Ett försök koka ner vad TS påstår:
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Under 2010 och 2020 talet har männen ersatts av flickor som
hjältar i spelvärlden (och filmbranschen). Männen som hjältar
i spel blir allt ovanligare både gällande AAA titlar och indiespel.
En väldigt tråkig och märklig utveckling. Flickor som aldrig
utkämpat ett enda krig i historien lyfts nu fram i spelmediet
som dominanta, modiga, starka hjältinnor.
TS säger:
1. Manliga hjältar blir ovanligare och ersätts av kvinnliga.
2. "Flickor som aldrig utkämpat ett enda krig i historien lyfts nu fram i spelmediet som dominanta, modiga, starka hjältinnor." ...
Jag tolkar det som att TS menar att spelbranschen dels ägnar sig åt en sorts historieförfalskning, ett slags revisionism, där små flickor plötsligt skrivs in i krigshistorien som hjältar när de aldrig har varit det, och dels som att kvinnor aldrig har varit hjältar i krig. Det låter ju som en jättekonstig sak att tro, tycker jag, men låt oss kolla om det stämmer.
I ett försök att utreda om detta kan stämma tittar jag på den största franchisen inom genren krigsspel, från 2010 och framåt,
Call of Duty, vilken absolut dominerar krigsgenren med nästan en halv miljard sålda spel. Stämmer det att kvinnor (eller flickor) skrivs in i historien på ett revisionistiskt vis?
2010 - Call of Duty - Black Ops
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The player controls the protagonist, CIA SAD/SOG operative and former Marine Force Recon Captain Alex Mason (Sam Worthington). Other characters are occasionally playable, such as CIA paramilitary operations officer Jason Hudson (Ed Harris). Mason is often joined by fellow operatives Force Recon Master Sergeant Frank Woods (James C. Burns) and Navy UDT Chief Joseph Bowman (Ice Cube), while Hudson works with Grigori Weaver (Gene Farber), a Russian-American field operative. Viktor Reznov (Gary Oldman), a character of the Soviet campaign in World at War, returns along with protagonist Dimitri Petrenko (Boris Kievsky).
Män.
2011 - Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3
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For most of the game, the player controls Yuri, an ex-Spetsnaz operator and former associate of Russian Ultranationalist terrorist Makarov, who joins Task Force 141 on their hunt for Makarov, who returns as the game's main antagonist. Several playable characters have been added, including Delta Force operator Staff Sergeant Derek "Frost" Westbrook; Special Air Service Sergeant Marcus Burns; and Andrei Harkov, a Russian FSO agent tasked with protecting the Russian President.
Män.
2012 - Call of Duty - Black Ops 2
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The protagonist of Black Ops, Alex Mason (Sam Worthington) returns as the protagonist in the First Cold War section, and chronicles the rise to infamy of the game's primary antagonist, Raul Menendez (Kamar de los Reyes).[15]
The 2025 section of the game features Alex Mason's son David (codenamed Section) (Rich MacDonald) as the protagonist, in which Menendez is plotting against the United States and China, with one of his ultimate goals being to see the United States locked in a new Cold War with China, in revenge for his many misfortunes.
Män.
2013 - Call of Duty - Ghosts
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The game's main protagonists are the Ghosts, a force of U.S. Special Operations personnel trained to conduct clandestine missions behind enemy lines. The unit is led by retired U.S. Army Captain Elias Walker (Stephen Lang). He is joined by his sons Logan and David "Hesh" Walker (Brandon Routh),[12] along with a trained German Shepherd named Riley, Captain Thomas A. Merrick (Jeffrey Pierce), and Gunnery Sergeant Keegan P. Russ (Brian Bloom).[13]
Män.
2014 - Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare
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Troy Baker plays the story's main protagonist, Jack Mitchell.
Man.
2015 - Call of Duty - Black Ops 3
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III takes place in 2065 (...)
Like previous installments in the Black Ops series, the campaign follows a team of black ops soldiers,[16] who work for Winslow Accord. The player character (voiced by Ben Browder if male and Abby Brammell if female) and Jacob Hendricks (Sean Douglas) are members of the faction's wetwork team, while Commander John Taylor (Christopher Meloni) and his team Sebastian Diaz (Reynaldo Gallegos), Sarah Hall (Katee Sackhoff), and Peter Maretti (Ary Katz), compose the faction's cybernetics division.
Hmm, första gången man kan vara kvinna i CoD. Men är det woke-revisionism om det utspelar sig femtio år in i framtiden? Fakta och logik verkar inte stödja den tesen, pga förledet "re" i revisionism, men känslorna stöder det definitivt. Let's put a pin in it tills vidare och fortsätta kolla in spelen i serien.
2016 - Call of Duty - Infinite Warfare
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Infinite Warfare is set in the distant future, after Earth has been stripped of its natural resources as a result of population growth and industrial expansion, prompting the nations of the world to unite and form the United Nations Space Alliance (UNSA), a political organization that handles matters of trade, travel, land claims and all efforts relating to human space colonization.
(...)
As the newly appointed captain of the UNSA Warship Retribution, Commander Nick Reyes (Brian Bloom), a Tier 1 Special Operations pilot of the Special Combat Air Recon (SCAR), is tasked to lead a crew to defeat the Settlement Defense Front on Earth, as well as journey to outer space and across other planets in the system using space-based fighter craft, referred to as Jackals, to stop the Front from taking over the entire Solar System.[9] Assisting Reyes in the fight against the SDF are his mentor Admiral Fredrick Raines (John Marshall Jones), Reyes' wingman and best friend Lieutenant Nora Salter (Jamie Gray Hyder), his robot sidekick E3N "Ethan" (Jeffrey Nordling), and the SATO Marines including Staff Sergeant Usef Omar (David Harewood), Corporal Sean Brooks (Jason Barry) and Private Todd Kashima (Eric Ladin).
Eftersom detta spel klart har lämnat den realistiska krigsgenren och gått till SF-genren och karaktärerna förlitar sig på rymdfantasy-troper som cybernetik, exoskelett, rymdskepp osv verkar det inte heller här som att förekomsten av kvinnliga militärer borde läsas som nåt slags woke-revisionism. Och det är trots allt framtid det handlar om.
