I'm on the same boat regarding the bun, I absolutely hate it!
Physics aside I think this is by far Kitana's best hair style followed closely by her MKDA hairstyle, long beautiful hair fits her so well!

On a side note I really hope there is a lot of interaction between her and Jade in this game, they are my favorite characters and Jade looks gorgeous in this game as well!

Really impressed with all the female models thus far :)

I don't see the bun as a granny hairstyle or anything, it's a nice way to control the hair and keep it at place when being an assassin. I like it. However, she's had better hairstyles, such as her MKDA-MKA hairstyle, being both a bun and a long ponytail. I love that hairstyle. ^^

I'm thinking story mode should have a lot Kitana action in it. She does interact with both the outworlders AND the earth realm warrior. Last time NRS said anything, I believe they said that had over 3 hours of video for story mode. I wonder if they've added stuff since...

I do not want to see Kitana and Jade fight on the side of Earthrealm this time.

I want them either some kind of evil, or more neutral, or only fighting for Edenia, if that is the case.

I do think something in the story will change. Kitana was never captured during the events of MK2 or 3, but she's been seen chained up in Kahn's arena. I'm not sure if that's going to be canon. Maybe Jade has a change of heart and turns Kitana in, or it could be before her trial for the murder of Mileena...

I really hope Kitana is just a placeholder. I know they havent taken her out yet. I really hope she is just a placeholder though. It will bother me if she is playable and still chained up in that arena.

i thought kitana was captured 4 going against kahn...thats y she was chained up, but then i saw tanya there & i realised i was wrong, maybe they will show her & rain together..idk but he is edenian & maybe him & tanya plan on going against kitana at the end of MK3

If Tanya goes against Kitana now, she won't have the Queen's or the Princess's trust for MK4, which they need for the entire story to start. And I'm not sure if Rain and Kitana even meet before they're with the earth realm warriors. So I'm assuming 3 things. 1. she's a place holder for Kano and Sonya. 2. She's awaiting trial for treason. 3. Jade decides to turn her in. All are good to me :)

Not really about Kitana herself, but does anyone know if she and Mileena share the same voice actress? With all the differences between her and Mileena I'm starting to think that NRS whats to retcon the girls being just sisters instead of twins, I mean look at them, they don't even look alike when one is next to the other.. anyway that's off topic.

On topic:
I always have liked Kitana. She was my main(along with Smoke and Reptile) in MK2,3 and Armageddon and she looks really good in this new game.. well the renders that is, because in-game she doesn't look as nearly as sexy as her render(the one she's posing with her fans). Hope they fix her hair, it seems to have a life of its own. I would have prefered if the outfit she has now would've been unmasked and that she would be given a more ninja like outfit with a mask. Also if she does have an unmasked costume, please don't let her have a man-jaw like Sonya's hideous manface in MKvDC. Those are my 2 cents.

Hope someone answers my question about the twins' voice.

I don't know if their voice actress is the same, I hope it is. I couldn't find anything on it. But hopefully Mileena's and Kitana's alternate will look similar to each other, I don't like how they played down the twin thing. If someone had never played MK before and saw the 2 girls in MK9, they probably wouldn't have thought Mileena and Kitana are twins in this game, let alone sisters.

It's Mileena's cat eyes. Why does she have them? I mean they look cool and all but they should only appear when she does her fatalities or in her win pose like in past games. She lost her mystery and some of her cool factor when the team decided that Mileena should start to show what's behind her mask to almost everyone. It just makes Kitana look retarded for not noticing her sister is a freaking monster.
They should get rid of the demon eyes or at least make them look like Shao Kahn's(still red but normal shaped and not cat -like).

When I first saw Kitana in MK9 I was very dissapointed with what NRS had done with her, but as of now her appearance grew up on me and I like it a lot more. She just needs to loose the mask, that would make her look more like a princess(for when she turns good) and they should give her an alternate that actually looks like an assasin(and that fits the era in which she is one of the bad guys). Oh yeah and why doeds she have a six pack? Don't make her look manly NRS!

Yeah, I agree, the yellow eyes shouldn't be 24/7 thing. It takes away a bit of the mystery the girls had originally established in MK2...

See, I always under the impression that Kitana knew that Mileena had freaky teeth. After how many centuries together, is it really practical or logical that she would NEVER have figured it out? i mean, their masks are just material.... teeth would show through it. I always assumed that Kitana had been told she was just deformed by magic or something.

I agree, I always assumed Kitana knew, that the 'surprise' was for their opponents.

