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Mortal Kombat X - Johnny Cage and Mileena renders / Character bios
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Mr.Marston
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I thought
(MK9 Spoilers)
Sub-Zero became a Cyborg in MK9?
(MK9 Spoilers)
Troubled Bat
Member
I really love Mileena's design. It's the best she's ever had. 
I thought the shadow from his finger was an off-centered soul patch, which seemed like the best bit of character art genius since his belly tattoo of his own name.
One became Noob and the other became Cyber Subby. And then they both died, but alas here we are. Well actually Noob didn't really die, he got tossed in a soulnado, something Scorpion survived. But he only survived because the Elder Gods saved his ass. And the Special Forces have the tech to uncyborg someone, which they used on Cyrax back in the days. So as it stands, both Sub-Zeros have an equal chance of coming back and they're keeping it deliberately ambiguous.
Irishmantis
Member
Troubled Bat
Member
It was his chest.
I'm thinking it's a cooler attempt at the "framing a shot for filming" hand motion...or he's playing paper football with someone off screen.
That Dude John
Member
Eh, I think it's still form-fitting and revealing enough to get the point across. It's cool as is imo.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
There will be alternate costumes!
After she was naked in MK9 I for one welcome the clothes.
Come play some 3D Fighting games. You can strip all the characters to your desire whether it be SC, Tekken, DOA, or VF.
DryEyeRelief
Member
No one plays MK for the humans or the weird voodoo characters. People play MK for the cyborgs and ninjas.
lol those are usually on the low end of the spectrum in MK in terms of characters I like. I do like Ermac and Cyrax though.
shinobi602
Member
Not a big fan of Cage's look personally.
Don't know what this has to do with my reply and I also don't know if it's a joke but Liu Kang, Sonya, Mileena, Baraka and Raiden are among the most popular characters in MK.
The Smoking Bun
Banned
Wish D'Vorah was one of the good guys, would have been a nice twist in terms of a scary looking bug lady fighting for justice. Scary = Bad in so much fiction.
She is. Kotal Khan is kinda a good guy.
The Smoking Bun
Banned
Cool, good to know. Kotal I know from the comics is basically Anti-Shao and he has this feud with Mileena. Also, the Aztecs call him the god of rain
Dr. Buni
Member
Mileena's design is great. Both Kitana and Mileena finally got better designs. They needed to make the worst ones (in MK9) before making the best ones, huh?
Speak for yourself.
Professor Beef
Banned
I for one am glad that Boon isn't going the SF 3 route and putting in mostly new characters.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
Latest comic reveals its the younger sub-zero.. i just read the scans on /v/, also movado gets wrecked so dont expect him and havik is Reiko's Adviser/cleric.
DryEyeRelief
Member
Which characters in MK9 received klassic skin alts?
The characters whose classic alts would be really damn cheap to make.
Sub-zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Ermac, Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, and Noob Saibot. Doesn't say much on their popularity though.
Edit: Basically for this reason:
Go to the bottom and see the costumes, NRS can just palate swap them.
http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Klassic_Costumes
Wait what, wasn't the latest issue
just the Raiden fight with scorpion? I did not see Mavado in that one.
Oh nvm
Those knives look like they'd restrict his arm movement.
She's still pretty skimpy.
Which is really how it should be with Mileena. She's the one Mortal Kombat lady whose absurd lingerie costume actually made sense.
NinjaMuffin
Member
Just wait till he bends over...
The funniest part is he can make knives out of ice.
Maybe he just likes to collect them?
Because I thought there would be more completely new characters I guess.
There's still 8, or a third of the base roster, that's new. Would you have been fine with different returning characters? Because it seems you're letdown because they're blood related/descendants and not because it's another returning character taking up a potential new character's spot, which is what I don't get.
I'm with ya here. Adding Cassie was a perfect opportunity to take some from Sonya and some from Johnny, giving us a new character with some old character flare/move sets.
