Male Gaze / Video Games

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• AI: The Somnium Files:
  • Most of the time, when Date examines Ritsuko, he will comment on her boobs.
  • Whenever Date is at Sunfish Pocket with Amame, he can use Aiba's X-ray functionality to admire her (or rather, her skeleton's) hip structure.
• In ARMS, Twintelle's prominent backside gets plenty of attention. Whether it be from the official trailer, from the in-game camera's point-of-view or even in tweets from Nintendo themselves.
• Artery Gear: Fusion: All over the place, even when the girls are in serious combat situations. The camera loves to fixate on shots of Nio's chest and Rela's behind.
• Bayonetta, the main protagonist (the titular Bayonetta) is a gun-toting witch that uses her magic hair to cover herself in the form of a skin-tight sleeveless bodysuit, with the game's artstyle exagerating her limbs, making her backside look bigger in-game. Though the game is rather campy already and very overt about its fanservice in the first place.
• In a particularly egregious — and hilarious — example, Kagura of BlazBlue: Chronophantasma has this as his match intro if he goes up against a female character (barring Rachel, Tsubaki and Makoto). It involves a crosshair moving down his female opponent's body, followed by a small readout of her precise BWH measurements and a comment from Kagura. Video.
• Borderlands has some of this in the Secret Armory DLC. There are wanted posters for the player characters and the pictures of Brick, Mordecai and Roland show their faces as usual, but for Lilith, her picture is focussed, uh... lower.
• In Brain Dead 13, Vivi says she's a little bit "behind". Guess what's appearing onscreen a bit after she says it?
• In Caladrius, characters suffer Clothing Damage whenever they take damage under certain circustances. Most of the characters are female, and get very revealing poses in their damage portraits. The two human male characters get torn-clothes portraits too, but the damage is nowhere near what the female characters get.
• The "erotic points for erotic photos" gimmick was replicated in Dead Rising, with the added Squick bonus that the women are zombies.
  • Also includes a hilarious Lampshade Hanging when Isabella is revealed via a POV pan-up from the knees - only for a fat guy to jump in Frank's way.
  "This is no time to ogle pretty girls, son!"
  • In Dead Rising 2, Chuck and Reporter Rebecca Chang come up against a locked door. Rebecca then bends over to pick the lock. Chuck, meanwhile, stares at her feminine curves.
  "You have some interesting... skills, for a reporter."
• Devil May Cry:
  • Trish's Navel-Deep Neckline gets plenty of attention in DMC1 and with the creation of Jiggle Physics Trish’s breasts get even more attention in DMC4 and especially in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
  • In DMC3 there’s a suspicious amount of times the camera zooms in on Lady’s thighs and her mini-skirt clad lower body in general and even if she’s wearing Modesty Shorts the Fanservice is unmistakable, especially when the camera zooms under her skirt at one point in the Mission 13 cutscene. Though in retrospect Lady’s depiction in third game was tame compared to her Stripperiffic attire in DMC4 or Lady’s lack of attire in DMC5
  • In Devil May Cry 4: As Nero approaches the drawbridge, he witnesses Gloria as she engages several mooks in combat. During the fight, she spams split-related attacks, and the camera never misses an opportunity to pan across the area between her legs. Makes sense since Gloria is actually the aforementioned Trish in disguise.
  • In-Universe example comes from Handsome Lech Dante when he meets the Rusalka and becomes very excited, getting a close eyeful of their bosoms and buttocks. However you'll notice Dante subtly doesn’t let the Rusalka actually touch him as he gets close to their bodies and dodges their playful grabs as he’s ogling them because Dante knows they’re actually the lures of a giant frog demon, but that doesn’t seem to dissuade him from having a good perv.
• The robes for a female mage Warden in Dragon Age: Origins and the way the PC runs seem designed to draw attention to her hips. A romanced Alistair certainly notices: "No no no! I wasn't looking at... you know, her... hind-quarters."
• Used in Dragon Quest VIII when Angelo introduces himself to Jessica.
  • And again when Prince Charmles's father tries to convince him that marrying a princess isn't so bad... by using Jessica as a visual illustration of "Va-va-VOOM".
  • Which Jessica responds to with, "Please leave me out of this."
• Wanna try something fun? Next time you're playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, choose a female character, turn the camera around until it's facing the character's front, then zoom in. Guess where it ends up.
• Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas has female characters swinging their hips rather sensually when walking and running and its more pronounced when equiping the Leather Armor (a Road Warrior-esque outfit) due to the female version of the armor having tight leather pants that make their backsides more "notable" in Third-Person.
  • Hilariously lampshaded by a Fallout 3 NPC and Guest-Star Party Member Sydney who makes several My Eyes Are Up Here comments to the Player Character.
  Sydney: Keep your eyes on the mission, and off my ass, please.
