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Welcome to the Assorted Media Bracket for BNP March Madness 2022. Let’s not waste any time. Here’s the lineup.
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider reboot)
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There was a time when the name Lara Croft was synonymous with 90s era graphics and a character shaped by the whims of the male gaze. Lara was always badass, but something just never hit right. She was always Indiana Jones and James Bond. Not anymore. In 2013, Lara came back to the game a little younger but a lot more savage. The story is still the same, but the soul still burns hot in this version. Ms. Croft is still doing her treasure hunter thing, still comes from goo-gobs of money, but this time…she was stranded on an island with only one goal, survive. Emboldened by her father’s memory, she has to hold her own against a cult of Resident Evil rejects hellbent on taking her life. But to do this, Lara Croft had to become something else. Had to become someone, else: The Tomb Raider!’ Lara pretty much became the main character in The Descent with a dash of Green Arrow. Which meant having to catch body after body after body. Designing and modifying weapons and traps, figuring out puzzles, taking on everything the natural and supernatural world could throw at her. THREE TIMES! Fam, she’s smarter than you, faster than you, and loves to be underestimated. Lara Croft makes Kate Bishop look like Katniss Everdeen. She was out here with a punctured organ catching hell on some hardened modern-day pirates with the aim of Lego…
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