9 Insane Origins Of Gaming's Most Over-Sexualised Female Characters

2. Tifa - Final Fantasy VII

Tifa or Aerith? Physicality or personality? What's on the outside, or the inside?

Such questions are at the heart of who you had Cloud pursue in Final Fantasy VII, but in facilitating the representation of all those former binaries, Tifa was ludicrously oversized to the point of parody. Receiving four incarnations (in-game exploration, in-game battle and two cutscene forms), she was designed by Tetsuya Nomura and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, the latter accentuating her sexual aspects thanks to a love for Japanese anime and manga.

Nomura always wanted Tifa to be something of a "warrior monk", hence her hand-to-hand fighting style, and her black skirt was decided upon, firstly in contrast to Aerith's longer costume, and secondly to provide "a considerable degree of exposure."

Initial designs were far even more revealing, but Nomura's insistence on having her personality be more self-confident, battle-hardened and fierce, ended up defining her in-game, but the same can't be said about any of the fan-fiction that's emerged since...