Older women in fighting games

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Ironically the answer to that is also the second reason why the suspension of disbelief reason is interesting, because when I looked into playable female characters that are over 40, the examples I discovered were found in some of the most physically demanding and combat heavy genres in video games, RPGs, first person shooters, and fighting games.

Even more ironically it was fighting games games that held some of the most aged examples, such as twins Oume and Otane, and Oshima, from the Japanese fighting game series Power Instinct , coming in at and years old respectively. Other older ladies very believably kicking ass in fighting games include Sindel in the Mortal Kombat series, and Sonya Blade specifically in Mortal Kombat X where she is portrayed as being in her late 40s.

As for first person shooters, Overwatch has a 60 year old sharpshooter named Ana. I have myself shown that there ARE older women in video games. While that is true, I think it is worth noting that none of the examples I have just listed are what I would consider a lead character i. They either exist as side characters that are playable for a short amount of time, such as Wynne, or they appear as part of a roster of equally important or discardable characters for the player to choose from.

None of these women are the focus of their own story, and I think this is a shame. Her age meant a long and rich background, full of memory and regret.

Mechanically she is also one of the best characters in the game, the party healer who is also a real badass in combat. All of this is great fodder for a lead video game character.

Female lead characters in video games are considered a risk within the industry. At least the Naruto fighting games had the old puppet lady playable. Checkmate88 posted Frankly I feel like including shonen fighters kind of dilutes the point a bit in the whole thing.

Anime, especially older anime, tried to make some sort of world that could actually function within its cast and as a way to diversify the cast they would almost always have some older characters on the side and there was a reasonable shot that they'd end up being an older woman.

Because of this you have two very different dynamics coming together and thus they really aren't as easy to give a fair correlation in this scenario. Anime games will end up with a lot more old women because they're able to put in all of the non-main characters into the ring, but fighters won't be able to do the same because they're trying to put in a bunch of tropes into the ring and very few of them actually apply to older women.

Thus you will have a pretty wildly different take depending on the era of the media in question. Genkai in YYH Dark Tournament and Chiyo in Naruto shippuden games even when we include shonen fighters due to that genre shounen battle manga" already having issues with lacking female badasses getting one on the older side is even rarer.

Hell Jump Force opted for the cutesy Bisky over the Genkai so no guarantee even older badass women from anime have a shot at getting in like going back to naruto. Meanwhile Sarutobi, The 4th Raikage, Tsuchikage, Mifune, Danzo all there repping older gents oh and we of course have the whole Jiraiya and Tsunade both over fifty but Tsunade has her youthful looks due to medical ninjutsu shenanigans i do think the everyone is a the protag in their own story thing to be very hit or miss also might wanna do something with that later I think Japan in this regard is more or less lost but would be cool if western fighters could bolster the aged ladies in fighters Japan does like older manly doods tho More topics from this board How good is this game?