I can't believe I'm going to disagree with you (for once, hehe).

Hert Cartwheel kicks are a must have! They are among her best!

I loved them in MK4, but they were practically perfect in MKvsDC. The Cartwheel kicks are one of her main specials that I expect to see return. Like Kamionero said, I also wish they would make Sonya rely more on her legs and give her new special moves and attacks that are acrobatic (think Nina, from Tekken).

Her Cartwheels are a must, and as much as I love the Wave Punch, yeah, I wouldn't mind replacing it for a new special move (to see something new and different for a change).



1.- Regarding Sonya: I agree with everything you said except loosing the Ring Toss.

2.- Regarding Mileena and Kitana: I 100% agree. It would looks really cool, specially for Kitana who has one of the most flashiest/coolest weapons of all time (imo).

3.- Regarding Sindel: I agree with almost everything. Even though I know they ruined the ankle grab in MKD by making it punishable, it was still a very very cool looking fun move (I always use it against the AI and I love it!), but yeah, she needs more SUPER powers.

PLEASE, PLEASE, give her some awesome jaw-dropping HAIR-move attacks!!! That was what made her an instant favorite of mine in MK3. Sindel is extremely unique and original in MK.



And I don't care if that move made Kitana fun for you or a great playable character or not. It's Mileena's trademark and Kitana looked annoying doing a special move that is well known by the general fan community to belong to the crazy clone.

Kitana has potential for new special moves, so, better that than a copy/past crapfest.

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Too bad she will loose the special move she stole from Mileena??? I certainly hope she does, as well as all the other specials that didn't belong to her originally. There is a lot of potential with her steel fans, so, they should give her a new set of moves instead of copy/paste from otehr characters.

I don't care who she stole it from. Having that move to go under projectiles on reaction was awesome. That's partly why she was one of the best zoning characters in that game.

Yeah, i see where your coming from, a great move, is a great move...but its Mileena's move and it makes her moveset original.

if the team wants to give Kitana i nice evasion type move... then they should make her an original one. Mileena has returned..and she wants her move back

Well said. I agree.

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queve Wrote:

I do hope she gets at least 2 new ones on top of her best special moves:

Leg Grab, Energy Ring Toss, Kiss of Death, Vertical Bicycle kicks (also from the air downward, wow, that was a brilliant addition!), Cartwheel Kicks, Leg Grab Air throw, and 2 new ones.

I love Sonya, but does she really need more specials? That's a grab move, an air throw, a projectile, a stun, a multi-hit, an advancing pop-up, and an air punisher/distancer (I'm talking about her Square Wave Punch on the last one, of course). It might just be me, but it looks like she has all of her bases covered, functionally speaking.

Be fair, queve would prefer it if Sonya had pretty much every move.

OmniSonya for DLC?

Hahahahahhahaha. Well, it wouldn't be the first time she gets a huge load of moves in one game. Look at he rmove list in MK4, for example. And it snot like all those moves would do super damage. Some could be weaker but efficient for combos and just for stylish/esthetic purposes (fun to do and look at).

I'm guessing technical limitations are why Sindel lost her hair powers in the 3D games. Hopefully they can do it now.

Maybe they can try again with flight too.

Kira and Li Mei were seen on the official trailer (they are chained on a stage, you can see them while Kung Lao is going to make his fatality oer sub-zero during the trailer).

So at least they have cameo appearances, and if they are there at least as cameo, it opens the door for other mk4-mka characters.

Personally I would like to see Sareena on this game, I think that her relation with the younger sub-zero (despite the world reboot) can be really interesting.

There is no doubt in my mind that Sonya, Kitana, and Jade will indeed be back. Unfortunately, I don't find many female characters outside of these 3, and Mileena, to be very "classic". Honestly, I hope these are the only 4 females we see.

Sindel and Sheeva I would rather not see again, although I feel Sindel will be in.

I'm betting the following will be featured:

1) Mileena
2) Kitana
3) Sindel
4) Jade
5) Sonya

Maybe Sheeva and Khameleon could be DLC or hidden characters, or maybe even they can be apart of the storyline, just not playable. I believe that Sindel, Kitana and Mileena will most likely be in there for sure.

I swear to GOD they better not have girls that are all muscular and nasty again. I know it's realistic.. but sometimes it's not best

ALSO look at the sonya from MK2's model. FUCKING HOT.

How could you do this to me?

I used her Cartwheel Kick a LOT in MKDC. It was my main pop-up. So while it's definitely useful, I just think it could be replaced with a new move that does the same thing, but looks flashier. I don't think it's a flashy enough move for the new game, and I would much rather give Sonya a new move that is equally quick and effective, and also a pop-up. Only 1 new Sonya special isn't enough for my greedy arse

And I'm all for leg-based Sonya. I think she punched too much in MKDC. I wished her

Aside from the six (or seven) MK-MK3 females, if they were to use any of the newer ones, I would prefer Tanya, Li Mei, Nitara or Sareena. I believe they all had solid, interesting stories that could be expanded upon, especially if it's pre-MK timeline (sans Li Mei in that scenario).

