If game characters were old
Solid Snake became a ripe old git – what if other characters went the same way?
Most game characters don’t bother with ugly things like continuity – they never get old and they eternally wear the same clothes. But what if, like Snake, they were suddenly ravaged by Father Time? Adash of Photoshop reveals the disturbing possibilities.
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider
Sans her athletic physique and sex appeal, all Lararaids these days areaisles of incontinence products. Those once impossibly perky breasts have become gravity’s playthings, swinging around her navel like Droopy’s ears andsnagging on untrimmed shrubs (which she complained to the city council about 16 times).
But it isn't all bad for the retired archeologist - she occasionally spruces things up by surviving nuclear blasts in refrigerators.
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