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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There are female Locust in the games aside from the Queen. They're the Berserkers and they're the size of the Hulk

There was some iffy lore introduced in an early comic or book or something about [CW: SA]

spoilerthem being so mindlessly angry and murderous that a bunch of male Locust would need to gang up and restrain them to even mate with them

There was some other weirdly gendered and edgy stuff in the lore earlier on that later games walked back

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

I've forgotten a lot of Gears for having played them in my 20s. I remember the Berserker. She could make me worse.

[–] git@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Swarm (Locust 2.0) Hunters are female too.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

That was revealed in Gears 5 where they got a slight redesign and were voiced by Arch Enemy's current singer. I wonder if they redesigned them around the casting