![]() The remake is also the first time in a Resident Evil game that Ada was voiced by an Asian actor, Lily Gao, who unfortunately faced harassment on social media for her performance. I correctly anticipated that the RE4 remake developers would change Ada’s dress in order to distance her from this trope. Even her name reminds me of Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star, who was often forced into playing these types of characters because of the limited roles available to Asian women.Ĭalling Ada a villain would be a stretch, since she actually has a soft spot for Leon and helps him throughout the game, but in RE4 her sexualized and shady persona - along with her famous red dress - is the “Dragon Lady” trope to a T. While all-American boy Leon Kennedy runs around Spain to save the president’s daughter, Ada stands in contrast to him in her modernized Chinese qipao while working in tandem with notorious Resident Evil villain Wesker. Oftentimes, these characters are dressed in sexualised Asian-inspired costumes to emphasize their foreignness. ![]() The movie is about a young woman who becomes an assassin and falls in love, and fans have noted that Ada’s love for a man (namely, Leon) is a trait they share.Īda is Asian American, though, and that impacts the reading of the femme fatale trope, since she also ends up falling very neatly into the derogatory “ Dragon Lady” trope, which portrays Asian female characters as deceitful, mysterious, villainous, and domineering. The title screen for Separate Ways gives a bump to her femme fatale reading: In a nod to the 1990 film La Femme Nikita, Ada is shown in the same pose as the titular Nikita in the movie’s poster. Others - especially the ones that apply to my favorite international spy - aren’t. ![]() Some, like Leon’s terrible movie hero one-liners and head-exploding roundhouse kicks, are still really funny. But RE4’s cinematic approach comes with plenty of action-movie tropes. Polygon is diving into the world of espionage throughout fiction and pop culture history with Deep Cover, a two-week special issue covering all sorts of spy stories and gadgets.Īda is a very fun character in a fun game.
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