Now I know Brazilian Cara has often postulated that Rouge is in fact a characture of famed actress Halle Berrie, but this has been repeatedly dismissed as being wrong, if not for the mere fact that Ms. Berrie's boobies aren't that big in proportion to the rest of her. However, I do believe that Rouge is based off of someone, albeit a fictional character.
In America, we have sometimes had large-chested female thieves prone to selling out their services to anyone willing to foot the bill. No, not that kind of services, you degenerates. I mean services of the mercinary kind. However, DC Comics's Catwoman and Marvel Comics's The Black Cat tend to only have sizable hooters when their artists feel like it (the former during the extensive run of Jim Balent on "Catwoman" Volume One during the '90s, and the later on a "Spider-Man" mini-series which has been stuck in limbo for a year or two). However, in Japan (and sometimes in Italy), there has been one woman who has been almost unerringly portrayed as decidedly stacked, one criminal who stands head, shoulders, and cleavage above the rest. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about.
Mine Fujiko!
Yes, that's right, I think that Sonic Team was influenced by the works of Katou "Monkey Punch" Kazuhiko to the point that they did their own take on the "Lupin III" comic book anti-heroine. Just think about it: the curvacious figure, the small "I know more than you and you don't care, do you?" smile with bedroom eyes, the high-heeled jumpsuit; lest we forget about her lusty attitude (mostly, presumably toward Knuckles) and obvious flaunting of her sexiness.
Okay, so my only justification for this theory is that they're both sexpots. But isn't that good enough?
P.S.: Okay, yeah, during Frank Miller's run on "Batman" he re-wrote Catwoman's origin so that she was a skanky lesbian prostitue who was shagging an underage hooker friend of hers who, might I add, was eternally strung out on drugs, but "Batman: Year One"/"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"/"Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again" were written out of mainstream DC continuity and now occuppy a place in an "Elseworlds" parrarell universe. 'Cause they sucked.
P.P.S.: And yes, I do know that I got my title for this thread from possibly the only time that Fujiko was depicted as not having massive breasts and wide, wide hips: the notoriously bad "Lupin III" live action film. I'm into irony.
Oh, and Del, I hope these spaces aren't too bid for you.