Also, fighting and performing fatalities on your dad, mom, child doesn't make any sense to me lore-wise. Sindel, Katana, and Mileena were obviously different as them being evil made it viable.
But they did that while making her her own character. She has Johnny's Shadow Kick as a string as opposed to a special move, her "MMA takedown" is Sonya's MS stance grab from MK9, she has a reverse kartwheel from Sonya, green energy from Johnny, etc...But she is her own person/character while still being an homage to her parents, she's different enough that she couldn't be close to being called a clone while still incorporating some of her parents. There's not enough of Johnny or Sonya in her to exclude either character just because she's in.
Kitana is a good character so killing her Mom isn't as viable as some would think. Jade/Kitana are practically sisters, though not blood-wise, and aren't evil. There's also the Sub-Zero brothers/Noob Saibot and Liu Kang/Kung Lao as cousins. The story mode is the actual lore/cannon and arcade ladder's/versus can be seen as fantasy matchups or "what-ifs" if people would prefer to think of it like that.
Right and what we're saying is it's a little overlap (including JC's nut-punch x-ray). Creating Cassie as the child, and having 3 separate fighting stances, was the perfect opportunity to incorporate them without using two more character slots. Make her the perfect hybrid, and instead used those slots on two more unique characters. Not a huge deal but would allow some more unique options, ya know?
But wasn't Sindel introduced as a villain? If I recall from the storylines, she was evil and thus allowed the storylines of Kitana fighting/killing her. I could be wrong of course as I'm not up to snuff on my MK cannon.
Yeah I can see that as a "what if" match-up, sure, and they would obviously keep those match-ups out of the story mode. The vs would still be weird, especially when you factor in the new unique intro taunts. None of this makes or breaks the game for me, personally. I'm just more of a fan of having as many unique characters as possible (doesn't help that I was never a JC/Sonya fan to begin with).
60EffPeeEss
Member
But then she's just "her father/mother + a little more" instead of "a character with a little of her mother/father". She feels much different from a Johnny Cage/Sonya Blade while still taking a little from both instead of feeling like a Johnny/Sonya hybrid. Kitana's Jade variation is what people think Cassie is or should be which I personally wouldn't like as much as she is now. She's a new character with a twist as is, isn't that much better than being Sonya/Johnny with a twist?
She was good/neutral (whatever Edenia was at the time) until she was killed and resurrected as an evil person. So Kitana killing her could be seen as her attempting to "free her mother" but it's still the child killing the parent. Sindel just straight up murders a begging Kitana in canon.
https://youtu.be/1NZs4rAQp7c?t=1m38s (1:38)
How can you ask for unique characters then want Cassie to be a Sonya/Johnny Hybrid?
Again, I think you're missing my point. They had already decided to create a "lineage" character of Cassie from Johnny and Sonya. I feel it was a missed opportunity to take some from both old characters and create a new "lineage" character (instead of also adding in those to parent characters). You don't and that's fine. We have different opinions.
And that's what I think Cassie could be. Add in more Johnny and Sonya remnants into her fighting styles and you've got all characters covered. Again, you've stated your opinion and I've stated mine. We both win here.
Again, apples to oranges.
Pretty sure there will be alts. Either way time seems to have been more kind to her than JC.
SolicitorPirate
Member
While I do appreciate MK trying to dress its female characters in much more sensible clothing, Mileena was the one character I was hoping would retain a MK9-esque wardrobe. It seemed to fit her character.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Might be part of the story, But MK9 was Basically MK1-3 so it might only be in flashbacks.
My boy Kotal Khan looking brutal still. Best new character since Kenshi way back
Mix Master
Member
Agree, Boon and team cant make a good roster even if it bit them in the ass.
TheSpoiler
Member
Kotal Kahn da god.
And LOL at Cage being
. He's probably the only semi-capable fighter left that the Blundergod hasn't smoked for muh destiny.
And LOL at Cage being
Earthrealm's Champion.