Female Marauder

[pure.Wasted]

Now how did this thread elude my grasp this whole time?

Marauder = female FTW. Samus. Starbuck. How much more proof is needed that a sexy female inside a non-sexy suit of armor/ship is just as sexy? (and very bad-ass, lest someone suggest the connection wasn't made)

Yes, it works as a subversion of expectations, which is what makes it memorable. But it's also been proven to work in other franchises just fine.

I've been behind this movement since Day 1, and I'm still just as behind it as ever before. The game needs more females, and throwing them into purely supporting roles isn't the way to go about it.



On a side-note, how sure are we that everything in the female Banshee build is up-to-speed? "Turbines to speed!" sounds exactly like something the ORIGINAL Banshee (before we got the male pilot) would have said, so why would they switch it... just to switch it?

That's another thing I don't get about having the male pilot be a placeholder. They already HAD a placeholder before they put him there. A unique portrait AND unique, if placeholder, lines (Don't tell me you all forget about that annoying "Are you ready for some death from above?!"). Why would you replace it with something else completely temporary? It makes no sense.

If it IS true, that female pilot has VERY high expectations to live up to.

[FrozenArbiter]

EDIT: Wtf there are 15 pages in this thread, I really did not see that - sorry for (probably) repeating what's already been said.

Off the top of my head, I think the units best suited for being re-done as females are:

Ghosts
Hellions

(which would put the total at 4, with the Banshee and Medivac) EDIT: Or is the Banshee not female anymore? :S

I guess some of the others could work (Vikings maybe? but then they should be called Valkyries really, with the whole shield maiden thing of norse lore).

[Josue]

EDIT: Wtf there are 15 pages in this thread, I really did not see that - sorry for (probably) repeating what's already been said.

Off the top of my head, I think the units best suited for being re-done as females are:

Ghosts
Hellions

(which would put the total at 4, with the Banshee and Medivac) EDIT: Or is the Banshee not female anymore? :S

I guess some of the others could work (Vikings maybe? but then they should be called Valkyries really, with the whole shield maiden thing of norse lore).

This is what I've been thinking.
Protoss already got some diversity with Dark Templars being randomly spawned both models. Why not do the same with terran ghosts? I mean, likewise, spawn male or female terran ghosts?

well? thinking the same thing (about the ghost), ain't we?
EDIT
Voted undecided BTW.

[newcomplex]

I don't really think its nessicary.

I honestly don't think "sexual equality" in a game is a good idea, simply because it really requires a suspension of disbelief. For instance, WoW, which was originally base on a medeval timeset, with originally very medival concepts, the guards of major cities in all races are 50% female. Thats just ridiculous.

Their are too many sociological and biological factors that would make females presence statistically equal to males in a military organization.

its fine. (though the ghost spawning in both genders make sense, I dont see why not)

[DemolitionSquid]

Medevac
Banshee
Ghost
and possibly Hellion.

The Marauder being female is a dumb idea.

[pure.Wasted]

Medevac
Banshee
Ghost
and possibly Hellion.

The Marauder being female is a dumb idea.

You're a dumb idea.

Samus Aran. It has happened. It works. Well.

[DemolitionSquid]

You're a dumb idea.

Samus Aran. It has happened. It works. Well.

Look, more dumbness.

Samus is not a Marauder. Shes closer to, surprise, a Ghost.

[newcomplex]

You people are stupid. Samus aran, that chick from metal gear, or the chick from mass effect.

Those units are exceptions. They would be the starcraft equivelents of HEROS units, not unit portraits.

The entire point of unit portraits is to stereotype. We stereotype the kind of people most often preforming the roles, whether a slick machiavellian and deadly ghost, to the redneck uneducated jockish marine, to the sexy and affirming role of medics.


I dont see how a female marauder, or a female marine would serve to stereotype marines. A good hero unit no doubt, but not a good stereotype.

[pure.Wasted]

Look, more dumbness.

Samus is not a Marauder. Shes closer to, surprise, a Ghost.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize StarCraft had to copy other games' ideas pixel-for-pixel or else they'd be dumb.

You're OK with Metroid having done something that hadn't been mainstreamized before -- putting a female into a bad-ass mech and making it work -- but... not OK with StarCraft taking it one step further?

Yeah, cause that's not like a double-standard at all, or anything.

Those units are exceptions. They would be the starcraft equivelents of HEROS units, not unit portraits.

The entire point of unit portraits is to stereotype. We stereotype the kind of people most often preforming the roles, whether a slick machiavellian and deadly ghost, to the redneck uneducated jockish marine, to the sexy and affirming role of medics.


I dont see how a female marauder, or a female marine would serve to stereotype marines. A good hero unit no doubt, but not a good stereotype.

So we stereotype the working class of Terran society with hick-ish black people?

Hey, nicely done!

[Pandonetho]

lol.

I think the Banshee should be female because well, Banshees are female things right? But I'm fine with it being a male because I liked the model fine.

I'm in the boat for keeping the Marauder male. Would support having 2 Ghost models, 1 male 1 female though really the current Ghost has the face masked so it wouldn't make any difference except for the voice (unless we change up the gear).

I think the Medivac was male in BR4 but I'm not sure. Anyway, the only units I think should be female are the Medivac, Banshee, and the Ghost. The current Hellion not only looks like ass IMO (the unit model), the portrait also looks like ass.

In general I think females having a support role is more fitting, since it kind of just feels wrong to me to have 50% of your army as male marines, and the other 50% as female Marauders, it gives me the feeling that females would start to be dominating the population of military units (since Marauders are so massable).