Sonya looked fat in MKDA and MKA, I want a slimmer Sonya. So MK4/Shaolin monks Sonya all the way!

I'd prefer her not to be in the game at all. Sorry, but she's so damn played out.

Well I guess her DA look was okay. (besides her hair and some other stuff) so i agree that the SM look should come back with the pony tail. (i don't really like the camoflouge pants though)

Sonya is my favorite character, so of course i'm impartial.

but i agree with most of you here: her best looks are her MK3, MK4, and MKSM.

I HATED her DA look. HATE it. she looks like a big dyke, which she's not. she looks like a man with a bag wig and horrible implants.

i would love for her look to be based off of keri hoshkins, or even bridgette wilson from the first film. if they could do her hair down right, then she would look good... but i think she would look best with a ponytail. i really like her MK4 look with the hat as well.

as for her MKSM look, i like it. it's not my favorite, but it's one of the best. i like the outfit, but i HATE her bangs. she looks like she's stuck in the 70's with the brady bunch. and that's just silly.

i want her to look good. i want her to look like a WOMAN again. make her pretty. just because she's a tough bitch doesn't mean she needs to look like a bull dyke home depot worker.

i dont like sonya at all,

she was a lower tier character in the first one who looked like someon at a gym

she was chained up in the great mk2 becouse she was not worth bringin her back

in mk3 she was revamped into a hotter chick,but still looked lame

mk4 she was less irritating but still pointless to have

mkda she looked like a total bimbo ,and made me sad that her character made the game where many better characters ,even from mk4 did not make the cut

the lack of annoyin characters like her,johny,jax was what made deception so good

anyway if they revamp her look up i think they should take a look at tekkens nina williams ,she is everything sonya wishes she could be

i would rather see kitana take the place as lead(and possibly only) mk female character in this game,if 2 then mileena aswell

^ Get the names of the games right and learn to spell, man, AND get your facts straight instead of pulling stuff outta the ass! Nobody cares about illiterates not liking a character. *Sprays some Febreeze on your post*



LoL!

They should totally make her resemble Kerri Hoskins again, that girl had to be the best-looking MK actress throughout all these years.

Also, don't most PS3 games nowadays use facial scanning or something, where they scan the visuals of a real person and make the character? I'm sure Kerri wouldn't mind posing as Sonya one more time, she even said she would love to in Sonya's trading card. But judging from the last renders we've gotten, it looks like the MK Team is going another route with the character creation. Let's just hope for the best - I'm pretty sure every woman in MKDA looked a little mannish, it was just how they designed all the characters. This hopefully isn't the case now that they have the best possible means to create flawless, crisp visuals.

My friend spoke with Boon personally, the guy MasterMalone who went to E3 back in 06 and spoke, played MKA prior to it coming out. He had his own thread that was hit several times, he explained that the MK team/Boon told him that certain moves might be left out do to balancing/frame issues giving the 3D engine understandable that among the fact that since Midway gives the MK team a timeframe, they wanted to address certain moves but couldn't due to release dates and time so that's true too. Malone and myself play these games at high level online so I honestly doubt some people here(the casual players) would understand why but for certain moves since there were bosses and huger characters in MKA, there was good reason for Cyrax's net, Sonya's leg grab and a few others. Pretty much both were the reasons, A. certain moves were complicated to fit in there and B. Not enough time.

Well, I think there are a lot of fans out there that complain way too much about trivial stuff pertaining to MKA...as a high level player and obsessed fan myself, I don't care that much about more trivial things that a lot of people on here complained about, but do feel that some of the moves left out meant nothing. In fact, Sonya did have her wave punch back...Cyrax was easily the most screwed out of classic characters not having key moves. His net you have to realize made him not only good to play with but one of his trademark moves, Sonya had her wave punch, fireball and kiss stun which are more then enough...and like I said earlier, Midway gives the MK team a timeframe which I don't like but they need to let MK team work as long as it takes, even if it's a year extra I wouldn't mind.

As for scorp convo, I was addressing QS(the bitch) who originally brought up Scorpion.

I want Sonya to look like a woman. An attractive but appropriately attired woman. That is ALL I ask.

The model constructed for MKDA not only looked like a shemale, but one that had been abusing crack in a bush for three weeks.

Sonya isn't played out but she has alot on her plate. She has to hunt all the black dragon members, the red dragon and the tekunin. I really don't care if she's in or not. I mean she's too human, I know boon said the MK characters are going to be elevated in power so they can compete with the DC heroes, but Idk. I can imagin Liu, Kung Lao and even Cage competeing with them, But Sonya? Her and her guns? Too police like they won't affect the heroes.

Exhibit A.

Lmao!!!

I know they screwed Sonya over look-wise, in MK:DA more than any other (thankfully MK:A had softer graphics and that helped), but at least she wasn't the only one. Like I said, practically every character looked mannish. For the guys that's fine, but for the girls...

I mean, MKDA Kitana looks like Courtney Love's hotter sister...

The girls, for some reason, looked chubby with manly shoulders and pecs instead of breasts.

Look at Nitara: http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/games/mkda/nitara/bio.gif

If a bitch with this body was the last one on Earth and I hadn't had sex for 10 years, I'd turn to beastiality.