• Fear Effect. We get several close ups of Hana's feminine curves in both games. An in universe example is averted when Hana threatens to kill Deke for peeking at her.
• Several in Final Fantasy.
  • Final Fantasy VII:
    • Tifa raises her arms above her head and stretches during her victory pose, which causes her breasts to jut outward. While in Dissidia 012, her pre-fight intro animation has her put her hands on her hips and lean forward, causing them to sway directly into the camera.
    • In the scene where Weapon is being released, Tifa is hit by a wave of blue energy that causes her to fall over on the deck, giving us an obvious shot of her breasts and up her skirt simultaneously◊.
    • Tifa also gets this in the ending FMV where she and Cloud are getting themselves up the ledge - the shot is focused on her breasts, which are very jiggly◊.
    • Lampshaded humorously if you take the Absurdly Long Stairway in Shrina, as Tifa who is further up than Cloud and Barret suddenly realises her skirt is giving the boys an eyeful. So covering herself embarrassed Tifa demands that Cloud and Barret go ahead of her (Cloud needs more prompting).
    • Lampshaded again when the party arrives at Costa del Sol and the player has the option to have Cloud recognize Hojo or notice the bikini-clad woman next to him. This causes Tifa question what exactly was Cloud looking at.
    • The original Final Fantasy VII opening cinematic begins with a closeup of Aeris's face (a significant shot that Bookends the game). The PS3 tech demo remake of the Final Fantasy VII opening cinematic crops her face out of the frame in favour of looking down her top the whole time. In the game proper if the Aerith gets the gorgeous red gown for the audition with Don Corneo, there will be a special cutscene of her walking towards Cloud through a clamouring crowd as the camera zooms on her feet, breasts and finally her face all while Cloud looks on gobsmacked.
    • In the E3 trailer there's bit where Tifa is bending forward◊ and audience becomes aware of just how short Tifa's skirt is around her rear. Tifa naturally gets this many times throughout the remake proper, the way the camera moves around her ample chest in the Don Corneo cutscene being the most blatant example. Played gently at other times e.g when Cloud orders a drink from Tifa, we cut to his POV as he watches her show off her barmaid skills as the camera zooms in on her breasts, her midriff and her face.
    • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: The confrontation between Tifa and Sephiroth begins with a shot between her legs which appears to show a sliver of her Modesty Shorts. During Costa del Sol Tifa and Aerith approach Cloud in their new beachwear outfits and he is clearly taking in their looks, it actually takes him a second to compose himself as he talks to him.
    • Dirge of Cerberus:
    • Very frequently occurs to Shelke's toned backside in cutscenes.
    • In the opening sequence in the same game, Yuffie in her OG FF7 outfit is introduced in a steadily magnifying shot around her torso that eventually zooms in on her butt before going to her face.
  • Final Fantasy IX - FMV with Garnet/Dagger◊ atop Lindblum castle playing with the pigeons. Speaking on Dagger, her outfit is a case of Painted-On Pants. When she is trapped on the prison cage the camera will most of the time show her princess butt◊. Lampshaded at one point when Zidane while climbing a ladder with Garnet, accidentally grasps her bum.
  Zidane: Ooh, Soft!
  • Final Fantasy X:
    • Lulu is subjected to this during her victory pose, giving the gamer a generous view of her equally generous bosom. There are also times when the camera cuts to Lulu talking, that zooms in on her breasts, while leaving the top half of her face out of frame. Her introductory FMV also begins with her at a distance, before cutting straight to her chest, and then (very slowly) panning up to her face.
    • During his review of FF X, The Spoony One used a counter to keep track of the number of times that the camera was angled such that you got a close-up of someone's buttocks in the foreground while the important bit happened in the background. To be fair, a significant portion of the buttocks belonged to men (or Ronsos).
    • Rikku is also a frequent offender; her introductory FMV (which is pure fanservice material, either way) has a long, lingering shot of her buttocks. A lot of the time the camera focuses on someone's buttocks in the foreground, it'll be hers. Her bikini top-and-short shorts outfit in X-2 is even more revealing (to say nothing of any of the other costumes she, Yuna and Paine wear in the game).
  • In Final Fantasy X-2, Logos is supposed to be showing a sphere of the events they just encountered in Bevelle but the video opens with a long shot of the camera pointed at Yuna's butt. He attempts to pawn off the blame on Ormi, which is quickly deflected when Ormi appears in the same shot.
  • Final Fantasy XII - There's a scene early on where Penelo is trying to talk Vaan out of doing the heist he's about to attempt, and one shot inexplicably centers around her torso. Her chest and crotch are in the shot. Her face isn't. Additionally, Fran's metallic thong seems to have magic camera-attracting abilities. Either that or her buttocks does.
  • Final Fantasy XV actually got complaints from the European playerbase that Wrench Wench Cindy was 'too sexy'. The director Hajime Tabata suggested that she wasn't intended to be especially sexy but a 'carefree' sort of character, so they had to rethink the way she was presented in-game rather than cover her up.
