🐱 Fan Fave Bridget Joins Guilty Gear Strive, Comes Out As Trans

https://kotaku.com/guilty-gear-strive-evo-2022-bridget-dlc-trans-rights-1849386887

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EVO 2022 came with an assortment of hype moments over the weekend, including the most incredible “Cell Yell” I’ve heard since Dragon Ball FighterZ’s first season in 2018. Sprinkled throughout the tournament were a few announcements, too, such as the welcome reveal of rollback netcode for more fighting games. But perhaps most exciting was news that classic fighter Bridget is the next DLC character coming to Guilty Gear Strive. What’s more, in the day or so since, arcade mode footage revealed that Bridget has come out as a trans girl. Talk about a based W!

Bridget was first introduced in 2002's Guilty Gear XX, presenting as a very cute boy who instantly stole the hearts of fans. Though born as one of two twin boys to a multi-billionaire couple, Bridget’s gender presentation was decidedly feminine despite their use of masculine pronouns. (Official reason: convoluted anime bullshit.) However, with Bridget’s official return as a playable character in Strive as part of the game’s $25 Season Pass 2, ArcSys has given them a “come out” moment where they announce they do, in fact, identify as a girl.

An adept yo-yo user, Bridget’s dialogue in Striveshows her becoming comfortable in expressing her trans identity, telling deuteragonist Ky Kisukeand U.S. Secretary of Defense (lol) Goldlewis Dickinson that, “[calling me] Cowgirl is fine. Because…I’m a girl!”

Yas, Queen, live your truth! We love to see it. In fact, plenty of folks online celebrated the reveal with fan art and memes. Someone even created a mod for Bridget that sees her donning the blue, pink, and white colors of the Trans pride flag. It’s cool!

Kotaku has reached out to Arc System Works for comment.

Not everyone was thrilled about Bridget’s trans-ness, though, which shouldn’t come as a surprise in this space. Ready to dismiss their identity wholesale, there are plenty of gross tweets decrying ArcSys giving us an actual trans character in Strive. While there’s some nuance to the idea that the studio could be “erasing a character’s previous identity,” as one tweeter put it, most of the negative discourse oscillating around Bridget is framed as bad-faith arguments over “grooming.”

The negative response toward Bridget’s coming out is disconcerting to say the least. At a time when the U.S. government is penning legislation aimed at attacking the queer experience, getting representation in media—especially in games—should be seen as a boon. It reassures folks in our community that it’s OK to be who you are, and how you identify is both accepted and loved. As a nonbinary individual who sees a bit of themselves in the elegant “grim reaper” Testament, Strive’s first enby character, I’m absolutely living for Bridget coming into her own.

 

[mudwogg]

None of the people calling him trans would be able to do a perfect run to get the good ending. Hell, most wouldn't even play the game. They just want muh representation.

That's why those people, as a collective, are weirdos of the highest caliber. Their entire gig revolves around their obsession with their identity, being that of forever larpers.

Bridget aside, Testament was never trans to start with. His bio in the Japanese website states He is male and that's what He was always been since the start. To me at least, He is just designed unrealistically for a male in Strive merely for artistic purposes, along with the accompanying voicework in the Japanese version. It's in-line with longtime anime/manga tropes, like Haku from Naruto for instance.

The They/them is genderless because they are a "Gear" non-argument is stupid because that would mean Sol, Dizzy and numerous others would be non-binary beasts too. Like Yokai, Gear is merely a collective term for the assorted life forms of varying origins and natures who possess Gear cells.

How the hell are shapeshifters in fiction equivalent to mutilated men or women with surgically planted sausages? Any ways, Butch from Re-Loaded (1997) already represented the trans community a long time ago, and much better than Testament and Bridget would ever be. His crime is being of an uncertain gender and He even has a pair of uzis called the Gender Defender.

 

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That's why those people, as a collective, are weirdos of the highest caliber. Their entire gig revolves around their obsession with their identity, being that of forever larpers.

Bridget aside, Testament was never trans to start with. His bio in the Japanese website states He is male and that's what He was always been since the start. To me at least, He is just designed unrealistically for a male in Strive merely for artistic purposes, along with the accompanying voicework in the Japanese version. It's in-line with longtime anime/manga tropes, like Haku from Naruto for instance.

