Yeah, it is cool to see this debate happening. I've been enjoying everyone's posts a lot so far.
However, there are a few factors that you need to consider with Shadow-Cat.
- Shadow-Cat is in the X-Men. Like it or not, they, the Brotherhood of Mutants, and all their collective powers, would indeed keep whatever "uber-thotness latent attitude" she has within her in check. In both the show and the Evolution sex-game.
- In the sex-game proper, she can be worn down, and made to like you. But, I think, that in both the game and the show, this would only happen if you happen to be a very well-trained (Batman-levels of capability, no joke) very muscular, and, if lacking in looks, would make up for it with severe savagery during Danger Room sessions or Brotherhood Fights. It's high school football, and you need to be the ultimate quarterback, even if she was nice (due to the reasons I listed above)
- Notice how, in the show, she didn't really go for anyone she considered geeky? Even Rogue, the nice one, didn't show feelings for anyone besides Cyclops, Angel (whom I refer to as "Archangel"), and Gambit? All very good-looking. And, Cyclops more or less proves my point, I think.
- Why? Because Cyclops, aside from his eye-blasts, has no additional strength or speed--unless there's some sort of power where his optic blasts overload his body to point of temporary superhuman ability during very short bursts of time during combat.
- Cyclops, is, more or less, the Quarterback Prime on this team. No one really went for Wolverine. Why? In the 90's show, he was the most savage one, and even then, Jean only sometimes reluctantly said she loved him before going back to Cyclops. Same with the films, as well.
- But even then, Cyclops had to outthink, and outfight, Wolverine on some level.
- Yes, I know Jackman Jacked is better looking than everyone, but in the film, Cyclops was, for better or worse, the leader, the one who kept an aloof and cool attitude, especially under pressure, and wasn't afraid to take on Wolverine (in the comics, films, or show) if he felt that Wolverine was getting too close.
- "Stay away from my girl."
- Everyone overlooks Cyclops, but the fact that he had Jean more or less locked in place (in her psyche, ironically enough anyway), made him the leader that no one messed with.
- He had to train, and train, and train to the point where he would try to take on the Danger Room, even without his powers. He had to be more savage, than the savage king, Wolverine, in order to keep the girl.
- Jean is very hard to keep. In the sex-game, the show, and the films, she was always very hard to keep with Cyclops in any all scenarios. Cyclops even went to see Jean when she was in her Phoenix form, and it cost him his life.
- Zero is a player stand-in for Cyclops, for better or worse. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
- Sex-Game Jean: "I know I was good in the Danger Room. But you sucked out there. It's almost as if your power is useless against robots."
- Zero: A man who give ZERO FUCKS.
- ROGUE'S ASS
Now, I'm completely outclassed in lore about comics and shit, so I know of this characters as characters from this game mainly (I mean, I knew about them from movies I watched as a pup and a loose episode of Evolution where Rogue got some power thing and defeated a big ole mf, Juggernaut or whatever. I've always been much more of a Teen Titans guy). So I don't know how useful this advise might be, but try to perceive both this game's and source characters as separate entities. Clearly here characters and interactions among them don't have the complexity from the og source, so applying, let's say, RLE Kitty the personality flaws she may have in the comics (which, based on recent images shared, seem to be more fetishistic than the porn parody) without them being specifically portrayed in the game, seems a little unecessary, maybe even cherry-picky.
Regarding your analysis of her behavior towards Zero and everyone else, remember she starts by being politely friendly yet somewhat distant. Like any normal real human. She doesn't let you in her room at the beginning, doesn't take gladly you gifting her the swimsuit, etc. And it's often shown how every girl here can beat Zero's ass if things went to throwing hands territory (whenever you try to force a girl into something, or deny them from your touch when their addiction is too high). So Zero is, at best, a good looking, perhaps charismatic, but pretty average chap. No contest testoterone wise when placed against quarterback Cyclops or bad daddy Wolverine.
However, she gets along with everyone, and she's the one to gift Laura the Wolvie outfit, even if pitching in money from various people, the idea and choice were hers. I see some good heart in there.
Lastly, your observation of how the characters interact and feel atracted to eachother reminds me of Twilight levels of adolescence. Which is probably where the writers were aiming at. It being a fantasy setting, it's fair to say everyone is hot as hell, so it's just a matter of preference, from the aloof to the goof. Although it seems obvious that the guy who displayed a stronger leadership would also be the most popular among the chicks, in a clear Petersonian description of archetypes and whatnot. And, among the bunch in the game, Kitty is the least experienced in sex stuff bar Rogue, so she seems to be a bit reserved in that regard, thus why she doesn't "go" for anyone. A funny quirk I remember from her in the game is that, with low stats, if you're studying in the room, after the session she leans a little onto you and that opens the sex menu so you can kiss, or massage her, whereas she'd reject you if you directly asked her to hand-hold around.
XAVIER'S FEET.