  • Mobius Final Fantasy introduces Echo with a lot of attention on her breasts and butt. It disguises the irony when Wol complains that she needs to 'put some clothes on', even though he's less covered up than her.
• Fire Emblem Fates has Camilla, the older sister of the Nohr family, who has very big... err... assets. This is acknowledged in her pre-fight cutscene on the Hoshido route, where the camera does a cycle around her butt, crotch, and yes, her chest. "I choose Nohr for boobs!" has become quite the rally cry for guys who have chosen to side with Nohr, and by extension, her.
• Goddess of Victory: NIKKE lives and breathes off of this trope, as the camera is always positioned behind a Nikke while she's squatting down to shoot at enemies.
• Halo: In the original trilogy, whenever Cortana's visible, the camera does its best to show off her translucent feminine curves. Halo 4 largely averts this, with the camera firmly focused on her face.
  • A video by Frank O'Connor explained that she appeared in such a form because it helped throw off men and gave her an advantage in conversation. To be honest, she didn't need to be a supergenius computer to know this would work.
  • If you stare long at a female marine’s chest area in Halo 3 they make funny comments ranging from merely explaining why that’s why they call it a “breastplate” or literally telling you that milk isn’t gonna come out so there’s no point in ogling.
  • There's a particular moment◊ in Halo: Reach where the camera pays attention to Kat's pronounced buttocks as she walks away with her hips swinging, it's kinda funny when you consider Spartan's genders are supposed to unidentifiable with their armor on. Kat herself lampshades it if you look at her long enough.
  Kat: Stare all you like, I'm used to it.
• Hyrule Warriors: 90% of Cia's intro clip consists of closeups of her legs, butt, and chest.
• Jak and Daxter's Daxter takes a couple opportunities to check out his female friends' cleavage during the course of the series. At least he looks them in the face first, though.
• In The King of Fighters many of the female fighters get this, but none more so than Mai Shiranui whose sheer boobage and curvaceous body is always given loving attention. When she's standing idle she sways her rack◊, when she kicks her bare buttocks◊ are on full display and even when knocked down her bosom is still noticeably heaving or moving◊. In the anime intro to The King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout the first we see of Mai is a shot of her jiggling breasts before panning out to show her face.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Most likely unintentional but Midna from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has a rather... plump backside. It helps by the fact that she's completely naked (although she lacks any sort of visible genitalia).
  • Too blatant to not be intentional in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: During one of the memories, Zelda is on her hands and knees looking at a flower, with her butt shoved directly in the viewer's face. Then the perspective changes, and reveals that Link has been sitting in the grass behind her the entire time, and at one point is pretty clearly staring right at her ass.
• Lineage 2: Here's a gravity-defying fight scene between two rough and tough female characters and also the camera likes to linger to positively lick their busts and hips for some reason.
• The first shot the player sees of Celestine from Magna Carta 2 is her boobs.
• Birdo's intro animation in Mario Tennis Aces has the camera focus on her butt as she jumps down before she turns around.
• Mass Effect introduces Sha'ira, the Asari Consort, with a lingering shot of her behind as she walks upstairs.
  • And later, during a heterosexual sex scene, the camera lingers much more on the female partner in the relationship... even if you're playing her.
  • Matriarch Benezia's introduction includes a lingering shot of her Cleavage Window.
  • Mass Effect 2 has a scene with Miranda Lawson, a character who wears a skintight catsuit, in which she gives you a choice to take on a side quest. The choice menu comes up right as the camera holds on a view of her butt that takes up most of the screen. In fact, until the player makes a conversation choice, the camera stays on this shot. They take every opportunity they have to show off Miranda's body with quite a few butt shots in this and in part 3. After a number of compliants were leveled at the game due to how often the camera would get distracted by Miranda's butt during what were supposed to be serious and emotional scenes, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition altered most of the scenes where she wasn't flirting with Shepard to have the camera focus on her face.
    • Miranda's camera-attracting abilities are spoofed in Kabuto the Python's rap parody "Those Minerals":
    You need to get a fuckin' upgrade, talk to Miranda,
    She'll prob'ly get up from her desk so you can stop for a gander....
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda does better with the cutscenes in terms of avoiding this, but at one point in the background you can hear an angaran woman chiding her male companion to stop staring at a female Ryder after informing him that Ryder is a "she" not an "it."
  • Samara seems to have the camera more interested in her body than her face, as well.
• The Matrix: Path of Neo introduces a minor NPC and rather Stripperific, Witch with a first-person view point of Neo, who's crouched on the floor, looking at her slowly from her feet to her corset to her head.
• Metal Gear:
  • Metal Gear Solid: after the scene where Solid Snake first meets Meryl, there is an extended shot◊ (in slow motion) of her buttocks as she is leaving. It was intended to draw attention to her unique walk so she could be identified in disguise.
