Female Characters in Video Games

• Lara Croft 
  

• Ada Wong 
  

• Cammy
  

• Kitana

• Mileena
  

• Mona Sax

• BloodRayne

• Sonya Blade(mortal Kombat)
  

Female Characters in Video Games

Lara Croft 

Intertextuality-Lara Croft:Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

 HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Lara_Croft" Lara Croft is the main protagonist of  HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Eidos_Interactive" Eidos Interactive's popular  HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Tomb_Raider_Series" Tomb Raider Series. Designed by  HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Toby_Gard" Toby Gard, she has also been featured in films (in which she was portrayed by  HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Angelina_Jolie" Angelina Jolie),  HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Comics" Comics,  HYPERLINK "http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Novels" Novels, and a series of animated short films.

Ada Wong 

Ada Wong is a recurring fictional video game character appearing in the Resident Evil video game series. A mysterious Asian woman, Ada is a cunning and formidable secret agent. She is voiced by actress Sally Cahill in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4, and has also appeared in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.

Ada Wong was included on AOL's "Babe of the Week" feature by the GameDaily staff who described her as a "gun-toting hottie". They cited her second appearance in Resident Evil 4 for her popularity, stating that she has the capabilities to star in her own video game. They also listed her as the 12th hottest game babe, describing her as a "mysterious and seductive vixen." UGO.com ranked her fourth on their list of the top 50 video game hotties, describing her as "drop dead gorgeous" and stating that they anticipate what the series has in store for her in the future. In author Dick Meyer's book titled "Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium", he discusses peoples' inability to differentiate real people and objects between fictional people and objects seen in television, films, and video games. He adds that this may explain why so many teenage boys have crushes on video game characters, citing the tagline used for the above-mentioned article which reads "Virtually Sexy: Ada's there for you when the real babes aren't." The duo of Leon S. Kennedy and Ada was listed as one of the most memorable video game love teams by Alexander Villafania for the Inquirer.

characters like Ada are cited as an example of characters who are in control of their sexuality, but added that this was only due to their "coy desirability"

Cammy

Cammy is a female video game character in the Street Fighter series. She first appeared in the fighting game Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers , which was released for the decades in 1993, as one of the "New Challengers", the four new characters introduced in that title. She is the second female fighter in the Street Fighter series, following Chun-Li. 

In other media

Kylie Minogue as Cammy White

Cammy appears as one of the main heroes in the 1994 film, Street Fighter. She is portrayed by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. In the film, Cammy is a British intelligence agent that is serving as Colonel Guile's intel officer and right-hand woman in the Allied Nations Army.

A two-volume light novel featuring Cammy as the main character, titled Cammy History, authored Yuka Minakawa that was published in 1995 by Wani Books.

Kitana (mortal Kombat)

Kitana is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

Appearances in other media

Film

Talisa Soto as Kitana in Mortal Kombat

Despite being an upper-echelon character in the video games' storyline, Kitana was a supporting character (and unmasked) in both films, and was played by Talisa Soto. Her war fans briefly appeared as her primary weapon in the sequel, but her Edenian background, prior loyalty to Kahn, and relationship with both Mileena and Jade were ignored in both pictures; she was instead described simply as being the rightful heir to the Outworld throne.

Television

Kitana made three appearances in the live-action TV series Mortal Kombat: Conquest, with the role shared by Dara Tomanovich and Audie England. She is fully aware of her Edenian past and the deaths of her parents at Kahn's hands, and works covertly to prevent the Emperor from conquering realms while feigning her allegiance to him.

Kitana was one of the lead characters in the 1996 animated series Mortal Kombat: Defence of the Realm, in which she was unmasked and voiced by Cree Summer. Similar to the films, Kitana is never shown to have even been loyal to Kahn at any time in her life.

Comic books

Kitana and Mileena in the Sister Act comic book

Kitana appears as a secondary character in Malibu’s Mortal Kombat comic books. Her backstory is slightly altered; she is still princess of Edenia and daughter of Jerrod and Sindel, but an adult when Shao Kahn killed Jerrod and seized the realm. Kitana is also under a spell induced by Kahn that makes her forget her past life and believe she is Kahn's daughter. She first appeared during the Goro: Prince of Pain miniseries, joining Mileena, Baraka, and Reptile in searching for Goro in Outworld. During the Battlewave series, Kitana attempted to rebel against Kahn with the assistance of Kung Lao, Baraka, and Sub-Zero.

Mileena (mortal Kombat)

Mona Sax

BloodRayne

Sonya Blade(mortal Kombat)

Mad Men

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The show is broadcast on the American cable network AMC and is produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007 and completed its second season on October 26, 2008. The third season began on August 16, 2009 and will conclude on November 8. It has been renewed by AMC for a fourth season, which will air in 2010.

Set in New York City, Mad Men is set in the 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue. The show centers on Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the agency's creative director, and those in his life, in and out of the office. It also depicts the changing social mores of 1960s America.

Themes

Mad Men depicts parts of American society and culture of the 1960s, highlighting cigarette smoking, drinking, sexism, adultery, homophobia, antisemitism, and racism as examples of how that era was so much different from the present. Smoking, far more common in the United States of the 1960s than it is now, is featured throughout the series; many characters can be seen smoking several times in the course of an episode. In the pilot, representatives of Lucky Strike cigarettes come to Sterling Cooper looking for a new advertising campaign in the wake of a Reader's Digest report that smoking will lead to various health issues including lung cancer.  The show presents a subculture in which men who are engaged or married frequently enter sexual relationships with other women. The series also observes advertising as a corporate outlet for creativity for mainstream, middle-class, young, white men. Along with each of these examples, however, there are hints of the future and the radical changes of the 1960s; Betty's anxiety, the Beats that Draper discovers through Midge, even talk about how smoking is bad for health (usually dismissed or ignored). Characters also see stirrings of change in the ad industry itself, with the Volkswagen Beetle's "Think Small" ad campaign mentioned and dismissed by many at Sterling Cooper, although Don Draper brilliantly spots the nostalgic value and market potential of renaming the Kodak 'wheel' slide projector as the Kodak Carousel.

Postmodernism

Postmodernism (often abbreviated pomo in adjective form) literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is use incritical theory to refer to a point of departure for work of literature, drama, architecture, cinema, journalism and design, as well as in marketing and business and in the interpretation of history, law, culture and religion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, which was the basis of the attempt to describe a condition, or a state of being, or something concerned with changes to institutions and conditions (as in Giddens, 1990) as postmodernity. In other words, postmodernism is the "cultural and intellectual phenomenon", especially since the 1920s' new movements in the arts, while postmodernity focuses on social and political outworkings and innovations globally, especially since the 1960s in the West.

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary refers to postmodernism as "a style and concert in the arts characterized by distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions."The term postmodern is described by Merriam-Webster as meaning either "of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one" or "of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature)", or finally "of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language".

The American Heritage Dictionary describes the meaning of the same term as "Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: “It [a roadhouse] is so architecturally interesting … with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock”.