Garladors KOTW - Week 3 - Mileena Discussion
Welcome, unfortunate mortals, to Week 3 of Garlador's "Kharacter of the Week".
With Nightwolf and Sheeva out of the way, Mileena is next on the chopping block. Let the residential MK trap come on down!
WHO IS MILEENA?
Mileena is the grotesque clone of Princess Kitana created by Shang Tsung when it decided that one hot princess wasn't enough. Unfortunately, he cross-bred Mileena with Tarkatan DNA, which resulted in the single most boner-damping video game vixen since Dragon Age's Broodmother.
("My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...")
Despite being a "clone", she looks nothing like her "sister" anymore... which was kind of the point when she was created. The hair is different. The eyes are different. The nose is different. The mouth is certainly different. Even their skin color is different. It sort of throws a wrench in the whole "Mileena pretends to be Kitana" subplots that existed in prior games when Johnny Cage looks more identical to Outworld general Reiko than Kitana does to her supposed "twin" sister.
(The new spokesmen for "Double your pleasure, double your fun" Doublemint gum!)
Mileena's whole angle is she's the imperfect duplicate of the idealized Princess Kitana that wants everything Kitana has, despite having none of the beauty, skill, charisma, strength, or likability. Thus, she turns to unscrupulous means of getting attention instead.
(It's basically the plot of "Twins" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito).
WHY IS MILEENA IN THE SERIES?
Mileena is the godless bastard idea someone had during a particularly horrific wet-dream-gone-bad.
(probably this one)
Basically, they had two hot girls in the game using the same model, Kitana & Mileena. The cop-out to explain the similarities was they were sisters. So... in MK2, we were graced with the possibility of a set of two super-hot twins. Awesome right?
(This. We could have had THIS.)
But, no. Apparently the notion of two hot women in one game was just too much for our feeble minds to handle. It was quickly decided that one would stay hot and the other would create a generation of chaste, sexless virgins too terrified of women and sex to ever procreate.
(... because misery loves company, apparently)
Thus, they took the ingredients of a hot chick, tossed in a rude Ninja Turtle, and crossed it with the undersea horrors that tempt world leaders to nuke the ocean's depths " just in case".
It was like the aborted fetus of Sindel's afterbirth was merged with more spikiness than a Clive Barker movie, creating one of gaming's most memorable freaks. Sporting fangs and craving for flesh, Mileena became MK's resident temptress and succubus, drawing in victims with her/Kitana's hot bod before showing us true terror!
(She's in good company)
MILEENA'S STORY
In the "prior canon", Mileena was raised as Kitana's twin sister and was created to allay suspicions of Kitana's prior Edenian life by establishing her with a relative without any Edenian connection. Mileena was flawed due to the difficulties in creating her, with Tarkatan features used to fill in the blanks. They were originally raised together, with Kitana being the favored child while Mileena grew to hate and despise her sister and her status. It was implied she didn't even know she was a clone until after Kitana found out the truth. It was a great set-up that gave both characters deep history, personal stakes, and created dimensional characters out of even villains such as Kahn who treated Kitana better than her malformed duplicate.
But then...
In the "new canon", Mileena is just "born", having been created because.... because... apparently Kahn just didn't like Kitana's attitude.
(He raised her through teenage rebellion, yet he couldn't handle her doing things like "not immediately killing random dude begging for death" and asking questions like "where's mommy?")
Kahn, despite having Kitana's full trust, love, and cooperation, sees she's starting to -*gasp* - question her place in the world and do some thinking of her own. And Kahn just won't stand for that.
(Shao Kahn apparently thinks like a Disney villain)
So, rather than sit his daughter of 10,000 years down and have a nice heart to heart where he explains she's a big girl and can handle the fact that her father routinely crushes the skulls of men who oppose him, he decides the best course of action would be to clone her and replace her, like he was managing the next Hollywood blockbuster and Kitana's salary demands were too high.
(Shao Kahn apparently thinks like a Disney movie executive too)
Thus Mileena was created. In Shang Tsung's own words, she is the "perfection" of Kitana's flaws.
("Well done, Sorcerer" my ass! I'd demand a refund.)
And... Shao Kahn doesn't do squat with her until Kitana stumbles in on her, gets attacked, and then acts like this infantile, ugly-as-sin mistake was instead a flying success worth praising Shang Tsung over and delivering the game's worst bout of exposition since Walt replaced Oswald the Rabbit with Mickey Mouse and then tried to blame it all on the Jews.
