW comics Arcee used to be male but got turned into a female against their will...and it resulted in Arcee becoming a batshit killing machine to boot and not happy about the change. That was in the previous IDW continuity. Edit: Also the budding thing isn't anything like you said. It's literally asexual reproduction. It's like cells splitting into more cells, but in this case it's from another Cybertronian.
Another thing about budding is that it had negative effects on each newer generation of transformers from making each newer transformers drift farther and farther away from Primus's influence and unintentionally created the swarm as by product.
@@CommanderBohn Except that they then merged with the Matrix and Became the Vok, so then the question becomes whether that was a negative end after all.
I still don't understand how game and movie/show writers of the west don't understand the simple concept, if you want to make a good LGBTQ character you simply make a good character that just happens to be a member of the LGBTQ group, not a character whose personality is that they are LGBTQ. Some writers try to find an easy way out of this by making a character that was popular and well written into a LGBTQ character, but the problem there usually is that they were established as not being that and afterwards their personality becomes that they are LGBTQ+. For example in DC comics Tim Drake the 3rd Robin. He was a very popular character, especially in the 90s he even had his own book that rivaled spiderman (to be fair spiderman was a different guy then so it was easy for DC to swoop in there and get the teenage crowd up), but in recent years they made him Bi-sexual and his whole story about him and his girlfriend that came to a very nice conclusion was ruined because they broke up off panel and there was never a reason given for it, in the games all they can talk about is that they need to support him during pride marches, and that he has a boyfriend now. While here as Endymion shown us a good LGBTQ character who feels real and his struggles and story don't revolve around him being gey
Meghan Fitzmartin, the woman who decided to make Tim Drake bisexual in the _Batman: Urban Legends_ anthology title, was given a Tim Drake solo book to continue her story. It was awful and only lasted 10 issues. The comic was yet another example of a company making representation the goal instead of entertainment. It didn't help that between the _Urban Legends_ stories and the beginning of _Tim Drake: Robin_ Fitzmartin wrote _Dark Crisis: Young Justice_ that prominently featured Drake alongside the rest of his former teammates. That title wasn't just bad, it straight up insulted the guy who wrote Young Justice in the 90s and fans of that series. It was infuriating.
"Okay, so what we're gonna do is write a movie about some awesome giant robots from another galaxy that come to Earth and save us from evil, and they can TRANSFORM INT COOL THINGS, like armored trucks, helicopters, super cool cars." "Okay, but what do they identify as?" "What?" "Y'know, what are their pronouns? I can't relate to them if I don't know their pronouns!" "They're literally robots." "Are any of them gay?" "What are y-" "The most important thing in storytelling is making sure people feel represented, especially in a movie about giant robots that smash things up!" "Get the fuck out of my office."
I’ve been playing for about 40 hours now and I’m having a blast, square was being blasted for little representation, and right then they could have told people about the gay character for digital brownie points but they kept their heads down made the game they wanted, so I have to commend them for that because they knew you never feed the trolls. After all who are we to be lecturing Japanese developers about western sensibilities? Games media needs to hurry up and die off, I’m sick of them.
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As a Transformers fan, that section gave me a headache. In the IDW Comics Arcee gets a "sexchange" by a crazy scientist to see how the sexless race reacts to it. This was written by a fairly unwoke author years ago. Only later was the story reinterpreted as a gender reassignment gone wrong. The anode and lug story didn't come until years later. So to say they were the first is factually incorrect. There are many interpretations of Arcee and at no time has it been officially confirmed that the version from the Rise of the Beast film is trans like the IDW version. "Budding" a mitosis-like form of asexual reproduction. It only takes one Transformer, not two. And all events related to the IDW Comics that have been mentioned are at least 6+ years old. You make it sound like something recent. And big surprise: Rule 34 also applies to Transformers. Who would have thought?
IDW was a curse on the Transformers mythos. Simon Furman's a badass. He made fun of feminists in the 80's when they demanded female transformers and he responded to the criticism that his depiction of Arcee being angry that he was mutilated against his will was 'horribly insensitive to trans people' by simply not caring.
In fact, I seem to recall Mairghread Scott accusing Simon Furman of hating women for that portrayal - further evidence that she has little idea of how hardcore science fiction works as a concept - especially when it comes to anything or anyone alien to the human experience.
Wasnt it retconned that Arcee was trans ages ago? Its not the first time that gay Transformers have existed but those relationships typically ended in tragedy and death (go figure, they're in the middle of a war). I can't remember which comic it was, but I believe one of the relationships ended when one of the Autobots involved was torn apart by a member of the JDL. To those curious, the JDL is effectively the Waffen Schutzstaffel of the Decepticon ranks. Each member transforms into either a type of torture device or an execution device. Its pretty cool honestly, though not as cool as The Fallen who was a walking blast furnace originally, I believe
Christopher Preist was writing a Black Adam series that recently wrapped up and gave an interview about the comic. He said he wasn't allowed to write a lot of what he wanted because of what he called "mystery men" who kept shooting down his ideas. Priest said he'd come up with ideas and work with his editor until they were both happy with the story. Then he said his scripts were sent off to higher ups in the corporate ladder and they'd come back with notes saying what he was planning wasn't acceptable. If I had to guess I'd say the person or persons were the "sensitivity readers" who make sure whiny babies won't ever have to encounter anything that might make them uncomfortable. According to Priest the worst part is that there's no discussion between the writer and the sensitivity reader(s) so he couldn't work explain himself or work with them to create something they'd be okay with. He (and presumably other writers) are just told their ideas aren't acceptable and that was that. No wonder so many comics published by DC and Marvel these days are mediocre at best.
?? It's always been like that. These 'mystery men' aren't a new thing mate. I heard especially about the process of the batman animated series how much the 'mystery men' who could not be communicated to directly always shot down scene after scene. Only because you are just now hearing of this does not mean its anything new.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Priest made it clear that what he was talking about was new to him and he's been writing comics for decades. That's what makes me think this is something new. This isn't the normal process of getting something approved by the higher ups. When it comes to the comics DC used to only to do that for storylines that are obviously controversial or will shake up the status quo. The editors are the corporate people writers deal with for the most part.
Hell after a time skip theres a scene where Clive is apologizing for putting too much of the burden on Jill, but she tells him off that she helps because she wants to
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@ModernGamesSuck you have a point even though I don't think all the devs are as compliant to ESG in Japan as the west is. For example they will minor censor (not saying this is a good thing, but i'd rather this than uglify a character) while in the west they'll completely take the femininity out of females to appease gender ideology. I'm observing Japanese takes on ESG. I got a feeling they won't be staying with it long term, especially now ESG is getting openly debated.
@ModernGamesSuck I agree, I'm just not as certain the Japanese will end up like us because they are reacting at least differently and have us to look at to see where this ends up, and i'll bet some of the Japanese creatives and other foreign creatives elsewhere (i'm british) are aware of this ideology, you'll notice there's a lack of ESG compliance in most eastern European companies, excluding CDProjektRED who went international and got into ESG. This, I believe, was becaue of the influx of Big tech hires between now and Cyberpunk's release. Square, I don't know their story, but Capcom is likely because of Tencent who has a majority Stake in Capcom right now, and the CCP use ESG for their own agenda. They're working with World Economic Forum and have their own agenda as well. You don't see Chinese games having typical ESG, but they 'ESG' their blatant state propaganda in their movies while also using it to censor Taiwan stuff. Back to the content though. I will admit this game is extremely surprisingly in opposition to usual ESG standard of game design, character design and propaganda everywhere else, the Gay character seems to be the only ESG compliant thing so far and I haven't even reached his part of the game yet. I was around 5 years ago so i'm deep into the opposition to Social Justice. I been opposing it since 2012 so I got some familiarity of how the marxist subversion goes. Back in 2016 I quit on Gamergate because I was seeing it subverted from the inside, people starting to say "Social Justice is not the problem, we are for real Social Justice" and I was getting fed up of trying to tell them that that Social Justice was why the issues in gaming were happening. I didn't know exactly where it was coming from at the time, but woke is a Marxist ideology to control and subvert culture. You describe their strategy well. I heard the logic of "character being tastefully done" before, and it always came from people who have some progressive leaning stances or in the centre, and i'm in the centre but on the right being Classical Liberal Conservative (I also don't see things in a left vs right way). I mean, no offense to Endymion and i'm glad he is pointing stuff out and respect him for his beliefs, but he doesn't seem to realize that Representation was crreated to restrict creativity and attack creativity and escapism, which I experienced first hand. It's why I have a dislike of representation. So where am I going with this? I think his description and praise of the character being a good character is acceptable and fine, we ren't gonna agree every time and I think we need to rethink how to avoid falling into the trap they're doing with the minor thing. So my current approach is: 1: We need a consistent standard of what makes something woke: So let's put out a definition: "Woke /wōk/ noun The colloquial term for intersectional ideology. Intersectional ideology is characterized as an ideology routed in Marxist, socialist propaganda integrated into a number of different western social movements based in class, race, sexual preference, identity, religious and political preferences most pronounced in Critical Race Theory, Intersectional feminism and the LGBTQ+, and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion). The goals and actions of the woke movement can be characterized by a belief that all people belong to either a victim or an oppressor class. There is a hierarchy that assigns virtue or privilege based on perceived group identity and members of the woke movements will form angry mobs to attack others inside or out of the group to destabilize systems, reroute resources to perceived oppressed groups and attack outgroups. In Media, they co-opt creative works to politicize and use Representation to push DEI using characters and storylines, at the expense of the story and characters. Usually this is done by deconstructing the themes and story of beloved characters, or outright replacing them. Writers and believers of this ideology believe in "Representation" which is the belief that a character represents a oppressed class or an oppressor, and should reflect that. Victim status will be used to pressure and control it's believers and outside groups into submission under the guise of being tolerant and empathetic. Activists will use it as a shield to defend against any form of retaliation. The woke activists will lie, manipulate, bully and propagandize others by claiming any opposition is a form of hatred or bigotry. The woke ideology do not recognize any form of objective truths and only aspire to power and 'their truths.' Synonyms: Intersectionality, Social Justice. Marxism. Communism." 2: So with that in mind, I believe we should be smarter or more tactical about our criticism: for example I really enjoy FF16 since it has no other ideological references to woke ideology, and I only know about Dion because people on youtube started mentioning he's gay. I've seen the character twice in two cut-scenes where he transforms into a dragon and fights another guy, then returns to his base to get a battlefield report. I didn't get any gay refrencesfrom those scenes. So if he's just the only thing about this ideology, it's non-woke or mild. Games who follow ESG but don't push it strongly I see as moderately woke. and finally you have propaganda, which is the "go-woke go broke" level stuff. Think Call of Duty or Overwatch. I'm thinking about this because maybe going after the mild stuff over wokeness isn't the best idea.
