Are there Any Woke Properties that you Unironically Enjoy?

[Tablet County]

I have a love/hate relationship with Dragon Age Inquisiton. The overarching story is retarded, most of the characters range from boring to retarded, Iron Bull singlehandedly RUINED the Qunari for me, and the gameplay, while better than 2's, is worse than Origin's. But the one character I thought I'd hate the most, Dorian, the Tevinter mage who fled his homeland because he was gay, turned out to be among the handful of characters I genuinely liked (the others being Varric and Cole). That and I did get some enjoyment out of roleplaying, even if it was totally sanitized compared to the previous games.
I also somehow managed to make my male human protag look like a teenage lesbian, which I found oddly amusing.

I'll be honest, I feel like the definition of "Woke" becomes more and more nebulous with each passing year. At least SJW as a term is focused on a very particular type of person and set of beliefs, but the way people use "Woke" has increasingly become some kind of equal and opposite reaction to the left's usage of "Nazi". It seems as if it can apply to something as innocuous as a game whose protag is black and/or a woman or something as outrageous as Terfenstein 3D.

Most if not all the men are sexist in some form of fashion, whether that be directly antagonistic or in the way of coddling/infantilizing women..

To be fair, based on my understanding of the time period it's trying to emulate, that sounds spot-on.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

I guess the game series Hades counts.
It’s not obnoxious about it, but it’s very clearly another property hellbent on Africanizing European history.

 

[Spangled Drongo]

At least SJW as a term is focused on a very particular type of person and set of beliefs, but the way people use "Woke" has increasingly become some kind of equal and opposite reaction to the left's usage of "Nazi". It seems as if it can apply to something as innocuous as a game whose protag is black and/or a woman or something as outrageous as Terfenstein 3D.

I can agree with this and personally have no problem if someone wants to make their own original work where women & minorities play a significant role, what I take issue with is when creators of an existing work cave to fanbase demand and change established lore to seem more in line with current year sensibilities. Or if the entire work is nothing but a means to promote an ideology and has no redeeming qualities and the only entertainment value is to laugh at how awful it is. Then it inevitably flops and the creators blame every -ism and -phobia under the sun, when the truth is there aren't actually many people who want to buy/read/play/watch etc. something that only really exists as propaganda.

For example if somebody was extremely keen on the idea of female Space Marines in WH40k they could always make their own grimdark sci-fi setting with a faction of female super soldiers on space steroids and I wouldn't see an issue, if it was well written and not crammed full of virtue signals. But then you have shit like Thirsty Sword Lesbians and ValiDate, very blatantly made for the SJW demographic, with pronouns everywhere, leftist talking points in place of actual plot and characters whose only defining traits are how oppressed they are and what labels they fit into. Take away the virtue signalling from those sorts of works and you're left with next to nothing, so IMHO it's about whether or not it can stand on its own without the so-called "wokeness".

 

[Exfurminatus Now]

Something is Killing the Children is pretty cool.

 

[Throng of Titans]

I love Baldur's Gate 3, but it's definitely woke.

Funnily enough that's probably why I'd call it dangerous, it's woke, but it's well written and careful enough that it doesn't massively alienate people compared to many of its peers.

Yeah you can install the No Alphabets mod, but unless you pirated the game, Larian and WoTC already have your money.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

This would technically be cheating, since they are not yet released, but I am looking forward to Breeze in the Clouds and Billie Bust-Up.
I also like Undertale, Undertale Yellow, and Eltarune.

 

[Yukako]

I enjoyed the pilot episodes of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, before they went to shit.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Yeah you can install the No Alphabets mod, but unless you pirated the game, Larian and WoTC already have your money.

Honestly, I plan on doing jus that.
(The 24-hour editing period had expired on my last post...)

 

[spiritofamermaid]

I liked season 2 of The Boys. It was frustrating because every time they would continue to paint the villain as a clear MAGA analogue (to the point of literally saying "make america safe again") the overall story was intriguing and interesting enough that I continued watching.

I knew it was woke from the very first episode, but my husband enjoyed the series so much that I was willing to watch it further for him. And here I am.

I have other critiques with it but they're outside the scope of the thread.

 

[Hitman One]

I liked season 2 of The Boys. It was frustrating because every time they would continue to paint the villain as a clear MAGA analogue (to the point of literally saying "make america safe again") the overall story was intriguing and interesting enough that I continued watching.

I knew it was woke from the very first episode, but my husband enjoyed the series so much that I was willing to watch it further for him. And here I am.

I have other critiques with it but they're outside the scope of the thread.

I had to give up on The Boys half way through the last season, it became absolutely insufferable. Antony Starr has been carrying it for so long.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

I had to give up on The Boys half way through the last season, it became absolutely insufferable. Antony Starr has been carrying it for so long.

If it's s3 then idk what you are talking about, haven't got there yet. I'm morbidly excited now.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

I enjoyed Steven Universe for two specific reasons:

One was something innovative: by giving the characters a chimera of arms and eyes, it was possible to give them dual expressions - which made conflicted feelings look way more at odds, and concerted feelings far more concentrated. The clarity of this visual language probably helped attract the thoroughly autistic fanbase.

Two I was able to think my headcanon was true for a big chunk of the series - that this ragtag polycule of lesbos had never tried to save the Earth, but rather had screwed up the colonization. Now they were disgraced, raising a mudblood, and yo-yo'ing between pride and shame. Moreover, they feared home not because they had rebeled against it, but because they had failed it. This meant a moment was coming when their mulatto mom-son would realize he's both the unrepentant perpetrator and innocent victim of an attempted genocide. This would have been pure poetry since the showrunner is half-kike, half-kraut. This Grade A Hopium for the animation world's greatest Freudian Slip kept me watching.

