《漫威金鋼狼》評分解禁後，遊戲內多名女性角色的外觀設計引發玩家廣泛爭議，不少玩家直言角色觀感不佳，同時質疑各大遊戲媒體對此爭議集體沉默、避而不談。
The new footage of the female characters in Marvel’s Wolverine is out, and no gaming journalist is talking about it because they’re all old, boring, and unappealing https://twitter.com/Mangalawyer/status/2098188987139526917
此次引發吐槽的主要是兩名核心女性角色，分別是黛布拉·威爾遜飾演的卡莉斯托，以及疑似桓婕珊的亞裔角色。其中卡莉斯托以光頭黑人女性形象亮相，搭配黑色眼罩，造型極具辨識度;而桓婕珊則塑造為中年亞裔女性形象，凌亂的黑髮搭配中式風綠色上衣，神態嚴肅，面部刻畫凸顯成熟特質。
Based eastern devs upgrade/glow-up the face of who ever actor they're using when they transition the face model into the game. The Woketard westerner devs do the opposite and downgrade the face of the actors and excuse themselves by saying it's "realism" or it's how "real women" look like and as last resort to defend this bs they will call you "porn addicts" for simply wanting beautiful female characters in your video games. https://twitter.com/IranianGoku/status/2098214554237088108
The game full of Asian aunties 🤣 https://twitter.com/sadlemonjuice/status/2098204559843991919
Debra Wilson needs to get out of games in general. She is over represented get someone else. She is in every mid AAA game as the same sassy character. Get someone else younger and attractive for these jobs. Video games are supposed to be art where it is nice to look at. https://twitter.com/nick_harrow/status/2098326346568998926
不同於主流超英遊戲年輕、精緻、高顏值的女性角色設計風格，這兩名角色摒棄了美化的設計思路，主打真實、成熟的寫實質感，貼合角色人設設定。但這種寫實風格，與部分玩家固有審美期待形成強烈反差，因此被吐槽造型老舊、觀感單調、缺乏美感。
爭議發酵後，玩家討論持續升溫。有玩家吐槽演員黛布拉·威爾遜近年頻繁在多款遊戲中塑造同類形象，造型同質化嚴重，容易讓玩家產生審美疲勞。還有玩家將該問題歸為西方遊戲的設計趨勢，認為刻意弱化顏值、追求極致寫實的風格，大幅降低了遊戲的視覺吸引力。而本次遊戲評測中，外媒全程迴避該爭議點，也讓不少玩家直言評測缺乏客觀性，進一步激化了輿論討論。