(Okay, so Shao Kahn IS Walt Disney...)
Kitana is tossed out like Windows XP and replaced with... well, the equivalent of Windows Vista.
(It's better in every way... except not)
Thus Mileena (I love how he names her like he got a new puppy) is introduced in modern day, with the mental maturity of a Rugrat, the fighting experience of Neo (pre-Matrix), and none of the tension, past, or personal stakes in the battle that she had before. Oh, sure, her bio says she wants to please her "father" (wouldn't Shang Tsung, her creator, be her father?), but what is there to do that Kitana wasn't already doing before... and, well, better? She had nearly 10,000 years in the can doing his dirty work. As far as I'm aware, Mileena doesn't do anything worthwhile in the story mode.
("No, I will NOT give you a biscuit until you manage to kill at least ONE person in this Story Mode!")
I only complain because in prior games, she was actually rather brilliant, deceptive, and cunning. She also had an interesting love/hate relationship with Baraka...
(He IS the "Outworld Hugh Jackman")
... that the new game never even acknowledged. In the prior games, particular Deception, she managed to succeed in taking over one of the most powerful realms in the MK universe, deceiving all of Kitana's people, and effectively becoming a force of power and respect in the MK world. All because she was cunning and deceptive.... and because Kitana's lead general was a drunken Bo Rai'Cho.
("Is that you Kitana? *hic* Huh? Have all our best warriors leave the city unguarded? *burp* Okay princess!")
To be fair, Bo Rai'Cho wasn't the most observant of Edenia's leaders.
("What was that Princess Kitana? *belch* Take my pants off and bend over? *hic* Whatever you say!")
Mileena's story sadly didn't go anywhere, and she regressed heavily in this game. She was still vicious and ugly, but she became just a dumb monster in this game instead of the tragic villain the prior games, comics, and bios painted her as. She went from a ruthless, dark, cunning badass to a manic, petulant, rather grating adult-child with daddy issues.
(Of all things to draw inspiration from, the new Star Wars trilogy should not be one of them.)
MILEENA'S FUTURE
For all Mileena's pitfalls in this game, she did emerge unscathed in the end.
(Well, apart from being electrocuted on the bridge)
There was even talk of Mileena succeeding Kahn as his successor and becoming Queen Mileena, ruler of all Outworld.
("I'm sure we can trust someone that's not even a year old mentally to run a kingdom full of monsters, demons, and warmongers. No worries.")
I won't lie; there are a lot of interesting angles to go over and discuss with Mileena that the Story Mode glossed over or left open for future games. Mileena, in particular, has been a woman that lived in the shadow of her sister and in the service of her "daddy" Khan, and now both of them are gone. What will a liberated Mileena do with her newfound independence?
(Probably drive Daddy's expensive car)
Still, even with all that occurred in MK2011, we never really got a grasp of how Mileena felt... about anything. Does she know she's a clone? Does she hate and resent her sister? Is she still jealous of her sister's beauty and power (well, probably not now since Kitana's worm food)? How did Sindel react to a clone of her daughter being Kahn's "new" daughter (did that make Sindel a mommy to her too?) Does she have any ambitions now of her own?
I'm more curious how she can say her "P"s when she has no lips.
Ultimately, though, Mileena is definitely a good character with some misplaced priorities and ham-fisted handling. She plays phenomenally well (go EVO!), stands unique as one of the most freakish characters in a game full of freaks, and has perhaps the greatest Challenger Tower mission out of the entire lot of 300.
(Hnngh! My heart!)
Still... she had some serious problems too. Her storyline became a bit of a mess, she stole Kira's fatality, and her outfits single-handedly made gamers everywhere groan in a collective sigh so powerful that we've shifted the course of global trade winds.
(This.... this was not worth fighting through 300 challenge missions for. Not by the most insane stretch of imagination, reason, or even moon logic. And yet Rule 34 guarantees SOMEONE fapped to this... *shudder*).
So, Mileena ultimately was a bittersweet treat in this game. She rocked the gameplay, embarrassed fashion in a way Lady Gaga never could, and her story took a nose-dive with just enough cushion to allow for a rebound. Here's hoping for a perkier future for her (get your mind out of the gutters) and here's hoping she gets more fleshed out (out! Out! The gutter is dirty!).
So, that's Mileena. So sound off on this butterface! Do you like her? LOVE her? HATE her? Do you think she has potential in the future games? Did you prefer her original storyline? What's your stance on MK's most famous hideous vixen?
