just filling in space." On the other hand, the character's role and dynamic with Leon in Damnation earned more positive responses. Analysis Stephanie Jennings theorizes about the feminizing gaze in video games in the book Feminism in Play. She engages with both the history of the masculine gaze in film theory and game studies, rooting her critique in a close investigation of Ada Wong as both a character and an avatar." She is an enigmatic heroine, according to Bernard Perron of Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play, whose first appearance is conveyed through cinematic close shots of her body dressed in a slit stress. He goes on to say that the camera avoids displaying her face in order to protect her identity, but instead focuses on various body parts in a traditional male gaze montage, while Andrei Nae of Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games said that she is a match for the submissive woman-fatale character couple. She went on to say that she is a femme fatale whose patriarchal disobedience demands regulation. See also List of Resident Evil characters References Action film characters Capcom protagonists Clone characters in video games Female characters in video games Fictional archers Fictional assassins in video games Fictional American people in video games Fictional Chinese American people Fictional criminals in video games Fictional gunfighters in video games Fictional Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel Fictional female assassins Fictional female martial artists Fictional martial artists in video games Fictional police officers in video games Fictional secret agents and spies in video games Fictional taekwondo practitioners Fictional wushu practitioners Fictional zombie hunters Female horror film characters Resident Evil characters Science fiction film characters Video game bosses Video game mascots Video game characters introduced in 1998 Woman soldier and warrior characters in video games