Funny, I initially had similar views on Tina being a bimbo myself a while ago, although for slightly different reasons (it was due to her more... showy nature from what I heard, exploiting her sex appeal. My mom effectively defined bimbos as, aside from not being very smart to say the very least, also using their bodies to get what they want). Desmondlogan [yep, the same guy who heads the Tina Armstrong fanclub here on DeviantArt] set me straight there. I've yet to play the actual DOA games, though that's more due to Metal Gear Survive and MGSV eating up my time right now than anything (I actually intend to play DOA5LR as soon as I can).And yeah, she is a positive representation of American patriotism, her and maybe Lt. Surge from Pokémon (though he's in the gray area. His game incarnation was good enough, though his manga incarnation initially depicted him as a villain and a member of Team Rocket, while his Anime version, while definitely one of the better Gym Leaders Ash faced on the show during Kanto, was an arrogant showboater who tends to send his opponents to the ICU). Certainly more than The Boss from Snake Eater was, who effectively implied that patriotism means if your commanding officer commands you to commit atrocities like poisoning water even when you're about to win, you do it to the letter, morality be damned (GK Chesterton and I think Teddy Roosevelt made it clear that real patriotism involves not obeying an amoral order. The poisoning water bit was a reference to Final Fantasy VI where Kefka poisoned Doma, since I wasn't sure how else to describe "atrocity".), and bear in mind she was painted in a positive light for most of the game, at worst a tragic casualty. Not to mention, and pardon me if I mention something relating to Argentina in some way regarding this but, neither Tina nor... well, any DOA character seems to worship the likes of, say, Che Guevara, while Big Boss and Miller unfortunately did do exactly that in Peace Walker (not to mention Miller basically bashing America in both Peace Walker and MGSV, and that was despite him admitting in his upbringing tape that he had more love for America than he did his own birth country of Japan), with no indication whatsoever that Che was in any way bad or did anything wrong (heck, they didn't even mention that Che was the reason why the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly escalated into a nuclear war, or that, you know, he tried to launch nukes at America and literally had to be restrained by Khrushchev to stop him from doing that, even voicing in the Daily Worker that he intended to do launch the nukes, and that was despite the game repeatedly stressing the CMC event and even having the initial bad guys nearly reenact that event in reverse. They could have at least tried to mention those bits for some nuance rather than make Che into a latter-day saint or someone who walks on water.). I could understand the FSLN in that game worshipping him since they were Socialists like him, but Big Boss and Miller ought to know better, especially when the former dealt with a similar man in the form of Volgin and hated him, not to mention implicitly blamed the CMC for being forced to kill The Boss, and the latter witnessed the adults in Japan being frightened at nearly being nuked again, and this time most likely by the Soviets. Not only did it make them look needlessly anti-American, but it also made them look like idiots as well especially going by what was shown of them in prior games and even in the very same game. Oh, yeah, and then there's Chris Redfield basically entering a socialist rant against America to Sheva for unknown reasons in Resident Evil 5 (honestly, at least Capitalism doesn't line you up to a wall and shoot you for trivial reasons or even your religion, while socialism and communism is notorious for doing that, so I'm not even sure it's a bad system, let alone America's dark side.).And yeah, Helena's definitely great as a character. At least she wasn't Cecile Cosima Caminades, where despite it being implied in a Codec conversation that she was a Christian, she basically sang praises for May 1968 and heavily implied that was the reason she acted very sultry in her demeanor and... well, basically acted like a complete airhead overall , even with her skill at birdwatching (and the Japanese version even indicated she was a fangirl of Sartre and Che, while the English version significantly toned this down). Not to mention she isn't like Fifi from Beauty and the Beast (who if you ask me actually fit the definition of a bimbo more than the triplets did, and that was despite the latter having the official name of "the bimbettes"), or Lumiere from the same film, or Belle (yes, I ultimately have to include her since I fear she may actually turn out to be a Jacobin after the film especially with her overall behavior). Or Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, and those guys. Actually, to be honest, she reminds me of France back when it was still the Oldest Sister of Rome rather than the liberal bastion it is known as today.