The They/them is genderless because they are a "Gear" non-argument is stupid because that would mean Sol, Dizzy and numerous others would be non-binary beasts too. Like Yokai, Gear is merely a collective term for the assorted life forms of varying origins and natures who possess Gear cells.

How the hell are shapeshifters in fiction equivalent to mutilated men or women with surgically planted sausages? Any ways, Butch from Re-Loaded (1997) already represented the trans community a long time ago, and much better than Testament and Bridget would ever be. His crime is being of an uncertain gender and He even has a pair of uzis called the Gender Defender.


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Now now, it doesn't count as representation unless it gets their dick hard.

"Doesn't count, even if it's trans! I CAN'T FAP TO THIS"

"Uwu, so cute, much AGP. Obviously trans, like every mix of gender and confusion! Just like me, tee hee!"

 

[Kheapathic]

The They/them is genderless because they are a "Gear" non-argument is stupid because that would mean Sol, Dizzy and numerous others would be non-binary beasts too. Like Yokai, Gear is merely a collective term for the assorted life forms of varying origins and natures who possess Gear cells.

I remember back in the XX days, when there was speculation about who/what Justice really was, mainly from pre-fight voice lines between her and Dizzy. Then it came out that Justice was female.

Troons are choosing the wrong character to latch onto. Homicidal rage over everything, undiscernable gender, long flowing mane, massive metal cock.

The ultimate troon fantasy.

 

[Nobunaga]

I remember back in the XX days, when there was speculation about who/what Justice really was, mainly from pre-fight voice lines between her and Dizzy. Then it came out that Justice was female.

Troons are choosing the wrong character to latch onto. Homicidal rage over everything, undiscernable gender, long flowing mane, massive metal cock.
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The ultimate troon fantasy.

The fuck are you talking about, since the first fucking game they spell out justice was sol gf/wife.
Thats where the retarded sol became the guilty gear quote comes from

 

[Kheapathic]

The fuck are you talking about, since the first fucking game they spell out justice was sol gf/wife.
Thats where the retarded sol became the guilty gear quote comes from

Gonna need a refresher on that, because as far as I can remember, unless it was something in Japan that never made it stateside, Justice being Sol's gf wasn't until Revelator.

Here, I'll fucking do it for you.

 

[stun_edgelord]

relevant video:

https://youtu.be/QpRf562qfdU

also of important notice is that all the wikis (dustloop and fan wiki specifically) all have been updated from him/they (they was used in the strive dustloop article on release) to she now
I knew that the dustloop article was gonna get cucked because the main admins are all trannys but i wouldnt expect the fan wiki to be this bad

 

[stun_edgelord]

they even went back to do GGXXAC+r

 

[Kheapathic]

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Aside from rewriting history, where the fuck do they get off saying Bridget had the lowest effective health? Does he have a lower than average health, yes; but the lowest, no.
The way health works in the XX series of games; every character has 420 health, but different characters have a defense multiplier that changes how much damage one takes. Potemkin has a modifier of like 0.89, meaning if an attack did 100 damage, Potemkin would only take 89. The next beefiest character (and only other one with a lower than 1.0 multiplier) is Slayer with a modifier of 0.96. In XX, before Kliff and Justice were Tournament legal, the lowest effective health was Chipp with a multiplier of 1.26, meaning if an attack were to do 100 damage, Chipp would take 126 out of his 420 total. And you may be thinking, dude, you're talking about a game that's two decades old, and I'd agree with you... IF THEY CHANGED ANYTHING WHICH THEY DIDN'T! Chipp still takes hits like a bitch compared to everyone, and when you apply the GUTS mechanic, he's still the worst HP wise.

For fuck's sakes DustLoop. I loved you guys when Shoryuken got sick of our anime shit and told us to make our own website, and you did. But don't fucking do this, you're better than this.

 

[mudwogg]

relevant video:

https://youtu.be/QpRf562qfdU

also of important notice is that all the wikis (dustloop and fan wiki specifically) all have been updated from him/they (they was used in the strive dustloop article on release) to she now
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Since wikis are user-contributed, we sometimes have to be damn careful of what we see. I notice how anyone coming from the woke spectrum seems to have historical revisionism in their skillset. The Castlevania wiki for example, has inadquate information in regards to some of the original game versions of characters, like having no references to the Curse of Darkness manga's events, whereas their trashfire Netflixvania versions have really, unnecessarily detailed shit written about them there. Nothing simply beats having first hand exposure any material. That way nobody could ever fool you.

