overweight character

[jeaniemicheli]

We need big sized female character, MK1 takes on new Era right? wheres my beloved chubby female, how racist is this game, if it doesnt have it?

[breadman]

did you not see kitana's butt

[Furry Chipmunk]

😀

[kyna]

i actually unirocally kinda agree
why not have some extra female body types
while having guys like kotal, shao and bo rai cho

while people seem to tend on hating marisa - i appreciate capcom got courage to design something fsr beyond generic archetype

[Leon]

The Dove plus size game woman should be a guest char xD

[Castyles]

Is Sheeva a joke to you?

[Shoah Kahn]

"THICC" is a psy-op to make females unhealthy 🤮

[KripTed]

This is a joke right?

Being chubby isn't a race lol.

[Mike]

Well for one if a person dislikes fat people, thats not "racisim" lol and if your seeking "representation" in FGs, SF6 probably has the most modern roster your looking for.

MK has always (more or less) kept their characters consistent (with a few retcons and costume changes here and there), with characters generally staying the same since their introduction. As well as the ascetic being 80s martial arts movies, mixed with asian culture/ascetics. I would be curious if you found me 80's martial arts movie that features a fat out of shape women (or man) beating the crap out of everyone.

If you want to play as a fat/chubby female with her 99% fat body jiggling everywhere, then thats your prerogative, but you will be highly disappointed knowing most FGs don't have these type of characters because they dont fit FGs. The closest "fat" characters I can think of in popular FGs are Bo' Rai Cho (from MK), Bob (from Tekken), and Rufus (SF4).

Originally posted by kyna:

i actually unirocally kinda agree
why not have some extra female body types
while having guys like kotal, shao and bo rai cho

while people seem to tend on hating marisa - i appreciate capcom got courage to design something fsr beyond generic archetype

Probably because most real life top female body builders, use testosterone, and steroids (PEDs) to make their bodies look like men and its very unnatural/unhealthy looking (same for some men who over use PEDs).

Look I have no problem if a NATURAL female body builder was represented in a FG, but real women body builders don't look like characters like Marisa. You get characters like Marisa if you go deep into PEDs, steroids, testosterone enhancers ...etc.

I can name a few excellent FG females that look more like natural female body builders: Makoto (SF3,SF4), Lidia (Tekken 7), Darli Dagger (Sam Sho), SheHulk (MvC3), Venessa Lewis (VF my favorite), Sheeva (MK), Kefla (DBFZ), many female wrestlers (in wrestling games).....etc.

[kyna]

real yoga masters can't stretch their limbs like dhalsim as well, y'know
i mean, idk why look for naturalism in a comix-stylised games
and mk setting is a pure fantasy, so it's not gotta even be a human female character
yet we got slim fitness model for jacqui (i bring her up since she have zero supernatural powers) instead of incarnation of Andrulla Blanchette or Lenda Murray
that's tasteless in some way, i can't see anything wrong with going over the generic body type towards overweight ones, muscular or obese

Originally posted by Mike:

I would be curious if you found me 80's martial arts movie that features a fat out of shape women (or man) beating the crap out of everyone.

Sammo Hung did well in Xia ri fu xing :D
https://youtu.be/wSRb6tjgCs4

[Slam Masters]

That could be a sumo wrestler in theory, since Bo Rai Cho no longer uses that style.

[Antasmunchie]

I want my blue haired, bowl cut hairstyle, overweight, painfully loud, extremely angry, unattractive white chick and my GIRLBOSSES Kitana Jade Mileena Nitara Ashrah Sareena Li Mei

[popsicle]

Originally posted by Castyles:

Is Sheeva a joke to you?

Sheeva is too lean & muscular for his taste.

[Mike]

Originally posted by kyna:

real yoga masters can't stretch their limbs like dhalsim as well, y'know
i mean, idk why look for naturalism in a comix-stylised games
and mk setting is a pure fantasy, so it's not gotta even be a human female character
yet we got slim fitness model for jacqui (i bring her up since she have zero supernatural powers) instead of incarnation of Andrulla Blanchette or Lenda Murray
that's tasteless in some way, i can't see anything wrong with going over the generic body type towards overweight ones, muscular or obese

Originally posted by Mike:

I would be curious if you found me 80's martial arts movie that features a fat out of shape women (or man) beating the crap out of everyone.

Sammo Hung did well in Xia ri fu xing :D
https://youtu.be/wSRb6tjgCs4

I don't care if its "pure fantasy" because average/casual players (most of the people who buy FGs) want to play as beautifully naturally fit looking characters, and not what the modern world is trying to change into beautiful/natural (unhealthy body types). There is a reason why MOST if not all fat FG characters (Bob, Rufus,...etc) are considered joke characters buy their creators and the fanbase. So what would make you think a fat female character would be treated any different?

I mean no disrespect to real women body builders who take their craft seriously (even with PEDs), but lets be honest, no matter what me or you prefer, those body types on women are not popular in terms of mainstream appeal. A women that has as much muscle density as a man, with veins popping out at every part of their body, with their natural female features being morphed into male like features (boobs turning into pecs), just are not considered appealing in terms of peak natural female body types.

I personally would have loved a big body male bodybuilder like character in SF6, because the last character we got like that was Abigail in SF5 and his design/gameplay was pretty uninspired imo. The one time Capcom gets that big beefy brawler playstyle down in their new engine, they make it a woman who is as big a Zangief smh.

I mean look at the controversy of females in MK. NRS decided to go for more realistic proportions on females over making every female a playboy model with DDD cup sizes like they were in MK9 and people lost their crap and went insane.

Lastly, Its funny you posted Xia ri fu xing because I was actually going to mention him in my original post but I honestly did not think anyone would know who he was lol. Also Bo Rai Cho is pretty much this type of character in the MK universe so even he was covered.

[kyna]

ikr, and i'm not about dying over it in the end of the day anyway
all i'm thinking it'd be rather nice to have some of those sometimes, no matter how exactly such characters would be treated or appeal