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Originally Posted by RamenRider

Not at all. What's important is that a female figure resembles the person it portrays. This figure looks like Brie Larson in a suit, as it should. Her body looks like that.

I am not too sure how we can make the judgement call as to what is “important”. For me, it’s important that female characters look feminine.

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Originally Posted by RamenRider

I don't want to imply that that's what you meant to say, but if a collector on an internet toy forum writes "female figures should look feminine" it translate into "boobs and butt aren't big enough, waist is too big" to me.

Well, if this is meant in a perverse sense, then it’s certainly something to be ashamed. BUT, body proportions are a real thing in art, right? If the proportions are wrong, then it does look artistically inferior....

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Originally Posted by RamenRider

Why should this be a thing? Can't a toy company whose main deal is accuracy portray a character accurately? Is your need for a "feminine" figure more important? I don’t think so.

I'd rather get figures that portray body shapes in a realistic way. That doesn’t mean I'm not down for feminine looking figures, if the character really has big breasts and a wasp waist then the figure should mirror that. But don’t artificially enhance a woman’s features just so that her plastic clone looks "feminine".

Having feminine proportions isn’t exactly shying away from reality though. In case it wasn’t clear, I would have said it was a bad looking design if the figure had exaggerated feminine proportions as well.

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Originally Posted by RamenRider

Let’s look at the flipside: If they made a figure of a character like – let’s say the Riddler from Batman. A very average body build, slender and tall. Would you like to have a Riddler figure that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger? Because a male figure should look "masculine", right? What’s more masculine than muscles on top of muscles? And then you would say that that figure is garbage because when did the Riddler ever look like that. By the way, I’m looking forward to someone posting a comic book panel with a buff Riddler, it has to have happened over the years I’m sure. But you guys get the point I’m trying to make here.

But I think you might be overlooking the central reason why no one wants a buff riddler. They don’t want it because that is not how the character has been portrayed in the comics. Captain Marvel/Ms Marvel on the other hand was portrayed in a feminine way. So while most people wont associate Riddler with a buff guy, most would identify Cap Marvel with a feminine looking person.

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Anyways, just my opinion on the matter, you’re all free to like or dislike the figure for your own reasons. Just think about how we’re all talking about a person here before you drop stuff like "the figure looks hotter than her real counterpart".

Agreed that we should take care. But it’s not like Larson will read this thread and be upset about it, right? I mean, I am sure many people would say they think so and so is better looking than another so and so all the time.

Now if we started measuring the worth of persons only in terms of their physical appearance, then that is indeed unacceptable. But I don’t think we went there in this thread.....