  • The third game had a first person 'Snake Cam' at certain points during cutscenes, and when the female character EVA was around pressing the button would often greet the viewer with an extended shot focused on her breasts, either intentionally (Snake looking) or unintentionally (EVA showing him).
  • Hideo Kojima even managed to turn this into a narrative device; later in the game after falling in love with EVA, the Snake Cam focuses solely on her face.
  • The director even went so far as to include some bonus 'Peep Show' segments on the Director's Cut edition, which involved the scenes with EVA recut in various ways, with her dressed in an interesting alternate outfit.
  • He also did a recut scene of a segment where Snake undressed an attractive male, which raises some awkward questions about the director. Especially when it's taken into account the way the games are notorious for dressing men in Spy Catsuits and having long, lingering shots on their buttocks too, and also that the lead character always ends up shirtless at some point in his adventure. Metal Gear Solid's penultimate battle is a shirtless fistfight on top of a Humongous Mecha.
  • Outside of the recut sections, notice too that holding the button around Bishōnen Raikov reveals Snake's eyes to be permanently fixed on Raikov's junk.
  • MGS2's Raiden had a segment where he ran around stark staring naked, hands over his junk. (During this segment, he could run and dodge, but could not do anything that would require his hands to be elsewhere than covering himself up.)
  • In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the cutscenes before each Beauty boss fight spend a lot of time behind the ladies as they are on all fours. Or anything else, really, especially after they're out of their One-Winged Angel form and in catsuits. This happens to be when their mental instability is usually underlined in bright red marker, making it rather difficult for players to be titillated. Snake gets quite a bit of this treatment in cutscenes involving him as well.
  • Hide for a few minutes and every Beauty fight becomes a fashion show.
  • Parodied in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, when Otacon and Naomi are using the computer together. His webcam feed is displayed on his laptop, as they work, and while Otacon isn't looking at the video, he's clearly angled it specifically to video Naomi's cleavage. When Naomi tries to look at what's on the screen, he panics and tries to point the camera away so that she doesn't notice. She does, but she actually seems quite pleased.
  • And then, later, he's spying on her and her comrades by positioning a tiny invisible robot between her legs. The target displaying what Otacon is most focused on at any one time flips back and forth from whoever's talking to Naomi's feet, buttocks, or thighs. He does go in for a Panty Shot, but she notices the robot a fraction of a second beforehand and one of her coworkers destroys it.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, you can photograph various Page Three Stunna pictures and send them to Otacon, to which he has various amused/aroused responses. You can also send him either pin-ups of semi-naked men or photos of a burly bisexual man, which cause him to question Snake's (and the assumed male player's) orientation.
  • Mistral’s curvaceous body gets some very loving attention in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, even the Happily Married Raiden has a slight reaction when Mistral drops her coat to reveal her ample bosom.
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain opens with the PC lying in a hospital bed; you control nothing but the head, looking around. Almost no matter what you do, you end up with a face full of nurse breast. And then there's your introduction to Quiet. Hell, just Quiet in general.
  • A self rewarding version can be done if the player knows what to do in the hostage situation in MGS2. One hostage, Jennifer, is wearing a skirt. If the player goes under a specific table and crawls specifically into an area he will be in a perfect place to look at Jennifer between her legs while she doesn't notice due to being blindfolded, though this does get an optional codec call that involves intense scolding from Rose.
• Metroid:
  • The series has had tons of this over the years, starting with The Reveal in the ending of the first Metroid of Samus being a woman in her underwear. A number of the ending screens such as in Metroid Fusion have Samus relaxing in sexy outfits to show off her physique and even her death animation in Super Metroid is sexualised◊ (originally she was even supposed to be naked as it happened). Averted with Metroid Prime Trilogy due to the first person prospective and different developers.
  • Metroid: Zero Mission is especially notable as its the game where the now famous Zero Suit debuted, with several of the game’s cutscenes and end screen showing off Samus’s finely sculpted◊ butt and breasts while wearing it. Even the designer, Hiroji Kiyotake admitted in his concept art notes, he really enjoyed drawing Samus’s posterior.
    • This Japanese ad for Zero Mission has a Japanese glamour model as Samus, and takes great advantage of it, complete with a butt shot.
  • Metroid: Other M was developed by the T-and-A-loving Team Ninja, and the game's director apparently asked them to tone down the fanservice compared to what the team wanted to do. Of course, while deconstructing the game's many, many Unfortunate Implications, many have remarked that the version that came out spent an awful lot of time focusing on Samus's Spy Catsuit-covered behind, including during dramatic scenes where Samus has been shot.
  • Metroid Dread surprisingly has this as well despite Samus’s Powered Armour not coming off (except during the death animation), as the suit is quite sleek and very flattering to her curves, and the camera seems to hug her armoured rear◊ many◊ times◊. Unlike Other M though, the Male Gaze here doesn’t detract from Samus’s badassery but quite the opposite, since she’s usually in the middle of an action sequence while it’s happening.