 

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As an aside, this has been a great litmus test to see which sites are completely pozzed by the trannies or not.

Reports on twitter that TVTropes will now ban you just for using male pronouns with Bridget, that Tumblr will purge your entire blog for calling him a Femboy for using hate speech / slurs, that the various gaming subreddits on Reddit will block you then give you a lecture on the holy tranny and why they must be worshipped in your DMs, that the Steam Forums Admins (not the local dev moderators) will time you out if you contradict the trannies, etc etc.

I remain hopeful the JP devs will come out and correct this, because at this rate that would genuinely cause some of these freaks to anhero themselves.

 

[Slimy Time]

As an aside, this has been a great litmus test to see which sites are completely pozzed by the trannies or not.

Reports on twitter that TVTropes will now ban you just for using male pronouns with Bridget, that Tumblr will purge your entire blog for calling him a Femboy for using hate speech / slurs, that the various gaming subreddits on Reddit will block you then give you a lecture on the holy tranny and why they must be worshipped in your DMs, that the Steam Forums Admins (not the local dev moderators) will time you out if you contradict the trannies, etc etc.

I remain hopeful the JP devs will come out and correct this, because at this rate that would genuinely cause some of these freaks to anhero themselves.

About most of the mainstream sites then. Tranny jannies run most of these big sites.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

I remain hopeful the JP devs will come out and correct this, because at this rate that would genuinely cause some of these freaks to anhero themselves.

The JP devs will ignore it, act dumb or play along with this nonsense. After all, in the Japanese version they didn't change him into a girl.

 

[mudwogg]

The JP devs will ignore it, act dumb or play along with this nonsense. After all, in the Japanese version they didn't change him into a girl.
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Looks like a case of catering to weirdest weirdos of the Western world.

 

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The JP devs will ignore it, act dumb or play along with this nonsense. After all, in the Japanese version they didn't change him into a girl.
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Looks like a case of catering to weirdest weirdos of the Western world.

Even in the Japanese version he says "because I'm a girl" in the bad end. ("Beat Hard Mode without Dying.") But there's absolutely no confusion about him being otokonoko in Japan. The bio of the character explicitly calls him male (vs the American version where they twist the language like a top to avoid using pronouns). The IN GAME bio in JP again, calls him boy, but in the EN version, it uses female pronouns. Intentional? Localizer sneaking that shit in? Who knows. There is a 100% contradiction there, and we don't know if it was intentional or fuckery.

The good end ("Beat Extreme Mode without Dying") doesn't cover it, and instead is all about Bridget being anxious about telling his family and village something, and being worried about living his life for himself despite what others think. Ky, who is half-monster or dating a monster or both?, gives him a pep talk and away they go. In context, he's obviously worrying about telling his family that pretending to be a girl is no longer working for him, and he wants to stop. As mentioned in the Pixiv wiki entry on him, he's apparently getting too old and manly to pass as a cute girl anymore. Of course, the troons were quick to latch on to that as a coming-out-trans story, because clearly, a guy who has been forced to present as a girl for 25 years would... come out as trans... to his family and village... the latter of which already believe he's female. It doesn't hurt that Bridget, of course, makes their feminine dicks hard and they would like to fantasize as passing as well as he does.

The good end expressly contradicts the bad ending because Goldlewis (retarded American Fed Cowboy, no, not kidding) isn't there to call him a girl again. (In the same bad ending, earlier in the story mode, Bridget explicitly corrects him when he calls him a girl. In fact, literally in every line of every video game including every single line in strive, OTHER than that single line in the bad end that has the troons creaming themselves, he insists that he's male.)

There is a possibility that the devs decided to try and thread the needle between the two, letting him be otokonoko in JP and letting the west think he's Trans, or made the mistake of thinking they're the same thing or something. I don't know. But I do know there's absolutely no confusion on the JP side of things and no dissent allowed on the EN side of things. And as you mentioned it, the JP devs probably won't clarify, leaving it to the EN localizers to "fix" the text to keep pandering to the troons.

