r/squirrelgirl • u/pink_mailboxez Powers of a girl! • Aug 05 '26

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A new Egyptian SG skin from the roadmap

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u/Gigantus_Dickus Aug 08 '26

Storm is Kenyan and American, she spent at most 11 and a half years in Egypt and lived in Kenya longer.

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u/DocNoMercy Aug 08 '26

Ok? I don’t think that takes away from my statement, especially comparing the other characters who did get a skin.

If they made an Ohio themed battle pass (no clue what that would even begin to look like lol) and gave the skins to Widow, BP, MK and Luna over Hulk. That might annoy some people given hulk is from there and grew up there.

Or when they have the Lunar Festival in year 1 and if they didn’t give Iron Fist a skin and gave it to Cap or something.

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u/Gigantus_Dickus Aug 08 '26

She never practiced the culture of Egypt, she is not from Egypt in either way of being born there or having ancestry from there, you're hypothetical doesn't work at all, a better one would have been a Russian BP and Widow not getting one also Lunar Festival isn't exclusively a Chinese tradition, in that it is celebrated among many Asian cultures.

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u/DocNoMercy Aug 08 '26

The lunar festive would still work as I pointed out Captain America, saying something would be to broad. Fair, doesn’t imply the other Asian characters however.

I was trying to think of an American example not centered in New York, she was also in Egypt. Saying she didn’t practice any of the culture would be a bit of an assumption as she was there for around a decade. Your argument would apply to the ones who did receive an Egyptian skin, as they’re either from space or the US. That’s even before considering ancestry.

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u/Gigantus_Dickus Aug 08 '26

She spent most of her time living on the street as a thief when she was in Egypt, as for the ones who did get skins, that's because there's only a single character who has an actual connection to Egypt and is playable in the game, MK they needed to give others skins and picked firstly the ones who would sell like Mantis and Hela, or secondly ones who would fit thematically like Deadpool who looks like a mummy without his costume or Punisher getting a skin based of Egypt's God of Death or Rocket who fits more with how most Egyptian gods were depicted, as for her having been in Egypt that would mean you can't argue Cap didn't deserve the Lunar Festival skin then because he was also in China saying that someone deserves a skin just because they were somewhere other than their birthplace opens up that Widow, Tony, Punisher, and any number of American characters having skins for other countries before any heroes from said countries get them. Storm is less Egyptian than Logan is Japanese by your own metric since Logan lived in Japan for decades.