Ethical_Radical

idk i just sort of feel that tomb raider and lara croft are perfect because what they were and became. lara croft started out as a female indiana jones in the 90s and then as society started to recognise the problem with that genre the games changed with it. they slowly started dressing her up more (less cleavage) with each game, gave her less conventionally attractive features (wide build, muscly arms, larger nose, softer jaw), started surrounding her with people of colour (her best friend's polynesian, her girlfriend-ex-situationship-friend is asian), made her three dimensional with good and bad character traits, she stops actually taking any artefacts, even the last game was entirely dedicated to lara joining an indigenous city to stop an artefact from being stolen and then taking the queen's place - after accidentally getting her killed - in their religious sacrificial ritual to save the people of the city