Current Events > Bridget from Guilty Gear comes out as trans.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Her move set looks cool. Strive is the first GG I've owned so I don't know the lore, and the story mode/history mode thing in Strive is a fucking slog so I might never know the lore lol

IF it's anything like the R+ moveset, you're going to be in the corner or making mad dashes across the screen for like 90% of the game.

he's a fucking fighting game character, 1. Who gives a fuck

Cyric, you are so far gone with this of woke r***** bulls***, just stop dude

I used to see you in the best friends comment section, so, I've got Alot of good intent toward you. But your just so goddamn dumb. It's sad.

Guilty gear sucks, too. Just in general

*she

right

badwinkles posted...

woke

LMAOOOO

badwinkles posted...

he's a fucking fighting game character, 1. Who gives a fuck

Cyric, you are so far gone with this of woke r***** bulls***, just stop dude

I used to see you in the best friends comment section, so, I've got Alot of good intent toward you. But your just so goddamn dumb. It's sad.

Guilty gear sucks, too. Just in general

lol this dude is so mad

badwinkles posted...

he's a fucking fighting game character, 1. Who gives a fuck

Cyric, you are so far gone with this of woke r***** bulls***, just stop dude

I used to see you in the best friends comment section, so, I've got Alot of good intent toward you. But your just so goddamn dumb. It's sad.

Guilty gear sucks, too. Just in general

Cope

I have to be, I work for the IRS

badwinkles needs to stop crying

Turbam posted...

badwinkles needs to stop crying

They can't. Too busy crying.

Bridget x I-No

Yes, but I couldn't make out the dick or vagina with all the tears in my eyes, so I took a guess.

but I mean what is a woman? I can't call her she because women don't exist,ok, and that's sexist and mysogonistic of you to label it as a she you intolerant, insensitive mother fucker

gonna turn wrinkles post into a copypasta meme

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

gonna turn wrinkles post into a copypasta meme

Omg yes archive them please

badwinkles posted...

Cyric, you are so far gone with this of woke r***** bulls***, just stop dude

I don't know who you are.

Good for her. We could always use more cute trans girls.

That maga ghoul obviously gave a fuck

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

gonna turn wrinkles post into a copypasta meme

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/4/9/AANKsdAADixR.jpg

Eh I think it's a landmine to be posting the word that's between "woke" and "bullshit" even obscured that much. Might be a better idea to completely obscure it.

Some of those posts have like 3 edits too

DespondentDeity posted...

Some of those posts have like 3 edits too

A lot of work for some one who definitely doesn't care.

Feels weird especially since her story was that, from birth the female identity was forced on her by her parents, like those creepy TikTok moms and dads who try to make their 4 year olds come out as transgender. Except for Bridget it was from birth.

Testament's was fine because it made sense. Bridget's head on collides with everything established thus far and makes it seem like she's the way she is because of social conditioning/brainwashing by her parents.
It was to save her life, but it's still brainwashing rather than a natural acceptance, hence why Bridget always referred to themselves as a boy: he wanted to return home and break the superstition from his village that forced his parents to make him look, act, and dress like a girl his whole life.

badwinkles is SUSPENDED

Given Bridget's backstory, especially when you put it together with it sequentially, that's... really messed up for the trans community all things considered :/

-BrokenSpiral- posted...

It was to save her life, but it's still brainwashing rather than a natural acceptance, hence why Bridget always referred to themselves as a boy: he wanted to return home and break the superstition from his village that forced his parents to make him look, act, and dress like a girl his whole life.

She accomplished that goal, and her decision now is completely unrelated to that. I already talked about this back on the last page.

Calwings posted...

Bridget's initial decision to insist that she was a boy was intended to try and prove her village's superstition wrong, which she did successfully by living a successful life as a bounty hunter after leaving the village, and that led to the village abandoning that superstition not long after. She didn't "give up" on anything because she fully accomplished the goal that she set out to accomplish. Any further development Bridget had in the 9 years since her last appearance (which is a long time to change and develop as a person) was solely based on her own life experiences and her own soul-searching, completely detached from her previous situation.

There was no longer the pressure of her village insisting that she be a girl, the defiance in her heart to prove them wrong, or any reason to continue lying to herself about her own feelings. She took time to think about it of her own volition and choose her own identity, and she chose to be a girl in the end.

I mean let's be honest, even the in game reasoning for why Bridget is dressing up as a girl was stupid to begin with. It was just some excuse to have a cute boy cross dress as a girl.

Are instant kills back yet?
Or is political controversy replacing it?

*Bridget officially a woman

lennethsoki posted...

Given Bridget's backstory, especially when you put it together with it sequentially, that's... really messed up for the trans community all things considered :/

I'm a trans woman and see no issue with it. She was forced to dress and act like a girl and oops, turns out she IS a girl so it worked out perfectly.

Prestoff posted...

I mean let's be honest, even the in game reasoning for why Bridget is dressing up as a girl was stupid to begin with. It was just some excuse to have a cute boy cross dress as a girl.

This as well.

gunplagirl posted...

Lmfao you're so mad it's cute. Like when you see a video of a puppy that's growling as it's laying down to try and sleep but it can't even do that right. That you missed the point and think what I said is a strawman is sad. Duncanwii had better contextual awareness than you.

I can't care about enough for what you type to get made mad. You in fact did strawman by point. And you don't have to integrity to own up to. But since you have done a lot of horrible shit on this board that isn't a shock. That just who you are.

cjsdowg posted...

