As long as Jade and Sonya are there then I'm ok. I wish Tanya was on the original roster though!

I rarely play as female characters, except maybe Sonya and Jade

so personnally I don't really care if they are no more females

fighting is a man world!

This has always been so in MK.

I'd love it if MK were more like the X-Men where there's plently of females who are not only given attention but come with well thought out designs and personalities.

However, as long as 2 or 3 cool females are present, I'm happy. I have always been more concerned with quality than quantity, and since I've got the 3 ninjas, Sindel, and Sonya, I'm happy.

If more were to appear, I'd welcome Frost, Nitara, or Kira.

4:1 is a good ratio. I usually don't play with female characters, so I'd be a bit disappointed if it was closer to half and half. Besides, do you really want 5 more high heel wearing uninspired designed females in the game? If they got a little more creative I wouldn't mind so much.

First off, Welcome To MKO.

Second, the overall ratio of men to women within the MK franchise is 7:2, so regardless of who's in, the women are going to be greatly outnumbered.

Indeed, there aren't many female characters in MK, but you know me, as long Jade is in I'm happy. ^^

Well who else would they add? Its just like the original MK games as well

Its not just MK, most fighting games have a lot more males to females. Admittedly MK is quite bad, SF too. SSFIV has 8 girls out of 35.

Mind you:

Sub Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Ermac, Rain, Noob Saibot, Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, Chameleon, Tremor.

Thats 11 guys. 11 male palette swap ninjas.

Sonya, Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Sindel, Sheeva, Khameleon, Tanya, Frost, Li Mei, Nitara, Ashrah, Kira, Sareena

That is the entire female playable roster in MK Armageddon. That is 14 ladies.

Girls outnumber ninjas by 3.

Yes Tremor isn't in MK Armageddon. But given another half a year he would have been. I mean Christ they put in Ninja Reptile to sedate the fans.

So yeah think about that next time you want Tremor in a game. Give him some tits.

As for girls I wouldn't mind appearing as full characters in this game: Sareena, Sheeva, Skarlett, Tanya, Frost and Kira

Sareena needs one shot at least, Sheeva needs a second chance, Skarlett could be fun, Tanya was great in Deception, I like Frost and Kira and I think they could fit in nicely in this aesthetic. Give them a tarted up bio and new specials and jobs a good un.

Plus maybe a Kia and Jatakka hidden endurance fight?

This is probably the only reason Sheeva will make the cut if she does. I know everyone's talking real confident like she's this given or something: she's not. There is still a viable chance Sheeva gets kicked to the curb.

Thats just the state of things in Mortal Kombat land. But the original 6 are bound to be in MK9 so I am perfectly happy with the female cast. Couldnt ask for another one.

All I really need is Sonya,although other females are adored in different ways for me.

It's only reasonable that there are more men than women in fighting games. I'm sure more men play fighting games than women, and more men would enter a gory, murderous fighting tournament.

If they piled female characters into the game, to 1:1, then that would be a lot of male characters getting left out just to fill a gender gap. That makes no sense. Lets look at the men who are likely to be in this game.

Sub-Zero
Scorpion
Liu Kang
Johnny Cage
Kung Lao
Nightwolf
Jax
Cyrax
Sektor
Smoke
Kano
Shang tsung
Quan chi
Stryker
Kabal
Ermac
Rain
Noob Saibot
Reptile
Baraka
Raiden

Now I'll take out the 6 characters to make room for a 1:1 roster(Lets assume 28 character roster).

Sub-Zero
Scorpion
Liu Kang
Johnny Cage
Kung Lao
Jax
Cyrax
Smoke
Kano
Shang tsung
Quan chi
Ermac
Reptile
Raiden

There, just made room for all the female characters the game was lacking I just had to kick out Nightwolf, Sektor, Stryker, Kabal, Rain, Noob Saibot and Baraka. As long as everyone is cool pretending those characters never existed and NRS doesn't mind designing 7 female characters and we don't mind waiting until Dec 2011 to actually get the game I think we can solve this problem.

ZOMG we should start a petition!

1:1 male to female ratio wold be OTT (not even DOA does that!) but I mean a little bit of balancing wouldn't be so harsh would it?

I don't understand the topic? Sonya is in the game. She is so much woman that technically, females outnumber the males 4:1.

Please close thread.

Not going to argue with you, but I'd like to see you get the MK community to agree to it. It's not like they can just cancel the release date, and waste a whole ton of money to stuff female characters into the game. If this was really something that people wanted they probably should've spoke up before the roster was finalized, not 2-3 months before the game is due to hit the shelves.

And even if they had decided to make the kast more female based, that would've meant leaving out several Male characters and quite frankly If any male characters get left out for the likes of Tanya, Frost, and Kira, I'd pretty much write NRS off as a joke of a gaming company. Add more females in future titles, fine, I'm cool with that. Leaving out MK1-3 kast just to fill some gender gap is ludicrous. Also to note, as everyone keeps pointing out 10 years passed from MK1-MKDA so Kira and Frost would maybe be in their early teens. It would make no sense to have them in this game.

Except for the fact that she looks like a bloke in MKvsDC

I assumed that she accounted for the 4 in the original thread title.

i believe its because of one thing, 99% of us would rather beat the hell out of a guy than a girl,

Sheeva needs in the game for the sake of Shokans, not just women. Plus she rocks.

In a fighting game it makes sense to have less women than en as there are less combative women IRL than combative men. However, this is fantasy so really no rules apply. I would prefer the women to be badass though(like Sheeva), and not lame(others).

I could pull the realism card, that most girls aren't usually attracted to deathmatches, but realism and MK don't exactly go hand in hand.

It most likely goes back to the fact that Midway wanted Ed and co. to include a sexy female. This sort of thinking dominates the industry. (and America, and most of the world?)

Also, MK is largely a game about warring realms. Women haven't historically waged war in such a way. Most war is waged by rulers and conquerors of a male sort. I think that idea is at play in MK. I think it's just how our society thinks, men do things like participate in deathmatches. lol

Well, I must say, Soul Calibur has a large assessment of women, and this doesn't include all the bonus female characters.

To date, there are 11 playable female characters within the Soul Calibur franchise. There are an additional 10 bonus female characters within the franchise. Together, that makes 21. That's a lot of chicks.

There are 22 playable male characters within the franchise, with an additional 8 bonus male characters. Together, that makes 30.

The ratio of male to female for playable characters is 2:1.

The ratio of male to female for all characters is roughly 5:3.

I can't name a single female character that isn't a great fighter in the franchise. They all have devoted fans, even the bonus characters.

And when it comes to fighting games, I'd much rather fight a woman than a man, because for me they make better opponents.

In a sense, the small number of females in fighting games like this is what adds to their cool factor. They become more unique, more attention-grabbing, at least IMO. You wonder what makes these girls so damn special that they can rock out with all these guys and monsters and still whoop dat ass.

More transsexuals.

Sindel could be a tranny. Her hair is pretty huge.