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Who's the Most Popular Female Character in Gaming?
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I would go with Lara Croft and Peach.
However a very underlooked character, especially after this year, is Isabelle. Animal Crossing is on its way to sell 40m+ copies accross a very large audience.
That's a good point. She's not as big in the game as she was in new leaf but she's still popular as heck. Everyone likes Isabelle
Thanks for the word vomit.
I disagree with your "personal" barometers.
You disagree with mine.
That's fine. Moving on now.
"Oh yeah, she's from the Mario games" is still recognition imo.
Lara is more iconic for sure.
I guess.
But I don't think she's anywhere near as well known or popular as Lara though.
It's cool. We're good.
I don't play League but I feel like it would be the fox girl / Ahri?
The only ones I know are Ahri and Akali from K/DA and Jinx from whenever she got introduced years ago. Ahri would make sense since I doubt they wouldn't put the most popular one in their virtual group that promotes the game.
My point is, do people actually LIKE Peach or do they just know of her?
No way, I wouldn't even be able to pick her out of a crowd. I didn't even know there was a designated female character model for the game.
Right. Especially if you approached them with Lara's latest two redesigns. (AKA Her look in the last two decades)
And mostly the recognition will come due to Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider film.
The character in-game doesn't even use twin pistols anymore.
She is only recognizable to a specific older audience.
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In the latest Magic School Bus Rides Again film, Ms. Frizzle takes a very familiar appearance:
Because yes, Lara Croft is one of the most iconic female videogame character (All due to the 90's)
But you'll be hard-pressed if you want any of the kids watching Netflix getting that reference (Starting with that Lara doesn't even look like that in the main entries since Tomb Raider: Anniversary in 2007)
She's not popular any longer.
Those saying "Ellie" aren't that far off, Ellie is popular, not iconic. Because she just got a relevant game release a couple of months ago.
I doubt her popularity will remain though. So next month could be anyone, could be Peach if something Mario-related happens.
That's a fair point.
I think these two are the most known female characters.
I would say Samus has slightly more wide appeal from stuff like Smash Bros, and her being an important part of videogame history.
I'd possibly throw in Chica from FNaF and Ramirez from Fortnite:
But worldwide, Japan too, Alex could be the one... 🤔
She's still the princess of Mario games in those games.
it's funny that all the geometry budget in the loaded cover went to her hip and legs lmaoLara by far, she made it to the cover of two mainstream magazines
Again, I'd argue Jill Valentine is more well-known than Chun-Li.
Based solely on film presence and Resident Evil being far more popular.
that woman who has a game series named after her but you won't be able to play her in a game with her name on it until 2073
I'd possibly throw in Chica from FNaF and Ramirez from Fortnite:
But worldwide, Japan too, Alex could be the one... 🤔
Yea, I could see some variant of Ramirez winning too...Bright Bomber/Cuddle Team Leader, etc.
I just asked my kid for fun...male/Jonesy female/Bright Bomber, lol.
Oh, I agree. It's just suprising to see so many people vote for her. Warms my retro heart. (Also she needs to be in Smash as an alt of Pacman, while i'm here.)
Peach is probably the most iconic for better or worse, but in terms of popularity I bet Chun-Li or Lara Croft would actually take it. People know who Peach is but I don't know that that many people actively love her as a character.
Resident Evil is the bigger franchise of the two, true. But you're far more likely to find someone who recognizes Chun-Li than Jill. Though that's in part Capcom's fault for letting Jill go underutilized for so long, only recently bringing her back for RE3 Remake.
It also helps that Peach has had a consistent design pretty much since Super Mario World, while Lara has had a few redesigns and her PS1 iterations is easily her most iconic.
Also, I don't get the "she had movies" argument. Aside from it appealing to film as a higher art from to legitimize a game character (which makes increasingly less sense these days), like, everyone knew who Sonic was before he hit the silver screen, but its not like him being there now has made him more popular than Mario.
