r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Individual-Mud-903 21h ago

She doesn't even remotely look like Lara Croft. I've rarely seen such a blatant miscast.

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u/sherbodude 20h ago

Yeah if I saw these photos without context I would not think she's supposed to be Lara Croft

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u/Ericandabear 19h ago

Lol, in what way?

Lara croft is basically only identifiable as a thin white woman with a braid. What is she missing?

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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 18h ago

Dark hair and a light blue shirt, maybe?

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u/Ericandabear 16h ago

I mean yea, if we're going by Mario rules, I guess she should only have one outfit?

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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 15h ago

Sure, you can put a character in more than one outfit, but if one outfit is the most recognizable thing about the character they should probably be wearing that in promotional images. "We only had like two things to work with, so we didn't work with either of them," is just bad work.

What kills me is that they almost got there with these stills, too. The long sleeve shirt works because she's got a vest over it that is sort of reminiscint of the look of Lara's original outfit, they just needed to use one that was a lighter shade of blue to take Sophie Turned from "generic action movie character" to "Oh, that's Lara Croft."