Because they think stories work by homeopathy. It gives them a basic, proven world and story, without the hassle of making their own, that they think they can fuck with. Said fucking is also usually done with an air of asserting ownership, and signalling a virtue, either corporate trendiness (LotR as GOT) or political correctness (gender and race bending).

In other words, I don't think they can see the damage they cause, because the endeavour is to distort the source material for their own purposes.

Wanna hear a joke? What do you get when you take the undertones of toxic relationship and domestic abuse out of Harley Quinn?

The Joker! With tits!

And that's precisely what they have done to the character, except she's supposed to be heroic for it.

Isn't that pretty much exactly what they have made Harley Quinn though? They just pretend she isn't a fucking villain.

You actively begin to shun the societal view of what a woman is, and alienate yourselves to it, and wonder why your fellow rebels eventually stop identifying with being a woman? Gee, I wonder who's the real misogynist.

Does a greek myth have a version pre-existing a book published 8 AD? Obviously. Hesiod, an actual greek and the guy responsible of most written forms of greek myths, wrote one down, likely based on a pre-existing oral one, in which Medusa is just born that way.

Ovid had this thing where he routinely depicted the gods just plain hating humans. Not acting about as unreasonably as one might expect an antropomorphic personification of a natural, sociological or psychological force, and as the greeks and romans traditionally depict them, but acting in ways I can only describe as punching down.

Pretty sure that's another retcon by the roman Rian Johnsson that was Ovid.

Before watching: Unlikely. The progressive elements of ME were fairly minor, there were some downright unprogressive ones (like most of Miranda's screentime, including the camera angles). The main problems were more due to a thematic and genre shift in transition from 1 to 2, the ensuing spiderweb of poor writing choices, and wasting the mid part of a trilogy on a pointless, distracting side-story instead of the main conflict, and therefore needing to cram the last two acts of the sory in one game, giving up, and jumping straight to act 3.

And Andromeda is the result of overall hackery.

EDIT: After watching: Well, that was supremely interesting. I'd really like the over 5min TL;DW rule reinstated to this place, but the basic gist of things seems to be that ME consciously virtue signals about diversity being our strength, and the story seems to push incorporation of new demographics as the replacement for tribalistic identitarian conflict. Yet at the same time there is a strong, likely unconcious undercurrent of homogenisation. Diversity is not shown as a weakness as such, but definitely a source of tribalistic conflict, but initiation of that tribalistic conflict is at the same time willified and condemned. The primary examples given being the First Contact war, Human nationalism and Cerberus, Quarians vs Geth, and Reapers vs all sufficiently advanced organic life. And that still ignores the juicy backstory example of the Rachni Wars.

Yet at the same time, the ultimate solution the game seems to be pushing towards is homogenization. Undoing the divide between in- and outgroups, synthetic and organic life. All of the sudden diversity is not our strength anymore, but an obstacle to be overcome. This is the choice in the ending-o-tron the game seems to be pushig towards. The alternatives given for this are domination and eradication of the outgroup by the ingroup, or being eradicated in turn by the outgroup. For all their posturing, the choice most suggested by all the messaging is absent: harmonious, diverse coexistence is not on offer, or even discussed.

And not just homogenization of separate demographics, but also within them, with humans becoming increasingly samey-looking, and many other species having outgrown genetic diversity and become increasingly samey.

Nintendo is casual. Both in terms of accessibility to games, and in terms of their image, so it doesn't bear the same stigma as the rest of the hobby to these people.

I guess I'm gonna get flak for this, but that's not the problem. It's fine to start your story with an already competent hero. But they still need opposition, adversity, compelling qualities and drama. Things that seems to have been excised with the westernized elements of the animated film.