I assumed that when Mileena was introduced to Kitana, that is when Kitana became suspicious or her true origins. Like who is this "long lost sister?" Why does she look like Baraka's sister?

The only thing I am asking from NRS is that this time, they make Kitana way more badass then she has been in the later games, MKDA, MKD, she was like the damsel in distress. She needs to not ally with Earthrealm. She should either remain Khan's daughter, or if she does rebel against him, she should remain more evil, or neutral, only fighting for Edenia. She should also keep some of her Outworld allies, ie Goro.

Her personality this time should be more like she was in MK2, a badass, deadly assassin, but a princess at the same time, so she needs to be arrogant. Like she knows she is amazingly beautiful and royalty, either Outworld or Edenian and she knows she can kill any of these other motherfuckers that get in her way

Why do you think she's arrogant? Not being confrontational, just asking.

By the time any of the characters could really be characterized, in comics or endings, Kitana was established as strong, powerful woman, but not what I would call arrogant. Royal authority yes, but I don't see how Raiden travelling in time is going to change who she has been established as.

I definitely agree she should be bad ass as hell, but to be honest, I can't think of anything more badass than rebelling against freaking Shao Kahn >_<

gahh, it's like we have the same brain lol. Rebelling against Kahn IS badass! She's even doing it right under his nose! I think Kitana is fighting for Edenia, it's the only way for her own home world to return to it's natural beauty. She would seem a little bland to me if she was neutral. The thing that sets Kitana apart from most of the other fighters is her big heart, and I have to respect and love that about her. I also don't want her to be a damsel in this game either, the LAST thing I want to see. I want to see the strategist she was during her MK2-DA time. Playing damsel, but not really being one...

I said she needs to be arrogant, not that she already was arrogant. I would like to see Kitana have some arrogance and cockiness about her. Like growing up as Shao Khan's princess and top assassin and she is trained as this deadly fighter, it should show in her personality. Jade too, because her and Kitana are close friends, but not as arrogant as Kitana though. It would add something to why Mileena hates Kitana (and Jade) so much. Kitana was always better than her and sometimes Kitana would shove it in Mileena's face causing Mileena to harvest a growing jealousy and hatred, because Kitana was such a bitch to her. I would like Kitana to have kind of a spoiled little princess personality, but a badass princess.

I would like to see Mileena's and Kitana's relationship too, I want to know more why Mileena hates her. I'm assuming it's because Mileena has the mind of a child and is very jealous. Kitana seems to be the better assassin and beautiful *along with Jade*. That's probably why she plays up her sex/killing appeal. But there could be other reasons too...

Fair enough I guess, but I still feel like Kitana, certainly after she found out Kahn's evils, was never a "bitch". She WASN'T a spoiled brat princess, even a badass one.
I can understand why you'd want that, but she was never portrayed that way and I don't think her inherent "goodness" should be retconned out. She definitely has the royal "talk down to you"ness in regards to Mileena. We know that from her and Mileena's MK4 ending, but I see no justification for this period in time.
Obviously, we're all actually making up our interpretations of the characters from MK1-MK3, because we never got to know them beyond a couple of still pictures. but from her 2 and 3 ending, Kitana always seemed to have found out the truth about Outworld, and immediately gone from what you want, to what she has been since.
Depending on when she finds out, I guess we could still see it. If she knew ahead of MK2 (which I think she did), she would've already had to start dealing with the guilt, with the horror, so she couldn't in good conscience be snooty or regally bitchy. If, however, there's some retconning and she's only just found out, she can easily have those qualities and grow by the end of the game.
It'll be nice to see her struggle with it, if they remember to include that.

I just dont want Kitana to ally with Earthrealm. It would be better if Kitana, Sindel, and Jade did their own thing.

But the Earth Realm Warrior is the only one who can defeat Shao Kahn. If they really wanted to free Edenia, they would have no choice but to team up with Earth Realm. Kitana plays a factor in Kahn's downfall, both sides *Earth and Edenia* needed to join to defeat him...

Yeah, Im hoping the story goes differently this time and she doesnt have to ally with Earthrealm. I just hate her as a "good guy." Her character would be much more interesting if she wasnt a "good guy."

I just watched that xray video, Kitana's xray is brutal.

her x-ray is brutal, i hope her kiss of death fatality has the person puking, after i saw jade puking in noobs video i couldnt help but think of kitana's DA fatality....so violent

It would be awesome if her kiss of death was kinda of an X-Ray too. Like, you'd see their organs explode inside their bodies first, then have them cough up blood, before entirely blowing up. Ooohh, gruesomeness...