And let me know who you'd like me to cover next!
Okay everyone. Been fun. Garlador out.
With Nightwolf and Sheeva out of the way, Mileena is next on the chopping block. Let the residential MK trap come on down!
WHO IS MILEENA?
Mileena is the grotesque clone of Princess Kitana created by Shang Tsung when it decided that one hot princess wasn't enough. Unfortunately, he cross-bred Mileena with Tarkatan DNA, which resulted in the single most boner-damping video game vixen since Dragon Age's Broodmother.
("My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...")
Despite being a "clone", she looks nothing like her "sister" anymore... which was kind of the point when she was created. The hair is different. The eyes are different. The nose is different. The mouth is certainly different. Even their skin color is different. It sort of throws a wrench in the whole "Mileena pretends to be Kitana" subplots that existed in prior games when Johnny Cage looks more identical to Outworld general Reiko than Kitana does to her supposed "twin" sister.
(The new spokesmen for "Double your pleasure, double your fun" Doublemint gum!)
Mileena's whole angle is she's the imperfect duplicate of the idealized Princess Kitana that wants everything Kitana has, despite having none of the beauty, skill, charisma, strength, or likability. Thus, she turns to unscrupulous means of getting attention instead.
(It's basically the plot of "Twins" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito).
WHY IS MILEENA IN THE SERIES?
Mileena is the godless bastard idea someone had during a particularly horrific wet-dream-gone-bad.
(probably this one)
Basically, they had two hot girls in the game using the same model, Kitana & Mileena. The cop-out to explain the similarities was they were sisters. So... in MK2, we were graced with the possibility of a set of two super-hot twins. Awesome right?
(This. We could have had THIS.)
But, no. Apparently the notion of two hot women in one game was just too much for our feeble minds to handle. It was quickly decided that one would stay hot and the other would create a generation of chaste, sexless virgins too terrified of women and sex to ever procreate.
(... because misery loves company, apparently)
Thus, they took the ingredients of a hot chick, tossed in a rude Ninja Turtle, and crossed it with the undersea horrors that tempt world leaders to nuke the ocean's depths " just in case".
It was like the aborted fetus of Sindel's afterbirth was merged with more spikiness than a Clive Barker movie, creating one of gaming's most memorable freaks. Sporting fangs and craving for flesh, Mileena became MK's resident temptress and succubus, drawing in victims with her/Kitana's hot bod before showing us true terror!
(She's in good company)
MILEENA'S STORY
In the "prior canon", Mileena was raised as Kitana's twin sister and was created to allay suspicions of Kitana's prior Edenian life by establishing her with a relative without any Edenian connection. Mileena was flawed due to the difficulties in creating her, with Tarkatan features used to fill in the blanks. They were originally raised together, with Kitana being the favored child while Mileena grew to hate and despise her sister and her status. It was implied she didn't even know she was a clone until after Kitana found out the truth. It was a great set-up that gave both characters deep history, personal stakes, and created dimensional characters out of even villains such as Kahn who treated Kitana better than her malformed duplicate.
But then...
In the "new canon", Mileena is just "born", having been created because.... because... apparently Kahn just didn't like Kitana's attitude.
(He raised her through teenage rebellion, yet he couldn't handle her doing things like "not immediately killing random dude begging for death" and asking questions like "where's mommy?")
Kahn, despite having Kitana's full trust, love, and cooperation, sees she's starting to -*gasp* - question her place in the world and do some thinking of her own. And Kahn just won't stand for that.
(Shao Kahn apparently thinks like a Disney villain)
So, rather than sit his daughter of 10,000 years down and have a nice heart to heart where he explains she's a big girl and can handle the fact that her father routinely crushes the skulls of men who oppose him, he decides the best course of action would be to clone her and replace her, like he was managing the next Hollywood blockbuster and Kitana's salary demands were too high.
(Shao Kahn apparently thinks like a Disney movie executive too)
Thus Mileena was created. In Shang Tsung's own words, she is the "perfection" of Kitana's flaws.
("Well done, Sorcerer" my ass! I'd demand a refund.)
And... Shao Kahn doesn't do squat with her until Kitana stumbles in on her, gets attacked, and then acts like this infantile, ugly-as-sin mistake was instead a flying success worth praising Shang Tsung over and delivering the game's worst bout of exposition since Walt replaced Oswald the Rabbit with Mickey Mouse and then tried to blame it all on the Jews.
(Okay, so Shao Kahn IS Walt Disney...)