@ModernGamesSuck wait what? So you are just against gay characters in general? Jesus man why? If you can't accept gay people in literal works of FICTION in a FANTASY setting then that is just really sad.
@ModernGamesSuck Please explain wtf you meant with this then: "Did it ever occur to you that maybe we didn't want to see gay characters in fantasy regardless of how they're portrayed?" because that sounds like "I dont want gay characters in fantasy in general."
Also worthwile to mention series like Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena were super popular in Japan during the 90s, and both feature lesbians. The second even as the main fucking character lol.
Anime had good lgbt characters 20 years before Nick released TLOK and 30 years before Disney released Strange World. So who's the bigoted ones, twitter?
yeah and the same people were angry about them being "woke" that are now angry about other "woke" characters... it isn't new and the hate is not either.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 I'm a Native American bisexual. I'm the kind of person the actual bigots would happily lynch. Don't confuse people complaining about forced diversity (racial or sexual) and actual bigots. Otherwise you're part of the problem.
Understand the "gay stuff" is why HASBRO pulled their licenses for TRANSFORMERS, GIJoe, and MLP from IDW. It cratered sales of the book, and made those venerable properties toxic and unappealing to collectors, fans, and parents of children. The toy sales have differing issues, along the lines of quality and pricing, but don't expect a classic Gung-ho or Shipwreck figure anytime soon.
@@tvnetworks6610 To me a lot of the bad character is the writing. I'll give you a personal example. I'm in a wheelchair, to me you write a "normal character" that just happens to be in a wheelchair. The only exception to that is if the point of the show is to focus on that character & really dig into what someone like me deals with on the daily. Most of my friends actually forget about me being in a wheelchair until it comes to getting in a vehicle or something.
@@Nathan_Coley this is a great explanation as to why I hate the American "representation." I also have a disability, but I don't want to be reminded of it. i' rather it not have existed, so i'd rather not play a character who "looks like me." I'm not in a wheelchair though
Flashgitz already did this joke, where they gave megatron giant boobies so he could be imune to critisism, then gave starscream a brightly coloured wig
I would like to point out that in the Dark Cybertron IDW storyline, the main antagonist Shockwave is defeated by Megatron essentially coming out to him as an Autobot. This was around 2011-2013 when James Roberts really took over a lot of the IDW stuff.
Coming out to him as an "Autobot", I'm sorry but that shit makes me laugh. Can you imagine one of the bots under Megatron says "Megatron, I have something to tell you....I'm an AUTOBOT and I'm attracted to other Autobots because they process my pleasure chips!"
By the way, in IDW Arcee was originally written to be transitioned against her will, and the trauma from that drove her murderously insane. BUt then the woke got their claws on IDW and they retconned into being her idea, she was ALREADY a murderous psychopath that gets redeemed because it would look bad
Okay, I have autism, And dwarfism, And i'm an amateur writer...But seriously...When a kid can write better than ya, Without shoving any agendas or sob stories (Unless it's a character's sob story, Or one they're making up on the fly), Then you know you've fucked the hell up, And seriously, We don't care what gender, Race, Ethnicity the character is...We just want some good damn writing, Seems even that's too much to ask now.
Square Enix really seems to be hitting the nail on the head with these types of characters. From your description, Dion reminds me of Sylvando from Dragon Quest XI, who is this foppish, fabulous guy, but the fandom loves him because he's more than just a gay representative to the cast, he has complexities and valor outside of whatever his preferences may be.
Dion sounds like Bulat character writing wise, or better. Bulat from Akame Ga Kill, who was also a gay man but the gay aspect did not define him it was merely a small part of his character, and a reason why the rest of Night Raid were so happy to have Tatsumi join... becuase Tatsumi is straight so the girls can now have fun fighting over him.. lol 😂
"Why Nobody Wants Woke Characters", because they're almost always not character but tools... Aaron from The Walking Dead is another good example how to implement such a character. Because we've known him a good time before this became known to the audience and then it's what it's supposed to be, a facette, a sidenote, a further information about a character we already know and like. We basically only get to know after a while that he is in a relationship and with whom and then it's not all the character is about, naturally as it should be.
I personally have no issue with characters being gay/ trans or whatever as long as the characters are written well. For example, Bonnie and Marceline from adventure time. And I will defend that. Bad example? Korra and Asami from the legend of korra.
The prince of ff16 actually surprised me, he's well written and compelling. He's witten in a way that actually wants you to see how he'll change over the course of his story, and with that it has inspired me to look back on some personal projects I'm working on and how i can write my characters on compelling ways. Great video E. 👏
Midnighter and Apollo were some of my favorite comic book characters. The believed wholeheartedly in their cause with The Authority, extremely powerful and weren’t to afraid to spill blood by the buckets. One of my favorite moments was when a villain begged Midnighter to spare his life because he has kids somewhere on earth and without any hesitation Midnighter tells him those kids are better off without him and decapitates the villain with a billy club. Also when Apollo flies through the giant man’s skull
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 In my opinion woke means that big corporates of entertainment industry or any field for this matter wants to representation to all the minorities around the world because they think all the people of colour, gender, cast, creed except for white people are incapable of doing or proving themselves of anything and these corporates think that they are providing a helping hand to the minorities but they represent the minorities in all the wrong ways possible. In reality most of the world doesn't need representation at all. They act like they support poor, black, Asians and many more people but then comes their hypocrisy because in reality they just want money, fame, and power over others because in reality if they really wanted to help people then they would do welfare for society rather than making shit movies or games whose sole purpose is to push their agenda. A recent example is the writers and actors strike if they want to provide a helping hand then pay writers and actors and give directors creative freedom.
As a transformers fan I feel somethings need clarifying. One the transgender Arcee is a product of IDW. Original G1 Arcee was presented as female from the start. The in fact her, Elita 1 and all the other females of G1 were pushed to be part of the cartoon and comics because the daughter of one of the writers loved the transformers so he wanted to create a female one for her. Second budding is a process presented in the short lived G2 comics. The most prominently used reproductive method used is the well of all sparks where the creator Primus generates a spark (their version of a soul) that is bonded to a kind of liquid metal (The source of which varies) that then forms the new bot.
Their characters are as deep as they can make them because their writers based them on shallow ideologies. In the woke religion these checkboxes really are what determines a person's value.
As an ex rule 34 artist, we make pictures like that because of depravity, money or shock factor. Some fetishes can't be satisfied in the real world so people turn to drawings to depict impossible acts. Usually, the more grotesque the art is, the more desensitised the artist is as vanilla or tame stuff doesn't get them hard anymore. I encourage everyone to have a healthy porn habit, it's really harmful when left unchecked.
Kotaku claiming pretty women have it easy because they’re always expected to be smart and kind is ignorant to the decades of media portraying pretty women as vapid bimbos. The only time you’ll find a pretty woman not stupid is when she also has the tough guy persona and “don’t need no man” attitude.
Yeah….As far as I concern, in the IDW comic, Arcee was conceptualized as the only female Transformer. She was forced into a sex change experiment by Jhiaxus to introduce “gender” to the Cybertronian. In the later years, it was retconned that male and female Transformers were a thing all along so Arcee’s backstory was rewritten as “willingly allowed” Jhiaxus to experiment on her, to become her “true self”
Little fun fact that Heard about Arcee and it's that in the comics she was originally a male put was forced to be female by a mad scientist because they didn't have any female on Cybertron but they retcon that to hell and back
As a writer, my motto on this subject is “diversity when it makes sense.” That means putting characters of certain identities in settings where they could logically fit in and not pull a “Battlefield V”
@@randalthor6872 bro its mindsets like this that drive the wokes insane and continue to spew their bs. Dion is gay and thats it, he isn't forced on you with his sexuality like stated in the video. He is flawed but still likable To dismiss him just cause he is gay is exactly why these nutjobs never shut up in the first place and want gay romance over story.
One Piece did a good job with the so call trans or non binary characters, I guess you would call them that. They were well written and were interesting. At the time they were introduce I didn't care about their sexuality, I was more interested in the story.
They put characters that check boxes because they live their lives checking boxes. Forget content of character; they define everything on outside appearances. That's why they love it when people say what they like to bang. They take that as a code for outside items to be applied to the person. For example- in order of importance Lesbian > Asian > Female > Person
Arcee in transformers is a female, and I will never except the idea of it being a transgender. We do not have to conform to what they are trying to do. I, myself and many others will stop purchasing anything to do with any franchise that has to do with this garbage. It needs to stay out of our schools as well. I would hate to see this in my child’s school and then I show up.
The issue about woke characters is not the LGBT in general. People do not want the wokeness being pushed into their face and make it a main topic about. In western games they making these characters often very unlikeable, arrogant or like "I am better than you all, because of my gender/sexuality".
that's just a bad character. The people here are angry about "woke" characters. Thats any bad character who is also gay, black, jewish, female, or otherwise part of a vocal minority.