IIRC, the way the DLC seasons go is characters will appear in later DLC characters' stories. Goldlewis was the first character of this season and followed Bridget around. Probably a way to save on voice actors. So expect Bridget to make an appearance in future DLCs as a NPC or Opponent. That'll probably be where we see the first clarification, if any. But it's more likely that they'll just ignore it.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

IIRC, the way the DLC seasons go is characters will appear in later DLC characters' stories. Goldlewis was the first character of this season and followed Bridget around. Probably a way to save on voice actors. So expect Bridget to make an appearance in future DLCs as a NPC or Opponent. That'll probably be where we see the first clarification, if any. But it's more likely that they'll just ignore it.

Side note: I've liked the franchise from the start, but lost interest around Xrd due to Arc pulling a Capcom and re-releasing the game with tweaks and DLC. Same with BlazBlue and the XBlaze visual novel. I hope they pull a KOF and release the ultimate version with all of the bonus content included. I've hated how you have to now pay instead of play the actual game to unlock characters, costumes or stages nowadays.

 

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Looks like Bounding Into Comics found some Japanese essay on Femboys in Japan vs Transsexuals in America, and a few people translated it. Kind of an interesting read.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/08/18/bridget-seemingly-being-retconned-into-transgender-in-guilty-gear-strive-described-as-cultural-plagiarism-by-japanese-players/

Basically Femboys in Japan aren't Trans (duh), they're the exact opposite. And they've actually gone through 3 "Generations" in Japan.

Generation 1 was Femboy-as-Homosexual-in-Denial, the "I love him so I'll be a woman to date him" stage. Basically, a gag character, a disgusting pervert except whoops, it's a cute "girl." Basically "cheap knockoff women." These started back in the early 80s in various manga, they're so old and it was such a degenerate niche thing I don't think any of them got animated outside of one off gags. These are actually pretty close to proto-transsexuals, to be honest, mostly of a "If he wants to be a woman treat him as a woman" variety. By the 90s it had switched from a gag to being more closely aligned with a pseudo-troon setup, i.e., they were played a bit more sympathetic. A bit.

Generation 2 was "I'm a man but forced to pretend to be a woman", except that one character reset the table -- Bridget. Bridget set the groundwork for the "cute and innocent" femboy trope and every single Femboy after Bridget basically took this aspect on.

Some Gen2 Femboys:

Ryo, from the Idolmaster franchise. Basically Pokemon-for-cute-girls. Amusing aside, in later editions of the game, he became the first male idolmaster girl.

Hayate, from Hayate the Combat Butler. Manly as hell; still looks good in a dress. Happened a lot, too. Shit's weird, yo. (Still a really good series.)

Generation 3 femboys are ironically a combination of the first two -- the choose to dress as women, but are men, but aren't trans. The closest thing I think we have in the west is something like "Genderqueer," but that doesn't work because Gen3 Femboys are 100% Men, not some mythical bullshit third gender, they just don't care anymore.

Some examples of Generation 3 femboys:

Jun Watarase from Happiness!, which if you notice the first results on Youtube and Google, already got the cultural colonization treatment by the AGP Transbian coomers:



Hideyoshi Kinoshita from Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, who is such a Trap that they gave him his own third gender: Hideyoshi.

And finally, Aikawa Kizuna from ""Prunus Girl," which is your stereotypical romcom, except, instead of a girl, it's a Femboy.

Prunus Girl - MangaDex

Maki-kun goes to look at the results of his high school entrance exam results and meets a beautiful girl. Could this be a fated encounter? He's thrilled to find out that the same girl, Aikawa Kizuna, not only ends up going to his school, but is in his class. However, he's not so thrilled when he...

mangadex.org

So yeah. None of these are troons. In fact, they're kind of the anti-troon, with Femboys being perfectly confident in their male gender identity, but not allowing that to control their gender expression.

However, "that boy's a cute anime girl" plays into the AGP Transbian fantasy of becoming an uwu cute Animu girl xdxdxd and having everyone lust after them and love them just for being them all that, so it's no wonder that they are latching onto it and trying to steal the concept for their degenerate fetish. (Yes, the Japanese thing is a degenerate fetish too, but, at least they're honest about it and not trying to force us all to play along via hate speech laws.)

