Elexis Sinclaire
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| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
Elexis Sinclaire is a fictional character and main villain in the SiN video games series by Ritual Entertainment and the Sin the Movie anime film by ADV Films.
SiN
Beautiful, charismatic and ruthless, Elexis Sinclaire is a leading, genius-level biochemist and CEO of the SinTEK Industries, a powerful multibillion dollar empire. Her biological mother abandoned her at an early age; during her upbringing she learnt from her devoted father, Dr. Thrall Sinclaire, and eventually took a position at SiNtek as a geneticist. Rising through the corporate ranks she eventually rose to supreme power after her father's mysterious disappearance. Elexis and SinTEK turned to illicit trades with their own brands of chemicals and drugs. Eventually her research led to the development of U4, SinTEK's most advanced chemical agent with mutagenetic properties. Ultimately, she secretly plans to overrun the world with her mutants and forcibly evolve the mankind, bringing about a new world order. In 2010, UGO included the game's final cutscene of Elexis escape after distracting the player's character Colonel John R. Blade "with the concept of her vagina" on the list of "The 11 Weirdest Game Endings. The game also featured a famous Easter egg scene of naked Elexis pleasuring herself in a jacuzzi, available after using a cheat mode. UGO included it lists of "25 Sexy Video Game Secrets" in 2010. She appears in the game's single-player mode in several cutscenes only, but one of in-game models of her is also available to use in the game's multiplayer mode, even as the players will always see Blade's hands (Maximum PC commented: "We didn't know Elexis Sinclaire (the lusty, busty villain of the story) had such many mittens!").
SiN Episodes
Elexis returns in SiN Episodes, after keeping low profile in SiN: Wages of Sin. She is featured only in the intro of the only released episode, as she watches the captured Blade at the beginning of Emergence, before attempting to change him into a mutant (Computer Gaming World criticized the "cringe-inducing scenes [of] villainous sexpot Elexis Sinclaire's digitized boobs practically slapping you in the face").
Character design
In the original game, Elexis had "clothes and makup that wouldn't appear out of place on a street-walking extra from the film Pretty Woman. Many of the official arts showed her carrying handguns and submachine guns (including in one of the game package cover pictures), but she has no weapons in the actual game. For SiN: Episodes, after at least one re-design that has been eventually rejected, Elexis was modelled after a Canadian fetish and adult model Bianca Beauchamp. According to a retrospective article by PC Zone in 2007, Elexis, who looked "like she crawled out of an S&M club", was "sexualized to the point of deformity".
Promotion and reception
According to Story-Driven Character Design, the "beautiful, sexy" Elexis was the main selling point of the first game. She was portrayed by Bianca Beauchamp to promote SiN Episodes: Emergence with a photo session and at the E3 2006. The book Gendered Bodies and New Technologies found Elexis' character to be fascinating for transforming technology into "Mother Nature." According to Game Design, however, "It's hard not to argue that sex appeal had something to do with the success of Sin's Elexis Sinclair". In 2006, the Polish edition of GameStar had her voted as #15 in the poll for the title of "Miss of the Video Game World". GamesRadar also featured her in the article "best in breasts" ("More than sinful, these magnificent mammillae ought to be illegal."). In 2007, she was included by Tom's Games among the 50 greatest female characters in video game history ("With the brains of a mad scientist and the body of an underwear model, Elexis is one of a kind."). In 2008, GameDaily ranked her appearance in SiN Episodes at #21 on the list of top 50 hottest game babes. In 2010, UGO Networks featured her as one of the 50 hottest women games in video games ("Elexis Sinclaire is charming, brilliant, and an absolute fox with nigh-impossible proportions."). Virgin Media also included her on the list of the 10 "game girls you wouldn't dare to date".
