Tomb Raider / Lara Croft inspired scenes (suggestion for all producers)
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 4:16 pm
It surprises me that none of the producers have done any scenes involving a character based on Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise!
A scene featuring Lara Croft has occurred to me in the past, but I didn't think to post about it until Mixman brought it up in this thread about one of Club MPV's Safari Girl scenes.
For a while I considered commissioning a producer to make a Tomb Raider scene, but then again it's not exactly an obscure idea that would only appeal to myself and a few people, "sexy jungle explorer" scenes are already of interest to at least half the people browsing these forums, and Lara Croft is probably the most famous and popular example of that.
For anyone not in the know, Lara Croft is a beautiful, brilliant, athletic treasure hunter who travels the world seeking ancient magical artifacts from lost ruins, and ends up fighting bad guys, wild animals, supernatural monsters and dinosaurs. She's basically the female equivalent of Indiana Jones. Originally a videogame character, she has also starred in movies, books and comics. There's a new movie coming out this month.
In the first Tomb Raider game she was hired by the female CEO of a company to find an artifact, and it then it turned out that the woman who hired her was a villain with evil plans. In most of the subsequent games, Lara is doing some archeological research, goes off to find something and then some secret society or mafia types is after the same thing for sinister reasons. (Again, like Indiana Jones and the Nazis.)
The third Tomb Raider game had quicksand as one of the perils she had to deal with. There were deep mud bogs in the jungle levels (including the very first level of the game), and actual quicksand in the desert levels. In some cases Lara would have to quickly wade through mud/quicksand to get across an area. There were temple traps that when triggered would turn the ground to mud (and Lara would have to quickly wade across a room and climb out). In other areas there was inescapable mud/quicksand that Lara had to do do careful climbs and jumps over to avoid falling in to her doom.
Running through the jungle ruins from a T-Rex... we can easily imagine that she's about to accidentally leap into a quicksand pit or bubbling swamp!
The way I see it, there are two ways of going about it:
There's a huge potential of different scene types that could be done with Lara Croft (or a Lara Croft-inspired character):
Some old Lara Croft quicksand artwork by Wayne, also known as mudbogs. Originally on Kaol's Ol Sinking Hole, he reshared them here a while back.
My final idea is a rather expensive and unlikely one... a "feature-length" film that is 30 minutes to an hour in length, or possibly a series of 10 minute videos, where Lara (or a Lara-style adventurer) gets into a variety of predicaments as part of an overarching plot. Of course this would include two or three quicksand scenes, but could also have cross-fetish appeal by having other situations like bondage, tomb perils like moving walls with spikes and swinging pendulums, that kind of thing.
We all love a quicksand scene on its own, but I think many of us miss the good old days of proper jungle movies and westerns that featured quicksand as a part of the plot. It would be amazing to have a fetish-focused Tomb Raider fan film featuring a quicksand scene in the middle and then an epic quicksand scene at the end for the final showdown between the heroine and the main villain.
This would be like some of the O-Girl stuff done by BondageCafe, like "The Return of the Black Minx" (an hour and 20 minute movie with lots of bondage, women fighting, and quicksand), or the Obsession series (which is the same kind of thing but released as short 10 minute segments). In fact I can imagine BondageCafe being able to put together a pretty decent Tomb Raider film using their current sets and props. Another example is Qsvgitguy's half-hour computer-generated film "Disappearing Act 2", which features a bunch of women in the jungle fighting amongst each other and falling victim to giant snakes, tentacle plant monsters and quicksand. I'm aware that it would be a big departure for any of the producers here (other than BondageCafe) and would mean mean building sets for tombs and traps rather than just filming a quicksand scene in a forest or beach, so I realise the chances of any producers here wanting to make something like that are actually pretty slim. But I figure there's no harm in putting the idea out there, as superheroine peril fetish scenes tend to be quite successful, and the Lara Croft archetype could fit into that sort of thing just as well as imitations of Batgirl and Supergirl.
Other than that final suggestion, I think the other ideas are all well within the sort of content regularly created by all the producers here. So producers and consumers alike, comment if any of this sounds like a good idea!
A scene featuring Lara Croft has occurred to me in the past, but I didn't think to post about it until Mixman brought it up in this thread about one of Club MPV's Safari Girl scenes.
For a while I considered commissioning a producer to make a Tomb Raider scene, but then again it's not exactly an obscure idea that would only appeal to myself and a few people, "sexy jungle explorer" scenes are already of interest to at least half the people browsing these forums, and Lara Croft is probably the most famous and popular example of that.