I can't care about enough for what you type to get made mad. You in fact did strawman by point. And you don't have to integrity to own up to. But since you have done a lot of horrible shit on this board that isn't a shock. That just who you are.

Damn. I don't even have one but you need to hop off my jock.

gunplagirl posted...

I'm a trans woman and see no issue with it

Same. This only seems to be an issue cis people are having.

You guys are missing the point

she was never trans
and isn't trans

she was always a girl/woman

Surprised that melty post is still up lol

Iron-Tarkus posted...

Same. This only seems to be an issue cis people are having.

I've seen a number of trans people on Twitter but they also all seemed to share some uhh... Truscum stuff is the least egregious or worrying stuff on their pages with just a cursory (30 second) scroll.

tremain07 posted...

But he's not trans, he's a cross dressing man

That may have been Bridget's story in XX/Accent Core, but if they've taken the character's story in another direction in Strive - which is likely, given Judgement's reimagining as a transfem non-binary person - then shit, Bridget is a trans woman.

I mean let's face it, Bridget was prime egg material when she was first introduced anyway. The fact that she was so feminine despite being AMAB had the character infamously known as a "trap". But as the trans community has grown, as they've been able to see themselves represented through different facets of media, "trap" characters like Bridget can now be seen as formative characters in the journeys of some trans people. I mean two media properties that have made significant headway in the trans community, at least from what I've seen on Reddit and elsewhere, are MLP and Fallout: New Vegas - a cartoon franchise traditionally directed at girls, and a game lauded for being surprisingly queer-positive. So making Bridget transfem is kind of a no-brainer given their status as a notably feminine presenting AMAB person, and it's not entirely a surprise after Judgement.

At one point in the character's life, Bridget was depicted as a cross-dressing teenage boy because he was raised by nuns, and he wanted to become a big famous manly bounty hunter. Now, Bridget is a transgender woman.

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Guilty Gear Strive is literally the best selling guilty gear game of all time, lmao

nuns eh? Is this one of them by any chance?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/3/AAPa_qAADix9.jpg

MrMallard posted...

But as the trans community has grown, as they've been able to see themselves represented through different facets of media, "trap" characters like Bridget can now be seen as formative characters in the journeys of some trans people.

The old Bridget would be an odd character for the trans community to identify with though. Trans people are often incorrectly raised in favor of their assigned sex with neglect to their actual gender, while the old Bridget had the opposite problem.

MrMallard posted...

So making Bridget transfem is kind of a no-brainer given their status as a notably feminine presenting AMAB person

But it requires an extremely convenient coincidence and erases a representative for non-traditionally masculine males.

Idk it just gets tiring to see so many stories initially have you root for a non-traditionally masculine dude to defy stereotypes, only for the story to resolve as them just actually being a girl. I hope this type of development doesn't occur with too many other similar characters.

Apparently Bridget's placeholder name is "Chara_Name_L_BGT"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/0/AAbh80AADiyO.jpg

Her story mode is SPECIFICALLY ABOUT her correcting people with "I'm a boy" in a really downbeat sort of way, leading to characters saying that she doesn't sound so convinced - only for the resolution of her arc being to say that she's a girl, openly and free of reservations, meaning that her Arcade Mode story is more or less the journey of her coming out as a trans girl.

And yeah, I'm seeing plenty of trans-positive coverage of Bridget. This assertion that Testament "makes sense" and Bridget "is disrespectful to the original intentions of the character" is dumb bullshit.

I honestly expected Testament - a character who was vitally important to the first game and who plays a huge role in the second game's breakout lore character Dizzy - to be a bigger shitstorm than BRIDGET - the character presenting as a cute girl despite being AMAB, infamous online for how attractive she was despite being AMAB - in one game nine years ago. What makes Bridget a step too far? Shit is absolutely bonkers itt.

tremain07 posted...

But he's not trans, he's a cross dressing man

I haven't read this topic and I don't know what Guilty Gear is except it's a fighting game.

But I'm going to assume this topic is about Eddie Izzard and her finishing move is planting small flags for a perfect victory.

Anyway in summary
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/7/AAbh80AADiyV.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/8/AAbh80AADiyW.jpg

Sad day, now no one will be gay for anyone anymore...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/9/AAJwKPAADiyX.jpg

Nuns are hot

I love Bridget but you guys are trying to put your political agenda on to her

Don't even have a solid foundation

you guys say gender and sex is different

but for Bridget being a woman is all she knew from a young age

so until the story mode comes out
where she discovers that she isn't cis then she isn't trans

you can't be trans unless you know you aren't cis

all we were told is that she identifies as a woman

Corbenik posted...

I love Bridget but you guys are trying to put your political agenda on to her

This just in: Being trans is political.

all we were told is that she identifies as a woman

Breaking: A person AMAB who identifies as a woman may not be trans?

And now sports with Dr. Faust.

CyricZ posted...

This just in: Being trans is political.

Breaking: A person AMAB who identifies as a woman may not be trans?

And now sports with Dr. Faust.

yeah of course its one of those fight or flight responses

I don't blame you guys for being ready to fight for rights but this isn't the battle you should be fighting

Kotaku is wrong
Bridget isn't trans

She is and always was a woman

Corbenik posted...

you can't be trans unless you know you aren't cis

Honestly I think this is the weirdest thing you've said.

Especially since Bridget routinely stated in the older GG games that she was "a boy" to other characters.

So to that, she does know she isn't cis.