The problem is diverse characters its that they are token cardboard cut outs. They have no weaknesses. No personality. No identity or even dreams or goals.
Yes , for sure . But it is a very difficult thing to get right. As long as you put the woke character in a Grey morale area and not try to sell them as the correct way to be .
Double commenting here because I just got to kotaku's Jill take. I have no idea what they're talking about when time and time again throughout the story, Clive has gone out of his way to prioritize her and let her be her own person instead of tell her to fall in line and push her aside. I honestly think they saw she was straight and decided the rest didn't matter.
Okay, that journalist wasn't paying attention while playing Final Fantasy 16. Jill was a very well-defined character, I'm not going to spoil anything major. After the first mission where you meet her as an adult, you instantly notice that she is a very motherly protective figure. Who has gone through a lot of suffering I want to be a supportive figure
Whoa whoa whoa. A woman that's a "motherly protective figure"? That simply won't fly in this day and age. FF16 might as well have all the female characters be the property of men.
To me whenever a character is changed for sociopolitical reasons it just feels forced, pandering, and like the studio is trying to prove a point to someone. I wouldn't mind it so much if it weren't for those reasons. I'd rather my movie and video game characters feel natural and unforced.
I really hated that when they did that to those two characters, I was looking forward to it into not having pride flags I just hate that ugly flag so much... hope James Gunn doesn't follow it
I thought Dion was a very well done character, y'know, the Japanese has done this LGBTQ stuff way longer than Westerners, which is why they barely know to balance story and representation these days. Happy July 4th.🇺🇲🇺🇲
Yep. Whenever someone calls anime bigoted I always point out that it portrayed healthy homosexual relationships a good 30 years before the west decided it was cool.
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Woke characters aren't characters
They're billboards
This is a good way of putting it
And when do you decide a character is woke
@@ni9274it's immediately obvious... Just like a billboard
Charicatures
@@aliasfakename2267 Is the new Spider-Man movie woke ?
I’m a firm believer that when you’re a creator, your intentions when making a piece/product are effectively on full display. And ever since they began, woke writers have always communicated a need for attention and narcissism.
Agreed yeah
Its never been about equality, its always been about "me"
explains why thye parade lgbt ppl and minorities as disposable puppets
I also believe in this idea. I feel as a writer, what you put down is a fingerprint of your soul, your beliefs, your everything. Depending on the story you want to tell, what you believe in shines through even subconsciously. So all these current day woke stories taking front and center queer messages first over world values second tells a lot about how little they care about anyone but themselves. Even the “heroes” are as self-centered as them and treated like it’s a good thing. Well it’s not,
You hit the nail on the head. The characters they create are gay because they want attention for being gay, not because they're communicating anything compelling in the character.
As often told, a bunch of ticked checkboxes don't make a person. Therefore those characters are bad because they only tick checkbox after checkbox without being a full person.
Agreed
that is what woke trash cares about, they need to shove pride in everyones faces
And not everything can be put into checkboxes. Not everything is a simple yes or no, especially not in people.
Ngl my process is just what I think would be cool and think a setting.
Dude, The Critical Drinker once said something along the lines of, "Trending Ideas in storytelling eventually fade, but True Storytelling lasts forever." Again, something along those lines.
"Don't date your comics with real trends, or real events"
I’m holding on to that for my own storytelling
@@Dan-gs3kg Yep; like how DC Comics used THE REAL OBAMA to represent "the US President", which not only ages the story much faster, but also reveals the creators to be fools when it comes to politics, AND, worst of all, they misrepresent Obama. Obama is portrayed as supporter of our heroes, when as shown at Benghazi on 9/11/2012, Obama would actually throw our heroes to the wolves.
The difference with Dion and the woke is that Dion isn’t a victim that try to moralise you and being gay isn’t his personality
Nice to see the backlash growing and growing. The more these pompous studios resist and cater towards a non existent audience, the more they'll keep bleeding money. Happy July 4th 👍👍💪💪 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Happy July 4th
dosent gearge soros just pump the money they bleed out back tho?
@@nightmarerex2035 People misunderstand George Soros. He's minor and not involved in entertainment, just funding activism. he'll be backing the france chaos.
Blackrock and ESG Investors are the ones that do that, but ever since Budlight and ESG becoming debated, even Larry Fink, head of Blackrock, has admitted they're losing somewhat.
The loudest idiots tend to get heard the most
@@EndymionTv Dude James "the map" Gunn is part of the herd ..
Bending his knee is the only reason why he still have a job..
And he will lie about anything to get a demographic...
Having a topic about wokeness while defending him doesn't add up brah..
Guide on how to make a woke character:
1: give them a sh1t ton of plot armor
2: give them a sh1t ton of unnecessary pronouns
3: give them an appearance that will satisfy twitter warlo- social justice warriors, not the players
4: give them a voice of VA that 100% matches with character you want to create.
5: Congratulations, you fucked up the franchise! Get yourself a Bud Light and cheer!
I'd like social justice warios to be the new term for these weirdos.
@@ocarinaplayaSJWs were the term used for woke slavers.
tf is wrong with giving a fitting VA to a character???
I would rather not have them at all. I'm over it. Give me the ability to decide what's in my game. Take Mass Effect 4, for instance. I want them to allow us to decide the sexuality of the characters. This way if you want them to be gay, more power to you. If I don't, more power to me. Everybody is happy, we play the game a lot, DLC gets made, and sequels follow this. If they make the characters woke, i want nothing to do with it, as will be the case with many others. No DLC for you, and no sequels. Yes, that's what happened with MEA. Bugs and animations didn't kill it. Woke agendas did.
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Because you're not asking anyone to act at that moment, nor are you even employing talent. You're basically asking people to phone it in, because they just have to be themselves.
For instance: 5 voice actors play every character in the Simpsons.
You see what I mean?
What IDW did with the Transformers IP is disgusting.
You clearly never heard of Kiss Player
Also IDW first continuity is famous for a reason
@@nexrex3042 Maybe its best if he didn't know.
BRUH IDW transformers is good if you actually read it but nah go ahead say it sucks without reading it
@@victorystarsaber7807 That's like saying Shrek sucked without even watching it first.
Honestly the most inconsistent of all the Transformers continuities. It ranged from having the best versions of characters, to full-blown character assassinations like Arcee.
The worst part about Arcee is that one of the guys who worked at Hasbro saw that his daughter liked Transformers, so he made Arcee for her and any other girl that liked Transformers. The fact is that Arcee was made to be an icon for girls, but by making her trans, they're basically taking that from her. And this would be the second time they've done this with her. And guess what? The first time it happened was because Simon Furman(the writer) had a problem with female Transformers, so he made Arcee a MALE character that was FORCEFULLY changed into a female by a mad scientist named Jhiaxus(pronounced ge-axus). Sure, they retconned it later, but it's not a good look to be taking inspiration from someone who's clearly sexist, which is ironic since these same people have a problem with shit like that. And what's worse is that Simon ruined who Arcee is as a character, by making her a cold blooded killer who was even willing to harm her fellow Autobots, and that's not who she is. She's supposed to be fierce, but also gentle, much like in Transformers Prime, where she wanted revenge, just like IDW Arcee, but Tfp Arcee wasn't willing to harm her own friends just to get it, and eventually just let it go. Simon may have done a few good things for Transformers, but still did messed up shit.
That's fucked up and bet you those writers did not even consider the history behind the character herself.
Bro, I’m fine with Arcee being a lesbian. Hell, her original G1 voice actor was lesbian. But a forced trans girl? Yeeeeaaaaaaaah. Someone should really start teaching the “sometimes, it’s okay to not explain” rule to the subject of female Cybertronians.
Yup the woke left has gone full circle. Also I'm confused, I thought robots in that universe can't love but are programmed to either protect or destroy. I can't imagine some random robot working under Megatrans comes out as an "Autobot" because Autobots connects their pleasure circuits or something.
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They’re a sentient alien species.
Even in G1 they were shown to love and care for one another. So yes, they can have relationships for both genders
Though the reprogramming and programming a transformer stuff has died down a little bit over the years.
@@jacksonhopp2003 So are they made of metal or half made of come organic material?
Because I remembered the first autobots/decepticons called humans "Organic". I'm assuming Transformers are 100% metal.
Can they be easily hijacked by some computer viruses that make them weak?
when a woke character comes into a show, its all about a message they want to tell the world about "gender equality" and they forget about the actual plot of the show
they even fail the “gender equality” thing too
They forgot the whole franchise
The trick to making a progressive character RIGHT is for them to come naturally to you. Don't just tack things on like accessories. Let is just be part of them, but not their defining points.
Agreex
Yup just make a new character and build them up and make them great.
Not calling them progressive would be a start.
it's called just writing the character, the orientation, and identity are only parts of a greater whole that is a character, if all you have to offer is just that and want the character to obnoxiously remind you of that... you could just replace them with a poster and achieve a similar result which honestly is quite insulative to ppl you want to represent
The problem is many progressives don't have a personality besides their identity, I saw this a lot especially with some gay people back in college
as an average anime/cartoon/movie enjoyer i just want to see a show that has no political or ideological bs
Seriously, what happened to escapism?
@@marsinvader9078 representation replaced it, which is why i hate that idea.
@@ArgentWolf95 I'm a redheaded Irishman, I task you with finding a ginger character that hasn't been raceswapped. What representation do my people have? Ron weasley and the fat incel from megamind😂. Do I think ginger kids are gonna be mentally scarred by lack of characters that look like them? No that's retarded. U must be a narcissist if you need a self insert in every film.
There's a place for it depending on the story, but it needs to be rooted in reality, not ideology.
Exactly. I don’t want to see my political ideals in media either, I’d rather not see any. I watch movies/ play games to escape, not to be lectured to about modern political issues.