• In the PS2 survival horror game Michigan: Report From Hell, you are a cameraman whose job is to keep the camera rolling and keep on filming a number of various sexy female reporters (if one dies another replaces them, though once they all die, the game ends) going above and beyond the call of duty in delivering their news reports, even as Michigan City literally goes to the proverbial hell (imagine this as the The Blair Witch Project meets The Mist) in a handbasket. You can take pictures of anything, for which you score points, with "erotic" pictures getting "erotic" points. If you score enough "erotic" points overall, you get the Golden Ending where whatever sexy female reporter with whom you scored enough erotic points with, will proceed to pose, parade, and pole dance for you in sexy lingerie whether she actually lived or died by the game end (you can even get all the girls together in the ending if you repeat the game enough times, with a new girl added each time until you already have them all).
• Mortal Kombat:
  • Way back in the first game, Sonya’s high kick and leg throw punisher empathises her ass cheeks. Helped by the fact Sonya is wearing skin tight 90s aerobics gear.
  • Mortal Kombat 9 dials the Male Gaze up to eleven. Sonya, Kitana, Jade, Mileena Sheeva, Sindel and Skarlet all have Navel-Deep Neckline, most of them have thongs and all of them have suggestive win poses. The camera in the story mode wastes no time ogling them up. After a good deal of scrutiny Nether Realm Studios actively toned down the Male Gaze of female characters in Mortal Kombat X and Mortal Kombat 11, save for Mileena and Sindel who remain as scantly clad as ever.
    • MK9 actually lampshaded it hilariously several times. Like during Stryker’s story mode where he and Kabal witness a giant monster stride down the street, but what really catches their (and the camera’s interest) is Mileena.
      Kabal: Stryker! Check her out [the camera zooms as they see Mileena standing calmly on a nearby bridge]
      Kabal: Whaddya think? Friend or foe?
      Stryker: Foe.
      Kabal: Dressed like that?
      Stryker: Definitely foe.
    • Before that, Johnny the Only Sane Man while befriending Sonya is bewildered that her Stripperiffic outfit is apparently a real Special Forces uniform.
  Johnny: That’s not a costume? You’re actual military?
  • In fairness to MK9 previous games Mortal Kombat: Deception, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks were rife with Male Gaze and Stripperiffic attire for all the female characters, even minor ones.
  • Mortal Kombat 1 dials the gaze up a bit. While nowhere near the levels 9 had, cleavage and form fitting outfits to show booty shots are on more display in 1 than in the previous two games.
• In Need for Speed Most Wanted, during the initial introduction with the Silent Protagonist's sidekick Mia Townsend, the camera pans along her body as she walks towards the player's car.
• NieR: Automata has the now famously curvaceous 2B whose buttocks are unavoidably displayed as when climbing ladders the camera is positioned to gaze right up her skirt◊. Lampshaded in game too if you zoom the camera under her short dress, or get too close 2B's derriere, she'll kick the camera or cover herself from view and back away. Doing it enough times will give the "What are you doing?" achievement. This also carries over to 2B's win pose in Soulcalibur VI.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: When Travis goes to the UAA office for the first time, he follows behind Sylvia, bending over low enough to put his face about 6 inches from her butt.
• In Overwatch, one of Widowmaker's highlight intros starts with the camera panning up from her rear and turning up her side toward her face, ending with her glancing at the camera with a smile, as if acknowledging that she knows exactly what you're looking at.
  • Since nearly every woman in the game wears some kind of skintight suit or leggings, their bodies often fall in ways that show their butts. This goes doubly so for Winged Victory Mercy, where players are treated to her panties nearly every time she's knocked out.
• Planet Explorers has several suits of women's armour which feature crop tops, corsets and shapely breast-plates, alongside more protective sets. Aida Acosta's unobtainable uniform includes a crop top as well.
• Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is a huge example of this, since the game was supposely a romantic comedy with erotic overtones (though it failed horribly). Just as an example, the introductory FMV is just the female lead talking about the game as the camera zooms in to her breast.
• Particularly blatant near the start of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, in which a female antagonist enters the scene and the camera spends several seconds focused on her Thong of Shielding.
• In the completed yet never (officially) released US edition of Princess Maker 2, there is the infamous "nude suit" for the female heroine even as a young girl.
• "Nostalogic", a song sung by Meiko in Project Diva F has the camera often lock on or swing past Meiko's rear, midriff, or breasts, which also bounce.
• Resident Evil
  • In the RE1 GameCube remake there is a suspect shot of Jill’s butt during the Descending Ceiling bit.
  • During one cutscene in the original RE2 Claire’s rear end takes up nearly half the frame.
  • A cutscene of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles has Claire searching data, and Steve is very interested.
