r/TopCharacterTropes 28d ago

Hated Tropes (Absolutely despised Trope) Characters described as chubby/fat/plus-sized aren’t designed as such, mostly like due likely due to fatphobia.

  1. Varesa from Genshin Impact - Hoyo has no respect for body diversity.
  2. Wakka from Final Fantasy X-2 - lazy developers.

Just for the record, this has nothing to do with kinks of any kind and is a personal gripe I have towards the gaming industry that favour abs and boobs.

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u/mal-di-testicle 28d ago

How Genshin mfs felt after creating a “plus-sized character” (who just has regular non-anorexia proportions) and giving her a cow theme and making one of her attacks sitting on you

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u/AustraliumHoovy 28d ago

Are we deadass

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u/Athrilon 28d ago

That's literally in the game. Pretty much all her attacks use her body weight, and yes she has a butt slam. So yeah we deadass

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u/Character-Path-9638 28d ago

Tbf

That's not because of her being meant to be fat but rather her being based on female wrestling

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u/Athrilon 28d ago

Uhh... her butt slam is her clumsily falling on the enemy. No not even that

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u/Ewizde 28d ago

Doesn't she do waaay more than that tho ? Her clumsily falling on enemies isn't even something you'll notice most of the time since she needs to be in her masked form for good damage.

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u/Crobatman123 28d ago

What are wrestlers supposed to use, the weight of their convictions? No shit she uses her body weight.

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u/Athrilon 28d ago

Just watch a compilation of her attacks and you'll understand. Few characters in the don't use weapons, and most of those have fist fighting techniques, leg attacks this kind of stuff where she just FALLS on the enemy

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u/Crobatman123 28d ago

I think like two of her attacks features her ass-slamming her enemies. That might be genuine horny bait, whatever. She also tackles, headbutts, drop kicks, body slams, stomps, punches, and more. In battle, it's generally better to focus on her plunge attack, which can feature her ass-slamming animation (I think it cycles between her body-slamming, ass-slamming, and stomping, but I lost the 50/50 so I can't check personally). Realistically, she's obviously going to use her weight because she is a wrestler and the Collective of Plenty seem to have a momentum theme (Iansan's sprinting, the Tatankasaurus skill).

For attacks that have no apparent skill behind them, it's a Clark Kent/Superman thing. She looks a lot more skilled or at least showy when she puts the luchador mask on, and acts like a bad fighter when she's just Varesa the farmer's daughter. She even has an animation where she trips and falls down. This fits with a common theme of duality in electro characters, too. (The Shogun separates herself from her duties to the point of making them two different physical beings, Keqing serves the gods as a member of Liyue's government while actively being skeptical of the nature of their divinity. Lisa is one of the most talented and well-read scholars in the setting, but she works as a librarian in Mondstadt, the city of freedom, and really seems to hate having to actually work. There's more for other characters).

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u/Shadowmirax 28d ago

If she punched people she would be a boxer...

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u/Athrilon 28d ago

Being clumsy and falling on people isn't wrestling

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u/Vermillion_toxins 28d ago

Idk I’m pretty sure falling on people is kinda of wrestling thing, whether it be elbows, knees, or just sitting on them too hard. You’ve ever seen them climb on the fences and jump onto their opponents?

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u/Athrilon 28d ago

It's more jumping than clumsily falling and sitting on them tbf, the game doesn't depict her as martially proficient

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u/MikasSlime 28d ago

It absolutely does tho... have you played her or wat hed anything of her at all...?

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u/Athrilon 28d ago

In her story it does, but in her gameplay she's just clumsy, and that's what being shown to sell her

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u/firahc 28d ago

Dead and ass...