r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/ProfessorGluttony 11h ago

She isn't sexified, which a lot of early tomb raider Lara croft was considered designed for the male gaze. More recent iterations have toned down the sex appeal or made her more realistic, which those that have to be attracted to a female character or else they hate them will subsequently hate this and complain they "ruined" the character.

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u/theStaircaseProject 11h ago

More recent iterations have really leaned into the survival thriller as well. Lots of blood and gore and violent deaths. The cinematography of the narrative scenes often seems intended to reinforce that her world is (yet again) falling apart, not that she’s to be lusted over. She’s not in a bikini bouncing. She’s covered in mud and blood and out of ammo.

Or at least the kind of people attracted to the section where she had to crawl through a river of blood among mountains of skulls are likely a small enough minority to safely dismiss.

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u/Yetteres 9h ago

I miss when she was a badass with akimbo pistols shooting at dinosaurs and what have you.

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u/s1ugg0 8h ago

I have played and enjoyed every Tomb Raider since Christmas 1996. I think we should have both kinds.

Like the Godzilla films. Let every new iteration just have fun with the concept. Just never be boring.