One of the stranger features of far-leftist social justice ideology is the idea that "traditionally beautiful" women in media are a bad thing, and thus they need to be hit with "the ugly stick", ie. uglified. This happens, for example, when a female video game character is deliberately made objectively more homely than the real-life actress that served as the character model. One of the first infamous examples of this was the female main protagonist in the Mass Effect Andromeda game:
This was especially egregious in that the male protagonist was quite clearly not uglified in any way compared to the actor who served as the model.
It appears that there's another quite infamous recent case of female uglification, but this time in reverse: The original game character was arguably traditionally very beautiful, and in a later live-action TV series an actress was chosen who is arguably significantly uglier.
Yes, it's not very nice to call a real woman "ugly", and while I do believe that it's not very gentlemanly to say so, by this point I don't really care.
The Last of Us was originally a game made in 2013 for the PS3, seemingly before the developers, Naughty Dog, became "woke", and thus the female side character (at points playable character) is very traditionally pretty. They couldn't really change her appearance in the sequel nor in the two remastered versions of the game, so she is still very pretty in those:
But when HBO decided to make a TV series out of the games, they saw a golden opportunity to hit her with the ugly stick:
I don't think they could have found an uglier actress of this age if they had tried.
(Yes, again, I know it's not very gentlemanly to call a real-life woman ugly, but I honestly do not care by this point. Especially since the actress is an open far-leftist social justice warrior. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the reasons she was selected.)
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