How did we go from Samus' gender reveal in Metroid to this woke regurgitation
🤷🏻♂️
People don’t understand story telling anymore if you want a character’s sexuality in your story write it to feel normal in your story like wtf. It’s so goofy creatives don’t do that anymore. They want every story to take place in our world. and not develop the world the creative’s story takes place in. I believe that’s lazy as shit. That’s why I like manga and anime and some western shows.
@@KamiAnimeS1i don't think it's the lack of understanding, but morw that there's so many people that current education and circulation are insufficient to help people properly understand how to write good stories. 😊
Homosexuality. It's the doorway to all the other deviance.
These tards insist that she’s actually a man pretending to be a woman too -_-
No man could ever look like Samus, the designers actually made a beautiful woman
In regards to Arcee, it's supremely annoying that IDW would deviate hard on her lore in order to gain the crumbs of political brownie points. Even more infuriating is that there are subsects of twitter and the fandom that will use this change as an excuse that Arcee being trans was "always a thing" by virtue of it never being mentioned until now. They did the same thing with Spider Gwen.
as a fan of G1 Arcee, I kinda like the concept of IDW Arcee as it's the only time, being a trans make sense, I mean why do a race of giant robots have sexual dimorphism, especially when they dont reproduce sexually... but of course, this was before they recon the story and introduce a whole planet that only consist of female transformers call Caminus... as it turn out, being low in energon turn cybertronain into female..
I agree that Arcee being trans could’ve been done better or just say that female transformers were always a thing.
*coughcoughfantasticbeaststoocough*
I saw the Gwen post but thankfully the person who made it (based on the fucking colors of her suit) was made fun of. People were sending images where they put Miles and a nazi flag next to each other because with that logic Miles must be a nazi :D. I was laughing my ass off.
I grew up watching the kids transformers show on netflix, and honestly, it felt like such a disservice to make her trans, she was such a strong character and showed a healthy strong female character, cause strength is in the strength of their character, not their physical strength.
Dragon Age Inquisition also had gay character, Dorian, and he was amazingly well written. He pretty much stole every scene he was in because he was entertaining to watch, with genuinelly compelling story and a strong character development. Him being gay was completely secondary and never his definition.
Dorian was a blast. Personally loved his party banter with Sera. But yea Dorian had a lovely story. Even would flirt back with the female inquisitor for fun, hope he shows up again in dread wolf.
Finally someone mentions dragon age's best mage companion ever !!!
as someone who is looking to take a career in writing, even without the woke content these creators have no flow, all their stories can summed up as "oh and stuff happens with a plot twist and more stuff happens"
it's not a story, it's just "stuff happens"
I am entering the industry right now and I feel the same way
And the chars are all gay, trans, and colored, and all the villains are white males.
It's because these writers don't have a message other than 'uhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhh, tradition bad!?' They are completely defined by their negation of the established society, they don't have morals or positive aspirations.
@@mechgouki7999he thing is a character being gay, trans, etc isn't necessarily a bad thing. But if you make it their only defining trait then it is tacky. Not only to those who don't like LGBTQ+ but also to LGBTQ+ because they have been reduced to a caricature or a parody not a character.
I can understand for example if a person being gay in the 1890s and it is creates a good character driven story that merely doesn't merely just hit the diversity checkboxes then it is fine. However, it is an acquired skill to write a good character that fits on the context. Not to mention trying to fight with executives (something many writers don't have a choice in) Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
In FFXVI there is a gay character but it the writers don't make it a sticking point. It is just a badass with magical powers who just so happens to be gay, he strives for the betterment of his people, he is a highly lauded imperial commander of an elite division, he is a Dominant of Bahamut one of the most powerful summons in FF history. They created a more compelling narrative with this character, Dion, and people overall like him because it isn't forced or shoved down your throats.
This. My problem we supposedly "woke" entertainment isn't with the wokeness. I'm a progressive so I'm fine with diversity and representation. What I'm tired of is seeing how "diversity and representation" so often goes hand in hand with poor storytelling. When I'm looking at what comic books to buy I'll generally avoid anything that prominently features LGBTQ+ characters, not because I'm a bigot but because I want my entertainment to actually be entertaining.
FF16 is pretty impressive with its character acting. Small pauses in their dialogue, a slight tone shift, and subtle facial expressions hint at so much for the characters. You really can’t afford to not pay attention during mainline quest cutscenes.
I’ve got issues with the game, but I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t impress me far more than annoy me. A rarity in modern, high-budget games.
I love Dion. I actually got into an argument with a member of the wokewaffe about how his sexuality has fuck all to do with his personality. He's very complex and entirely relatable. I have nothing in common with this identity but I relate to him a lot.
On a similar note, and ironically, Kotaku entirely dismisses Jill's journey and personal growth as irrelevant because she's pretty, and if you ask me, that's as anti-feminist as it gets. It's thanks to Jill that Clive was able to accept his past and grow as a character. I doubt Clive would've made it that far by himself. The beauty of a power couple.
Gross. Dion is cringe. FF16 is officially woketarded.
Wokewaffe lol thats exactly what they behave like isnt it?
I wish they gave Jill more screen time during her character arc but that's life.....
A homosexual prince/princess/noble who can't break out of his shell, being forced to marry someone they hate, eventually breaking the shackles and going their own way in life is an amazing trope imo. I remember a Japanese light novel story about a young princess who was in love with her maid, but forced to marry a fat rich duke. Her entire character was built around this topic, rebellion against the system, individuality, questioning existence and social constructs that make you unhappy - instead of marrying the guy she hated she ran away with the maid, she was a fencer instead of a proper lady with etiquette, she always got in trouble for her behaviour, people trying to abuse her shaped her personality. I'd love to see that trope more
Ok but it wasn’t. Jill’s presence made him protect her and finally walk a different path (he could have done this at any point, even without Ifrit he can take on an army) but she had little to nothing to do with Clive’s acceptance of himself. Clive and Jill’s “experiences” since the fall of Rosaria are boring because we don’t know what happened to them, it was all off screen and just described as “the horrible things they made me do”, and even then it falls in deaf ears when Clive is strong enough to take down entire groups by himself and Jill was a god of Ice that could destroy entire civilisations if she so pleased. They both say and took the punishment, for no reason. They chose to do as they were told because what Jill did in the end where she storms the mother crystal and kills the priest..she could have done that at any time.
It's like Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. Their same-sex relationship isn't the only thing that defines them, it's just seen as normal and no one really bats an eye about it or draws too much attention to it every 7 seconds like Western Characters. Their relationship is also more convincing and mature than Usagi and Mamoru's.
In fact, I've heard the author of Sailor Moon regrets making Michiru and Haruka a couple based on how Western audiences hyper-focus on that and not their other traits. Plus it made most dubs incredibly awkward because the anime ramped up their relationship considerably.
@@NotMyRealName6 Maybe in English, in Latin American Spanish it was toned down without losing their special bond, I watched the show when I was 7 years old and never felt awkward about them being a couple, and it wasn't thrown at our faces when I figured out they were together (on my own) I was like: oh, ok, I don't care, to me they were so strong in terms of power that, that was matter to me.
Multidimensional gay characters are still gay characters, they don't belong anywhere. They need help, not Representation.
I like Mamoru! 😂 but it is hilarious that they are together just because they fell in love in their past lives seeing that he’s in college and that sailor moon is 14
Same sex is still Homosexual and that is a sin, do you know it is traumatic for kids who have to be indoctrinated into this sinful lifestyle? Think about the kids.
You're 100% right when you say their sexuality and pronouns are more important these days than storytelling. It's an insult to any sexuality, culture or other diversity tick when this happens because it puts out the message that this is all that matters about a person. Not they are good ppl or anything like that ... nope just the diversity tick. It's shallow and pathetic.
And even then, they are written like they have NEVER had a normal conversation before.
Another great example (also from an Eastern studio): Kimberly from SF6. She’s a ninja who loves neon, 80s music and street art. She’s a fully fleshed out, likable character who just happens to be a young black woman. That’s an actual good role model and good representation western studios should (but won’t) take more inspiration from Japanese studios now
Kimberly is a fleshed out character because capcom consulted their black colleagues on how kimberly should be. Which speaks to the representation within game development; if you represent diverse game developers the you get more “meaningful “ “diverse” characters that arent one note; and stilted
@Valentien23 Correct. I think the real issue starts with the studios. Spiderverse is another example where they hired culture consultants as well as talked to Spider India and Punk voices actors(who were indian and a black British man) to help make the characters authentic. You can't except as an example, a Japanese man who has never met or befriend an Nigerian person before to authenticly portray a Nigerian character or fantasy world without doing a lot of research and getting cultural consultants.
I feel like the main reason why so many people fail at this is cuz they never cared or were interested in that authenticity, they just want to go "HEY LOOK AT ME EVERYONE, I GOT A NIGERIAN DUDE IN MY GAME!!! SEE HOW I CARE ABOUT DIVERSITY?!"
She's an urbanized Ubuki. They did the same thing to Ken with Sean.
It's condescending. It's pandering. It's bad writing. Please stop
Yup
you forgot indoctrination of children too.
Wonder why all the writers went on strike 🤔
This is a sad world we live in
they won't stop till all their money are gone
Dion unironically was my favorite character outside of the core (Clive, Jill, gav, cid, a certain returning character you (the player) reunite with under drake's tail. He was written very well and wasn't lecturing us about his lifestyle. Nor did his relationship feel forced. Like you said, he's the shining example of what any LGB character should be
Gross, bro. He's cringe. You might be slowly turning : )
Fr bruh. Dion was the mvp. I loved his character from the jump
@@randalthor6872 imagine being this retarded.
Same for me!! Dion Gigachad
Not only gm did he have the best boss fight in the game but also has the best send off when (spoilers so don’t go into the bottom alright)
He dies in such an awesome scene of pure valor facing off against god himself to save the main character and his brother
I've always loved the way the Japanese did their characters, it was a huge inspiration to me growing up when creating my own characters. Way back in high school I did a little video game based on a comic my brother and I created (currently remaking it). Two of characters (male) were lovers. This was a bit of a shock to a lot of people, but they loved their story and their character.