Kitana is tossed out like Windows XP and replaced with... well, the equivalent of Windows Vista.
(It's better in every way... except not)
Thus Mileena (I love how he names her like he got a new puppy) is introduced in modern day, with the mental maturity of a Rugrat, the fighting experience of Neo (pre-Matrix), and none of the tension, past, or personal stakes in the battle that she had before. Oh, sure, her bio says she wants to please her "father" (wouldn't Shang Tsung, her creator, be her father?), but what is there to do that Kitana wasn't already doing before... and, well, better? She had nearly 10,000 years in the can doing his dirty work. As far as I'm aware, Mileena doesn't do anything worthwhile in the story mode.
("No, I will NOT give you a biscuit until you manage to kill at least ONE person in this Story Mode!")
I only complain because in prior games, she was actually rather brilliant, deceptive, and cunning. She also had an interesting love/hate relationship with Baraka...
(He IS the "Outworld Hugh Jackman")
... that the new game never even acknowledged. In the prior games, particular Deception, she managed to succeed in taking over one of the most powerful realms in the MK universe, deceiving all of Kitana's people, and effectively becoming a force of power and respect in the MK world. All because she was cunning and deceptive.... and because Kitana's lead general was a drunken Bo Rai'Cho.
("Is that you Kitana? *hic* Huh? Have all our best warriors leave the city unguarded? *burp* Okay princess!")
To be fair, Bo Rai'Cho wasn't the most observant of Edenia's leaders.
("What was that Princess Kitana? *belch* Take my pants off and bend over? *hic* Whatever you say!")
Mileena's story sadly didn't go anywhere, and she regressed heavily in this game. She was still vicious and ugly, but she became just a dumb monster in this game instead of the tragic villain the prior games, comics, and bios painted her as. She went from a ruthless, dark, cunning badass to a manic, petulant, rather grating adult-child with daddy issues.
(Of all things to draw inspiration from, the new Star Wars trilogy should not be one of them.)
MILEENA'S FUTURE
For all Mileena's pitfalls in this game, she did emerge unscathed in the end.
(Well, apart from being electrocuted on the bridge)
There was even talk of Mileena succeeding Kahn as his successor and becoming Queen Mileena, ruler of all Outworld.
("I'm sure we can trust someone that's not even a year old mentally to run a kingdom full of monsters, demons, and warmongers. No worries.")
I won't lie; there are a lot of interesting angles to go over and discuss with Mileena that the Story Mode glossed over or left open for future games. Mileena, in particular, has been a woman that lived in the shadow of her sister and in the service of her "daddy" Khan, and now both of them are gone. What will a liberated Mileena do with her newfound independence?
(Probably drive Daddy's expensive car)
Still, even with all that occurred in MK2011, we never really got a grasp of how Mileena felt... about anything. Does she know she's a clone? Does she hate and resent her sister? Is she still jealous of her sister's beauty and power (well, probably not now since Kitana's worm food)? How did Sindel react to a clone of her daughter being Kahn's "new" daughter (did that make Sindel a mommy to her too?) Does she have any ambitions now of her own?
I'm more curious how she can say her "P"s when she has no lips.
Ultimately, though, Mileena is definitely a good character with some misplaced priorities and ham-fisted handling. She plays phenomenally well (go EVO!), stands unique as one of the most freakish characters in a game full of freaks, and has perhaps the greatest Challenger Tower mission out of the entire lot of 300.
(Hnngh! My heart!)
Still... she had some serious problems too. Her storyline became a bit of a mess, she stole Kira's fatality, and her outfits single-handedly made gamers everywhere groan in a collective sigh so powerful that we've shifted the course of global trade winds.
(This.... this was not worth fighting through 300 challenge missions for. Not by the most insane stretch of imagination, reason, or even moon logic. And yet Rule 34 guarantees SOMEONE fapped to this... *shudder*).
So, Mileena ultimately was a bittersweet treat in this game. She rocked the gameplay, embarrassed fashion in a way Lady Gaga never could, and her story took a nose-dive with just enough cushion to allow for a rebound. Here's hoping for a perkier future for her (get your mind out of the gutters) and here's hoping she gets more fleshed out (out! Out! The gutter is dirty!).
So, that's Mileena. So sound off on this butterface! Do you like her? LOVE her? HATE her? Do you think she has potential in the future games? Did you prefer her original storyline? What's your stance on MK's most famous hideous vixen?
And let me know who you'd like me to cover next!
