Ash is more moe than both
And him to the Trap category
Military Chicks - Cammy (SF), Leona (KOF), Sonya Blade (MK)
Amorphous characters - Twelve (SF), Double (SG), Arakune (BB)
The Bruce Lee Rip-offs - Fei-Long (SF), Jann Lee (DOA), Liu Kang (MK)
But XIII’s art makes them look like moeblobs.
And considering the modern moe trend started only during the turn of the millennium (mostly after producers noticed the periphery male demographic around CCS), I’d say they predate moe.
I figured they made Athena look like that as a throwback to her Psycho Soldier appearance. She looks really “moe” in the concept art for that game.
Doesn’t explain Yuri though.
this one was the scariest, predating those three
youtube.com/watch?v=0gJhRorlY-o#t=2198
also that game had another character archetype:
Pantera. like Guilty Gear’s I-no
I’m confused. All I saw was the Pillsbury Doughboy’s daddy getting owned. Hardly scary, and it doesn’t help that the gaame is a blatant KI rip off.
it was scary in the mid-90s and if you played the game in the dark. but then, at that time even RE1 was considered scary
Those characters don’t pre-date Moe at all. Moe has been around for YEARS it’s only become a focus in the last 10 as it’s the center of a trend.
In what way is Ash a trap character? Dude is more like Benimaru in my opinion.
He isn’t as deceiving as say, Bridget or Poison, who practically have to be researched to find out the truth, but a lot of people assume Ash to be a chick at first glance.
When I think of it, I’m pretty sure Amane from BB counts.
Athena was never fat though.
Yooo we cant leave out my favorite fg constant: The fatman!!!
Rufus (SF), Bob (Tekken), Puff (Smash), Juggernaut (XmvsSf), Mr. N (Divekick), Astaroth (SC)
I guess its generally more of a “Big” archetype" but the straight up fat ones forever have a special place in my heart :3
Oh hey Psycho Soldier didn’t exist then. Stop being stupid.
Except the trope as it is didn’t exactly exist back then. Even a bit of casual research on the web will show that the trope started getting codified around the mid to late 90s with most ur-prototypical examples of the trope starting to appear then. Meanwhile, other tropes/archetypes in anime such as the pop idol and schoolgirl have been around longer and were well established tropes by 1986 when the original games first came out. More importantly, even Athena’s characterization is more around those same lines (she doesn’t really have the traditional *moekko[/i traits]). However, the issue is that it seems that SNK just took the modern moe trend and applied it to her (and Yuri) and made her look like something out of a KyoAni.
If you think that design is KyoAni you don’t know KyoAni
Can we please stop using the word “Trap”, it’s highly offensive.
Let me say…I hate Moe, hate it. Just makes me want to gag, and I really dislike them in fighting games.
Amane certainly counts. If Ash wore a dress people would have to look it up, cause everything about him looks female except having a pair of jugs.
Agreed. Let’s be completely unbiased here and call them “it”.
the hips
why are they lying to me
Small featherweight childlike kung fu girl :
-Ling Xiaoyu(Tekken), Eileen(Virtua Fighter), Hotaru Futaba(Garou), Uriko Nonomura(Bloody Roar).
Robo-girl:
-Aigis, Labrys(P4A), Alisa Bosconovitch(Tekken).