Their sexuality was not treated as important, though you understood why and how they fell in love, it was what they were going through, and how one of them, who starts out as rather racist almost towards the main character (who is part of an alien race despised by many) begins to change. Everyone loved those two characters, and kept asking about them.
That's the point the 'creatives' don't understand. Write a character, that they happen to tick some 'diversity box' should not be important to the character you wrote. See Ripley from Alien, written without a gender and so both men and women auditioned for the part. Weaver did the best job, so it was Ellen Ripley.
@@Sorain1 Exactly, It is funny too, because back then people were shocked that the two characters did not behave in any sort of stereotypical manner. Their relationship was modeled after what warriors of the old world viewed as "ideal", so many were fascinated by this. Today, the weirdo types get angry, because I don't talk about, or focus on their sexuality or try to sell a message lol.
Just a couple of things to point out about the Transformers section of this video:
1: Arcee was only trans in a single comics continuity. Her origin story in this continuity was that a mad scientist put her through a forced gender reassignment surgery and the physical and emotional trauma from the process drove her completely batshit insane and turned her into a violent sadistic psychopath. Years later, some editor who probably had five gender studies degrees decided that the origin was "problematic," so they cooked up an even stupider and crappier origin story where they retconned Arcee as Galvatron's transgender brother. In every other continuity, she's female (or at least has a feminine-coded chassis.)
2: Again, "budding" was only a form of reproduction in one continuity. It was basically asexual reproduction through mitosis.
Tbh that first continuity is kinda good in a weird fucked up way, good message wrong franchise
Yeah, the guy should probably read this
Not helped that writer that wrote that, also wrote Arcee as creation by the Autobots to cater to cringe ass feminists in the G1 comics.
To that I say…
Mate, this is Transformers. Not South Park. You want to make fun of someone’s political beliefs? Do it somewhere that doesn’t impact a character’s introduction or legacy! Plus, there’s the fact that kids were reading this shit! Yeah, the mostly male audience first time seeing Arcee? A creation by feminist stereotypes.
Good job…
@@jacksonhopp2003 Feminist stereotypes? Have you ever been on Twitter? It's not a stereotype if it's true.
@@minimalbstolerance8113
I know that, they’re cringe and shouldn’t be pushing for their rights while pushing others down (especially since that goes against the message of what the feminist movement used to be).
But how can you fuck up one of the first and popular female transformers characters 2 times. And both times she’s used to making fun of gender politics or certain groups, especially since the TF fandom is one of the most accepting fandoms I’ve ever been in.
This is a franchise about giant robots in a huge war or them trying to find a new home after their’s went to shit. Not a cringe boomer comic you see at the back of a newspaper!
They’re trying to please a small audience that almost isn’t even there
Agreed
whats wrong with doing that?
I mean if thats so wrong then any action movie in western places can only have white men or what because thats the main target audience?
Celebrate the fourth by expressing your freedom to not like certain characters
Funny that I released this on that day woops
Or just simply explain why it's unnecessary to just suddenly change an established character's sexual orientation just to fit some political agenda.
@@xgray2012 And they'll try to rebut with something like "it's just one small change, unless you're a bigot it shouldn't be so important to you". Except that same idea can be thrown back at them: if it's not something important, why bother changing it in the first place?
@@xgray2012beautiful!
Zeek Arkham said it best with regards to the previous controversy surrounding the Transformers: Earthspark series.
"We really went from Transformers: The Movie, where Megatron murdered Ironhide by shooting him in the face with his arm cannon, to Transformers with pronouns.
Woke culture ruins everything."
And he’s right. The last great Transformers series was Prime, where Arcee was a kick ass female and the series didn’t have an ideology shoved in your face.
Christ I miss the G1 days….
Man G1 was amazing.
@@AwesomeShrekkuside from the animation errors and typical "Megatron’s evil plan of the week plot”, it had more heart and soul than what constitutes as now.😎
@@LexingtonDeville984 the errors are what give it the heart and soul :3
@@SugarFreeWorldOrderTrue. But some episodes had great animation. Call of the Primitives being one of them.
I miss the 2000s and early 2010s era of Transformers. Just like with Star Wars, that was the last period of greatness before the woke plague infected the franchise in full force.
The bit about giant robots that turn into cars is spot on
A race of sentient beings that essentially have no gender to speak of, and never seek out any particular kind of intimate companionship, shouldn't be worried about human concepts such as body modifications, and gender identities
Logically, they'd want long term companions in the sense of the word itself. Your fellow worker in the factory, or soldier in the trenches, or student at a desk. The person standing beside you. For de-facto immortals like them, trusted companions should be worth the world, and presumably would be the great ideal in their own fiction.
That is fine
Because it's not beating a dead horse
Yeah what the heck was that all about? Y'all are supposed to be making sure cybertron doesn't fall under the clutches of megatron what's all this? What happened to the original plot?
I remember watching Transformers and thinking how amazing to see humans interacting with giant robots.
I never looked at them as having genders because they were alien robots that didn't reproduce like humans.
I guess Hasbro has to start showing "pregnant" transformers now in order to even make any concept of "gender" transformers valid.
I fear for Optimus getting pregnant one day in a comic. It's fan fiction gone horribly wrong.
I have accidentally stumbled upon untagged fetish fanfiction with pregnant Optimus before... 🤢🤮
soooo you just watched the modern adaptations is what you are saying ...
they always had obvious gender.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Male and female presentation, yes. But the whole Trans Arcee thing is new, unnecessary and actually pointless.
@@arkbien9303 Why? It's just a new thing and a show adapts to the people watching it.
People were angry about more female characters, then about one voiced by a black dude, and now they are angry about trans characters.
Who tf cares?
As long as at the end of the day I'll see big robots beating each other up I really couldn't care less.
Or do you feel less represented when there are too many female and trans characters?
@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 These are alien robots. It would be like your microwave trying to tell you that it's a male who wants to be a female (or vice versa). It's still a microwave.
I'm just trying to understand the logic of this, even if they use "he" or "she" or whatever for these robots. If voice is the only thing to identify them by gender, I would imagine it wouldn't take much to swap the voice modulators out to sound different. Otherwise, I see no pregnant robots because they are robots.
My playthrough of 16 right now.
Honestly Jill is still a big part of why Clive is still sane and holding on, she's very important even if she doesnt hold main character status.
I think the problem is more so jrpg females character arcs normally evolve around helping their male counter parts instead of having their own end game goals, ambitions, and stories that don't have to deal with their love interest. Their stories normally always end with them supporting their man one way or another while he has story shit to do.
Now I personally cope this up to the female not being the main character, as I read plenty of Shojo battle manga like Yona of Dawn for example and the roles are reversed. I think it's more a "she is not the main character" thing than a sexist thing. But then again other stories like across the Spiderverse, Berserk, and Vagabond don't have this problem so what do I know?
@@froggylegs1499 It's just a story choice and character archetype, I don't really understand what the problem is, because Jill still has her own storyline as well. It's also culturally Japanese tradition. Her story is about the themes of slavery, vengeance, and redemption. Both Clive and her are fighting for a cause they believe in, that Cid gave his life for. (she's the right hand of the Cid faction as far as I am concerned)
@@froggylegs1499 It's not that Jill doesn't have her own goals. She went through the same stuff as Clive, and so her goal to make a better world for bearers and dominants is the same as Clive's. Their goals align so it makes sense for her to want to support the person most likely to succeed.
Woke Media: This character is X Y Z even before the movies comes out
The Left: OmG sTuNnInG aNd BrAvE
In Conclusion: How to make gays characters right: Let audiences figure it themselves instead of "In your face" approach
"The left" doesnt mean anything,You can use "the right" For every time theres someone racing or a reach guy doing something stupid, but is still dumb
@@SubZero-hs9xcYou know exactly what he means
@@opadrip i know what hè means but i still find it dumb
@@SubZero-hs9xci do agree. Both the left amd right are at fault because they want to push agenda instead of making good stories.
any actual 'XYZ' person and/or leftist ive ever known is tired of it too and also hate companies doing shit like that. only people saying like stunning and brave are weird article website writers that aint seen the sun in 5 years man, like i get the point but bro dont group an entire political group that represents like a third of the population as being some braindead zombies that fall for all that "diversity" stuff
Thank you for this video. Nice to see level headed people. I love strong female characters. We all do it is how they are written that makes us not like them.
I just have fun making this series I’ll do it once in a while when new things come out
Critical Drinker did a similar video. Mostly focusing on today’s definition of “Strong Female Characters”, but it applies to men also. Basically, woke characters aren’t relatable. They’re flawless and don’t have an uphill climb so to speak. Normally a character has flaws and challenges. As the story progresses, the character overcomes these challenges and learns a lesson by the end. Today’s movies completely skip that and is widely promoted by people like Kathleen Kennedy who focuses on women overshadowing the male characters
exactly. you know that "reject x, embrace y" meme saying that has ben going around?
We should do one for writing:
Reject Representation, embrace relatability.
No they just don’t like female character even when they have flaws and all
@@ni9274 incorrect. Woke characters are communist propaganda and don't have flaws, that's why we don't like them.
Final Fantasy 16 has some of the best written women this decade.
@@ArgentWolf95 Communist propaganda ? How having no flaws has something to do with communism ? And why you don’t call male characters who have no flaws woke ?
@@ni9274 communists created the very beliefs you believe in kid. Diversity, inclusion, representation, equity, gender ideology, feminism, Queer stuff, making drag queens an identity in LGBT.
The concept of making a character a *representation* is the communist propaganda. This means "strong female characters" have rules of what the can and can't be written like.
They have their name too, it's called Gary Stu, and woke ideology does not like male characters because woke ideology sees the identity of man as always an oppressor.