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

I remain hopeful the JP devs will come out and correct this, because at this rate that would genuinely cause some of these freaks to anhero themselves.

They don't need to do anything, because in the Japanese website they referred to him as "he". This is just English localizers who are progressives trying to be willfully ignorant.

 

[Eddie Gluskin]

Someone got an email from the japs offical stance on the matter. HE'S a girl (boy).

 

[Dysnomia]

Looks like Bounding Into Comics found some Japanese essay on Femboys in Japan vs Transsexuals in America, and a few people translated it. Kind of an interesting read.

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https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/08/18/bridget-seemingly-being-retconned-into-transgender-in-guilty-gear-strive-described-as-cultural-plagiarism-by-japanese-players/

Basically Femboys in Japan aren't Trans (duh), they're the exact opposite. And they've actually gone through 3 "Generations" in Japan.

Generation 1 was Femboy-as-Homosexual-in-Denial, the "I love him so I'll be a woman to date him" stage. Basically, a gag character, a disgusting pervert except whoops, it's a cute "girl." Basically "cheap knockoff women." These started back in the early 80s in various manga, they're so old and it was such a degenerate niche thing I don't think any of them got animated outside of one off gags. These are actually pretty close to proto-transsexuals, to be honest, mostly of a "If he wants to be a woman treat him as a woman" variety. By the 90s it had switched from a gag to being more closely aligned with a pseudo-troon setup, i.e., they were played a bit more sympathetic. A bit.

Generation 2 was "I'm a man but forced to pretend to be a woman", except that one character reset the table -- Bridget. Bridget set the groundwork for the "cute and innocent" femboy trope and every single Femboy after Bridget basically took this aspect on.

Some Gen2 Femboys:
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Ryo, from the Idolmaster franchise. Basically Pokemon-for-cute-girls. Amusing aside, in later editions of the game, he became the first male idolmaster girl.

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Hayate, from Hayate the Combat Butler. Manly as hell; still looks good in a dress. Happened a lot, too. Shit's weird, yo. (Still a really good series.)

Generation 3 femboys are ironically a combination of the first two -- the choose to dress as women, but are men, but aren't trans. The closest thing I think we have in the west is something like "Genderqueer," but that doesn't work because Gen3 Femboys are 100% Men, not some mythical bullshit third gender, they just don't care anymore.

Some examples of Generation 3 femboys:

Jun Watarase from Happiness!, which if you notice the first results on Youtube and Google, already got the cultural colonization treatment by the AGP Transbian coomers:
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Hideyoshi Kinoshita from Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, who is such a Trap that they gave him his own third gender: Hideyoshi.

And finally, Aikawa Kizuna from ""Prunus Girl," which is your stereotypical romcom, except, instead of a girl, it's a Femboy.
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Prunus Girl - MangaDex

Maki-kun goes to look at the results of his high school entrance exam results and meets a beautiful girl. Could this be a fated encounter? He's thrilled to find out that the same girl, Aikawa Kizuna, not only ends up going to his school, but is in his class. However, he's not so thrilled when he...

mangadex.org

So yeah. None of these are troons. In fact, they're kind of the anti-troon, with Femboys being perfectly confident in their male gender identity, but not allowing that to control their gender expression.

However, "that boy's a cute anime girl" plays into the AGP Transbian fantasy of becoming an uwu cute Animu girl xdxdxd and having everyone lust after them and love them just for being them all that, so it's no wonder that they are latching onto it and trying to steal the concept for their degenerate fetish. (Yes, the Japanese thing is a degenerate fetish too, but, at least they're honest about it and not trying to force us all to play along via hate speech laws.)

It just doesn't translate well to "current year" sensibilities. Those types of people, despite always yelling about diversity and inclusion, only see things in black and white. So you can have 8000 genders but they are all going to fit into the binary somehow when you observe closely. So a male character can't dress in women's clothing and not be trans. Even though that would be far more diverse than just creating new ways to push people into gender stereotyped boxes.

So when these animes and mangas are localized how bad is the bastardization of the original trap characterization? How tranny pozzed are fansubs these days? Do I now need to learn Japanese to enjoy the original voices without any wokeism screwing up the dialog?

 

[lemonsensei]

A friend on Discord keeps sending me shitty Bridget memes like this. Should I be concerned lads?