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Star Wars is meant to be lighthearted and mostly for kids, but there definitely is some critique of empire, and like The Emperor manipulating war to gain power was partially inspired by George Bush during the Iraq war.
Mass Effect is kind of interesting because they do deal with some issues relevant to real world politics, particularly like the way the genocide of the Krogan is justified and carried out, but it also does silly shit like having species of aliens who are always bad guys.
I really like the DLC where the only possible outcome is to do a genocide on the Batarians. You know, the only alien race (other than the Reapers) that's always depicted as villainous, and who are basically just a stand-in for black and Jewish stereotypes.
The rebels in the original trilogy are modelled on the Viet-Cong IIRC
The prequels depict how democracies can slip into fascism a la Germany, but maybe George Bush too and the patriot act.
Bioware are pure libs. It’s why the 4channers don’t like them, they just see idpol where we see liberalism.