Mileena is already confirmed in the game, so it'd be kinda redundant to include her in my list.

My list as follows:

1. Jade (So much potential, I absolutely love her story, I would absolutely love to see her back. A part of me wishes she and Kitana stay evil, I don't know why.)
2. Sindel (Why not make her evil this time? If pulled ouff right it'd be a good twister.)
3. Kitana (Only if she strays from being the damsel princess, I hate that shit...)
4. Sonya (Her voice actor is confirmed anyway, I don't see why not.)
5. Sareena (So much potential, so little of it used. She's the Asrah that could have been before Asrah even existed.)

YES!

I think most people want her to stay evil. She definitely should, at least for a few games. Let Kitana STRUGGLE to convert her this time.

Hey Crow!

You know, I don't really think that Mileena should be categorized as the "I'm a slut" character. I mean, yeah all of her outfits are really revealing, but so are most of the other girls. Mileena is evil and vicious and I guess her lunatic side of her makes her seem "slutty." In reality though, she's one of the most "alive" females in all of Mortal Kombat as far as personality goes. Her personality is evil and provocative. More than HALF of the rest of the females are just boring and bland and just there! No type of personality behind the special moves and costumes whatsoever. Theres nothing exciting about the other girls besides their costumes and special moves. Some girls that DO have some kind of "thing" that separates them from the rest are Sonya because of her bitchy personality. Of course Jade has that "messenger/true friend" thing going on for her and Kitana is like the know it all. I always loved how the MK Teams added fun "get ups" and cool victory poses for Mileena cuz we get to know her a little more as a character.

I do think that its possible to improve the other females, but thats all up to the MK Team. As for now, the rest of the females are just there, the MK Team hasn't really done much to improve them. Tanya is just blaaaah, Li Mei is confused, Sheeva isn't the brightest crayon in the box. Its just borrrrrrring. (I actually like Li Mei, I'm hoping they'd improve her character since they did an awesome job of improving her design in Deception).

I guess what I mean to say is, at least Mileena has some kind of personality that sets her apart from the rest. She has something more to offer ya know?

Well said!

I agree with this post.

Mileena is one of the few with a big amount of charisma and personality.

Just thought of a new female character her name is erica and her powers are to control plants and natureher costume should be a red girl
ninja like kitana in mk vs dcu

I hope she doesnt make it in the game just cause you had to be a dick and say this. I always lol when anyone claims to be a "big fan" of fighting game characters like they are real people. You all sound mentally ill and you need help for idolizing fake fighting game characters so much lol.

Fandom is what sites and message boards like this are for. Insulting basically everyone who is enthusiastic about a favorite character is trolling.

Fucking high heels for Mileena, just noticed. Idiots.

I've always thought people who are bothered by female characters in comics or video games wearing heels to a fight was pretty funny.

I mean you know she can fly through spacetime and her sais shoot out laser beam copies of themselves, yeah? Somehow I don't think magical ninjas' ankles are bothered too much by trying to balance on a small point while running and kicking.

Her mannerisms are still whorish. I mean we saw this very clearly in MKD that Mileena would simply attempt to use her body to obtain whatever it was she wanted, and obviously to feeble minded creatures like the tarkata she's going to be a goddess amongst them.

All Mileena's mannerisms, poses and the like have simply shown she has a slutty personality and to me I just don't think it speaks to someone that was supposedly mentally abused for the majority of their life. To each his own on that subject, but it just doesn't work for me. I'm not really talking about wardrobe here, because let's be honest what fighting game female isn't overly exposed for no good reason? I can count them on one hand. I realize that's just how character designers for this game tend to be, I'm talking more about her character than her appearance (though I don't like that either, obviously).

I don't think it's accurate to say Mileena was ever really "mentally abused".

It's always been depicted more like she's just bitter that she's not Kahn's favorite daughter. At the worst it's just been neglect, but even Kitana isn't getting hugs and praise, Shao Kahn's a warlord who had his so-called daughters trained to assassinate people for him instead of naming them princesses like they technically are. There's no displays of affection happening for anyone in that family beyond a "job well done" when they kill their targets.
The combination of being attention-starved, a female hitman (sex appeal is a powerful weapon), and having a face needing hiding but the body of a famous and beloved person is the perfect storm for creating a slut personality. Mileena's character makes so much sense I can't help but wonder if it's coincidence or they did it on purpose with that much thought put into it...because why can't every character be that well thought out?

With that last paragraph I agree entirely. Mileena's progression as a character really is smart and makes a lot of sense. We didn't get a flirtatious vibe from her in MK2/UMK3/MK:Gold and seeing her with this new ultra sexual personality in Deception could have been off-putting, but it worked so well and was extremely convincing in that game, I can't un-associate her from it. You described perfectly why this new persona is so perfect for Mileena, it just really fits with the story she has. All of it just works.

I can also see the other side of the argument. Before I played Deception I saw Mileena as a tough assassin hellbent on killing Kitana. I imagined her a lot more monstrous and definitely not sexy.

