But this game is a bit like Kill Bill x Deadpool x Toxic Masculinity.
I am sorry but what do you mean with Toxic Masculinity? I know there are guidelines in this forum but that sounds harsh, why is it OK to view masculinity as something evil? Yeah Travis is an Anti-Hero who lusts for women, but that is the point of his character. Why is it OK if a female lesbian character lusts and objectifies other women, even straight ones against their consent? I do not want to get this into some heated debate, but why such description? I mean, what happens when the ideologies of protected groups clash? Look, I am from Mexico and well, here... yes progressive views are being implemented but doubt they will fly by like in other nations and rather fit their own. Let us just say that indigenous groups from here are highly conservative and their beliefs need to be respected too.
Sorry for getting a bit off subject but; as a Mexican I feel that was uncalled for as it is just a game. And sadly now many people refer to both Goichi Suda and his character Travis as nobodies after being just a Mii costume in Smash after the Minecraft reveal. Which saying again is uncalled for to disrespect Goichi Suda who simply created a character and does not reflect who the real life person is.
And besides, yes Travis is a perv towards females; but there are hints that he could be bisexual as there are some hints that he had something with Thunder Ryu while being trained by him, to reflect something of ancient Japanese culture on how Samurai used to have relationships with their disciples, which while openly homosexual and not shun, it is a thing of macho Japanese men being attracted to other macho Japanese game. Which actually still happens to date in many parts of the world. On how masculine looking guys are actually homosexual who prefer other masculine homosexual men, and like wise non-masculine men who are not homosexual.
What I am trying to get is that I really do not see in Travis or other characters in No More Heroes as Toxic Masculinity, I simply see characters and nothing more. And while Travis' possible bisexuality is not openly seen, it does have to do character and plotwise related due to simply having a relation to Thunder Ryu. Travis could be openly homosexual and he would still be Travis. He would just not be going for any females, but I see he would still have the same personality.
Anyway, to not drag much of the subject. While I said that if show our support to Travis by buying the Mii costume, it could be a double edged sword. As maybe we are sending the message to Nintendo that we are OK with Travis or other characters stuck as Mii costumes since they will still get lots of money on them. And not bother to make fully playable characters.
Oddly with Travis seemingly gone to be fully playable; if there is fully playable representation from No More Heroes, Henry's chances have raised also considering what happened with Min Min. As personally I like Henry better and would rather play with him in Smash bros. But I am not sure if to make another support thread on Henry like during the 3DS/Wii U days as if there really will not be any NMH representation, it would be a waste of time and effort. But if some here it is OK for me to make a Henry thread, OK I will do it but not sure what kind of info to place. Unless someone rightfully beats me to it lol.
To continue with the Travis subject, this is somewhat of a conspiracy theory, and I know some in this thread hate such things and call people who propose them as crazy lol. OK from how we see the Mii costume, he seems to be based on Strikes Again. Which is a spinoff and many find it as an odd game where we do not play with the full potential Travis haves.
Hear me out, so far we have 2 main NMH games. In NMH2, Travis gained new abilities and tools compared to his first game, Characters in Smash, well some reflect their current times or are there to promote a recent/popular game. What if Travis is actually coming to Smash, but he is going to be based on his NMH3 incarnation? A game not yet released, and if Travis would appear in Smash with all of the new things he would use on his latest game, it would spoil NHM3 for us?
The game was scheduled for a 2020 release when officially announced in late 2019, and even Travis jokingly said "good luck with that" like if he knew the current situation we sadly live world wide. And with the game pushed to 2021 plus real world matters, some here even say the game will come out until 2022.
So for now while we wait, we are given the option of buying a Mii costume somewhat based on TSA: as Travis itself is still being worked and not yet released since it will spoil NMH3. Plus Suda has said if Travis got into Smash, he would be a wrestling type like Incineroar, and while of course I would love to see Travis do wrestling moves; his main thing is that he is a sword user, and I know by now many people hate swords but it would be pointless for him not to have swords. So maybe Travis in Smash will be using newer wrestling moves and swords which will be in NMH3. Also who knows if he might use his "Iron Man armor" in the game somehow as is Up B or even his Final Smash, or if he even gets brand new toys in NMH3 but it would be a true spoil to use and see them in Smash before the actual game.
Also. Many people wonder how a Travis stage would be, many say it should be the parking lot of the motel, others say that it should be a trip around Santa Destroy. Personally, I wanted a stage based on the final battle of NMH2 with blimp Jasper as a stage hazzard. But considering NMH3 will expand things with space and aliens, maybe something like Sephiroth's stage where you start in Santa Destroy and go to space and/or fight in Fu's planet, the planet of any of the aliens or that space prison where Fu got his pose, who knows. And cameos from the new characters which would further spoil things up.
Again, this is just a theory. Maybe saying conspiracy theory is too controversial, and I know people hate that. But a college of mine who is a psychiatrist says there is nothing wrong with theories. As that is all what they are, theories. And I do not want to give fake hope, so who knows.
While not exactly a full bone Travis supporter, I do feel he deserves it after Goichi Suda was the second know creator in line who wanted his character in the Smash series, just next to Hideo Kojima, who was the first and opened the door with Snake. And he has earned it considering how faithful he has been to Nintendo.
But hey, those are just my opinions. The opinions of some Mexican guy.