Okay everyone. Been fun. Garlador out.
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Mileena's my second fave.Also i really dislike her not growing up as Kitana's sister it weakened both of their over all storylines. Also i've said this in both of your other discussions ... Make one for Jade ... please. 
Nice post.
I'll probably catch shit for this,
but Mileena *really* disappointed me this go round.
I'm not even going to touch upon how much they ruined her character-
you did a great job of that already
Mileena's always been one of my mains, since MKII.
I was really looking forward to her in this game,
but I ended up disappointed by her gameplay.
She only has *one* move she didn't have in MKII.
Her combos are a bit weird and hard to pull off
(and this is coming from a Rain Main).
Her "Rip Off" Fatality is *very* appropriately named,
since it's a total ripoff of Kira's.
Her Babality is arguably the worst in the game.
All in all, highly disappointed.
But there's always hope for her in MK10
I'll probably catch shit for this,
but Mileena *really* disappointed me this go round.
I'm not even going to touch upon how much they ruined her character-
you did a great job of that already
Mileena's always been one of my mains, since MKII.
I was really looking forward to her in this game,
but I ended up disappointed by her gameplay.
She only has *one* move she didn't have in MKII.
Her combos are a bit weird and hard to pull off
(and this is coming from a Rain Main).
Her "Rip Off" Fatality is *very* appropriately named,
since it's a total ripoff of Kira's.
Her Babality is arguably the worst in the game.
All in all, highly disappointed.
But there's always hope for her in MK10
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Oh my god, you kill me.
Mileena is probably in my top 10 favorite MK characters. I love her. However...I loved the God I miss her.
I adored that Mileena. And in my eyes, that Mileena died after MK4. She was fueled by hatred and envy, but managed to be understandable. I can understand her emotion. She wasn't a monster, but someone who's been broken down toward the point of hopeless rage. Hell, I liked her more than Kitana during that era, and I like Kitana (still do).
But MAN, do I dislike what she's become. She's isn't a person. She's a thing, now. A sex object meant to add appeal by being as relentless and psychotic as possible. Cause you know, BITCHES BE CRAZY, AND WE LIKE CRAZY BITCHES!
And you know what? Yes. We like crazy bitches.
We like crazy bitches very much. But you know what? At least Harley actually has backstory and a broken and lost mentality that makes her interesting beyond 'just being crazy'. And even with 'crazy bitches', there is some way to connect or understand them.
I don't know how ANYONE....ANYONE could relate with this Mileena. She's not even 'fun' crazy. She's just crazy. And while I do miss classic Mileena, I wouldn't be upset if they actually managed to do a decent 'crazy bitch' Mileena. This isn't a decent 'crazy bitch' Mileena.
Save for the teddy bear antics, Mileena is just a child. Illogical. Pointless. Crazy. She has no purpose beyond, "Yes, Daddy. Anything you say, Daddy." And I can only pray that changes in MK10. *sigh*
I don't even know. Mileena is probably my biggest issue with MK9.
In the meantime....Stryker....love of my life..... Do me a favor.
Thaaaaaank you. Still, Mileena is probably one of my all time favorite female characters. Hard to beat Sonya, Sareena, and Kitana though.
Mileena is probably in my top 10 favorite MK characters. I love her. However...I loved the God I miss her.
I adored that Mileena. And in my eyes, that Mileena died after MK4. She was fueled by hatred and envy, but managed to be understandable. I can understand her emotion. She wasn't a monster, but someone who's been broken down toward the point of hopeless rage. Hell, I liked her more than Kitana during that era, and I like Kitana (still do).
But MAN, do I dislike what she's become. She's isn't a person. She's a thing, now. A sex object meant to add appeal by being as relentless and psychotic as possible. Cause you know, BITCHES BE CRAZY, AND WE LIKE CRAZY BITCHES!
And you know what? Yes. We like crazy bitches.
We like crazy bitches very much. But you know what? At least Harley actually has backstory and a broken and lost mentality that makes her interesting beyond 'just being crazy'. And even with 'crazy bitches', there is some way to connect or understand them.
I don't know how ANYONE....ANYONE could relate with this Mileena. She's not even 'fun' crazy. She's just crazy. And while I do miss classic Mileena, I wouldn't be upset if they actually managed to do a decent 'crazy bitch' Mileena. This isn't a decent 'crazy bitch' Mileena.