But it did not take long to become 100% the blubbering vagina show, and I could no longer maintain my delusion that this jew had something interesting to say - despite having such a fantastically novel way to say it.

(It also just got way too perverted. They irreversibly established their analogy for fucking, but then tried to walk it back as parents' eyebrows started raising ...by having children, friends, and family all fuck each other in the show ...to prove 'it's totally not a sexual thing.')

 

[Soy Fed]

Gene Wilder's stuff is still great comedy even if it did turn out to be a Trojan horse for a hostile ideology.

 

[RestoreDaFagYiff]

If it's well written and fun I'll enjoy anything. If it's just there to virtue signal or sell me a message I don't care what that message is. Far left and far right films tend to suck because they focus on propaganda vs creativity. Occasionally they can be enjoyable. But not commonly.

For games, Cult of The Lamb, Hades 1 and 2, Ultrakill, Undertale/Deltarune and Enter The Gungeon. Are my favs.
For films, Nimona, The Batman and ghibli stuff.
For TV, (do seinen anime count? A lot of those are pretty woke but I rarely watch TV from America anymore).

 

[Safir]

I like(d) some of KJ Parker's We Wuz Romans N Shiet novels (specifically the Black on Black Violence trilogy and the Turk Supremacy book). He's a male feminist, and hates women like all male feiminists do, but I could overlook that. Then I read his Jewish Question trilogy, in which the (fictional) Jews genocide the Multiracial Whites and the Russians, and it's good, eckshually, everyone who survives lives happily ever after and the reader is supposed to have a celebratory fap. So I sometimes think back to the good bits in the good books, but I don't really want to reread them, I don't want to read what is objectively tragedy knowing the author had a chubby all along.

I liked Alexis Kennedy's Fallen London.

Heartbeat is not woke, but it's a lesbian game for true and honest lesbians.

 

[bashe]

NBC's Hannibal is probably one of my favorite shows even though the writer is a borderline unhinged leftist who wanted to make the fourth season have a veganism theme. It's not as woke as it could have been, if made today it would have been way worse. I was fine with the obsession/infatuation/love-hate relationship between Will and Hannibal since it was an interesting take on a twisted mentor/confidant relationship but once it cranked up the queerbait in S3 it started becoming hard to stomach. It was so very clearly done to cater to the Tumblr crows. You also had Alana start banging a woman out of the blue (ironically done in a pretty "problematic" way plotwise since she doesn't go gay until she's traumatized by a man).

I was checking the thread to see if anyone mentioned this. It's also one of my favorite shows. They race-swapped Crawford and gender-swapped and race-swapped plenty of other characters, but I never cared because it felt like the people making the show truly enjoyed the source material. Plus, there's plenty of dialogue suggesting that the show had a new take on the source material. Hannibal telling Starling that she's an agent in training and not a trainee, the opposite of the line delivered in the silence of the lambs

 

[Big Miss Steak]

I was checking the thread to see if anyone mentioned this. It's also one of my favorite shows. They race-swapped Crawford and gender-swapped and race-swapped plenty of other characters, but I never cared because it felt like the people making the show truly enjoyed the source material. Plus, there's plenty of dialogue suggesting that the show had a new take on the source material. Hannibal telling Starling that she's an agent in training and not a trainee, the opposite of the line delivered in the silence of the lambs

Bryan Fuller is an insufferable leftie, but he's genuinely talented so I will always be a fan. Shame he got removed from the Crystal Lake show/prequel. I didn't care about the race/gender swapping because the entire source material is thrown into a big salad bowl and tossed and made into something else. Some lines are lifted straight from the books/films, but due to context mean something entirely different. Love it. This is no longer the 80s/90s, so makes sense there will be some women and minorities in the ranks of the FBI.

Starling isn't in the show, but they have a pre-Starling (can't recall her name), which illustrates (along with Will Graham) that Crawford will never learn to keep his people out of danger, and that he will always prioritize catching the baddie over the mental/physical health of his people. Brilliant. A foreshadowing of what will happen to Starling.

"You died in my kitchen, Alana, when you chose to be brave. Every moment since has been borrowed. Your wife, your child, they belong to me. You made a bargain for Will's life, and then I spun you gold."

 

[relobotomized]

Cookierun Ovenbreak ...

the fandom's gay and retarded, and the localizers either panders to it or are gay themselves. but can't inject much cuz it's a korean game at the end of the day, so the most they can do is call chirstmas "holiday season" or look for chances to use "they" on cookies

i just wanna enjoy a fun platformer, at-least it's not severe as a hat in time

 

[Scritti Politti]

I saw that someone already mentioned Hannibal.

I absolutely loved Hannibal because, every week, you were guaranteed to see something never shown on network television.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Currently watching the newer Interview with the Vampire TV series with a friend and it's the first piece of woke media I can think of that has every single DEA red flag but manages to handle them well, e.g. the one gay main cast member being gay for a specific plot point that couldn't be easily set up otherwise and is never discussed again after said plot point, said guy verbally shitting on the vampires for being histrionic fags, etc. There's also a handful of black characters with your generic woke anti-white axe to grind but only in the context of 1920s Louisiana, in the current day (2022?) they're shown as completely normal because they're not idiots and realize that mindset doesn't exist anymore.

Hopefully it stays good. I can see the potential for it to get bad and we've got 3 seasons to go, iirc.