Tropes vs. Women in Video Games — Season 1, Episode 7: The Scythian – Positive Female Characters in Video Games

Episode synopsis

In the debut episode of our series on Positive Female Characters, we celebrate the Scythian, the protagonist of Capybara Games’ 2011 release Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. This episode examines how Sword & Sworcery employs widely recognizable action adventure game tropes to make the Scythian’s quest feel like the stuff of video game legend, and how in doing so, it asserts that women can fill the role of the mythic hero as effectively as men can.

About Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games aims to examine limiting, sexist patterns associated with female representations in games, and to illuminate how these patterns reinforce and perpetuate harmful attitudes about women in our culture.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Damsel in Distress (Part 1)
• E2Damsel in Distress (Part 2)
• E3Damsel in Distress (Part 3)
• E4Ms. Male Character
• E5Women as Background Decoration (Part 1)
• E6Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)
• E8Jade - Positive Female Characters in Video Games
• E9Women as Reward
• E10Women as Reward – Special DLC Mini-Episode