For anyone not in the know, Lara Croft is a beautiful, brilliant, athletic treasure hunter who travels the world seeking ancient magical artifacts from lost ruins, and ends up fighting bad guys, wild animals, supernatural monsters and dinosaurs. She's basically the female equivalent of Indiana Jones. Originally a videogame character, she has also starred in movies, books and comics. There's a new movie coming out this month.
In the first Tomb Raider game she was hired by the female CEO of a company to find an artifact, and it then it turned out that the woman who hired her was a villain with evil plans. In most of the subsequent games, Lara is doing some archeological research, goes off to find something and then some secret society or mafia types is after the same thing for sinister reasons. (Again, like Indiana Jones and the Nazis.)
The third Tomb Raider game had quicksand as one of the perils she had to deal with. There were deep mud bogs in the jungle levels (including the very first level of the game), and actual quicksand in the desert levels. In some cases Lara would have to quickly wade through mud/quicksand to get across an area. There were temple traps that when triggered would turn the ground to mud (and Lara would have to quickly wade across a room and climb out). In other areas there was inescapable mud/quicksand that Lara had to do do careful climbs and jumps over to avoid falling in to her doom.
Running through the jungle ruins from a T-Rex... we can easily imagine that she's about to accidentally leap into a quicksand pit or bubbling swamp!
The way I see it, there are two ways of going about it:
- 1) Scenes that are actually supposed to be starring Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. Her most famous outfit is pretty simple (turquoise sleeveless top, brown shorts, boots, a couple of toy guns on thigh holsters), plus there are cheap Tomb Raider/Lara Croft Halloween outfits available. She also has other outfits in some of the games, so can increase variety (or cater to other fetishes!) by having in a swimsuit, leotard, a different coloured-top, ball gown etc. Copyright isn't a concern as it can simply be called a parody. (There have been several Tomb Raider porn parodies over the years!) Of course a really authentic scene would limit the possible actresses to those that have the right look (a short-haired blonde might have to wear a brown wig with a ponytail, etc) and really picky people might expect her to put on a British accent. (I'm not so fussed about the accent, desirable but not essential.)
2) A NEW character invented especially for these productions, who is obviously inspired by Lara Croft. This would be similar to what BondageCafe did with the adventures of "O-Girl", she's based on superheroines such as Batgirl and gets in situations similar to the old 1960s Batman TV series, except rather more raunchy. In this case, a producer such as Club MPV / Studio 588 / Jumpoff Joe / Soft Dangers could have their own tomb raiding jungle adventurer who has recurring adventures where she ends up in swamps and quicksand. (Maybe more than one producer could share use of this same character. Or each producer could come up with their own version, and they sometimes have special crossover adventures!) This has the downside of losing that feel of it being an "actual" Tomb Raider adventure, but does have the advantage that actresses wouldn't necessarily need brown hair or a British accent, a blonde or redhead could do nicely. A recent example of this is Karen Gillan's character "Ruby Roundhouse" in the movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. According to the actress herself, "We made an active choice to make her like a Lara Croft-style '90s video game character with an absurd male fantasy sort of vibe." Anyone can recognise that she's obviously Lara Croft, even with the wrong hair colour and a different-coloured top. So personally, I'd be equally happy with scenes that starred either Lara Croft or simply a "Lara Croft style adventurer".
There's a huge potential of different scene types that could be done with Lara Croft (or a Lara Croft-inspired character):
- Straightforward "plop and sink" - an actress in Lara Croft attire walks, runs or falls into a bog or quicksand while searching for some lost ruins. Like most jungle explorer / safari girl scenes, there's little need for much plot of justification as the character/clothing already justifies her presence in that situation.
She could escape using her own strength and wits, and she could possibly use a rope. She has been known to have rope in her backpack, and in some of the games she has a belt-mounted grappling hook. In some recent games (and the new movie) she uses a bow-and-arrow, and in the games the bow isn't just a weapon, she also uses it to fire ropes.
A grim scene is also a possibility - if she dies, no big deal, she's a videogame character! There's nothing strange about her reappearing in future scenes! Could even have a bit of a joke where a grim scene happens first, then a "game over" screen with an option to load a saved game, and then show an alternative ending where she survives. - A fight between the heroine and a villain/villainess - Lara Croft and a villain (or a villain's henchwoman) encounter each other in the jungle. They have a bit of hand-to-hand combat, or perhaps point guns at each other and have a Mexican standoff. One or both ends up in quicksand.
