LOL they are not HUMANS ... and I dont know its just a different destincition of the different karacters in the game

Baraka and Mileena have been around since 1994 and you bring this up now, 17 years later.

Did it took so long for you to notice?

mileena isnt so bad, but watching baraka's tongue flap around like a fish on a dock while he's talking is extreamly fun to watch :D

What an incredibly timely and astute observation.

I don't know what to say.

Would HERP DE DERP DERP DERP have been it?

Why do we let Asesino make threads?

He can talk because..... it's a game -_-

You know, troll or not, he's right. Mileena should not be able to speak clear English with that jaw size. She's not even capable of closing her mouth, which is necessary for a lot consonants. Baraka doesn't bother me so much, because frankly, he doesn't have much business talking anyway.

The solution would have been to design a different skull for Mileena: one that has the fangs of a tarkatan but without the pac-man sized jawline. Honestly, they should have been doing this immediately when they got into the 3D era.

Did anyone else enjoy the "That is no toy!" bit? Fuck the arm blades, I totally wanna see Tarkatans with shotguns now. lol

Maybe they have something in their vocal cords that make noises that lips would.

That was the most logical explanation for me.
They may be like humans, but they are still not.

Baraka rocks. 'Nuff said.

QFT.

Wow your right! Such bullshit! Did you notice that Sub-Zero can shoot ice from his hands?? Wtf is that shit! And you can see his breathe even tho its not cold outside?? Such bullshit. Fuck NRS and MK.

/sarcasm

Let's just say they have a voice box within their bodies that projects advanced sounds that are able to be made with lips, tongues, etc.....but those tools to make that sound are located inside their body instead of their mouth.

Wouldn't be the strangest thing you've been forced to accept in this series.

Who gives any shits how the dude with huge blades coming out his arms talks

We have characters that shoot fireballs, fly, teleport and you wonder how Mileena and Baraka can talk with their teeth?? uummm...ok

OMG at all the fucking trolls here.Get a life or sense of humour and don't try to act sarcastic if you are dumb like shit.

Kudos to Temp and the few others with reasonable posts.

Lol what did you think was ganna happpen if you made a thread like this?

Really, as inconsequential as it might be to all of you, he has a damn point. I could understand that the tarkatans have "internal" lips and tongues to produce sounds, if they weren't moving their actual mouth and tongue when they were speaking. NRS is obviously trying to show them speaking with THIS mouth, and like with so many other graphics related things, failing spectacularly. It looks STUPID, and is really a huge f***ing embarrassment to an otherwise (mostly) great story mode.

Try this: bare your teeth with your lips pulled way back and try to say "playmate." YOU F***ING CAN'T. Guess what, neither can Mileena. The best she would be able to mutter would be "lay-ate"

For the smartass who says we're just noticing this now: Mileena and Baraka never spoke in cutscenes in MK2, because there WERE NO cutscenes. IDK what they did in later games, because I pretty much dumped the series for SC after MK3. I don't think it's ever been this glaringly obvious though that they're speaking sounds that they shouldn't possibly be able to produce.

What they SHOULD have done is to give Mileena a mouth like she has in MK: Legacy, which only splits open when she's enraged or something, but otherwise has normal lips. Baraka could stay the same, but he should just not speak. He should growl or grunt like Reptile. Either that, or if you want to run with the "internal" vocalizations, don't show them chomping their jaws and flopping their tongue when they speak. Instead, they could extend their jaw forward (or something) to emphasize their speaking from their throat. I really love how Legacy did it though. It's perfect.

Why are we trying to insert real world logic into an interdimensional fictional fighting tournament with spectres, Sorcerers, Centaurs, etc?