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43. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider (2013)) - https://imgur.com/dzJkTDf

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In addition to the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider revitalizing the series, it also desperately revitalized the character of Lara Croft. Whilst the old Lara Croft had her charms and was a combination of beauty and brains, this new Lara Croft was vulnerable, inexperienced, naive, and went through more torture then all the Saw films combined. The reboot series makes her more of a realistic character, and though she goes 0 to 100 rather quickly, I still connected to her much more than I ever did the old Lara.

This new Lara is a survivor, and the intro of the game makes the most of that, the section I think most exemplifies her new character traits. It doesn't start off very kind to Lara, opening with a shipwreck before leaving Lara hanging upside down in a dark, damp, and dangerous cave. Still, Lara makes the most of her surroundings with ingenuity and manages to free herself, make a torch, and make her way through the cave system. Lara shows fear but it never stops her from pushing on with a brave face. From there, Lara moves into the forest where she has to hunt to survive. It pains her to do this, but Lara knows it is a necessity to live. As Lara kneels over her kill, it's a very human moment and more emotionally affecting than anything in the Tomb Raider series beforehand.

Eventually, Lara takes her first human life having no choice, and whilst I do have my issues with how this sequence plays out, it's a pretty defining for Lara. It's just regrettable she basically becomes a killing machine for the rest of the game without much of a focus on how that affects her. Still, Lara's determination, survival skills, and ability to overcome the greatest odds are great representations of the human spirit.
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