Who Even Wants Lara Croft To Have Daddy Issues At This Point?
‘Daddy Issues’ by Demi Lovato might be Lara Croft’s favourite song of all time. Of course, when Lovato sings it, they are explaining why their daddy issues make them such a passionate yet complex lover, so perhaps it doesn’t fit at all, given that Tomb Raider’s Survivor Trilogy attempted to move her away from the oversexualised image we have of her (even if such sexualisation was rare in the games themselves). The point is, as has been in the headlines recently, Lara Croft’s got all these daddy issues. Whether or not she got my name on her wrist after our first kiss is as yet undetermined.
It’s baffling really that Lara has had these issues for so long. Rhianna Pratchett, whose comments on said daddy issues are what’s landed them back in the headlines, has spoken on the issue before. Pratchett was a writer for Rise of the Tomb Raider (generally agreed to be the best of the Survivor Trilogy), and has explained that she did not want the looming spectre of Daddy Croft to influence the game, but was ordered from on-high to include them. The question then, is why? Whose favourite character in the Tomb Raider games is the man who dies in the first scene? How did he, despite achieving nothing in the story, become so crucial that executives order his inclusion?
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It’s not just in the games, either. The most recent Tomb Raider movie starring Alicia Vikander revolves around Daddy Croft too. Though the movie loosely follows the 2013 Tomb Raider game, it offers a twist by having Daddy Croft be alive, but that only detracts further from the story itself. In the game, Lara is shipwrecked on a ritualistic island and must survive, slowly finding other
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