Save for the teddy bear antics, Mileena is just a child. Illogical. Pointless. Crazy. She has no purpose beyond, "Yes, Daddy. Anything you say, Daddy." And I can only pray that changes in MK10. *sigh*
I don't even know. Mileena is probably my biggest issue with MK9.
In the meantime....Stryker....love of my life..... Do me a favor.
Thaaaaaank you. Still, Mileena is probably one of my all time favorite female characters. Hard to beat Sonya, Sareena, and Kitana though.
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Excellent thread once again!
Mileena used to be my favorite female character in the series (storyline-wise) until this stupid retcon. Not only does she look absolutely nothing like Kitana, she's a blithering idiot, and nymphomaniac (pretty much.)
I liked the manipulative Mileena, working in the shadows, hoping to kill and replace her sister. That neat rivalry is gone now. Instead, we get Kitana pitying Mileena (based off of her stupid ending), and Mileena somehow coming to terms with her.
That rivalry was 100 times cooler than the Sonya-Kano one we've been force-fed for 19 years.
Sad what's happened to her....maybe some day they'll retcon it back. *sigh*
As for next week's discussion, how about Kenshi, Stryker, or Kabal...?
Mileena used to be my favorite female character in the series (storyline-wise) until this stupid retcon. Not only does she look absolutely nothing like Kitana, she's a blithering idiot, and nymphomaniac (pretty much.)
I liked the manipulative Mileena, working in the shadows, hoping to kill and replace her sister. That neat rivalry is gone now. Instead, we get Kitana pitying Mileena (based off of her stupid ending), and Mileena somehow coming to terms with her.
That rivalry was 100 times cooler than the Sonya-Kano one we've been force-fed for 19 years.
Sad what's happened to her....maybe some day they'll retcon it back. *sigh*
As for next week's discussion, how about Kenshi, Stryker, or Kabal...?
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What if something happens with the story where the characters from the original timeline were not replaced, but instead, created into an alternate dimension, and through god knows what means, the timelines are merged, bring characters from both timelines together.
Thus, we'd have classic Mileena and MK9 Mileena. Hopefully MK9 Mileena gets axed.
And then we can have the heroes who died who are still alive in the old timeline face off against their zombie selves.
Two Strykers!
NOW THAT is doubling your pleasure.
EDIT: Stupid Harry Met Sally gifs, they all suck.
Thus, we'd have classic Mileena and MK9 Mileena. Hopefully MK9 Mileena gets axed.
And then we can have the heroes who died who are still alive in the old timeline face off against their zombie selves.
Two Strykers!
NOW THAT is doubling your pleasure.
EDIT: Stupid Harry Met Sally gifs, they all suck.
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I really hope you keep doing these, such great reads.
My thoughts on Mileena.
That chick is a crazy as all hell, if Mileena didn't already have a great story in the original canon, I wouldn't mind her new child like and crazy self, the only good thing about her story retcon is that it gives Mileena a new direction to go into instead of just being obsessed with making Kitana pay, but who am I kidding, I would have loved to see tragic villian Mileena stay canon, give her a reason for her instability, cunning behavior, and such.
Gameplay wise: Mileena is my spam buster character, that chick is my savior when it comes to cheap players, she shuts ish down.
I never took an interest in Mileena until this game and I must say I love her gameplay and her taunts, "let us dance." One of the most appropriate and timeless fighting lines ever, I'm also a big fan of her, 'Don't be mad" line.
I enjoy her combos, though I only know about 4, she's a ton of fun to play as this go round.
The good news is that she survived and is basically a shoe in for the sequel, yay!
I'd love to see you do either Sareena, Rain, or Havik, but regardless of who you do, I'm sure it will be golden
My thoughts on Mileena.
That chick is a crazy as all hell, if Mileena didn't already have a great story in the original canon, I wouldn't mind her new child like and crazy self, the only good thing about her story retcon is that it gives Mileena a new direction to go into instead of just being obsessed with making Kitana pay, but who am I kidding, I would have loved to see tragic villian Mileena stay canon, give her a reason for her instability, cunning behavior, and such.
Gameplay wise: Mileena is my spam buster character, that chick is my savior when it comes to cheap players, she shuts ish down.
I never took an interest in Mileena until this game and I must say I love her gameplay and her taunts, "let us dance." One of the most appropriate and timeless fighting lines ever, I'm also a big fan of her, 'Don't be mad" line.
I enjoy her combos, though I only know about 4, she's a ton of fun to play as this go round.
The good news is that she survived and is basically a shoe in for the sequel, yay!
