Lara Croft is one of the most recogniz🃏able video game characters of all time. You may think was only due to her physical attractiveness, but Lara Croft represents a huge shift in the way that video game developers marketed their characters.

The first Tomb Raider game appeared on the 32-bit consoles of the day, which allowed 3D models to be used in a way that the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo could not. This meant that games could nowℱ star reasonable facsimiles of human beings, rather than cartoon-style spri🍷tes.

Lara Croft was a pioneer in marketing a character based on fanservice, while still making the character appealing to both genders due to the fact that she was a badass who went on exciting adventures. Lara Croft may have been running arou🌺nd in short shorts, but she was no Princess Peach and wasn't spending her time waiting to be saved: Lara was the star of her own series and she had no problem gunning down anyone who tried to get in her way.

Since the release of the original Tomb Raider, Lara Croft has been interpreted in many different ways and has appeared in numerous different francওhises. This means that Lara has had some bizarre adventures in her many multimedia ❀appearances, many of which the fans may not be aware of.

We are here today to learn the secrets of Lara Croft's journey to video game stardom: from the insp🍨irations of her design, to the controversy created when one of her models tried to show things.

Here are Twenty Weird Things About Lara Croft’s Body Fans Forget!

20 ༒ Lara Croft Has Appeared On More Magazine Covers Than Any Video Game Character

Lara Croft became one of the most iconic video game characters of all time during the period when video game magazines were still a 🎐big part of the industry. The Internet had yet to evolve to the point where any piece of video game news was instantly broadcast to the world, which meant that magazines still had all of the scoops.

Lara Croft was actually honored by the for being the video game character who has appeared on more magazine covers than any other. To date, Lara has appeared on over 1,200 magazine covers and will likely continue to do so in her latest iteration. A near-complete directory of these magazine covers can be found .

19 Th🅰e Shadow Warrior Cameo

The popularity of Lara Croft has meant that several different games have made reference to both her and the Tomb Raider series as a whole.

The first-person shooter title called Shadow Warrior once featured quite an obvious Tomb Raider easter egg, as you can find L💧ara Croft hanging in a c♍ell. It's possible for the player to slay Lara Croft, which is the only way in which you can interact with her.

The Lara Croft model in the beta version of the game, as her clothes were torn and her mouth was 𒁏taped up. The version that made it into the game was a lot tam𝔉er than what was originally planned.

18 🥀 💝 The Final Fantasy Cameos

In 2009, Eidos was purchased by Square Enix, which meant that the creators of Final Fantasy now owned the rights to the Tomb Raider franchise. The fact that Square Enix owns is something that has cropped up in a few Final Fantasy titles in the past.

It was once possible to acquire Lara Croft as a playable character in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. She appeared as part of an event to promote the release of Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. A Lara Croft outfit was also available for Lightning to wear in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. 

17 𝔍The Rare Tribute To Lara Croft 🌃

Lara Croft was so popular that she received her own tribute album, filled with songs from some amazing artists. "A Tribute To Lara Croft" features songs from acts suc🌃h as Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, Faith No More, Gary Numan, Moby, and Underworld. It was available as both a CD and a vinyl record.

One of the benefits of purchasing "A Tribute To Lara Croft" was the fact that it came with an exclusive image of Lara with her braid down, which can be seen above. Lara has been depicted with it down in numerous promotional images, but this was one of the few🀅 times that she was shown like that while wearing her original outfit.

16 Lara Croft Had To Appear In A Commercial (For 💎Legal Reasons)

Gordonstoun is a highly prestigious boarding school in Scotland. It's notable for the fact that many members of the British royal family are alumni of the school. It has also bee🎉n suggested that Gordonstoun was one of the inspirations for Hogwarts.

The developers of the Tomb Raider franchise decided that Lara Croft attended Gordonstoun in her youth, as she comes from a highly respected noble family. The problem with this decision is that they never actually asked anyone at Gordonstoun if they could tie Lara to the school. This led to Lara being used in for the school that ran before the first Tomb Raider movie.

15 Lara Croft Was Originally Lওaura Cruz From South America

When the decision was made to create a female lead for Tomb Raider, the designers decided to go for a character with a rougher edge. The original lead of the game was named . This early ver🌟sion of Lara Croft was from South America and was the daughter of a serviceman, rather than being a member of a noble family.

Laura Cruz was originally a mercenary and her tomb raiding was as a result of hiring her services out to wealthy individuals. The decision was made to anglicize Laura's name, which resulted in her b🐷ecoming a full Englishwoman.

14 𒅌 The 👍Magic Retcon

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation ended with Lara Croft being trapped beneath a ruined temple, seemingly with no means of escaping. The following game in the series was a game called Tomb Raider: Chronicles, which was all about Lara's friends✅ reminiscing about her, which left her true fate unknown.

Lara Croft showed up alive and well in Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, with no explanation as to how she survived the events in The Last Revelation. There is an unused cutscene in the files of The Angel of Darkness which revealed that a shaman, named , saved Lara Croft with the use of magic. T🀅his explanation was never used in the game.

13 The T💞omb Raider Promo

A lot of modern video games use motion-capture to record the movements of real-life actors, in order to make the characters in the game seem as real as possible. The technology to support motion capture didn't exist during the🐽 PlayStation era, which meant that Lara Croft's movements were animated by hand.

It was for the best that Lara didn't use primitive motion-capture in the old Tomb Raider games, as a nightmarish version of her appeared in the "" promo video for Tomb Raider III.  "Virtual Lara" is the stuff of uncanny valley nightmares, with her movements and facial animations being so off that they are downright creepy to watch unf🥀old on the screen.

12 ꧃ Lara Croft Waꦏs Almost In A Relationship With Another Woman

The lead writer on both the Tomb Raider reboot and Rise of the Tomb Raider was Rhianna Pratchett, who has also worked on games like Heavenly Sword, Mirror's Edge, and BioShock Infinite. 

Rhianna Pratchett said in an interview with that she would have loved to make Lara Croft gay in the Tomb Raider reboot, but♔ she d⛦idn't think the developers would have gone for it.

Rhianna Pratchett never specified which girl Lara would have ended up with, but those who played Tomb Raider have guessed that it was likely Samantha Nishimura, who is Lara's close friend and was often the damsel inไ distress of the game.

11 She Wasn't S♏upposed To Look Like That ಞ

We've made it through ten entries without bringing up the aspect of Lara Croft that made her so famous in the first place. The reason why Lara Croft had such a chest was due to an error on the behalf of one of the programmers of the original Tomb Raider. 

Toby Gard had meant to increase Lara Croft's chest size by fifty percent while experimenting with different designs. Gard accidentally increased the amount by , which was met with a positive reception by the other people on the team, so the change stuck around. It wasn't until the Tomb Raider re🐲boot that th🦩e proportions of Lara's body were changed to a more realistic size.