Mastodawn

Indigo Moon True Sep 27, 2025

Lara Croft is a Sociopath

Lara Croft is a Sociopath - Lemmy.World

Here I am playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, when it dawns on me. Lara is a sociopath. She is a killing machine who barely even speaks on it, it’s nothing to her at this point. She doesn’t care about her health, injury nor pain. She just wants artifacts and to uncover ancient mysteries. I like her character but damn she is actually low key the villain of the story when i think about it. Trinity are bad guys but Lara is the boss villain slaughtering all in her way to get to her goals. Lol anyone else notice that?

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Burninator05 Sep 27, 2025

You’ve just described the protagonists in most games.

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Lost_My_Mind Sep 27, 2025

Check the manual for Super Mario Bros. The original on NES.

Mario is described as “The hero of our story (maybe)”

Which is kind of a weird way to describe the main character.

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BirdObserver

It’s just making a joke about the game being challenging (he’s only the hero if you win). Game media used to be a lot more playfully antagonistic back when many games weren’t necessarily designed to be won.

(And while I’m here, that manual has other odd stuff in it that predates Nintendo setting global standards. It has multiple uses of the word “kill”, and it has an “ask your parents” bit about the domino effect).