So they don't make Gary Stu's. Actually try and learn what we are teaching you instead of being ignorant.
Just beat FF16, and Dions character arc was AMAZING! You don't even pay attention to his sexuality, he was just an amazing character. Square Enix did us all a great favor.
I don’t mind lgbtq+ characters but they have to have more personality than just “I’m gay” or “ I identify as blank and that’s my only personality quirk”
Impossible though. Any gay character is going to be the way you described. Otherwise, why even point out that they are gay?
I didn't know about prince dion being that in FF16. Now im certainly not paying for that game lol
@@randalthor6872 A gay character can be likeable. The protagonist of Ang Lee's Wedding Banquet--Patroclus in the Song of Achilles--the man who puts a gun in his mouth minutes into the film Cloud Atlas. Alan Turing from Imitation Game.
Homosexuals are *humans* first and foremost. You have to make them part of the human condition which is a lot more than sexuality and more universal than sexuality. The truth is that woke creators understand humanity even less than those they accuse of as being hateful, and they stereotype diverse characters harder than those they accuse of being hateful.
Why can’t it just be balanced and live & let live? It’s almost as if the powers that be glorify most everything non straight almost to the point of obsession..
@@randalthor6872 In Cyberpunk there was a trans character and it was only mentioned once when you got deeper into their quest and its not shoved down our throats. Rare for that to happen yes but occasionally it will
@@Jonderlei the fact that there even was a trans character is in fact "shoved down our throats"
Most of them are self inserts from the writers who lack the knowledge and creativity to do anything unique and different. Which is why a lot of films are currently failing. Lol
Sadly
@@EndymionTv I have new and creative ideas for screenplays? But because I don’t insert myself into the stories I write? I’m probably not the type of writer most studios want. Lol
*Gough cough* Starfire daughter *cough couch* Velma
@@ViperChief117 Maybe they don't want you as a write because you use question marks randomly throughout the text... I bet you'd get loads of contracts in 2007 tho.
I am 30 hours in FFXVI and I keep being baffled at this narrative that this game is not diverse!!! At every chapter there is diversity and very well written women and middle eastern inspired and looking characters, making me more and more convinced these people haven't gone past the trailer. People don't care about diversity if it is well implemented well in the story and the characters are more than what would label them diverse; it's not rocket science and yet ... When people start shipping or more ROBOTS you know these people are not right in the head.
I beat the game last night I enjoyed it a lot
@@EndymionTv I can't wait to see where it goes and Jill is honestly one of my favourite characters. As a woman who's been playing video games for decades seeing compelling strong diverse women in one game is a breath of fresh air.
It's not diverse in the specific way they want. They want diversity of appearance, not thought. I was a good "diverse" hire because I look different, but had all the same viewpoints. Diverse institutions aren't remotely diverse in actuality
...you meant ffXvi, right?...)
I agree, Terra and Celes are well-written.
How to make a woke character without them being woke
1. Don't make their wokeness the main focal point.
2. Don't use them as advance an agenda
3. Give them layered personalities like ptsd or a rough childhood or perhaps flaws like addiction or anger management
4. Don't make them a mary sue. Give them some failings.
It's really easy to make progressive characters, but they don't need to be woke.
So just make a normal character.
@@lliamthrumble exactly. Unfortunately Hollywood has forgotten to do that.
That's not even a woke character at that point. It's just a well written character.
A character isn't woke because they're black or gay. A character is woke because being black or gay is their entire identity/reason for existing. They are solely there to push a hollow political message from hack writers who want to influence the viewer and society.
I saw Rise of the Beasts, and I don't recall any moment where Arcee is mentioned to be transgendered. That being said, there is a far worse example of a woke character in modern Transformers media. In the latest cartoon series "Transformers Earthspark," which is geared towards a younger audience, there is a Transformer called Nightshade, which is expressly a non-binary they/them. They have an entire scene of Nightshade explaining to a child what it means to be non-binary and even one where Optimus Prime is educated on what pronoun to use when addressing them.
Actually in the IDW comics Arcee used to be male but got turned into a female against their will...and it resulted in Arcee becoming a batshit killing machine to boot and not happy about the change. That was in the previous IDW continuity.
Edit: Also the budding thing isn't anything like you said. It's literally asexual reproduction. It's like cells splitting into more cells, but in this case it's from another Cybertronian.
I was gonna type that
And thats not even the norm in transformers lore, most transformers are either build or spawn out of the ground of cybertron
Another thing about budding is that it had negative effects on each newer generation of transformers from making each newer transformers drift farther and farther away from Primus's influence and unintentionally created the swarm as by product.
@@Raspse7en And then it spawned the Swarm as a byproduct...
@@CommanderBohn Except that they then merged with the Matrix and Became the Vok, so then the question becomes whether that was a negative end after all.
I still don't understand how game and movie/show writers of the west don't understand the simple concept, if you want to make a good LGBTQ character you simply make a good character that just happens to be a member of the LGBTQ group, not a character whose personality is that they are LGBTQ.
Some writers try to find an easy way out of this by making a character that was popular and well written into a LGBTQ character, but the problem there usually is that they were established as not being that and afterwards their personality becomes that they are LGBTQ+. For example in DC comics Tim Drake the 3rd Robin. He was a very popular character, especially in the 90s he even had his own book that rivaled spiderman (to be fair spiderman was a different guy then so it was easy for DC to swoop in there and get the teenage crowd up), but in recent years they made him Bi-sexual and his whole story about him and his girlfriend that came to a very nice conclusion was ruined because they broke up off panel and there was never a reason given for it, in the games all they can talk about is that they need to support him during pride marches, and that he has a boyfriend now.
While here as Endymion shown us a good LGBTQ character who feels real and his struggles and story don't revolve around him being gey
Meghan Fitzmartin, the woman who decided to make Tim Drake bisexual in the _Batman: Urban Legends_ anthology title, was given a Tim Drake solo book to continue her story. It was awful and only lasted 10 issues. The comic was yet another example of a company making representation the goal instead of entertainment. It didn't help that between the _Urban Legends_ stories and the beginning of _Tim Drake: Robin_ Fitzmartin wrote _Dark Crisis: Young Justice_ that prominently featured Drake alongside the rest of his former teammates. That title wasn't just bad, it straight up insulted the guy who wrote Young Justice in the 90s and fans of that series. It was infuriating.
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I think that's one of the big problems: sloth. A lot of people want clout, and take shortcuts to get it as quickly as they can.
"Okay, so what we're gonna do is write a movie about some awesome giant robots from another galaxy that come to Earth and save us from evil, and they can TRANSFORM INT COOL THINGS, like armored trucks, helicopters, super cool cars."
"Okay, but what do they identify as?"
"What?"
"Y'know, what are their pronouns? I can't relate to them if I don't know their pronouns!"
"They're literally robots."
"Are any of them gay?"
"What are y-"
"The most important thing in storytelling is making sure people feel represented, especially in a movie about giant robots that smash things up!"
"Get the fuck out of my office."
I’ve been playing for about 40 hours now and I’m having a blast, square was being blasted for little representation, and right then they could have told people about the gay character for digital brownie points but they kept their heads down made the game they wanted, so I have to commend them for that because they knew you never feed the trolls. After all who are we to be lecturing Japanese developers about western sensibilities? Games media needs to hurry up and die off, I’m sick of them.
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A character has to be more than their sexuality - as it always was in the movies and shows. Look Scar, for example
Yup
@@EndymionTveven netflix animated nemona movie had good written trans character
also fun fact is that it was last cancelation movie by skyblue studio
As a Transformers fan, that section gave me a headache.
In the IDW Comics Arcee gets a "sexchange" by a crazy scientist to see how the sexless race reacts to it. This was written by a fairly unwoke author years ago. Only later was the story reinterpreted as a gender reassignment gone wrong.
The anode and lug story didn't come until years later. So to say they were the first is factually incorrect.
There are many interpretations of Arcee and at no time has it been officially confirmed that the version from the Rise of the Beast film is trans like the IDW version.
"Budding" a mitosis-like form of asexual reproduction. It only takes one Transformer, not two.
And all events related to the IDW Comics that have been mentioned are at least 6+ years old. You make it sound like something recent.
And big surprise: Rule 34 also applies to Transformers. Who would have thought?
Exactly, and what i think is most important, these stories as a qhole arent that bad, certainly not as bad as most current marvel or dc comics
It was still a funny part though
IDW was a curse on the Transformers mythos.
Simon Furman's a badass. He made fun of feminists in the 80's when they demanded female transformers and he responded to the criticism that his depiction of Arcee being angry that he was mutilated against his will was 'horribly insensitive to trans people' by simply not caring.
In fact, I seem to recall Mairghread Scott accusing Simon Furman of hating women for that portrayal - further evidence that she has little idea of how hardcore science fiction works as a concept - especially when it comes to anything or anyone alien to the human experience.
@@DragoEpyon Even though I hate both of his horrible Arcee backstories, that is pretty funny.
This is pissing me off them ruining my favorite characters to push there damn agenda.
LMAO profile checks out haha
Wasnt it retconned that Arcee was trans ages ago? Its not the first time that gay Transformers have existed but those relationships typically ended in tragedy and death (go figure, they're in the middle of a war). I can't remember which comic it was, but I believe one of the relationships ended when one of the Autobots involved was torn apart by a member of the JDL. To those curious, the JDL is effectively the Waffen Schutzstaffel of the Decepticon ranks. Each member transforms into either a type of torture device or an execution device. Its pretty cool honestly, though not as cool as The Fallen who was a walking blast furnace originally, I believe
Christopher Preist was writing a Black Adam series that recently wrapped up and gave an interview about the comic. He said he wasn't allowed to write a lot of what he wanted because of what he called "mystery men" who kept shooting down his ideas. Priest said he'd come up with ideas and work with his editor until they were both happy with the story. Then he said his scripts were sent off to higher ups in the corporate ladder and they'd come back with notes saying what he was planning wasn't acceptable. If I had to guess I'd say the person or persons were the "sensitivity readers" who make sure whiny babies won't ever have to encounter anything that might make them uncomfortable. According to Priest the worst part is that there's no discussion between the writer and the sensitivity reader(s) so he couldn't work explain himself or work with them to create something they'd be okay with. He (and presumably other writers) are just told their ideas aren't acceptable and that was that. No wonder so many comics published by DC and Marvel these days are mediocre at best.
