Full disclaimer: we couldn’t care less about superheroes, and we know nothing about video games. Yet, we have a huge respect for concept art and character design, top artists! So when we saw this video of the Gummy Surprise Venom’s skin, licking white glaze and twerking with a transparent iridescent miniskirt, we immediately knew we needed to investigate further.
Which led us down the rabbit hole of content analysis, objectification, and countless smash-or-pass tier lists about the game. It goes deep. Look, we might be too attached to actual flesh-and-blood bodies to develop parasocial romantic relationships with video game characters, but in a design world that feels increasingly grim, the idea of getting paid to make characters hotter and their asses bigger has us shout: how do we get that job?!
Characters also have Physics