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Message: [QUOTE="StopTheCatastrophe, post: 172951, member: 1975"] I believe by "original" the OP means *not* a caricature stereotype. For historical sociological examination of games (and game devs) I'm including superficial examples although the post didn't specify *respectful* or *normal*.. Of the very few examples the exist (relative to other peoples depicted in thousands of games) how many aren't simplistic stereotypes and are treated with a similar portrayal and respect as other characters? And for instance, how many depictions ever mention a national origin (no not "tribe" as most people say/think but nation)? [B]Mother 3[/B] has a person who appears both Black/Indigenous and lives in a "teepee" and does a "rain dance" or a weather-related thing if I remember correctly. He's depicted as a weirdo vagrant. (Side note: it's almost never depicted in media/art but there were indeed historical mixings between Native and Black people in USA during history.) Of the many many characters in Mother 3 almost every one is white except for "Reggie"and an Arabic/Middle Eastern person who is depicted as evil, greedy, fat. [ATTACH type="full" size="843x238"]58000[/ATTACH] [B]Crimson Skies[/B] Salawa is said to be Hopi [URL unfurl="true"]https://crimsonskies.fandom.com/wiki/Soloho_Salawa[/URL] [ATTACH type="full" size="357x341"]58033[/ATTACH] [B]Killer instinct 2 1996, Arcade[/B] You would think the Meso-American (?) character named "Maya" wouldn't be blonde-haired and blue-eyed, but then again: racism/colorism. [B][ATTACH type="full" size="280x392"]58001[/ATTACH] Chief Thunder Killer Instinct (1994)[/B] Arcade The weird creepy thing about "[Chief] Thunder" was that his hair [I]was[/I] feathers. As if the feathers were growing out of his head? [ATTACH type="full" size="127x252"]58003[/ATTACH] [B]Julia and Michelle Tekken (1990's)[/B] I forget which games exactly. "Julia" and "Michelle" are said to be "Native American" and/or Chinese, though one is adopted by the other and may be raised ethnically Native American (unspecified nation) rather than originally. Anyway Michelle and Julia were created as basically white or Asian but with a couple feathers in their hair... [ATTACH type="full" size="278x413"]58009[/ATTACH] Tvtropes.org (which specializes in "examples of things") has examples I forgot or didn't know about, as game examples under specific Native American related tropes: - [B]Vulcan Raven[/B] in Metal Gear Solid 1: Inuit - [B]Code Talker[/B] in MGSVTPP - Rick Strowd from Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 - Sunset Riders - Chief Scalpem [URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNative[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNativeAmerican[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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