![]() ![]() Juliet's relationship with disembodied head and boyfriend Nick is both the best thing about Lollipop Chainsaw and one of its most thought-provoking points. There's quality and warmth in the writing too, and it's not all just boobs and brutality. Perhaps this is the Tromeo And Juliet sequel he'd always dreamed of. It just so happens that Suda, and James Gunn in particular, choose the type of subversion born in the grindhouse and through Gunn's own work for Troma early in his career. Horror notoriously enjoys subverting gender roles and placing strong female heroines at the fore - Alien's Ripley, Halloween's Laurie Strode and through to Planet Terror's Cherry Darling. Exploitation cinema has over time been allowed a certain amount of respect - could this just be an example of exploitation gaming?Īrguably it is more than that. Given Lollipop Chainsaw's overt connection with horror cinema - particularly the schlock and grindhouse of the late 70s - the volume of bare and barely legal flesh shouldn't come as a huge surprise. She completely ignores the grimy advances of the high school students she rescues ("I'm totally gonna masturbate to you tonight"). She takes everything in her stride but worries about her weight. She has hopes and dreams, she's driven by her own desire to succeed and to make her father proud, she's powered by relentless positivity but tinged with self-doubt. Juliet is fleshed out and oddly believable - not just the one-dimensional wank fantasy that many have casually dismissed her as - and played with spark and verve by Tara Strong. Of course, it's the rather delightful subtext pulsating through Lollipop Chainsaw that casts any notion of misogyny or sexism over the rainbow and into the distant yonder entirely. While the marketing may have focused on Juliet's looks, there's so much more to Lollipop Chainsaw. The opening scenes depicting Juliet Starling in her bedroom sucking on a lollipop are suggestive, sure, and there's a touch of uncomfortable upskirt (and one scene where her pervy old sensei falls face first into her breasts) but is this really anything more than Carry On humour? At a completely base level it might be titillating, puerile and even a bit crass, but as with everything Suda 51 puts his name to, there's so much more going on. At a glance it's just another in a long line of cynical action games, ready to fade into insignificance alongside Onechanbara and X-Blades.īut Lollipop Chainsaw isn't misogynist. Pretty girl, cheerleader outfit, perilously short skirt. Beyond the Tomb Raider fiasco (which to me seems a non-debate until the actual game is released), the most common target for the ire of the misogynista is Grasshopper's Lollipop Chainsaw. As she says, “Killing zombies gives me total wood.The word misogyny has crept its way into the gaming vernacular recently, thrown about accusingly and often - if you ask me - incorrectly at any game that dares to show a female in any light other than stoic and masculine. And while it’s not a total lie, in reality she also has a very mature, vulgar, and violent persona as a zombie hunter. Juliet acts like a typical teenage airhead at school to hide her family secret. To stop a zombie infestation this massive, Juliet must not only survive the hordes, but also find a way to close the rift between Earth and the Rotten World that brought them here in the first place. After he is bitten by a zombie, she immediately cuts his head off to stop the infection, brings it back to life, and wears Nick’s head around her waist so they can be together forever.Ĭhallenge. Although they haven’t known each other for too long, Juliet is totally infatuated with jock Nick Carlyle. She also enjoys karaoke, ponies, lollipops, being skinny, Legally Blonde, and Evil Dead. Juliet is the captain of the San Romero High School cheerleading team, and her acrobatic moves really come in handy while battling zombie masses. Her weapon of choice is her fabulous Bedazzled Chainsaw. Under the guidance of her sensei Junji Morikawa, Juliet is a highly effective zombie-killing machine. The school becomes the site of a mass zombie outbreak when another student, Swan, starts meddling with dark magic. ![]() Juliet is a senior at San Romero High School. Unbeknownst to her mother, Juliet’s father is a professional zombie hunter and trained Juliet and her sisters Rosalind and Cordelia to carry on his legacy. the daughter of Gideon and Elizabeth Starling. ![]()
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