The Legend of the Last Princess is a hypothetical game concept created in conjunction with the Tropes vs Women in Video Games web series. This short video illustrates a subversion of the traditional Damsel in Distress narrative by placing the Damsel in the starring role.

This totally free supplemental add-on content pack for our Women as Reward video examines how women’s bodies are used not just as a reward for in-game actions but also, via paid downloadable content, as a reward for spending actual money. We then address the most common defense of this kind of objectification and commodification of women’s bodies: the argument that “sex sells.”

Imperfect Dark is a spoof of an actual commercial for the 2000 N64 game Perfect Dark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BtX2...). By applying the real commercial’s treatment of Perfect Dark’s female protagonist to an imagined male character, this animation highlights how the appeal of female heroes is often linked to their sexual desirability in ways that would be absurd if applied to male heroes.