This Sprite-Ripper has a strange fetish..

[Veepa]

Okay, I came upon this site while searching for some Neo Geo sprites for a friend who is working on some Little Fighter 2 project..

http://vgcaps.tripod.com/

I just started clicking some at random to check them out.. and suddenly I noticed a pattern. For nearly every game he rips sprites from he includes a woman being help captive in chains, ropes, or otherwise..

I thought this must be an archive for "women being held captive in video games" but it doesn't mention this anywhere.. Don't you find this incredibly weird? Does the guy even realize that he does this?

[InsaneDavid]

Female bondage / death sprites. *shrugs* Just look at all the sites dedicated to Street Fighter II porn.

Fetishes come in all types, mine being bunny girls, secretaries, etc. LOL

[Jorpho]

I'm sure he realized what he was doing, and simply didn't want to draw too much attention to himself by explicitly stating what he was doing.

At least there's no crazy "Hamsterdance" collage.

[cyberfluxor]

Dashin' Desperados! Awesome!
But ya, I'd say they are about women being bonded or dying. Nothing wrong with it because sometimes people need some of those animations, whatever the reason. It's only disturbing when it becomes a huge website that's making profit from a special hidden premium members portion of the site and their excess amounts of female torture.

BTW: A few months back a friend showed us the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes we watched as kids in the early 90's... April O'neil is pretty freaking busty and had lots of cleavage! Funny thinking about it being a kids show. :D

[Ed Oscuro]

Shouldn't he have some shots from Vigilante in there? LOL

If it weren't for the sex aspect, this would be no less wierd a thing to catalogue than all appearances of the World Trade Center or Statue of Liberty in a game, and from the text it looks like the author's doing it to point out the irony (or at least that's their plan). Read the caption for the second row of sprites for Darkstalkers (oh, and Felicia's animation is kinda nifty).

[nik]

mine being bunny girls, secretaries, etc. LOL

I don't think you're special haha :)

[GarrettCRW]

BTW: A few months back a friend showed us the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes we watched as kids in the early 90's... April O'neil is pretty freaking busty and had lots of cleavage! Funny thinking about it being a kids show. :D

Two words: Lady Jaye. If you've seen "Skeletons in the Closet", you know what I mean (which also plays to the bondage fetish discussed in this topic, BTW). Filmation staffers have freely admitted that Frosta (from She-Ra) was designed with sexiness in mind, a feature that played out quite nicely in "Sweet Bee's Home", which holds some sort of record for intended sexual overtones in a children's cartoon.

[DeuZZ]

At least there's no crazy "Hamsterdance" collage.

LOL! That would be awesome LOL

[starsoldier1]

I just wonder if this guy gets off when Ms. Pac Man is hit by a ghost, eh?

[Kitsune Sniper]

Two words: Lady Jaye. If you've seen "Skeletons in the Closet", you know what I mean (which also plays to the bondage fetish discussed in this topic, BTW). Filmation staffers have freely admitted that Frosta (from She-Ra) was designed with sexiness in mind, a feature that played out quite nicely in "Sweet Bee's Home", which holds some sort of record for intended sexual overtones in a children's cartoon.

What about The Baroness from GI Joe?

[GarrettCRW]

What about The Baroness from GI Joe?

Point taken. I forgot about the alternate version of the Statue of Liberty in "Worlds Without End", apparently (possibly because of what Watergate is in that episode).

[Kitsune Sniper]

What about The Baroness from GI Joe?

Point taken. I forgot about the alternate version of the Statue of Liberty in "Worlds Without End", apparently (possibly because of what Watergate is in that episode).

You lost me right there. :P I was never a GI Joe fan... but having seen pictures of her, I can see a bunch of fetishes:

Eyeglasses
Skintight suit
Leather
Skintight leather suit (hah)
High heels
Foreign accent
Cleavage

I wonder if she was designed like that on purpose?

[GarrettCRW]

What about The Baroness from GI Joe?

Point taken. I forgot about the alternate version of the Statue of Liberty in "Worlds Without End", apparently (possibly because of what Watergate is in that episode).

You lost me right there. :P I was never a GI Joe fan... but having seen pictures of her, I can see a bunch of fetishes:

Eyeglasses
Skintight suit
Leather
Skintight leather suit (hah)
High heels
Foreign accent
Cleavage

I wonder if she was designed like that on purpose?

