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, posted Fri 4 Oct 09:59
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If I was a game designer, I would make some fanservicey character, allow it to build up a pretty decent following and they release a press statement to the extent of, "Hey, by the way, she's a guy." Hilarity would ensue.
They did that already. Her name is Poison, and she's in Final Fight.
*shock*
Anyway, a lot of people used Bridget when it was at Anime Expo 2002. It's scary how well he can lock down opponents with his attacks. He's like Axl on crack.
That's kind of different. Poison's not really a 'popular' character and it's debatable (just check out that thread a few weeks ago) whether or not Capcom intended her/him to be a guy or that Capcom USA sort of influenced his gender.
I'm talking about something like "Hey guys. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but Belldandy has a penis."
LOL!!! Actually, they did do that...
.... with Sakura.
...........SIKE!!
For real though, as far as Poison goes, and as it was listed in the "Big Ol' Book O' Capcom" (aka "All About Capcom Fighting Games, 1987-2000"), that the Japanese developers intended her to be a girl, but since "in America, it is so unthinkable for a man to hit a woman, she was established as a 'new-half'". The US just considered her a girl anyway, now how funny is that (save the fact that they turned her and Roxy's sprites into kind of....questionable lookin' guys in the American SNES version)? Now that term, "new-half" is kind of curious. Basically, it means a girl with....
....well, a girl that's anatomically incorrect. If you look at it totally technically it's a man because of that fact, but a new-half will have 90% (well, should we say, 75%? in Poison's case, heh heh!) a girl's body and mannerisms. A new-half will talk like a girl (in Japan, that's very definite), dress like a girl, act like a girl (once again...)... you wouldn't even know it wasn't completely a girl until well, you're Chibi Son Gokuu and give the old "gender test" (and if you're a fan of old Dragonball you will smell what I'm cookin').
In an interesting book on gender perceptions in Japan entitled "Takarazuka" with some subtitle by an author whose name I can't remember, there is a tiny section on new-halves and how they came about.
Some things make you go "Hmmm...", and others make you go "What?"
"Get it straight or get the BOOT !"
"Sakura -- you're pathetic! ... what ? I said you absolutely SUCK !!"
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"Bridget kicks ass. Sexual ambiguity ahead!" 
