Sexism (not as bas as it sounds, promise)

I have a mix but mostly female for some reason, I am male, as for Rping I am seperate from all of my characters I let them delvop by them sevles rather than string them along as i want, this actualy leads me to have characters I like so they stay.

I'm female, and so are most of my characters. For my first few years playing all of them were; the few males I rolled up never made it past level 6 or so. The first male character I made that is still around was created for character backstory reasons, and then I realized that males had a plethora of costume options I hadn't used yet, while with females I'd used up a lot of them already. My male characters are a Corruptor, two Blasters, a Scrapper, a Brute, which are the ATs I prefer to play in general, so no bias there, and a Widow, because I had to do it.

I think all but two of my characters, red and blueside, are female. Of the males, one is a CoX version of a character from somewhere else, and the other is a giant radioactive cockroach. I've tried making other male characters, but the male faces and hair options are all so ugly I inevitably end up switching the character to female again.

Well, male here. I seem to make mostly female toons, but that's mainly because I just think they have far better costume options. My only level 50 is female, and new badge hunter who I play a lot is also female, indeed, of my major toons, only my main villain is male. I just can't seem to make any form of decent cossies for male toons, and it frustrates me greatly.

As for run animations? Never really thought there was anything wrong with them, to be honest, that goes for both genders. And this butt-watching idea is a lulzy concept for me, I wouldn't be making female toons if that were the case.

I'd personally rather watch a more realistic butt, anyway.

I'm female and all my characters are female. (In every single multiplayer online game, that is- single player games, especially those where the player is given no choice as to gender- I'm ok with.) I've tried to make male MMO characters (in this game, especially) but they never last long. I'm one of the type that sees their character as an extension of themselves, and a male character - despite my interest in playing one - just feels wrong and that feeling gets stronger and stronger the more I play him.

I'm not bothered, and never have been bothered, by other people playing 'cross gender'. Everyone sees their character(s) differently. Decades ago when I was first introduced to tabletop AD&D, some of the guys I played with had female characters. There was no 'if I'm gonna watch a butt for hours it might as well be female' there, heck, there WERE NO real video representations of butts yet back then! So that particular argument has never made much sense to me, but I accept it. You play what you want to play, whatever makes sense for that character, and is fun for you. Everyone has their own reasons.

I think it's awesome when I whip out my cutesy, anime based, little female fluffy toon, she pulls out a large broad sword and one shots dark brooding players. That's just fun, and funny. Very demoralizing to PvPers when they're murdered by a tiny cute catgirl.

HILARIOUS...!

most of my active characters are female, of my male characters, they tend to not be human looking, at least in their "iconic" looks. my main is a dragon, then i have robots, aliens, humans in powersuits, bug mutants, 2 reptillian mutants, one cat(its a friend's theme sg, plus it is fun to play at minimum height), one clown/prehuman divinity, out of nearly 70 characters, i have about 5 men that look human(a stage magician, a ninja, 2 military guys and a lieutenant of the archangel Michael) all the rest are monsters and freaks..and usually heroes too,I am a huge fan of the concept of outer monsterousness inversely showing internal kindness and beauty. usually if i have a concept, it just looks better on a woman than a man, so poof. I never quite cared for the "looking at her butt"thing, it strikes me as just a wee bit creepy/objectifying,I find the female form just better to look at from an aesthetic perspective, they always look better in any concept i can think of.

honestly for coh, thats a victory, in most other games female is the default gender for my characters. in the competing superhero mmo, i only have 2 males, and they are a dragon and a robot. in others my rosters are entirely female.

as for the melee/ranged thing, i tend to be an even split, i tend to avoid making women "finesse" fighters (martial artists, whip users, light swordswomen) because that trope is played enough, usually i prefer to make them nontraditional brute force fighters, with maces and super strength, just seems a bit more original. buffy, alias and dark angel got the finesse fighter thing covered, lets see a woman who throws down some screen quaking hits (and yes, i know Buffy was also super strong, but her style was more finesse based).

oh, and am a fellow

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

ahh TY Fleeting! I guess a wise WOman said it then

Nearly always female toons for me, unless I'm going for some gimicky concept that calls for a male..

The few males I do have, are totally silly concepts.

Personally I just make whatever flows with my current character concept. There's probably a few more males than females in my current stable, but it's less to do with preference and more to do with creativity.

That said I've never been one for planning ahead when crating characters (Pre-planned builds? What are they?)

I only have one female character and it's a robot from outer space who decided to take the forms of woman (still looks like a robot). It just doesn't feel right to me playing a female character in a MMO since most of the time, I speak as myself and don't RP. I don't have trouble roleplaying as a female character in tabletops though.

I also do not like the appearances of females in the game who pretty much look all the same. I won't go more in detail of why I don't like it here, I do not feel like typing all that out at the moment

Mine are 60/40 fem/male and not because I like to watch their backside, because I don't bat for the other team. Okay, when Walk came out I did it was nice to watch.

The male forms though, as others have said when they walk it's like their are on x-country skies AND have a pole jammed up their backsides, with their shoulders moving unnaturally to the sides like they are tilting over from the waist.

At least the female model has a more natural gate and motion to it in the shoulders, hips, and placement of the feet when they hit the ground. One foot in front of the other, as opposed to each foot coming down in front of it's last position.