One of the reasons why I loved the Tomb Raider reboot so much was because we got to watch Lara Croft grow from a frightened girl to a frightened girl who matures very quickly and understands the harsh reality of her situation. Just because Steven Moffat gets away with it in Dr Who doesn’t mean Hideo Kojima can. You can’t just strip a female character of all of her feminine traits and say she’s a strong character. This isn’t characterisation, it’s a step backwards for strong female characters. There were clear inflections of the old Meryl from MGS1 in her writing, but these were overshadowed by the consistent “ but I AM a feminist. “Something wrong with that!?” Meryl blurts out, preparing for an argument.įeminists that keep stating that they’re feminists are about as convincing as a king who keeps shouting about being king, and as Charles Dance has already explained, “any man who must say ‘I am the king,’ is no true king.”Īlso, can we all please agree that you don’t need to be blindly angry at all men in order to be a feminist? Meryl Campbell’s blind misandrism until the last hour of MGS4 was, for lack of a better word, irritating. “So,” Old Snake states for exposition, “you’re in charge of this unit.” Meryl is not a strong character in MGS4 because she’s just a walking ideology who consistently points out how much of a feminist she is. Kojima’s idea of a strong female character is a character who sheds any qualities which could be considered feminine. In the three years leading into Metal Gear Solid 4, she has evolved into a throat-ramming feminist, devoid of any quote-unquote ‘feminine,’ traits.
This wasn’t because she was a woman, but because she was young and inexperienced. In the first Metal Gear Solid, she was a young, naïve soldier who was out of her element in-mission. We see too many Meryl Campbells in fiction these days, particularly in video games.
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