Overview

The Legend of Lara Croft Controversy, also known as Muscular Lara Croft Controversy, refers to a controversy surrounding the design of the character Lara Croft in the 2024 animated series _ The Legend of Lara Croft_ produced by Netflix. The character's muscular and bulkier body design received criticism and attacks on social media in October 2024, especially on X, former Twitter, where some users posted redraws and memes of Lara Croft with larger breasts or with hyper-feminine features to mock people who criticized her design.

Background

On October 10th, 2024, X^[1] user @LaraCrxft posted a still image from Netflix's _ The Legend of Lara Croft_ animated series showing the main character Lara Crotf in front of a cave. The tweet (seen below) amassed over 12,000 likes and 2,600 reposts in six days.

Shortly after the@LaraCrxft's tweet went viral, a few netizens started to comment on Lara Croft's muscular body and over-masculine design, which prompted X^[2] user @larasbians to reply to the image criticizing people who commented the character "looks like a man," amassing over 184,000 likes and 6,700 reposts since it was posted on October 12th, 2024.

On the same day, X^[3] user @Skippy_Tielle uploaded a Red Circle Perpetrators version of Lara Croft's image (seen below), allegedly indicating the places in which the character looks like a man. The post received over 23 million views and 5,800 reposts in four days.

Online Reactions

Criticism about Lara Croft's muscular body design grew as a popular topic on X over the next few days, inspiring jokes and redraws of the character with exaggerated feminine features to mock haters. For example, on October 13th, 2024, X^[4] user @PossumzBoy posted a photoshopped version of the still image in which Croft has larger breasts (seen below) as a reply to @Skippy_Tielle's tweet, captioning "you're so right actually! no one could ever love a masculine woman !! here's your ideal type❤️." The post amassed more than 6 million views and 175,000 likes in three days.

On October 14th, 2024, X^[5] user @TheNCSmaster also replied to @Skippy_Tielle's tweet, posting a meme about their love for muscular women, writing "Muscular women are beautiful, you guys are just cowards." The tweet received over 8 million views and 217,000 likes in two days.

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