And I could say pretty much all this same stuff over and over as I go through the roster. Frost was pretty much the most womanly woman, I think, and that's because only, like, 10% of her was showing, and that 10% was covered in blue aura.

There's just no comparison between the way Sonya looked in MKDA and how she looks in the earlier games and even MKSM, for that matter. I don't think we'll have to worry about this anymore, personally.




You're seriously putting Cage in a higher pedestal than Sonya? Sonya's isn't about "guns" or "police" or anything, just because she's part of an organization of defense doesn't automatically make her a cop. Jax is the one who relies on the guns and gadgets, anyhow.

And c'mon, it's just ridiculous for you to think that any of the MK characters chosen to be in the next game aren't gonna be able to take on the DC characters. I can understand people being stronger than others when we get a tier list, but story-wise? That's just stupid. The two sides, MK and DC, are gonna match each other regardless of what characters are on which side -_-

All the characters have "magic" power. By putting magic in quotes I mean that the sorcerers have "real" magic and the martial artists have chi (faa jing in MKDA). Also, Sonya is able to toss pink energy rings (which I'm 99% certain is a non-technology based attack). Also, able to leap high into the air to perform her version of the bicycle kick. The only real nonsensical one is Stryker, as no explanation within the game's internal logic would fit him. There's no way a fat cop would possess the power to fight specters and shit. That's what makes him so terrible a character.

All the MK characters have Superhuman strength compared to real people. Most video game fighting characters do. Sonya could easily match DC characters as much as any other MK character. That and you could kill Batman with a gun (In theory).

This is how Johnny Cage would like Sonya to look:

You forgot to mention Meat-Blaze...

No, I didn't. How would Meat-Blaze (greatest character in the history of the MK universe) be relevant to this discussion?

Silly Mick.

Incidentally, Sonya did take her revenge.

Oh, there's criteria?...

I don't think it's necessary for Sonya's abilities to be more tech-based. Most of the mortals have superhuman abilities, so it makes perfect sense for Sonya to shoot energy rings, fire, and fly while kicking.

I don't like the idea of her being too restricted by her military theme. That'll just make her boring.

Yeah, when they made Jax's abilities more military-based, people threw a shitfit. So yeah, it'd be a bad idea to do that to Sonya.

Boring, or give her a stronger sense of identity?
She seems to be hovering around the chopping block because she's neither here, nor there. She isn't ever going to be the chi fighting martial arts hero other characters are, but the commitment to the Special Forces idea has be usurped by Jax, particularly post-MKSF.

I'd lean toward improving her fighting skills and looking there for over-the-top special moves, with maybe some conventional Special Forces issue weaponry -- but giving the ring energy some sort of technological grounding seems like having cake and eating too.

You get her over the top move, but you also get a strong sense of grounding for the character to take ownership of. Something to flesh the character out, instead of letting her hover around to make-up gender equality numbers.
From there it's a hop, skip, and jump to people finally taking another Special Forces game seriously. Something that could easily spin-off into it's own Sonya/Jax centric franchise, while maintaining ties with the core MK series.

EDIT: It's worth mentioning I'm talking more about refining what's already there and paying a bit more attention -- as opposed to exclusively referencing reality. I'd be looking for something more stylized than ThePredator151.


Really? I think I've only ever come across the opposite.
Outcry over the whole ghetto aspect, that is, working in stark contrast to the military Jax. An opinion I can certainly appreciate.

I agree with this to a certain extent. I liked how her MKDA and MKSM costumes were trying to go for more a military touch, but I hated the face design and belly button in her MKSM look. I also liked Sonya's MK4 look, and it would be great to have Kerri Hoskins' look as the model for Sonya's design.

Owwee, sexuality

I totally hated her MKDA and MKA and I totally agree that she looked like a fat dyke. Sonya shouldn't be so buff and her boobs don't have to be that big.

Hair: I want her LONG blonde pony tail back with her bangs. (Like Chantal from Americas Next Top Model: Cycle 9) haha..none of you probably watch that show huh? lol

Her face: Please tone it down, she needs to be softer and more gentle. Yea, she can have that bitchy face on, but it doesn't have to look ugly. OH! And don't match her eye shadow with her outfit! (its so tacky...they did that with Kitana in MK: Shaolin Monks and it bugged me a lot!)

Body: Don't make her fat or buff. She needs that same body she had back in MK4. That was the perfect size.

Costume: Darker colors...no jackets, no vest, non of that stuff. We need her to show her curves.

It would be best if she were naked but that's not going to happen lol. Perhaps Thong sonya, hey you know she wears one

I like pretty much everything EdenianNinja came up with in her post. Nice one.

And I also think they should include something like Tekken 5-onward has: the customization feature, where you can change up/replace/add different parts of a character's costume to make new ones and make more unique outifts depending on the character's personality. I mostly play as Nina in Tekken, and she has the expected stuff to match her assassin persona; things like guns, whips, pistols, katanas, etc. But then when you have her in her alternate, you can give her a sexy nurse outfit, or leave it as a short little pink dress. This would also be great in giving Sonya a bunch of options that'll have her stick to the military look, and still give US the option of changing her up and making her look more casual/even more feminine.

P.S.: More sprites, lol.

I like her bomber jacket and leather gloves costume in MKDA, it's just the model I don't like. A full on camo jacket and trousers would be awesome if she cam back though.