Good Old Female Counterpart

So I've decided to look into female characters in the general media as a starting point.

And one of the ways to insert a female in your game/movie/TV show is to make that female-to-your-male character. There are many of the female counterpart’s examples below of the kind of games I use to play. 

So as you can see the women do....differ some compared to the males even if there animals. Male characters seem to be able to vary more in anatomy, size, shape, you know the things that make good silhouettes for a design. Female characters may have to rely on their hair shape or what they wear to make that silhouette, as when it comes to body type curvy is the way to go!

Obviously there's a reason for it. 

It sells.

A 'sexy' woman will gain the attention of a teenage boy (or girl) or even the older audience as i think it's safe to say majority of the population are interested in sex, and those kind of women deliver it to a game.

It just seems a little unfair that the male characters aren't instantly designed to be the 'hot one' A male character tend to be made attractive to women by the way they act. Or if they're given a six pack and a square jaw. Usually this trait also comes with other attributes like strength, bravery, the ability to kick ass.

Whereas a hot woman is usually just a hot women. As the damsels in distress and the brave fighter woman generally have that same body type and appearance. The brave girl just might wear hot pants and a bra-type-thing instead of a skirt.

There's also the few cases of literally just flipping the gender of your male character. 

Design wise the female tend to be a lot of attractive to the other cast members and maybe the audience. Despite their male counterpart maybe being considered unattractive.

This is quite a good way to make a female character instantly like able, as the audience already knows that character and there history. 

And it's sometimes done well like the Futurama screenshot above, those 3 in the background don't fit that stereotypical standard and stay roughly close to their male counterparts overall appearance and scale on the attractiveness ladder.

SO. Let's try and make some female that are a little more equal on the design front. Stepping away from that hour-glass figure styled character. 

Or is I do make a woman of that shape...Not to make it the main focus. Hell maybe even cover her up and not display the cleavage!