Tag: Miss Pauling
Miss Pauling on her way to fuck your shit up.
Just something to consider.
We have nine RED mercs.
It is not exactly stated where they came from, but it’s implied they returned from the BLU base.
Where they stole the int from probably nine BLU mercs.
But they left seven witnesses, so they managed to kill – two.
Who cleans up after them alone – Miss Pauling, a woman. Granted, she probably doesn’t have to battle the seven survivors all on her own, but she does a thorough job without flinching.
The mercs continue to mess things up while she obviously has her eyes on them on her day off. So even on her only free day she’s half at work and is ready to defend the int while the mercs (those who weren’t in the Scout/Pauling-scheme) – goof around despite the alert in their base.
This woman does a more professional job than all of them and the only person she really fears is – another woman. Not walking into the enemy base, not a bread monster, nope, her boss and figure of authority.
Two women rule the roost, they add to the overall humor and they manage to do that fully clothed and without having their boobs jiggling and wiggling all over the place.
Yes, it’s really, really difficult if not impossible to include women in a game’s universe without unnaturally oversexualizing them.
YES YES YES.
This is why I have a beef when people begrudge Expiration Date, saying Miss Pauling was only there as a love interest to Scout. No, so she wasn’t.
Being a love interest or involved with someone romantically doesn’t make a character less badass or feminist. The comics have a more fleshed out Miss Pauling, sure, but Expiration Date didn’t do a bad job with her, especially when looking beyond too-simple assessments of her purpose to the story.
AngelMihe 