It's not odd to feel some sort of crush for an attractive video game character. Obviously, they're only pixelaxed and not real - but that doesn't excuse the fact their character design is deliberate eye candy. When these characters start turning into talking anthropomorhic animals, however, suddenly the tone begins to feel ... strange.
There's something weird about lusting over a sexy, anthropomorphic animal - with huge breasts and massive cartoon eyes, no less - particularly when you end up on tumblr, down the weird side of the lubricated (and furry) slope. What's also funny is sexualized animals are more ordinary than you'd think - and these two-footed pixelated beauties just touch the surface.
Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Adorable talking animals are ordinary in Sonic the Hedgehog video games. There's Tails, the cute double-tailed fox, Knuckles the echidna and of course the angelic, Sonic-obsessed Amy Rose. Then there's Rouge. She's the outcome of a Sega meeting in which a person in the room must've suggested, "Hey, you know what could get people to purchase more Sonic games? A sexy bat, with busty breasts and pink lipstick."
Candy Kong (Donkey Kong Country)
Candy's the perfect instance of a character with an R-rated outfit whose made it into E-rated game-but if there's one character a Nintendo game urgently required, it was a sexed up female primate that helped the player save their game. Oh, and just in case Candy Kong's name ever slips from your head, it's promptly displayed on her cropped two-piece top.
Lopunny (Pokemon)
Internet artists have been sexing up cute Pokemon for as long we can remember and Lopunny is at the top of the list in terms of Pokemon sexualiztion. This rabbit is able to kick with the best of them - (even you Gardevoir) - and it's curvy figure is a dead give away as to why. Those hips, the booty sticking out, bended posture, its lively mannerism, Game Freak definitely knew what they were doing when they created this Pokemon.
Tawna (Crash Bandicoot)
Tawna has Crash Bandicoot looking like a failed science project. Two of them are mutated Bandicoots conceived by the game's baddie Dr. Neo Cortex, though their - ahem -sexual couldn't be any more different. Crash doesn't have a neck, his legs are short and arms are long. On the other hand Tawna has the body-build of a freaking model. I think it's evident whose body that pervy scientist dedicated most of his attention to.
Don't use your tissues just yet because here's six more sexualized animals in video games you might have forgotten about or not been aware off.