If it is just Lara in the bog, the villain could laugh and leave, and Lara has figure out how to escape. Or the villain could stay to taunt Lara, and then end up doing something stupid and ending up in it herself. Or, the villain has to reluctantly help Lara, because Lara is carrying the mystical artifact, or Lara is the only one that knows the way to the lost tomb. If the villain is the one in the bog, Lara tries to help the baddie... of course she does, she's a heroine! The baddie might accept the help and then try to double cross her, or might refuse out of stubborness. Or perhaps the villain takes too long to reach for Lara's hand / rope because the villain is also trying to grab a mystical artifact or map that has fallen into the quicksand. If both characters are in the bog, then any combination of those situations could happen, with them either helping each other or working against each other, and the possibility of betrayal. - Lara and a companion - in some of the games, comics and movies, Lara has allies on her quest. (Sometimes willingly, sometimes reluctantly out of necessity). Lara could be teamed up with a native jungle girl, or someone in a traditional safari explorer outfit (perhaps an archeologist who is an expert in this particular lost civilisation, but is not as athletic and thrill-seeking as Lara), or perhaps even a similar rival treasure hunter, like Ruby Roundhouse from Jumanji. The two end up in quicksand and have to cooperate to escape. The companion might be panicking, while Lara keeps her cool... Lara has to calm her down first, as they both have to work together to survive!
In the recent co-op game Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris, Lara is teamed up with 3 other playable characters: rival treasure hunter Carter Bell and the Egyptian gods Horus and Isis! - Erotic scenes - Lara Croft is a thrill-seeker and adrenaline junkie, and her clothing choices in the earlier games and comics suggest she's confident about her sexuality. So Lara deciding to use the sucking and slurping sensations of quicksand bog to get herself off doesn't actually sound out of character!
- Erotic peril scenes - Lara's adventures often include a supernatural or sci-fi element. Lara finds a mystical artifact, and then on the way back from the tomb it turns out that it has a magical power to cause arousal. Perhaps it's a fertility icon that was a part of some ancient tribe's marriage ceremony, or maybe it's some kind of curse of insatiable lust put on the artifact to punish tomb robbers. Lara finds herself becoming hornier and hornier, and can't help touching herself... and then stumbles into quicksand. At the best of times this would be a challenge for the great adventurer, but it's made even worse when she's struggling to resist her own sexual urges, and she's bucking and thrusting when she should be putting all her efforts into escaping.
An alternative to it being the magic power of an artifact that Lara has already found, is that it could be a trap to defend a tomb that Lara is about to enter - something triggers the release of an aphrodisiac gas, or Lara climbs over a stone coated in aphrodisiac slime and gets it on her hands. It's no coincidence that this trap is located by a pool of quicksand! Of course either version of this scenario can also be combined with some of the previous ones; she could be fighting with a villain, and these two mortal enemies are overcome by the sexual power. Or she could be with a companion, and they are both affected by the magic.
Some old Lara Croft quicksand artwork by Wayne, also known as mudbogs. Originally on Kaol's Ol Sinking Hole, he reshared them here a while back.
My final idea is a rather expensive and unlikely one... a "feature-length" film that is 30 minutes to an hour in length, or possibly a series of 10 minute videos, where Lara (or a Lara-style adventurer) gets into a variety of predicaments as part of an overarching plot. Of course this would include two or three quicksand scenes, but could also have cross-fetish appeal by having other situations like bondage, tomb perils like moving walls with spikes and swinging pendulums, that kind of thing.
We all love a quicksand scene on its own, but I think many of us miss the good old days of proper jungle movies and westerns that featured quicksand as a part of the plot. It would be amazing to have a fetish-focused Tomb Raider fan film featuring a quicksand scene in the middle and then an epic quicksand scene at the end for the final showdown between the heroine and the main villain.
This would be like some of the O-Girl stuff done by BondageCafe, like "The Return of the Black Minx" (an hour and 20 minute movie with lots of bondage, women fighting, and quicksand), or the Obsession series (which is the same kind of thing but released as short 10 minute segments). In fact I can imagine BondageCafe being able to put together a pretty decent Tomb Raider film using their current sets and props. Another example is Qsvgitguy's half-hour computer-generated film "Disappearing Act 2", which features a bunch of women in the jungle fighting amongst each other and falling victim to giant snakes, tentacle plant monsters and quicksand. I'm aware that it would be a big departure for any of the producers here (other than BondageCafe) and would mean mean building sets for tombs and traps rather than just filming a quicksand scene in a forest or beach, so I realise the chances of any producers here wanting to make something like that are actually pretty slim. But I figure there's no harm in putting the idea out there, as superheroine peril fetish scenes tend to be quite successful, and the Lara Croft archetype could fit into that sort of thing just as well as imitations of Batgirl and Supergirl.
Other than that final suggestion, I think the other ideas are all well within the sort of content regularly created by all the producers here. So producers and consumers alike, comment if any of this sounds like a good idea!