  • In Resident Evil 3: Nemesis when there’s a Hope Spot with the helicopter arriving, the camera zooms up on Jill’s bosom. There’s also a prior cutscene where Jill had reached the police station and the camera is angled down and facing upwards to get best view of her legs, ass and skirt.
  • Happens several times during Resident Evil 4 like the bit◊ where Ada climbs out of a boat and Leon's gaze is directed at her butt or the moment where Luis notices Ashley's "ballistics". Lampshaded if the player has Leon use to the sniper rifle to score a panty shot up Ashley's skirt; this causes her to cover up and rightly call you/Leon a perv. Also, remember, in Ashley's chapter, players can bypass the first crank by crawling here. You will have to crawl twice though with that angle, and if you missed it, don't worry, another mandatory table Ashley will have to crawl through twice will give the same result.
  • Sheva's introduction in RE5 starts with a long closeup of her buttocks, Excella gets a lot as well◊, not to mention Jill again.
  • Jill’s scubasuit clad ass is put on display in Resident Evil: Revelations especially when she climbs a staircase. One comic noted◊ the 3DS is Worth It for this trope.
  • Ada, Sherry and Helen’s breasts and butts all receive special attention in RE6 but especially Ada's Navel-Deep Neckline and Sherry’s curves in her Vapour Wear outfit (which Jake notices).
  • Downplayed in the RE2 remake as Claire is conservatively dressed (i.e not wearing booty shorts) though the camera regardless still lingers around her denim clad buttocks when she’s crawling or knocked over. Played straighter if you select Claire’s alternate skimpier classic costume, which can be very distracting◊ in certain cutscenes. As well as her Elza Walker costume.
    • Similarly with Ada, the camera is actually angled somewhat lower◊ when you play as her to making the player aware of how her red dress clings to her butt. Not to mention how Ada's default walking animation is a hip-swaying Supermodel Strut seen from behind.
    • Kathrine from "Ghost Survivors" is noticeably curvy◊ in all the right places.
  • In the RE3 remake much like the aforementioned example there's several times where the heroine Jill Valentine is crawling through a small opening or a vent and by sheer coincidence the camera is perfectly positioned to get a shot of her buttocks.
  • Resident Evil Village naturally has this in regards to the now famous Lady Dimitrescu as while sneaking around her Ethan (the player)’s perspective is often treated to a good view of Lady D’s butt◊. Knowing Capcom it was likely intentional to throw players off their guard and slow their reactions at the worst possible time given she’s a pursuing antagonist who like Mr X and Nemesis can instakill you.
  • Resident Evil 4 (Remake) significantly dials back the gaze where Ashley is concerned. Camera angles are altered when compared to Leon's to not draw attention to her behind when she has to crawl. Ada still gets plenty of rear shots as she goes about.
• Rumble Roses has lots but the one that really stands out is when a character is ready to be finished off with a "humiliation move".
  • The 360 version has two views of the girls in the character select mode. One view focuses on their face and general reaction to being chosen, the other? it is set to focus on the rumble butt of the chosen Rose no matter the ending position of her pose.
• Lampshaded in Shadow Hearts 3, where the end of the scene where Johnny and Shania meet has an actual, on-screen arrow pointing from Johnny's eyes to Shania's chest. Also the Transformation Sequence. Dear God, the Transformation Sequence.
• Shantae and the Seven Sirens: The opening cinematic starts with a focus on Shantae's chest before it zooms out.
• In First-Person Shooter SiN Episodes (i.e. a game in which the camera angles are almost entirely up to the player), the character of Jessica Cannon wears a Spy Catsuit that, when viewed from behind, is apparently designed to draw attention to her rear end.
• Rouge the Bat in Sonic the Hedgehog. She tends to pose in... odd ways in the anime Sonic X and gets a bit of this in the games too, as sometimes it seems as if she poses for no apparent reason other than to highlight◊ her cleavage◊.
• Super Smash Bros.:
  • The aforementioned Zero Suit Samus from Metroid is introduced in The Subspace Emissary, the Adventure Mode of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, with her dropping to the ground from an air vent followed by a slow pan from her legs, to her rather... generous butt, and then to her face. Clad in a Spy Catsuit as she is, this is hardly surprising.
  • It does build suspension and makes it all the more powerful when she does show her face near the end of the clip.
  • The Smash Bros Brawl website plays Equal Opportunity with this, related to Metal Gear above. When describing Snake's Final Smash, one of the stills is of Snake (also in a Spy Catsuit) as he's climbing down the ladder, and his buttocks the screen.
  • The introductory video for Palutena has close-up shots of her hip (on the side where her dress is split) and her chest.
• Starcraft II: In Heart of the Swarm, Kerrigan is either wearing a Spy Catsuit or is covered in organic protrusions that cover everything except her chests and rear. The camera always makes sure these are plainly visible when she's onscreen.
