With the release of Metal Gear Solid 5, Eurogamer's Aoife Wilson challenges series director Hideo Kojima's previously-made comments that players will "feel ashamed" when they learn the plot reason for Quiet's combat bikini and fishnet attire: Mika's looks the camera dehumanizes her at every turn. ![]() The result is that the fandom is encouraged to comment about R. the camera lingers on their backsides and cleavage during the slow-motion sequences of their intros, outros, and special attacks. This presents a stark and deeply depressing contrast to how women in fighting games have been treated. The people who participated in this meme did not zoom in on shots of Ryu's muscles and post the word "abs" over and over, although many references to his physicality did occur the crux of the meme was about Ryu participating in an imagined relationship with someone, in both a sexual and an emotional sense. ![]() When the "Hot Ryu" meme began, inspired by little more than Ryu's new beard design, entries in the meme focused on personifying and humanizing Ryu. At The Mary Sue, the alliterative Maddy Myers invites us to talk about Hot Ryu, the fandom nickname given to an alternate costume for franchise mainstay Ryu in the upcoming Street Fighter V, and how his treatment differs from the sexual objectification we often associate with women characters:
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