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What are the ways that NPCs can end up as racist?

have had more than a few issues with racial inequality.

are white, according to the virtual census.

If God is love, then you can call me Cupid.

Because NPCs lack any agency and generally hold

little power, things can get problematic pretty quickly.

In a medium where the entire world is subservient

to the player's will, games can be racially unequal in ways

Movies might have to worry about the power dynamic in narrative.

But games have to be concerned with the power and balance

in both narrative and mechanics, particularly when

it comes to white player characters facing off

Let's start with enemy design and how people of color

of a white protagonist killing off hordes of nameless zombie

like "Battlefield" at "Medal of Honor," that differentiates

the player from enemy targets by using skin color

and culture, most recently Arab or Muslim cultures,

the same way that the NFL uses different color jerseys.

Even "The Legend of Zelda," for all of its childhood innocence,

isn't above fault. Ganondorf's Gerudo racial group might

living in the desert, having darker skin, and being thieves.

Look, I'm not saying that people of color

But given the mass of inequality in the racial makeup

of playable characters, this power dynamic

of white guys squaring off against people of color just

Racist NPCs don't just come in the form of enemy hordes

Take a listen to Letitia, the trash lady,

Letitia points to an even bigger problem than racially divided

is a half-step up from using the term "urban spy,"

solely to grant access to a part of Detroit that's

outside of the main character's race and class.

I's hear there might be a gunseller or two around town.

who not only suffers from a stereotypical and offensive

in the lesser role of an NPC because they're

racially distinct from the white protagonist.

In the 2013 "Assassin's Creed" DLC "Freedom Cry,"

It's still DLC, but, hey, we're getting there.

Yet even "Freedom Cry" inadvertently uses

racist mechanics-- dehumanizing the slave NPCs by essentially

rendering the ones you liberate a nameless resource

conventional mechanics often get in the way

But there are still persistent and more indirect issues

In movies and television, you'll recognize tokenism

to show them the ways of the world in quirky, ethnic ways.

It's an important observation and possibly more relevant

Even when games do include characters of color,

tokenism tends to rear its ugly head. "BioShock Infinite,"

while appealing to the social injustice narrative,

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