I'd love to see you do either Sareena, Rain, or Havik, but regardless of who you do, I'm sure it will be golden
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The Mileena I grew to know and love was the Mileena from Mortal Kombat Deception. She was cunning, secretive, alluring and seductive whilst still being incredibly manipulative and intelligent. Her primary outfit showed just enough skin for her to fit into the MK women's fashion sense yet still had an air of regal authority about it too. It was the best portrayal she ever had. Hell, even her bio and ending in Armageddon was enjoyable. I liked the way her ultimate revenge was to imprison the now horrific Kitana and watch as she becomes insane in the palace dungeons. Horrific, yet genius.
I grew up playing as Mileena, so she's always been a favourite of mine. To see her going from one of Khan's top assassin's along with Kitana, to her origins being revealed, killed by her twin sister and respawned by Shinnok with the ability to read Kitana's mind was excellent. However, I always wanted to see what the pay off for all of that would be. She finally acchieved that in Deception, she really stepped up to the plate in that game and played the heroes for fools. Not bad for a failed clone!
In this new game though, they've scooped out everything that was intriguing and interesting about Mileena and left her as a hollowed shell of what she once was. Bar a few saving graces (like her entrance pose and her taunts), she's got nothing going for her now and in my opinion ended up worse off than the likes of Stryker, Kitana, Sindel or Jade by the end of the story. She's literally been dumbed down to the point where she's just a pair of tits with some teeth, and that's about it. Everything that made her sexuality sexy was scooped out for visual sex appeal.
I'm a gay man but I even found Mileena sexy prior to this game. She had a dangerously seductive vibe about her, and the mindset of a predator., like Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body. Even her body language in her victory poses and fatality poses in Deception portrayed her to be a woman who was incredibly sexually expressive, but dark, sinister and somewhat playful about it (which actually made her hotter). Back in the old games she relied on her beautiful body and incredibly sharp mind to entice her opponents, where as in this game it's an outfit that consists of straps and some bare skin which does the work for her.
Call me crazy with a K, but I thought she was at her hottest when you had a reason to root and cheer for her. Back when she clearly felt jealous and inadequate in comparisson to the perfect Kitana and tried to replace her sister as Princess, she was relatable and endearing in an underdog sort of manner. Now that the rivalry between the sisters is gone, Mileena has no real foundation to lift off from. The only thing that gives her anything to springboard off of is Shao Khan's death, which only occurs at the end of Story Mode. Prior to that she has no incentive to be in charge of Outworld, no rivalry's with other characters or no story to connect with bar her incredibly rushed and badly executed origins in the Flesh Pits. She's just kind of created, introduced, and that's that. She doesn't develop at all during this story mode which is a disgrace considering the story is taking place in one of the most crucial times in her whole history.
Even IF she does go on to become Empress of Outworld, there's been no character development during this game that allows that transition to become more palatable in the next game. Are people seriously able to accept the fact that a woman with a 4 year old's mentality is capable of rulling an entire realm? And even if she does somehow manage to miraculously mature in the space of time that takes place between the end of this game and the start of MK10, would you believe she'd still be capable of rulling?
I know as a Mileena fan that I'd be looking at her in the next game saying to myself "So she went from having the mentality of a 4 year old to being strategic, calculating and mature enough to rule over an entire realm in the space of a single game??". I for one wouldn't buy it.
Having said that, her gameplay is excellent in this game and really suits my playstyle. I main her quite a bit online and was surprised to hear she's not one of the most used online due to her ability to stop nearly any character in their tracks. The only thing I'd like is for her recovery on her ground roll to be a bit quicker, as she tends to stay in the air for a very long time once it's been blocked, and for it to strike as a low attack (after all, she is rolling on the GROUND). I love her first fatality, I only do her second one on the cyborgs (Cause I dont want her eating metal faces haha), and her theme tune by Tokimonsta is still my favourite track on the album.
In summary, I think a character who already had so much going for her was left severly brain damaged and tainted for the sake of sex appeal, which is an awful pity considering at one point she was one of the most calculating, intelligent and sexually alluring warrior's on the roster. Bar some saving graces and decent gameplay, the Mileena in this game has been a powerful backhand slap to the face of the Mileena we grew to know over the years by NRS's writing team. If we ever saw the Mileena we seen in Deception come back again, I'd welcome it. However if the Mileena we know now was killed off permanently, I probably wouldn't mind it. It's like looking at a different character entirely, an imposter of an imposter. And to me, that's an awful pity.
