If you could take over an entertainment company or an IP and do something petty/out of spite like they have done (for example, 2016 Ghostbusters which was a middle finger to real fans or Disney throwing out the EU only to bastardize it). What is 1 to 3 things you would do just to return the pettiness or for revenge?
I would do the following:
Make the Rey "Skywalker" movie and have Rey give up on everything and become a grumpy hermit just to see the critics/shills twist themselves into knots explaining why that was brilliant for Luke but sexist for Rey.
Hire someone to actually adapt Wheel of Time and cast people who look like they are described in the book so I could sit back and laugh at the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Take over a company that makes romance novels or romance movies and have all the male love interests be balding, overweight, middle aged men who are unemployed. When there is backlash I'll just lecture the women about body positivity and unrealistic expectations.
I would buy Intelligent Systems and force them to make a new Fire Emblem game, however this time there would be no homo romance between any of the playable characters, not even in subtext; Then, I would specifically order them to make one of the villains an extreme caricature of a gay man, think of the most extremely unflattering stereotype, just so he can die a very painful death in the end.
The reason? Simply so I could get rid of all the faggots, trannies and fujos that have infested the community ever since Awakening. It would be a huge shitshow, they would be so outraged that they would probably ditch the series completely.
After all that IS would release another FE game, but this time it would be an actual tactic RPG instead of a glorified dating sim.
Fujoshis honestly need to be named first in the shit list. They ruin tons of characters in all franchises but fire emblem is honestly one of the worst since its in "cannonically".
What is a Fujoshi?
It's a japanese term, it means "rotten girl" and is normally used for female fans who tend to "ship" two male characters in any kind of fiction whether it makes sense or not.
Ohhhh. Ok. Ive heard of that. Do the content creators take them seriously?
Could you get them to make the next Paper Mario go back to the style of 64 and TTYD while you're at it?
In Fire Emblem 7, in the desert mission, one of the twin warrior bosses is a man called "Jasmine", who acts rather effeminate. It always felt nice to murder him, for some reason. I'm sure there are multiple other examples we could come up with.
But yeah, none of those were the Big Bad, afaik.
Fire Emblem has a recurring theme of two highly questionable gay incest brothers being throwaway villains. Like Anna, they seem to transcend space and time, and exist in multiple realities at once. They're reliably two berserkers or warriors, make creepy comments about each-other throughout their stage, and often have some kind of weird pick-up line for the protagonist if the MC is the one to kill them.
For our younger gamer crowd, they might be most memorable (in that they weren't like a stage 3 random minor boss) in FE: Awakening, as the DLC bosses invading the swimsuit competition level that was distributed for free for a while.
Never played. Is there one that is safe? Sucks that so many hobbies are infiltrated like that
It's kind of hard to say, gay characters in FE are nothing new, some old games (like SNES-era old) had characters that are gay but they're never the annoyingly flamboyant, in-your-face kind of gay.
The problem is the fanbase itself, since the game allows you to play "matchmaker" with characters other than the MC it becomes a nesting ground for the worst kind of internet dwellers, like fujos, furries, tumblrites and other kinds of bottom-feeders, who fight over whose "ship" is the best and which character is a "gay icon" or any other crap.
If I had to recommend a "safe" FE I think Sacred Stones for the GBA would be a good start, it's neither too old nor too new but enough fo you to feel the hang of it, and of course, no "surprise" characters.
Awakening, ironically, is also technically "safe", the only character who raises an eyebrow is the goth mage girl who simps for your character regardless of gender, but she can onle be romanced by the male MC anyway so there's that.
I've never played the GC ones but I would stay away from it, the discourse of these games is tainted by fujos who are convinced that the MC is gay just because he never hooks up with anyone.
There's also the older ones, these tend to be a little bit harder but you can try them if you want.
Tharja is....yeah
Thanks!
Anything pre-Awakening is safe, though suffers from various forms of "fuck you" difficulties. The GBA games are generally considered the best jump in points.
Fates is the only one that is outright advised to be avoided, not just because the translation is bad and censored but its also just a straight up bad game that shows how little IS understands their own series. All the other controversial titles have redeeming elements enough to still be worth playing, except Fates.
Seconding the Game Boy Advance Fire Emblems, especially FE7/Blazing Blade (or just "Fire Emblem" in the States).
You also get to experience some pretty crunchy critical-hit animations, whose visceralness has never been replicated in the 3D games. Seriously, a crappy cut-in and cringe quip doesn't even touch a Swordsmaster splitting into five speed-clones and slicing the enemy into bits.