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This category is for video game characters who are explicitly defined as genderfluid, genderqueers, third gendered, or otherwise identified as being outside the gender binary paradigm. Non-binary characters may be identified as transgender, but not as a rule.
Many early female video game characters (such as Ms. Pac-Man) are identical to an existing male character, except for a visual marker of their femininity, such as pink bows, lipstick and long eyelashes. [72] [73] Female video game characters have been criticized as having a tendency to be objects of the "male gaze". [74]
However, from 2007 to 2014, they found that there was a decrease in the sexualization and objectification of females characters in video games, with an influx of positive characteristics such as female characters being portrayed as strong, capable, and attractive, as well as giving these women more character development.
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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games. The series was financed via crowdfunding , and came to widespread attention when its Kickstarter campaign triggered a wave of online harassment against Sarkeesian, [ 2 ] causing her to flee her home at one point.
Erica Anderson is a fictional character in the 2011 video game Catherine.She is a transgender woman, and her portrayal was considered controversial by Western audiences. She is a confidant to the protagonist, Vincent Brooks, working for the Stray Sheep bar, who, like her, suffers from potentially fatal nightmares.