Even if you don't like the sexy change in Deception though, you have to admit it gives Mileena a uniqueness and an individual persona and is at least a logical leap to take.

There are so many characters that could benefit from a little time and effort. I'm definitely excited to see the team is individualizing the characters movement this time around, and hopefully the growth that Mileena experienced won't be unique to her. Just by the videos alone, I get a better sense of Sektor's evilness and character.

Perhaps I'm just wanting something that was never there. Kitana, Mileena and Shao Kahn had some sort of relationship, surely. The games in which this was in just weren't very deep or fleshed out. I'm hoping we'll see a little more of the "Kahn family" relationship in this game.

To me, if neither were really anything special to Kahn's empire, why would Mileena care to strive to be like Kitana? I don't see any reason for it if there wasn't something Kitana had that Mileena did not, and besides a normal face there's nothing there. I want something to be there. I want to see why Mileena would drive herself to be like Kitana. Simply because mental abuse isn't stated, it makes sense to me she was mentally abused because of her disfigurement. I doubt it was intentional. Kahn asked for Mileena to be created for a reason, and I doubt it was seriously just to have a second (third) hit woman. Does that really make sense? Why ask someone to make you someone in Kitana's image when you can just go out and brainwash someone else, or even hire someone (like Jade, for instance). Her face is probably, in my opinion, a hideous mistake on the part of Shang Tsung. Surely there's a deeper reason for her creation, and surely because of her flaws she may not have ever been seriously measured up to whatever those reasons were.

Well now, a lot of the things you're talking about we know for a fact, sure.

Mileena was created specifically to replace Kitana, because Kahn was always afraid she'd find out the truth about her real parents and turn against him, so he wanted Shang to make a clone of her that would be more loyal.

Shang mixed in Tarkatan DNA specifically because Tarkatans, either because of how they themselves were created or because of their "follow the alpha male" animal mentality, are instinctively drawn to obey Shao Kahn.

As an unexpected side effect, a mistake of the process, Mileena came out with an ugly half-Tarkatan face and Kahn decided she wasn't good enough to take Kitana's place, but she could still be of use to him, and thus the "twin sister" cover story was invented so that Mileena could instead be a spy making sure Kitana never turns on him.

All of that is canon.

What we don't know is WHY Shao Kahn cares about Kitana so damn much. Does it have something to do with why he married Sindel? Does he really have some sort of twisted fatherly love for her? Or is she just a sort of "living trophy" he keeps around to rub his conquering of Edenia in everyone's face? Because if it's the latter, why bother with the whole "I need a version who will never betray me" plan instead of just killing her when she gets to be more trouble than she's worth? Interviews with Tobias around MK3 always suggested that, at least in his mind when he was writing, Kahn did indeed have feelings for Sindel and Kitana.

So the question is, is not being the favorite sister REALLY "mental abuse"? Especially when you live in a terrible, primitive, wasteland society like Outworld and know your father is literally a force of evil who doesn't show affection for anyone or anything? For her, being yelled at or treated like crap isn't "my daddy doesn't love me enough", it's "this is what it's like for EVERYBODY in this stupid realm...except Kitana sometimes, that spoiled bitch! That should be me, not her!" Think of it like how back in the middle ages, there was no such thing as ADD or OCD or all these kinds of depression we have today. Everyone's life sucked, but they manned up and lived it anyway instead of blaming everything on their parents or some bullshit disorder.
Obviously, Mileena's life IS unfair, and she has valid reasons to be bitter...but I simply don't think there's a basis to suggest her personality should be so "damaged" by modern American society's standards that she'd be cripplingly depressed and introverted. I think the attention whore thing works much better for her circumstances.

This is my personal take on Mileena's character.

I've always considered her to be insanely jealous of Kitana, but I've never once thought it was because Shao Khan liked Kitana more. To me, Shao Khan was keeping Kitana around for her talents and was going to kill her and replace her with Mileena if she got troublesome (which was when he sent Reptile to kill her.) The reason why Shao Khan wanted Kitana/Mileena around was to keep the Edenian people in check. If they found out he killed their princess they would be more likely to rebel. Also keeping the leaders of a realm under your control probably signifies to the Edenian people that their leaders want them to obey Shao Khan.
So that is why Mileena was created, to replace Kitana if she ever became troublesome for Shao Khan. Mileena doesn't hate Kitana because she wants Shao Khan's approval, it's because Mileena doesn't exist as long as Kitana does. Shao Khan must have tried to keep her existence as hushed as possible so that he could slip Mileena in Kitana's place. As a result Mileena has no identity. She seems to misplace her rage on Kitana for "preventing her from really existing" instead of Shao Khan/Shang Tsung for creating her to just be a tool. So to me Mileena has identity issues. She doesn't seem to want to make her own identity outside of Kitana for some reason though.

Geez, I really hated Sonya's and Kitana's look in MKD-MKA. They looked so manly and fake! I perfer Sonya's mk4 and Kitana's mksm! I also hope they change Mileena's voice actor to the same one in MKD-MKA cuz she sounded REALLY threatening! Now she just screams like a thirteen-year-old girl!