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So only Pokemon has non-white characters? What other Nintendo properties and IPs have non-white characters? (hexbear.net)

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The only character with any melanin seems to be Super Mario (get it? because he's Italian? eh, probably not even from Southern Italy).

Having watched the recent Pokemon Presents, it seems that the next Smash Bros. game is just going to be white, white, and more white. But more than that, does Nintendo have any major BIPOC representation aside from Ganondorf? That chap seems to be the only Black and/or Arab guy around. And he's the villain so that's going to irk even more people.

Idk. Quite a pity that at best you're getting Asian representation, not that that isn't important or anything. Only the Pokemon games have any sort-of BIPOC representation.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Legend of Zelda has a bunch, obvious you mentioned Ganondorf but all the Gerudo have brown skin! They're not all enemies or villains in Breath of the Wild, they're just regular people.

There's the guy that trains you in Punch Out (besides Mike Tyson lol).

I'm sure there's some non Asian POC representation in street fighter or whatever, but I didn't play a lot of fighters.

There definitely isn't a lot though and even when you could customize your main character (like in Animal Crossing) they didn't do the best in representation either until, like, this decade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk enough of LoZ lore but I read somewhere that the Gerudo are a tribe of thieves? I'm playing TotK and there was a line about how the Gerudo are extra dedicated to redeem themselves for following Ganandorf in the past

Same vibes as Lord of the Rings easterlings being the ontologically brown and evil races

But beyond that, yeah they are just yet another people in Hyrule. I don't get why they're all women though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Infinite genocide on the voe sicko-no stalin-gun-1 sicko-fem