• Krystal in Star Fox: Assault's promo material focuses on her legs or backside.
• In the "Return" trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, smuggler captain Nico Okarr is being taken into custody for smuggling. As he's being led to his cell, before an invasion by the Sith Empire derails that, a female Twi'lek soldier walks by, who catches Captain Okarr's eye.

  Jace Malcolm: Eyes front.

  Nico Okarr: Just inspecting the troops, corporal.

• Street Fighter:
  • Many of Chun-Li Kick Chick techniques tend to invoke the Male Gaze, her upside down Spinning Bird kick gives the player a view of her butt, crotch and muscled legs as she spins around. Her Hoyokusen attack shows off her thong as she changes legs during her rapid kicks. And with her Kikoken◊ Chunners leans forward drawing attention to her thighs and butt.
  • Most of Cammy iconic victory poses in as well as her STARTING POSE in IV involve her having her back facing the camera to highlight her buttocks. In the SFV story mode the camera is frequently positioned low and facing up to get the best view of Cammy's crotch◊ and butt◊.
  • In Street Fighter III Elena's game over is an obvious example of this, as while other characters look in bad shape in their lose screens, Elena on the other hand has her ass raised high in the air◊. Ironic effect given players are supposed to feel disappointed when they lose, not delighted.
  • Poison in Street Fighter X Tekken provokes this a LOT. Her versus screen, victory and win screen poses all focus on this, and her special intro with Hugo before a fight outright shoves this in the player's face.
  • Ibuki in the same game as Poison despite not being usually sexualized has quite a bit of movement in her chest. She uses Pandora? They jiggle, Win pose? jiggle, switches mood in win pose? jiggle. Though one has to wonder if there is a bra up to task that will restrain her breast when she moves and stops with super human speed and agility. Some camera angles also emphasize her chest such as the looking at the audience intro with Rolento, and her win pose has a chest emphasizing pose. Bonus points to her swap outfit that when she is the anchor character the side of her butt is plainly in view. Also a special mention to her lose pose in early SFIII as while Elena provides the 'A' in T&A Ibuki fittingly as the only other girl available provides the 'T'◊
  • Street Fighter V has plenty of this: R.Mika's has Critical Art where she literally smacks her butt to the camera before attacking and finishes with Mika and her partner Nadeshiko slamming their buttocks into the opponents's face. Laura's intro has the camera zoom in her breasts and buttocks as she knowingly stretches. Juri's into literally starts with a shot of her butt before transitioning to her breasts.
  • Necalli can also invoke this in V to any lady as his win pose appears to be purposely designed so that regardless of the size of the girl and her breast her chest will always be visible at the end of the cinematic. Bonus points if said lady is wearing a skirt or dress. He has you covered there too.
• The female player character option in Sunset Overdrive can have this in spades. There are two body types to choose from, neither one conventionally unattractive, but the second one has bigger boobs, a bigger butt, and wider hips. From the start, you can also choose to have her run around in a strapless white bra and some tiny pink undies. Since the game is third-person, you'd be getting a constant eyeful of her very shapely butt hanging out from those panties.
• Tales Series:
  • Judith from Tales of Vesperia has her large picture in skits involve her bending over giving us a good look at her cleavage. The look on her face clearly shows that she's doing it on purpose.
  • Kisara from Tales of Arise has a very shaply and noticable rear in tight black pants, and the camera absolutely loves it.
• Tekken:
  • The Williams Sisters Nina and Anna frequently invoke this being major Ms Fanservices with their usual appearances being the Boobs-and-Butt Pose. And their endings involve relaxing in bikinis or causing each other to have a Wardrobe Malfunction in front of a group of leering men.
  • Christie Monteiro◊ is already a prominent example of this with her Underboobs outfit but her intros in Tekken 5 makes sure it let you know how curvaceous she is by having the camera zoom around her body.
  • Asuka Kazama also gets a bit as mostly notably seen in her Tekken 5 and Tekken Tag Tournament endings complete with Pervert Revenge Mode. Her ending in Tekken 6 has her knocked off by her fight with her rival Lili and there’s moment before she hits the ground where the camera is directed up her miniskirt and only her foot to cover her panties, she then gets into a fight with Lili (who's also wearing a skirt) and the camera at one point is placed low to ground and facing up.
    • Not mentioned in the same ending Lili's Leg Focus as she exits her limo.
  • In Tekken 7, Katarina's intros put particular focus on her breasts as she’s only wearing a bikini top. There’s also Josie whose large breasts have noticeable◊ Jiggle Physics especially when she’s KO-ed.
  • Tekken 8 continues the trend with Lili, in both her and Asuka's endings the camera is positioned in a way to look up her skirt and would be giving a blatant Panty Shot if she didn't have convenient shadows obscuring under her skirt. It's played with Jun, as her default costume comes with a dress that covers up her rear, so cutscenes and fight intros with Kazuya that would have a butt shot just show her dress. In her alternate wear said intro starts with a butt shot with Painted-On Pants.