?? It's always been like that.
These 'mystery men' aren't a new thing mate.
I heard especially about the process of the batman animated series how much the 'mystery men' who could not be communicated to directly always shot down scene after scene.
Only because you are just now hearing of this does not mean its anything new.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Priest made it clear that what he was talking about was new to him and he's been writing comics for decades. That's what makes me think this is something new. This isn't the normal process of getting something approved by the higher ups. When it comes to the comics DC used to only to do that for storylines that are obviously controversial or will shake up the status quo. The editors are the corporate people writers deal with for the most part.
Hell after a time skip theres a scene where Clive is apologizing for putting too much of the burden on Jill, but she tells him off that she helps because she wants to
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@ModernGamesSuck you have a point even though I don't think all the devs are as compliant to ESG in Japan as the west is. For example they will minor censor (not saying this is a good thing, but i'd rather this than uglify a character) while in the west they'll completely take the femininity out of females to appease gender ideology.
I'm observing Japanese takes on ESG.
I got a feeling they won't be staying with it long term, especially now ESG is getting openly debated.
@ModernGamesSuck I agree, I'm just not as certain the Japanese will end up like us because they are reacting at least differently and have us to look at to see where this ends up, and i'll bet some of the Japanese creatives and other foreign creatives elsewhere (i'm british) are aware of this ideology, you'll notice there's a lack of ESG compliance in most eastern European companies, excluding CDProjektRED who went international and got into ESG. This, I believe, was becaue of the influx of Big tech hires between now and Cyberpunk's release.
Square, I don't know their story, but Capcom is likely because of Tencent who has a majority Stake in Capcom right now, and the CCP use ESG for their own agenda. They're working with World Economic Forum and have their own agenda as well.
You don't see Chinese games having typical ESG, but they 'ESG' their blatant state propaganda in their movies while also using it to censor Taiwan stuff.
Back to the content though. I will admit this game is extremely surprisingly in opposition to usual ESG standard of game design, character design and propaganda everywhere else, the Gay character seems to be the only ESG compliant thing so far and I haven't even reached his part of the game yet.
I was around 5 years ago so i'm deep into the opposition to Social Justice. I been opposing it since 2012 so I got some familiarity of how the marxist subversion goes. Back in 2016 I quit on Gamergate because I was seeing it subverted from the inside, people starting to say "Social Justice is not the problem, we are for real Social Justice" and I was getting fed up of trying to tell them that that Social Justice was why the issues in gaming were happening. I didn't know exactly where it was coming from at the time, but woke is a Marxist ideology to control and subvert culture. You describe their strategy well.
I heard the logic of "character being tastefully done" before, and it always came from people who have some progressive leaning stances or in the centre, and i'm in the centre but on the right being Classical Liberal Conservative (I also don't see things in a left vs right way). I mean, no offense to Endymion and i'm glad he is pointing stuff out and respect him for his beliefs, but he doesn't seem to realize that Representation was crreated to restrict creativity and attack creativity and escapism, which I experienced first hand. It's why I have a dislike of representation.
So where am I going with this? I think his description and praise of the character being a good character is acceptable and fine, we ren't gonna agree every time and I think we need to rethink how to avoid falling into the trap they're doing with the minor thing. So my current approach is: 1: We need a consistent standard of what makes something woke:
So let's put out a definition:
"Woke
/wōk/
noun
The colloquial term for intersectional ideology. Intersectional ideology is characterized as an ideology routed in Marxist, socialist propaganda integrated into a number of different western social movements based in class, race, sexual preference, identity, religious and political preferences most pronounced in Critical Race Theory, Intersectional feminism and the LGBTQ+, and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion). The goals and actions of the woke movement can be characterized by a belief that all people belong to either a victim or an oppressor class.
There is a hierarchy that assigns virtue or privilege based on perceived group identity and members of the woke movements will form angry mobs to attack others inside or out of the group to destabilize systems, reroute resources to perceived oppressed groups and attack outgroups. In Media, they co-opt creative works to politicize and use Representation to push DEI using characters and storylines, at the expense of the story and characters. Usually this is done by deconstructing the themes and story of beloved characters, or outright replacing them. Writers and believers of this ideology believe in "Representation" which is the belief that a character represents a oppressed class or an oppressor, and should reflect that.
Victim status will be used to pressure and control it's believers and outside groups into submission under the guise of being tolerant and empathetic. Activists will use it as a shield to defend against any form of retaliation. The woke activists will lie, manipulate, bully and propagandize others by claiming any opposition is a form of hatred or bigotry. The woke ideology do not recognize any form of objective truths and only aspire to power and 'their truths.'
Synonyms: Intersectionality, Social Justice. Marxism. Communism."
2: So with that in mind, I believe we should be smarter or more tactical about our criticism:
for example I really enjoy FF16 since it has no other ideological references to woke ideology, and I only know about Dion because people on youtube started mentioning he's gay. I've seen the character twice in two cut-scenes where he transforms into a dragon and fights another guy, then returns to his base to get a battlefield report. I didn't get any gay refrencesfrom those scenes. So if he's just the only thing about this ideology, it's non-woke or mild.
Games who follow ESG but don't push it strongly I see as moderately woke.
and finally you have propaganda, which is the "go-woke go broke" level stuff. Think Call of Duty or Overwatch.
I'm thinking about this because maybe going after the mild stuff over wokeness isn't the best idea.
@ModernGamesSuck wait what? So you are just against gay characters in general?
Jesus man why?
If you can't accept gay people in literal works of FICTION in a FANTASY setting then that is just really sad.
@ModernGamesSuck Please explain wtf you meant with this then: "Did it ever occur to you that maybe we didn't want to see gay characters in fantasy regardless of how they're portrayed?"
because that sounds like "I dont want gay characters in fantasy in general."
@ModernGamesSuck Birdo was transsexual back in the 80s, gotta love those early woke ESG requirements affecting NES games.
Also worthwile to mention series like Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena were super popular in Japan during the 90s, and both feature lesbians. The second even as the main fucking character lol.
Anime had good lgbt characters 20 years before Nick released TLOK and 30 years before Disney released Strange World. So who's the bigoted ones, twitter?
yeah and the same people were angry about them being "woke" that are now angry about other "woke" characters...
it isn't new and the hate is not either.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 I'm a Native American bisexual. I'm the kind of person the actual bigots would happily lynch. Don't confuse people complaining about forced diversity (racial or sexual) and actual bigots. Otherwise you're part of the problem.
Understand the "gay stuff" is why HASBRO pulled their licenses for TRANSFORMERS, GIJoe, and MLP from IDW. It cratered sales of the book, and made those venerable properties toxic and unappealing to collectors, fans, and parents of children. The toy sales have differing issues, along the lines of quality and pricing, but don't expect a classic Gung-ho or Shipwreck figure anytime soon.
Dion is a character first and his sexuality last. He isn't paraded around and saying how gay he is. Instead he is of his own just like everyone else.
Endymion: "Why nobody likes woke characters?"
Me: Because they are typically horribly terribly written.
(Video over)😂🤣
True but that’s not long enough!
@@EndymionTvHaha I know but I figured you'd enjoy a smartass comment meant to be funny 🤣
@EndymionTv I guess it is just bad writing in general = bad character's.
@@tvnetworks6610 To me a lot of the bad character is the writing. I'll give you a personal example. I'm in a wheelchair, to me you write a "normal character" that just happens to be in a wheelchair. The only exception to that is if the point of the show is to focus on that character & really dig into what someone like me deals with on the daily. Most of my friends actually forget about me being in a wheelchair until it comes to getting in a vehicle or something.
@@Nathan_Coley this is a great explanation as to why I hate the American "representation."
I also have a disability, but I don't want to be reminded of it. i' rather it not have existed, so i'd rather not play a character who "looks like me." I'm not in a wheelchair though
Flashgitz already did this joke, where they gave megatron giant boobies so he could be imune to critisism, then gave starscream a brightly coloured wig
I would like to point out that in the Dark Cybertron IDW storyline, the main antagonist Shockwave is defeated by Megatron essentially coming out to him as an Autobot. This was around 2011-2013 when James Roberts really took over a lot of the IDW stuff.
And honestly, all this stuff of the old conituity form 2005 tp 2018 isnt that bad, netter than most comic today
Coming out to him as an "Autobot", I'm sorry but that shit makes me laugh.
Can you imagine one of the bots under Megatron says "Megatron, I have something to tell you....I'm an AUTOBOT and I'm attracted to other Autobots because they process my pleasure chips!"
By the way, in IDW Arcee was originally written to be transitioned against her will, and the trauma from that drove her murderously insane. BUt then the woke got their claws on IDW and they retconned into being her idea, she was ALREADY a murderous psychopath that gets redeemed because it would look bad
Okay, I have autism, And dwarfism, And i'm an amateur writer...But seriously...When a kid can write better than ya, Without shoving any agendas or sob stories (Unless it's a character's sob story, Or one they're making up on the fly), Then you know you've fucked the hell up, And seriously, We don't care what gender, Race, Ethnicity the character is...We just want some good damn writing, Seems even that's too much to ask now.
It makes being normal look bad. That's it.
Square Enix really seems to be hitting the nail on the head with these types of characters. From your description, Dion reminds me of Sylvando from Dragon Quest XI, who is this foppish, fabulous guy, but the fandom loves him because he's more than just a gay representative to the cast, he has complexities and valor outside of whatever his preferences may be.
