Doom Eternal director says he’s put ‘a lot of thought’ into adding a female Slayer

Hugo Martin wants potential new protagonist to have a new fighting style…

[-Foxtrot]

They could just write into the lore a race of different warriors like the slayers who are women

Like use the Amazonians as a template

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

The Slayer has human parents. He only has powers due to being placed in the divinity machine and his praetor suit. A female counterpart of the slayer could simply be created by a woman using the divinity machine.

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah but what I'm saying is why do they have to be Earth born human, it's just going to be a samey backstory if the same thing happened to someone else but female

Going off Doom Eternal the Slayer wasn't really supposed to go into the machine, he was like the last hope when Seraphim offered it to him, even then in the DLC, the Seraphim regrets doing it knowing what the Doom Slayer would end up doing. So again, to have that happen to someone else in similar circumstances just seems dumb

It's better to have another human like race like the Slayers and just have a female warrior be the last one left, someone with their own mission.

[bloop]

Or, you know, they could just not bother coming up with any back story and forget about having a female slayer just to pander to an extreme minority of a franchise's audience 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

The seraphim hates demons and dislikes the choices of current Khan Maykr. He enhanced the Slayer to deal with and protect others from the forces of Hell as well as potentially overthrow the Khan Maykr.

[-Foxtrot]

Exactly...which is basically my point

It was a very special circumstance

The same exact thing wouldn't just happen to a female human to make them like the Slayer.

[DrShoe]

But the real question all the game journos in 2021 wants to know is... what are their pronouns?

[isarai]

I mean as long as it makes sense it'd be cool. Just putting a woman in the same green armor tho would just be lazy, they should giver her her own origin and theme but also put into the divinity machine.

[Tacoboto]

I bet they could write in a Doom-appropriate love story. They'll be finishing each other's chainsawing

[annoyedgamer]

Male Lara Croft please

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Ah, Nathan Drake?

[CorndogBurglar]

Lol

[spicelicka]

Different game, which is the right way of doing it.

[PS-Gamer-1986]

Spicelicka so true

[annoyedgamer]

He is about to get retired in place of his daughter if I remember correctly.

[azedean]

This is ridiculous, just create a new spinoff or a new game with a women as the main character. Tomb raider is a women because it has been created like that, I'm not going to ask for man instead of lara croft in the futur tomb raider or to have the choice between women or man. I remember no one lives forever, beyond good and evil, ff13, bayonetta, Oni, Perfect dark, Mirror's edge, Metroid or gravity rush, those games were very good but they have been created with a women as a main character. Don't be like these company that they create a women or LGBTQ+ character because it is fashionable or to sell more.

[VTKC]

Well if they don't play along with the narrative then they are a ist/ism/phobe/got etc.
This theory you say about creating female characters because fashionable and alphabet league etc just to sell more, I don't believe there's any evidence of that yet.(if there is then please correct me as I can't think of any as I type this) However I do see how it does not work in the movie industry. It has quite the opposite. Movies with the changing of gender tank. And tank hard. Even in episodic movie. Batwoman? Equaliser? Dr Who?
Oh and also in comic books.

[ajax17]

I look forward to the inevitable nude mod 😂

[VTKC]

Could they perhaps come to some agreement with ion Fury and have Shelley Harrison join in with the demon slaying? And then there's Duke and Lo Wang which are not female but would be awesome if these crossed paths.

[VTKC]

Why does a female demon slayer have her mid drift unarmoured? She's that much better than the male slayer she doesn't need armour there?

[aaronaton]

For all those women out there that enjoy the DOOM franchise....

[PS-Gamer-1986]

Yes , all 3 of them would be glad AND id had something to talk about for pr. Would be a win-win situation i'd say

[Elda]

A female protagonist in Doom is awesome.