• Lara Croft utilizes this in many ways in the Tomb Raider games; not only does she possess somewhat... exaggerated attributes in the bosom and rear end departments, but the clothes she wears (particularly in the earlier games) are designed to enhance them even further. Coupled with this is the fact that she is mostly viewed from behind during the game (partly as a necessity of the game mechanics), and it's not hard to imagine what many gamers of the male persuasion would be thinking about when playing the game.
  • This was taken a bit further in Tomb Raider: Anniversary, where the updated graphics and animation allowed the developer to do the same game except with more fanservice—as Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw notes in his review, when she comes out of the water she's realistically wet and glistening, and if you leave the game idle for a while she does these shamelessly erotic stretches.
  • It goes even further than that in Tomb Raider: Underworld, where Lara dons a swimsuit-leotard for significant portions of the game.
  • Crystal Dynamics have stated they were specially trying to avert this in Tomb Raider (2013), to the point that they iterated on her model until people in tests were found to naturally focus on her eyes rather than her breasts. Though with that said some camera angles overlook her cleavage, but to the developer's credit it’s more rare than previous titles.
• Just about everything Vanillaware does is heavily garnished with stuff George Kamitani likes, and what he likes are boobs, butts, and buffness. Dragon's Crown takes this trope to level that borders on parody.
• In Vanquish all the cutscenes with Elena have the camera placed low to the ground looking up, getting the best look at her legs to point where the camera seems like it’s gonna fly up her skirt at any moment.
• Played for laughs in Warriors Orochi 3: Guest Fighter Ayane briefly crosses blades with Yoshitsune Minamoto. Their fight is cut short when Yoshitsune catches a glimps of Ayane's ample chest, and he becomes too flustered to continue fighting her. He spends a lot of time afterwards insisting Ayane dress in something less Stripperific.
• Angelic Buster from MapleStory gets this a lot. She has a magical girl style transformation complete with FMV (something unique to her compared to the other classes), in said FMV there is a close up of her breast when the clothes change complete with some jiggling after her clothes change and a view of her angelic butt. In game her wearing a skirt is something brought up by herself and other (usually male) characters and is often implied to have the eyes of others. Her source of power is Eskalade a powerful yet perverted dragon who is implied to be ogling her body at all times and sometimes even does actions such as put stuff in her back pockets while she is bending over to pick items up.
• From Valkyria Chronicles 4:
  • Kai Schulen sees plenty of attention given to her well-defined behind (even official promo art gets in on the fun◊), most especially from Raz. In the game, her running animation emphasizes her ass and that it bounces around. After unlocking her swimsuit in the Beach Episode DLC, her ass, thighs and even chest gets further emphasized as her one piece is quite revealing at the back and since she's quite shapely, it looks painted on despite it having the most fabric of the three unlockable swimsuits.
  • Minerva Victor also gets a lot of Male Gaze treatment on her boobs. In one infamous introduction, the camera is angled in a way that the first thing that pops in when she walks on screen are her breasts. When she's playable, her running animation causes her breasts to bounce, and her victory kill screens are focused on her chest, and once she adjusts her glasses in said kill screens, her breast bobble once more. In the beach episode DLC, she (accidentally) gets introduced in her bikini while she's tying it on at angle that just happens to involve her bending down and letting her breasts droop, which prompts who else but Raz to scream to heaven about how much he loves her big boobs. Said bikini is also the most revealing one, and the third person camera allows the viewer to also explore her thighs, midriff, legs, chest and rear.
  • Riley Miller, who completes The Federation girl Power Trio, is mostly an aversion, but unlocking her swimsuit does introduce her in a way to let the camera ogle her for a bit. Otherwise there isn't anything particular the camera emphasizes other than her looking hot in said swimsuit. For once though, she plays this trope the straightest in the Hot Springs Episode bonus chapter, where after hearing Federation and Imperial soldiers argue about Federation women amid a ceasefire, gets out of the hot springs to condemn said Imperials for their sexism, forgetting she was naked. While Minerva tries to save her with Hand-or-Object Underwear, the camera shows her no mercy and we get to see the rest of her naked body anyway, much to her and everyone else's embarssment. Except for Raz of course and Kai who decides to Just Ignore It and enjoy the hot springs, though the camera is mostly more merciful towards her.
• The major female characters in The Wonderful 101 are introduced with chest and rear close-ups. Specifically, Wonder-Pink and Immorta. There's also Vijounne, who gets a close-up of her rubbing her chest and hips.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 features far more sexualized female characters than its prequel sibling. There is almost no breathing room from seeing a close-up shot of Pyra's or Mythra's body to show off their curves during cutscenes, and to drive the point home, the two of them are often put in compromising positions. It's no surprise that there is even a Hot Springs Episode.

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