What Is Pippa Middelton Doing In a Video Game Comic? (Besides Getting Leered At?)

To promote the new PlayStation game inFAMOUS 2 in Britain, a bunch of artists got together and created a fun little comic starring various celebrities and public figures, including Cheryl Cole, Lady Gaga, and the subject of this particular panel, “Most Famous Sister in the World Right Now” Pippa Middleton. Well, that’s cool! Oh, wait — Ms. Middleton’s comic involves a dirty old man recognizing her by looking at her ass? Ew. Well, that’s not weird at all! (You will find an option to embiggen the above graphic after the jump.)

When we meet our heroine, she is at a party with her sister and brother-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aka Prince William and Kate Middleton in the game’s fictional town of New Marais, hobnobbing with the Beckhams and such. When suddenly, she is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: a multimillion dollar investment in her party-planning magazine in exchange for all the dirty gossip that went on during her sister’s honeymoon. How posh! And that investment is offered to her after a wealthy businessman of questionable character sees her from behind and immediately identifies her by checking out her ass. How improper! So, what’s a girl to do? I’m absolutely certain that her first thought was “Produce a comic out of this experience,” and that’s exactly how this all came to pass.

Presumably, this is all a play on the game’s karma system, the traditional game mechanic whereby a player’s moral actions have consequences (or just different perks, usually) on the rest of the game. You know, celebrities having to make moral decisions, because they’re FAMOUS and this is inFAMOUS.

These comics are only being featured on the UK’s site for inFAMOUS 2, which may or may not say something about how much more fun the British have in promoting video games. With humor centered on ladies’ bottoms. Also worth mentioning: the comic featuring Justin Bieber makes him look suspiciously like Terrence and/or Phillip from South Park:

(inFAMOUS 2 via The Telegraph, The Mirror, The Gloss)