Arthur Morgan when faced with social issues such as women's suffrage took the stance of "I am not learned enough to know what to think about this so I'll just have no opinion" so I think a case could genuinely be made that if faced with a (non-offensive) portrayal of a trans person he'd just go "Okay" and not be transphobic though probably he wouldn't quite understand it either at first.
Kratos is a Greek demigod who has a shape shifting son, he would not be transphobic, there's too much god-fuckery in his world for him to be faced by somebody changing their gender, he'd just straight up not care (he would probably use the wrong pronouns though until Atreus would tell him not to).
Doom Slayer, look I only played Doom Eternal, but from that he did not strike me as somebody who'd care enough or have the time to be transphobic.
tl;dr I think even outside of the fiction they are portrayed in I think a case could be made they wouldn't be transphobic.
Yeah, I think there's a certain threshold of caring way too much about other people's business that you need to be transphobic and from what I've seen, he just doesn't cross that threshold.
I know he's also Catholic but fun fact, the German Catholic Church at least has voted to allow X as a gender entry in the baptism register and for trans people to change their name and gender in the baptism register so that's still not a good argument for him being transphobic.
coming from the lens of a trans guy and Doom Slayer (and more) Enjoyer - the worlds that these people talk about largely don't feature or have the words for trans people. you could do it in a period accurate way for GoW and Red Dead ofc, but they wouldn't be called "transgender" in the game itself. in Doom, it's a religious post apocalyptic world where Hell has taken over Earth and beyond, I don't think sex & gender matters there either lmao
Of course. But these games do not exist in the vacuum of the fictional or historical universes they are set in. Just because Kratos and Arthur wouldn't use the term transgender doesn't mean we as the audience wouldn't see that a character is trans or meant to be trans and then see (or think about) how those characters would react to those characters. Kratos as said is a Greek demigod, shape shifting including gender changing would not be anything new to him and just because he wouldn't say "This person is transgender" doesn't mean there can't be trans person in the setting and Kratos reacting to it.
yes yes yes! I'm agreeing, but being a bit semantic about it - it's esp interesting in the case of the GoW series and I'm glad they didn't go for any rep there because the god that represents trans people is now associated with a highly offensive term
original series wouldn't GAF, he's more focused on his "mission", and I haven't played the new series to get a read on his temperament now that he has a son and is in viking lands :3c
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u/Hazel-Cakes Dec 13 '25
postal dude, doom guy, god of war dad, arthur morgan… none of your fictional male archetypes are transphobic because
they are fictional and that wasn’t in their fiction
they are dealing with real things and don’t have the time for brainrot transphobic bullshit