You have Wonder Woman, who's basically in a one piece swimsuit for most of her career.
The differences for Wonder Woman
- Besides 70+ years of different outfits, writers, History: Is also context
- #1 The reason/context behind her looking like that, is not specifically for her to eventually open her top to use her powers
- #2 She's not a minor in a School, so there's no concern as to why a SCHOOL Institution would issue/or allow a Student to wear essentially a swimsuit made of paper
- #3 She's not limited in a given situation to either be support, reduced to a literal cheerleader or B plot player who stays out of the way fighting side bosses until the boys are doing their thing elsewhere with BIGGER explosions and sakuga
- #4 And her powerset makes her one of the top strongest in her power class and DC period
Momo’s Quirk is essentially small scale sub-dimension manipulation, that kind of power should be realized, expanded upon, developed.
Like someone else with an extra-dimensional power that can summon shit..
Elizabeth’s basically a god. (I love Elizabeth)
The difference is Wonder Woman is allowed to be realized, she’s not in the picture to be solely eroticized eye candy or the butt of a gag meant to objectify her in a context where’s she’s a spectacle.
Doesn’t mean Wonder Woman has never in Human history has been subject to fanservice or sexualization, it means that the context of fanservice wasn’t her primary function nor the thought process behind how she goes to work in her entirety.
Was it subtle? Enough that i didn’t cringe, i actually laugh because in this show where the writing is overall satisfactory- I DID NOT see this coming. That’s why it works, it’s not predictable.
The action isn’t halting completely so Atom make a “hur dur” face, he’s not even reveling in the situation, he’s trying not to die lol.
- Also why it works, other characters aren’t feeding into the fanservice in-universe- thus not exaggerating it.
- Exaggerated fanservice misses the mark by being obnoxious, MHA suffers this IMMENSELY.
Midnight is hilarious unironically because 90% of time she looks like an idiot, strutting in a classroom full of teenagers, chest perked out lmfao.
She has no pockets, she carried him by hand, she’s getting overwhelmed, and HAS to put him there so she can catch more bodies, otherwise, she’d crush him like a grape if she clenched her fist on accident.
Again, the crucial part is he’s not going “gaga”, and the plot isn’t putting a sparkle filter over the footage to make it whimsical.
Simple enough.
I’m an 80s anime viewer, retro. I’ve seen, laughed at, and enjoy fanservice. Other times it was brutal, but in the context, it works, it wasn’t glorified, wasn’t laughing, it was tragic.
- It’s all about execution. The best fanservice is one you don’t see coming.
- Fanservice that doesn’t STOP everything just to pan on some crotch. That’s why JLU’s fanservice, in this context works
In My Hero Academia, unfortunately I expect it, and it’s always exaggerated. Always creepy.
Trinity 2008 #3-6, Superman gets one shot by a heavy hitter, and guess who steps up to the plate until he's done with his nap? WONDER WOMAN
What didn't happen was she wasn't exploited for fanservice, she was put to use. (She had cake, but she was kicking ass)
- If it were an Anime/Manga, the villain would've smacked her into the ground, Supes would wake up and See Diana's bum sticking up in the air and he gets the iconic anime nosebleed. *Insert laughing here*
The difference is execution, women are attractive, putting a female character in anything will elicit a reaction, visually.
Women looking like women isn’t the issue. It’s execution.
IE. What are you trying to tell us? Dear Writer
The issue is when you go out of your way to contrive a situation to emphasize what's already doing it's job in a more subtle way.
(That’s the issue. That and this series entails a lot of underage kids. Culture gap be damned, you either take your characters seriously or you don’t. MISS ME with that age of consent “culture” shit, that’s not an argument, I will obliterate that excuse like a nuclear warhead)
edit 2025: apparently so did Japan 2023 raising the age of consent lmfao, so we can’t even use that excuse anymore, even their own country is FINALLY waking the hell up.
- Doesn't mean Horikoshi has to make every girl in 1A Diana Prince or wrap em up in a Nun’s habit, it means respect your characters. Realize them.
But when you don't, nor take them seriously, you tend to do what Horikoshi does, occasionally.
To be fair to him, has way too many characters #1 (His fault btw)
2nd, he’s not exploiting them 24/7 (some shit in the anime is BONEs going out of their way to be scumbags), but when it happens on authors part, it’s very awkward: The question is “why” most of the time.
Some people say they watch this with their kids and I’m like:
S5xE1 (One of the various things in the Episode that didn’t annoy me, Momo taking command)
Momo’s tactical mind is something i would like to be more explored ()would’ve liked, her and Izuku brainstorming a plan together to win a big battle would be awesome to see.
This harkens back to that shitty video I made back when, one minute you act like you care & want to give her some identity, the next minute her ass is in the frame.
My Hero is too bipolar, make up your mind.
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