The Mileena I grew to know and love was the Mileena from Mortal Kombat Deception. She was cunning, secretive, alluring and seductive whilst still being incredibly manipulative and intelligent. Her primary outfit showed just enough skin for her to fit into the MK women's fashion sense yet still had an air of regal authority about it too. It was the best portrayal she ever had. Hell, even her bio and ending in Armageddon was enjoyable. I liked the way her ultimate revenge was to imprison the now horrific Kitana and watch as she becomes insane in the palace dungeons. Horrific, yet genius.
I grew up playing as Mileena, so she's always been a favourite of mine. To see her going from one of Khan's top assassin's along with Kitana, to her origins being revealed, killed by her twin sister and respawned by Shinnok with the ability to read Kitana's mind was excellent. However, I always wanted to see what the pay off for all of that would be. She finally acchieved that in Deception, she really stepped up to the plate in that game and played the heroes for fools. Not bad for a failed clone!
In this new game though, they've scooped out everything that was intriguing and interesting about Mileena and left her as a hollowed shell of what she once was. Bar a few saving graces (like her entrance pose and her taunts), she's got nothing going for her now and in my opinion ended up worse off than the likes of Stryker, Kitana, Sindel or Jade by the end of the story. She's literally been dumbed down to the point where she's just a pair of tits with some teeth, and that's about it. Everything that made her sexuality sexy was scooped out for visual sex appeal.
I'm a gay man but I even found Mileena sexy prior to this game. She had a dangerously seductive vibe about her, and the mindset of a predator., like Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body. Even her body language in her victory poses and fatality poses in Deception portrayed her to be a woman who was incredibly sexually expressive, but dark, sinister and somewhat playful about it (which actually made her hotter). Back in the old games she relied on her beautiful body and incredibly sharp mind to entice her opponents, where as in this game it's an outfit that consists of straps and some bare skin which does the work for her.
Call me crazy with a K, but I thought she was at her hottest when you had a reason to root and cheer for her. Back when she clearly felt jealous and inadequate in comparisson to the perfect Kitana and tried to replace her sister as Princess, she was relatable and endearing in an underdog sort of manner. Now that the rivalry between the sisters is gone, Mileena has no real foundation to lift off from. The only thing that gives her anything to springboard off of is Shao Khan's death, which only occurs at the end of Story Mode. Prior to that she has no incentive to be in charge of Outworld, no rivalry's with other characters or no story to connect with bar her incredibly rushed and badly executed origins in the Flesh Pits. She's just kind of created, introduced, and that's that. She doesn't develop at all during this story mode which is a disgrace considering the story is taking place in one of the most crucial times in her whole history.
Even IF she does go on to become Empress of Outworld, there's been no character development during this game that allows that transition to become more palatable in the next game. Are people seriously able to accept the fact that a woman with a 4 year old's mentality is capable of rulling an entire realm? And even if she does somehow manage to miraculously mature in the space of time that takes place between the end of this game and the start of MK10, would you believe she'd still be capable of rulling?
I know as a Mileena fan that I'd be looking at her in the next game saying to myself "So she went from having the mentality of a 4 year old to being strategic, calculating and mature enough to rule over an entire realm in the space of a single game??". I for one wouldn't buy it.
Having said that, her gameplay is excellent in this game and really suits my playstyle. I main her quite a bit online and was surprised to hear she's not one of the most used online due to her ability to stop nearly any character in their tracks. The only thing I'd like is for her recovery on her ground roll to be a bit quicker, as she tends to stay in the air for a very long time once it's been blocked, and for it to strike as a low attack (after all, she is rolling on the GROUND). I love her first fatality, I only do her second one on the cyborgs (Cause I dont want her eating metal faces haha), and her theme tune by Tokimonsta is still my favourite track on the album.
In summary, I think a character who already had so much going for her was left severly brain damaged and tainted for the sake of sex appeal, which is an awful pity considering at one point she was one of the most calculating, intelligent and sexually alluring warrior's on the roster. Bar some saving graces and decent gameplay, the Mileena in this game has been a powerful backhand slap to the face of the Mileena we grew to know over the years by NRS's writing team. If we ever saw the Mileena we seen in Deception come back again, I'd welcome it. However if the Mileena we know now was killed off permanently, I probably wouldn't mind it. It's like looking at a different character entirely, an imposter of an imposter. And to me, that's an awful pity.
I feel the same way about all of this minus the gay part Mileena's new story is ... to put it nicely lacking.
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