How exactly did longbows, known for requiring significant arm strength, end up becoming the Default Female Protagonist Weapon? Is it just Hunger Games?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It's ironically an excuse to show more chicks with big guns, but sadly one which is not sufficiently capitalized upon
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Replying to @FartCaptor @BootlegGirl
The irony is the sheer strength needed to successfully use a longbow is more than that needed to use a sword, it's one reason that longbows were a "secret weapon" of the English, you couldn't raise a troop of longbowmen unless they'd been training since childhood
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But the thing is that fighting in hand-to-hand combat involves a lot of other stuff that women are typically disadvantaged by (mostly just sheer size and reach), especially women modern audiences find attractive It's easier to fake the archery
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FartCaptor
The thing is, in a lot of the properties I'm thinking of, firearms exist. Definitely true in Hunger Games and The Last of Us, but both chose to make the female lead's iconic weapon a bow Makes less sense in TLOU than Hunger Games but still
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I mean, in The Hunger Games guns are explicitly banned in the death tournament. So Katniss uses a bow since it's the only ranged option she really has.
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Hunger Games definitely has the poverty and self-reliance angle with Katniss being an archer, yes, it's a weapon she can make and maintain herself and therefore flies under the rules of the Capitol's ban
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I could see the same thing in TLOU then; except because it's a videogame they don't want guns and ammo to be that uncommon.
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