Dion sounds like Bulat character writing wise, or better. Bulat from Akame Ga Kill, who was also a gay man but the gay aspect did not define him it was merely a small part of his character, and a reason why the rest of Night Raid were so happy to have Tatsumi join... becuase Tatsumi is straight so the girls can now have fun fighting over him.. lol 😂
Bulat was a bro :(
@@BasedWukong The Best Bro...
"Why Nobody Wants Woke Characters", because they're almost always not character but tools...
Aaron from The Walking Dead is another good example how to implement such a character. Because we've known him a good time before this became known to the audience and then it's what it's supposed to be, a facette, a sidenote, a further information about a character we already know and like. We basically only get to know after a while that he is in a relationship and with whom and then it's not all the character is about, naturally as it should be.
I personally have no issue with characters being gay/ trans or whatever as long as the characters are written well. For example, Bonnie and Marceline from adventure time. And I will defend that. Bad example? Korra and Asami from the legend of korra.
The prince of ff16 actually surprised me, he's well written and compelling. He's witten in a way that actually wants you to see how he'll change over the course of his story, and with that it has inspired me to look back on some personal projects I'm working on and how i can write my characters on compelling ways.
Great video E. 👏
You can't say "history" without "his story"
@@codyhutson2174 it took me a hot minute to understand what you were talking about 🥲😅
Midnighter and Apollo were some of my favorite comic book characters. The believed wholeheartedly in their cause with The Authority, extremely powerful and weren’t to afraid to spill blood by the buckets.
One of my favorite moments was when a villain begged Midnighter to spare his life because he has kids somewhere on earth and without any hesitation Midnighter tells him those kids are better off without him and decapitates the villain with a billy club.
Also when Apollo flies through the giant man’s skull
I live in Asia and this video made me proud as we don't have woke shit all over our society.
what does woke mean in your opinion?
where in Asia? It's a big continent.
Have you ever watched anime beacuse thats "woke" af
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 In my opinion woke means that big corporates of entertainment industry or any field for this matter wants to representation to all the minorities around the world because they think all the people of colour, gender, cast, creed except for white people are incapable of doing or proving themselves of anything and these corporates think that they are providing a helping hand to the minorities but they represent the minorities in all the wrong ways possible. In reality most of the world doesn't need representation at all. They act like they support poor, black, Asians and many more people but then comes their hypocrisy because in reality they just want money, fame, and power over others because in reality if they really wanted to help people then they would do welfare for society rather than making shit movies or games whose sole purpose is to push their agenda. A recent example is the writers and actors strike if they want to provide a helping hand then pay writers and actors and give directors creative freedom.
@ Asia is on earth.
As a transformers fan I feel somethings need clarifying. One the transgender Arcee is a product of IDW. Original G1 Arcee was presented as female from the start. The in fact her, Elita 1 and all the other females of G1 were pushed to be part of the cartoon and comics because the daughter of one of the writers loved the transformers so he wanted to create a female one for her. Second budding is a process presented in the short lived G2 comics. The most prominently used reproductive method used is the well of all sparks where the creator Primus generates a spark (their version of a soul) that is bonded to a kind of liquid metal (The source of which varies) that then forms the new bot.
They're not woke characters. They're woke caricatures. There _is_ a difference.
Their characters are as deep as they can make them because their writers based them on shallow ideologies. In the woke religion these checkboxes really are what determines a person's value.
As an ex rule 34 artist, we make pictures like that because of depravity, money or shock factor. Some fetishes can't be satisfied in the real world so people turn to drawings to depict impossible acts.
Usually, the more grotesque the art is, the more desensitised the artist is as vanilla or tame stuff doesn't get them hard anymore.
I encourage everyone to have a healthy porn habit, it's really harmful when left unchecked.
I discourage you from existing you lustful greedy manlet
Do you have a fedora?
Noi wear a bulletproof helmet that's much too large. I even wear to the grocery store
@@randalthor6872 you shouldn't make fun of the mentality impaired
What defines a 'healthy porn habit'
Kotaku claiming pretty women have it easy because they’re always expected to be smart and kind is ignorant to the decades of media portraying pretty women as vapid bimbos. The only time you’ll find a pretty woman not stupid is when she also has the tough guy persona and “don’t need no man” attitude.
Ah yes, Google had delisted that FlashGitz video from the search results.
Yeah….As far as I concern, in the IDW comic, Arcee was conceptualized as the only female Transformer. She was forced into a sex change experiment by Jhiaxus to introduce “gender” to the Cybertronian. In the later years, it was retconned that male and female Transformers were a thing all along so Arcee’s backstory was rewritten as “willingly allowed” Jhiaxus to experiment on her, to become her “true self”
Little fun fact that Heard about Arcee and it's that in the comics she was originally a male put was forced to be female by a mad scientist because they didn't have any female on Cybertron but they retcon that to hell and back
i like that instead of just ranting about bad woke character's you point out where diverse character's are done right, well done sir
The Transformers part had me laughing so hard 😂
Nailed that one.
As a writer, my motto on this subject is “diversity when it makes sense.” That means putting characters of certain identities in settings where they could logically fit in and not pull a “Battlefield V”
The transformers franchise had female characters, but the show has always been male dominated.
Also Dion is one of my favorite characters in FFXVI
Him having the ability to become Bahamut definitely gives him pts
weird bro. Just weird. Dion is gross.
@@randalthor6872 bro its mindsets like this that drive the wokes insane and continue to spew their bs. Dion is gay and thats it, he isn't forced on you with his sexuality like stated in the video. He is flawed but still likable
To dismiss him just cause he is gay is exactly why these nutjobs never shut up in the first place and want gay romance over story.
@@randalthor6872 You're just a hate filled balloon lmao. Cry.
One Piece did a good job with the so call trans or non binary characters, I guess you would call them that. They were well written and were interesting. At the time they were introduce I didn't care about their sexuality, I was more interested in the story.
They put characters that check boxes because they live their lives checking boxes. Forget content of character; they define everything on outside appearances. That's why they love it when people say what they like to bang. They take that as a code for outside items to be applied to the person.
For example- in order of importance
Lesbian > Asian > Female > Person
"They"
Mate have you ever talked to "Them" in real life?
Sounds more like all you know about "Them" is by what you hear from the internet.
Arcee in transformers is a female, and I will never except the idea of it being a transgender. We do not have to conform to what they are trying to do. I, myself and many others will stop purchasing anything to do with any franchise that has to do with this garbage. It needs to stay out of our schools as well. I would hate to see this in my child’s school and then I show up.
Of course Kotaku says Dion fails because him being gay wasn’t the focus of him.
Kotaku: "Jill should be more than pretty."
Jim Carrey: "That's just something ugly people say..."
The issue about woke characters is not the LGBT in general. People do not want the wokeness being pushed into their face and make it a main topic about. In western games they making these characters often very unlikeable, arrogant or like "I am better than you all, because of my gender/sexuality".
Yeah, the hipster aspect.
that's just a bad character.
The people here are angry about "woke" characters. Thats any bad character who is also gay, black, jewish, female, or otherwise part of a vocal minority.
People want entertainment, not a lecture
Agreed
100%
The problem is diverse characters its that they are token cardboard cut outs. They have no weaknesses.
No personality.
No identity or even dreams or goals.
Another big reason Dion being gay is fine to his character: he wasn’t canonically straight in an older canon.
Is it possible to make a woke character that people will like?
Yes Dion in FFXVI
Isnt he just gay?. He doesnt seem to have much woke about him.
Only if it’s wasn’t shoved down our throat. But I think that ship has sailed. Now it’s war
Yes , for sure . But it is a very difficult thing to get right.
As long as you put the woke character in a Grey morale area and not try to sell them as the correct way to be .
Absolutely No.
Double commenting here because I just got to kotaku's Jill take. I have no idea what they're talking about when time and time again throughout the story, Clive has gone out of his way to prioritize her and let her be her own person instead of tell her to fall in line and push her aside. I honestly think they saw she was straight and decided the rest didn't matter.
Okay, that journalist wasn't paying attention while playing Final Fantasy 16. Jill was a very well-defined character, I'm not going to spoil anything major. After the first mission where you meet her as an adult, you instantly notice that she is a very motherly protective figure. Who has gone through a lot of suffering I want to be a supportive figure
So didn't get the memo? Motherly women are a bad thing now.
Whoa whoa whoa. A woman that's a "motherly protective figure"? That simply won't fly in this day and age. FF16 might as well have all the female characters be the property of men.
To me whenever a character is changed for sociopolitical reasons it just feels forced, pandering, and like the studio is trying to prove a point to someone. I wouldn't mind it so much if it weren't for those reasons. I'd rather my movie and video game characters feel natural and unforced.
I fucking love how they did dion. Great character. That's how its done. FF16's writing is phenomenal.
With midnighter and Apollo it was that they were super heroes and characters first but now that ideologs got a hold of them they got flanderized.
I really hated that when they did that to those two characters, I was looking forward to it into not having pride flags I just hate that ugly flag so much... hope James Gunn doesn't follow it
This is something that has been said over and over but it falls on deaf ears. Just how many flops and failures do they need to learn their lesson?
I thought Dion was a very well done character, y'know, the Japanese has done this LGBTQ stuff way longer than Westerners, which is why they barely know to balance story and representation these days. Happy July 4th.🇺🇲🇺🇲
copium
Yep. Whenever someone calls anime bigoted I always point out that it portrayed healthy homosexual relationships a good 30 years before the west decided it was cool.
@@Embrace-The-Dork-Side "healthy"
@@randalthor6872I said what I said.
@@Embrace-The-Dork-Side I wish more games showed addicts with a "healthy relationship" to crack! ; P
That thumbnail is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen 😂.
I'm not believing the whole Arcee thing at all.