Lara Croft Rape

Why We've been Arguing about Lara Croft for Two Decades

As part of the press around the reboot's development, in 2012, Eidos announced that “you'll want to protect” the new Lara Croft — from sexual assault. This famously caused a gaming community firestorm around the trope that equates female “strength” to forcing them to survive sexualized violence.

Is Tomb Raider a Feminist?

“ Lara is or has been both a feminist hero and and an figure of objectification,” says Chella. “Shes a feminist hero because shes still here and she was one of the first really compelling female game character s. Shes the only game character to transcend games and become a huge pop culture icon..

Why did they Change Tomb Raider?

“We did start with the idea of updating just her skin or a few extra polygons, but as we started to learn more about the hardware and what was possible, we felt that Lara deserved even more attention,” explained executive producer Scot Amos on the franchise's official forums.

Was Lara Croft Tomb Raider a Flop?

Tomb Raider was a box office success.

What was Lara Croft Originally Designed to Represent?

Toby Gard created Lara Croft to confront negative stereotypes of female gaming characters, who were either been portrayed as damsels-in-distress, old ladies, or evil seductresses. Toby Gard comments: "Lara was designed to be a tough, self-reliant intelligent woman.