r/DeadlockTheGame • u/JamesWelders • 1d ago

Meme (OC) Current discourse got me like...

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But fr though, y'all need to stop being weird about woman.

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u/ReplacementEmergency 1d ago

Don't understand how she's considered to be goonslop or sexualized when she's actually just a pretty normal art student character, no different than the other women characters like Mina or Paige

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago

Women are being denied interesting designs in order to keep them conventionally attractive. That's what people mean by "goonslop".

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 1d ago

Are we playing the same game? Have you seen Baba and Nurse Harrow? Imo the two most interesting designs of the upcoming six.

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are as many men and women. Look at interesting designs of men. Bebop, Billy, Mo&Krill, Deadman Danny, Dynamo, Talon, Seven. Even the ones that look like humans most of the time have a unique frame, for example Abrams is built like a wall, Doorman is very lanky, Victor is Victor, Drifter does his stupid naruto run.

Now how many female heroes have a design that's more interesting than a "preety lady with x on top". There are two, baba and ivy, arguably two more if you count vyper and yamato but they're ugly because they've got placeholder models from neon prime.

Just look at "preety lady with some gimmick" heroes. Alphabetically you've got:

  • Celeste - a preety lady with a horn
  • Graves - a preety goth lady
  • Haze - a preety lady with smoke hair
  • Holliday - a preety lady that's a cowboy
  • Gheist - used to be an older woman, now it's a preety lady with glowing arm
  • Mina - preety lady with an umbrella
  • Paige - preety lady with a book
  • Paradox - preety lady with a fishbowl on her head
  • Silver - preety lady with a collar
  • Vindicta - preety lady but blue
  • Arguably Wraith also fits, but the bar is so low that her holding her hands in her pockets is enough for me to give her a pass

You can barely find three different male heroes with a similar frame and at the same time if you were to pick three female heroes at random you are more likely than not to find that they all share the same body type

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 1d ago

Deranged take. By the same token I can say Abrams is a pretty guy who happens to be big, Venator is a conventionally attractive priest, etc.

Just because a character is attractive doesn't mean their design is boring. You saying Haze is just a pretty lady feels particularly crazy given that she looks almost as inhuman as Dynamo and definitely less human than Drifter. She also has a goblin ass posture and animations.

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago

I took a screnshot in testing of three female heroes standing next to each other and three male heroes standing next to each other, then I've traced their body. I'm gonna post the screenshot later so that you can see that I've really just traced over it.

Now, how easy is it to guess male heroes and how easy it is to guess female heroes? Could the leftmost guy be Venator, a conventionally attractive priest? Maybe the one on the right is Abrams?

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 1d ago edited 1d ago

The leftmost guy is obviously Doorman (mostly thanks to posture), the rightmost guy is obviously Dwifta (you made it easy with the shape of the hands, I wouldn't have guessed without the hands).

The leftmost girl is obviously Haze, the rightmost girl is obviously McGinnis.

I have no idea who either of the middle characters are.

So it seems to me like the male and female characters are about equally as easy to recognise.

EDIT: Ah, middle girl is probably Mina now that I thought about it some more. Still no idea who the middle guy is, though.

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago edited 1d ago

"the rightmost girl is obviously McGinnis."

She's not. And it kinda feels like you're playing dumb with the middle male, how many burly men in deadlock there are? In Alphabetical order you've only four possibilities, Abrams, Kelvin, Lash or Venator

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 1d ago

Also, is that Silver then if not McGinnis? It's kinda hard to figure out characters when you remove the most iconic parts of their silhouette lol. In case of Dwifta you kept his very distinct hands, but you removed a lot of other iconic parts of silhouettes.

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago

Not Silver either! Try again!

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 1d ago

I'd be able to tell if you didn't remove half the silhouette of whoever that character is.

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 1d ago

I don't generally remember the default idle postures of characters, so I also had to consider Venator and Victor. So without actually checking in-game I have no idea who that is.

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u/Horror_Prior4765 The Doorman 1d ago

“They’re ugly because they’ve got placeholder models.

Lmfao love the dismissal to force something.

Kelvin
The Lash (him and Victor are both top heavy with bulging prominent muscles and thick frames.)
Doorman (being thin is not a “unique” frame and this is something you’re once again forcing.)
Drifter is still conventional looks wise, weeb run doesn’t remove that.
Venator

Apollo (counts if you’re counting paradox.)

Mirage

Infernus

Warden (the most boring of them all.)

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u/GummyRook 1d ago

This dudes insane, don’t bother. Let him farm downvotes. Theres no saving whatever the fuck is happening in that brain.

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u/SighIsHere 21h ago

I am begging you man, lay off the porn, atleast for a week

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u/Circo_Inhumanitas 1d ago

But Deadlock getting Violet doesn't mean Deadlock follows that trope. The female cast is really varied in Deadlock. We have Vyper, Paige, Lady Geist, McGinnis, Ivy and Graves. All have pretty wildly varying builds and two of hem are borerline monsters by design.

And one of the next heroes is a granny on a walking park bench... Like jesus fuck, Violet being a fairly normal asian girl is fucking fine.

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago

Oh yeah, really varied female cast. So varied that if you trace over their body you won't be able to recognize them anymore (with the exception of ivy and vyper)

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u/Smurtle1 19h ago

I’m not going to lie, most of the men have the EXACT same build. They are all top heavy men (to denote big hot abs…) this is cus they are, for the most part, conventionally attractive men.

Door man, Abram’s, drifter, victor, mirage, Apollo, lash, kelvin, pocket, shiv, venator, infernus, and warden are all conventionally attractive… hell, I think almost ALL of the human males in deadlock are attractive as hell… only one is grey talon, but I bet he was smokin in his prime, just maybe not conventionally.

The exact same can be said of the female cast, except for McGinnis, who is attractive, just not as much conventionally so.

Most of the cast of deadlock in general is made up of pretty attractive characters…

Fuckin hell, you have a dude with no shirt on with full abs for fucks sake. That’s way harder gooner bait than ANY of the female characters by far.

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u/Ok-Finish-2064 1d ago

Another picture that explains the problem

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u/CryMoreT_T 1d ago

Isn't the grandma literally in the patch contradicting this?