Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-146.90.86.5-20150917130942/@comment-1672596-20150918163039

Well, in terms of Quiet, she's at least a badass in the sense that she knows how to use a gun, is a pretty proficient combatant, and pulled off several insane stunts, you know, the definition of a badass. Other than that, yeah, she's definitely sexualized. And as Fantomas points out, it's worse as she's practically a victim yet Kojima still tries to have us leer her.

Dead or Alive may have been pretty bad with the fanservice as well, but at least none of the girls in that series were actually victimized to the degree Quiet was.

And let's face it, Kojima doesn't exactly paint the girls in a flattering manner, since he pretty much stinks with romance. He's about as bad as George Lucas in that regard (Revenge of the Sith and that painful dialogue between Anakin and Padme would like to say "hi"). Aside from the examples both 64 and Fantomas cited regarding how the romance was done badly, there was also Rosemary and Raiden's romance in MGS2 (in fact, that was the reason Rosemary's basically the Metal Gear equivalent of Scrappy Doo right now. What's even worse is that apparently this was based on Kojima's own love life with his wife). Even in the few instances where the girls AREN'T love interests, they generally are botched (take Cecile, for example: She was basically depicted as a sultry French stereotype in Peace Walker, not to mention the infamous May 1968 Tape basically had her implying that she may have long lost her virginity as a result of that period and even going as far as to imply that all French females were like her thanks to that time period). And that's not getting into how, as 64 implied, the BB Corps mocaps were actually going to be posed in the nude (and it wasn't just the BB corps: Apparently some random female soldier would have been found nude as a decoy when trying to find Naomi Hunter shortly after the Laughing Octopus fight).

And quite frankly, The Boss really didn't have any motivations regarding her kid until Peace Walker. It wasn't even indicated whether Ocelot and The Boss were even aware of their blood relationship.