Miss Dynamite’s star belt
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 1:55 am
Someone was asking me the other day why Eva’s Soviet-star belt is upside-down. It has a pretty obscure origin.
Right after the fall of Communism in the early 90s, a Russian stripper supposedly popular in her homeland (I doubt that) made a visit to Montreal and appeared on a local televised talk show (Ad Lib on TVA). This was somewhat notable at the time because during the Cold-War, the stereotype of Russian women was butch steroid-boosted East German athletes built like farm machinery. With her stripperiffic Red Army uniform, she was wearing an upside-down Soviet star on her cap. She explained that it symbolized the fall of Communism.
I thought it was interesting and used it later (Much later it seems because I can’t find an example dating before the anime). It can also double as a pentagram, which is a plus.
Later in the interview, the stripper misunderstood something the host said and thought he had asked her to get naked. Which she started to do before they stopped her… damn it!
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on January 28th, 2011 at 1:41 PM
This reminds me that you forgot something: low-riding pants :P
on January 28th, 2011 at 4:49 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever drawn those. I hate them.
on January 28th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
And here I thought it was like a sign of Eva’s partially corrupted communist ideals in lew of capitalistic personal gains.
on January 28th, 2011 at 7:26 PM
It’s that too.
on January 29th, 2011 at 4:29 AM
Doubling as a pentagram?
Circe: “And now to humiliate you in public. Removing clothing!”
Eva’s top and bra vanish while Blackie’s dress totally disappears, not that she minds at all.
Circe: “What? Why aren’t you naked!?!”
Eva: “My mystically enchanted belt buckle protects me from such magics, you stupid witch.”
Eva mows down Circe with a burst from her AK-47, then heads off to try and stop Blackie running around giggling her breasts in everyone’s faces.
on March 7th, 2011 at 5:50 PM
Ouais, pour une fois que les blagues douteuses a Jean-Pierre Coaillier nous amenais du divertissement…non, TVA nous laisse meme pas avoir ca :P
Je dois avouer que jai toujour interprété ca comme une illusion d.optique tu drapeau canadien, car quand tu regarde vite ca y ressemble un peu…
….un tout petit peu….
on April 4th, 2011 at 3:52 PM
I just noticed that a Linka of Captain Planet, a character that looks oddly similar to Eva, also has a Red Army star belt buckle. Though, she wears hers upsided.
http://www.turner.com/planet/characters/img/linka.gif
on April 4th, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Another reason for me to hate Captain Planet.