Topless Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqhYg2h3FmY

Who they are: The Topless Women section in the God of War wiki makes me laugh and then cough up blood. It’s true that pre-2018 Kratos was a dog, but damn. “Over the course of the God of War Series, excluding God of War: Betrayal and God of War (2018),” the wiki description says, “Kratos comes across multiple naked or topless women in various locations. By approaching these women, he can engage in off-screen sex by performing a minigame.”

Ranking: Number one, by default. God of War’s topless women have probably spent too long relegated to flippant wiki entries and tongue-in-cheek side plots—but they’re so central to establishing early Kratos’ casual cruelty, why shouldn’t they take the spotlight for once?

Which God of War woman takes your number one spot? Let me know in the comments, either before or after you read The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. The choice is yours.