It's easier to take Barret's character out of context with his very limited role in Advent Children, so I wasn't really counting it - also because the guy in the article I was critiquing was only referring to the original game.
Splintered said:Although it's more just a few guys thought it would give Barret's dialogue an extra flavor and didn't think of the implications down the road.
@Splintered: You'd have a good argument if other people in Corel speak that way as well.
Man:
...Got no job... I can't even show my face. 'Bout all that's left for me is to just live in this hole all day.
Men:
Well, lookey here! Never thought I'd ever see your face again.
They kick you out of another town or somethin'?
You destroy everything you touch.
Men
You got a lot of balls comin' back here!
Look at this place! It's all your fault North Corel turned into a garbage heap!
Why doncha say something!?
Or did ya forget what you done here already?
[post of awesome]
From what I can find, Nomura did not intend on the Mr T similarity when designing him, so this connection may simply be down to the english translators? Unless "Foo" was also used in the japanese as well =p.
It's easier to take Barret's character out of context with his very limited role in Advent Children, so I wasn't really counting it - also because the guy in the article I was critiquing was only referring to the original game.
It almost wants me to have him be the main character.
I mean come on it would be fun if there was an RPG character based on Barret.Although I have a feeling it would have to be a Western RPG in order for it to happen.
All this fierce love for Barret makes me very happy.
I think Mr T is a ridiculous caricature... but not of a black man. He's just a ridiculous caricature.
It's very simple in my mind. If there was nothing to Barret's character and he was just a big scary dude spouting foul language, yes, he'd be a stereotype. But there IS more to his character, much much more. So he ISN'T. Case closed.
what i can say is that the "angry black man" stereotype is something that is so overplayed that it can be considered harmful.
I don't think it's so much that you CAN'T do those things; it's just that, if you're going to do them, you should be aware of the implications they carry. Know what you're doing with your creative endeavor and own it. That's kinda your responsibility with any choice you make, as a creator - even when there's no "right" way to do something, you try to do it as well as you can.Force said:But I still don't like this idea that, in order to avoidd being 'racist' you have to cut off entire avenues of creativity. If you want to have a black character, you can't make him angry, or any number of things that might be considered stereotyping, regardless of how developed said chaarcter is. Better still, if you're not black, you just can't write black characters because you can't understand.
If you want to make a female character, you can't have her EVER need help from a male lead, or she's instantly a helpless woman.
So on and so forth.