"Worlds Without End" is G.I. Joe's alternate-universe two-parter, where Cobra won the war. Among the changes to American monuments is the Baroness as the Statue of Liberty, with a whip replacing the Declaration of Independence.

As for the Baroness' appearance, she originally (both in the comics and the cartoon) had a much different outfit, which you can see here (http://joeguide.com/summaries/the_mass_device/part3-1.shtml) at JoeGuide.com. The black leather bit was the final figure design (as the Baroness got her figure in 1984, the year after the initial MASS Device miniseries aired), and was designed for TV by either Russ Heath or Bruce Timm (whereas the blue jumpsuit was designed by either Heath or Rick Hoberg, who did designs for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends). The animation of the MASS series was fuller (characters visibly breathe when knocked out, for example) and rounder than that of the rest of the series, so this might also have prompted the change in appearance for the Baroness. (The appearance of Scarlett, for instance, despite having the exact same model sheets for both miniseries, alters heavily between the MASS Device and Revenge of Cobra episodes.)

[rbudrick]

"Worlds Without End" is G.I. Joe's alternate-universe two-parter, where Cobra won the war. Among the changes to American monuments is the Baroness as the Statue of Liberty, with a whip replacing the Declaration of Independence.

Whoa, wtf? Cool...I don't remember ever hearing about this....was this just in the comic, or was the show made to reflect this? Was it just one episode?

Reminds me of a Superman comic where in an alternate universe Kal El crash lands as a baby in Soviet Russia in stead of rural USA. He becomes evil and power-hungry and rises to power as the Man of Steel (the literal translation of the name Stalin, as some of you may have already got). I never read it or have seen it...only heard of it. I think it only ran one special issue or something.

-Rob

[GarrettCRW]

Whoa, wtf? Cool...I don't remember ever hearing about this....was this just in the comic, or was the show made to reflect this? Was it just one episode?

First, the comic never has anything to do with the show, largely because Larry Hama is something of a dick (plus, love was not lost between Hama and the Sunbow staff-the character of Falkhama on Visionaries was a direct slam on Hama), and still has yet to sit down with a single episode of the Sunbow run.

Second, it was just the two-parter. The thing about "Worlds Without End" is that Cobra is after the Matter Transmuter, a device that can literally turn safes into tissue paper (among other things). Zartan and the Dreadnoks get the actual device, but Grunt retrieves the plans, and during the scuffle for the plans (needed so Cobra can build more), the device goes off, turns a bridge into crystal (with 8 Joes and Copperhead climbing up the thing), and somehow sends the Joes to the alternate universe, where Cobra took over the world years ago. (The episode marks Copperhead's last appearance, and since he's not seen after the first act of Part I, there's legitimate speculation that he may still be in the alternate universe.)

[idrougge]

The black leather bit was the final figure design (as the Baroness got her figure in 1984, the year after the initial MASS Device miniseries aired), and was designed for TV by either Russ Heath or Bruce Timm (whereas the blue jumpsuit was designed by either Heath or Rick Hoberg, who did designs for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends).

I thought that Shingo Araki did the design for Action Force. Or was that only for some movie?

BTW, Larry Hama 4TW. I really liked the sleazy soap elements of the comic.

[Moo Cow]

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Also, when I was little, one of the first things I did notice was that April had nice boobs.

[GarrettCRW]

I thought that Shingo Araki did the design for Action Force. Or was that only for some movie?

It must have been extremely minor, because Heath and Timm dominate the designs in the style guides. Other artists credited include: Carol Lundberg, Don Jurwich (the show's supervising producer and the director of G.I. Joe: The Movie), William Draut. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends was designed by Rick Hoberg (with the presentation art by John Romita, Sr., himself), and The Transformers was handled by Floro Dery (who did the designs for Pirate of Dark Water as well). Without checking, I'd say that Araki did design work on The Visionaries (if at all), because Sunbow's animation partner was not Marvel, but TMS.

As for Hama, the less said about him, the better. He had 12 years to flesh out all of the Joes, and the Sunbow staff had about 3 years, but yet it's the latter who focused on a wider swath of characters with greater originality. Besides, in any measure of writing skill, Steve Gerber is t3h win.

[Damaramu]

Heh. Remember when Cobra Commander was in an episode of Transformers? That was cool. :D