Red Fury: 6 Most Evil Gingers From Gaming History

4. Almost Every Henchman From Streets of Rage

This is the moment in gaming history where I began to suspect something wasn't quite right in the perception of how video game developers and communities: strutting through the Streets of Rage, kicking tail and eating questionable meat products off the floor as you go, it's hard to ignore the fact that about 90% of the cannon-fodder henchman who come to try and halt your progress have ginger hair. Those henchmen carry weapons - knives, broken bottles, lead pipes - breaking the warrior's code in the process, and confirming their status as genuine evil. At the end of the day they're just doing what is expected of them on the streets, but you have to question whether it was a recruitment drive within second generation Gaellic communities or some kind of genetic experimentation that lead to so many ginger people in one place, and with such violent and dedicated motives. More obviously, I personally see the game as an allegory for society's scarcely expressed desire for a cleansing programme to rid the world of red-headed people: by presenting them as wayward street hoodlums, dressed in the exotic clothes of the punk, they are pushed to the very outer limits of acceptable society and are punished through physical violence for their one unifying deformity: gingerness. Could there be a clearer message? Evil

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