Yup. That outfit is pretty terrible which is a shame because it'd be a 7/10 if the heels were taken out and a white top was under the boob window. At least her alternate isn't as stupid.

Hope for MK10 female outfits to be better that's all I can tell ya.

It just seems so retro to have female characters dressed like that. You could argue that it is the Outworld fashion but it is a touch OTT. Mileena makes sense she tries to detract from her face, Sheeva makes sense since the males only wear trunks so it could be Shokan culture to show off their warrior bodies. Kitana, Jade and Sonya don't make much sense. For a start Kitana is a princess and a ninja her outfit should be elaborate but combat worthy, Jade should be far more ninja like, all practical no real flare and Sonya should be dressed like she's about to take on an army...solo.

I'm not deluded fighting games dress females like all males need to see flesh on a female or just ignore her. I actually think MK does a very good job of creating females who aren't just side shows, they are often crucial to the main story. I praise MK for providing these characters but maybe they should bend the rules and put some clothes on them.

I agree except I don't think the game is all about the males, I think it's about a few select characters, especially with the importance of female characters like Sindel, not just for their individual story lines, but for the actual big picture.
i think most of the female characters fall near the middle (ahead of the useless characters like Reptile and Baraka). At least, that's what I thought ignoring their presentation in this game.

But the way they've been dressed might be starting to change my mind. Sonya is the worse for me too, but I just can't accept that Kitana, Jade, and Mileena too, just dressing in "outworld fashion". Especially when you've got male characters dressed completely different, sometimes clothed head to toe (i.e, ermac). The only one I can kind of accept Sheeva's, even though it's gross, because the male characters of her race are almost naked too.

I could rant all day on these costumes, especially Sonya's. I guess I hope they just don't go this route in the next game. The male characters got good designs in this game (with a few exceptions). Hopefully the female characters will get good designs too. And fix those god awful models. I'm just glad we got some decent retro costumes for the female assassins.

The female characters should be treated as seriously as the male characters and not dolled out in increasingly fetishized outfits just because they're female characters which is pretty much what happened in the last game. I hope the next game approaches their designs in relation to their personalities rather than their jugs.

No-one can do much to change it now, but yes, the heels needn't be spiked and there needs to be a vest top under her jacket.

I've worked with actual hookers who wear more then the MK females.

Mods can, when the PC version comes out!

That's because it's almost physically impossible to keep those clothes where they're supposed to be unless you glue it onto your body. If a hooker tried to wear those things in real life then a tiny movement of the fabric would result in a wardrobe malfunction.

I just say thank god for the classic costumes, and hopefully PC mods will fix this.

I liked the female's outfits............

Kitana - Cool
Jade - Excellent
Sonya Blade - Cool
Sindel - Cool
Sheeva - Okay
Skarlet - Cool
Mileena - Cool

Eh, I would think the point isn't that the women don't have cool enough designs, Jade does look great from a purely aesthetic perspective. It's that the female characters aren't designed with the intention of creating a memorable or compelling character.

They're designed to be sexy at all costs. I don't disapprove of certain characters like Mileena flaunting their bodies because it makes absolute sense for a histrionic, hideously disfigured little girl in a woman's body to flaunt her one good attribute to an unhealthy extent. I actually most strongly disagree with Sheeva's current portrayal, despite the men of her race wearing almost no clothes. The reason being that Sheeva originated as a scary looking woman with a mohawk and a muscular chest. In the 3d era she looked more like some kind of war goddess, an intimidating design (despite nipple emphasis). Come 2011 she has an enormous ass complete with thong and big ol' jiggly tits... Not to mention that the bottom of her v-kini exposes an area that would be considered at least partial genital exposure by any rating system. When Goro's would-be bush is exposed too, I'll call it a racial characteristic. As it stands it's just an attempt to make a mold-breaking female character (and thus an unpopular one) fit the sexualized expectations better... Funnily enough, at the same time as sexualizing Sheeva, they've also written her as some kind of intellectually challenged idiot AND reduced what little importance she had to the story... She's been Mileena'd. That's a low blow.

I agree with this so much; anything I could add has already been said; I just wanted to indicate that your complaint is far from stupid and I especially agree with Sonya. They messed up with her so bad - and they'd been doing really well with her, too, which was a disappointment.

As much as I would like to see some decency with the female characters, it's probably never gonna happen. Which is a shame because there's no way that nearly half of what the females wear in this game could possibly stay on during the whole duration of the fights

And I actually make fun of women's appearances in this game (Mainly Mileena) in this video I made for my psychology class: Clicky!

The video just cuts off before the end and the music in the background is too loud ergo distracting, but i liked it overall, especially the examples you chose. I would have liked to have seen more, though.

I can see the designs of the females becoming an issue with women who play MK. Especially Sonya, she's supposed to be the femme equivalent of Chuck Norris and her design doesn't serve her overall character. So yes, I agree with everyone else. They should've put her in combat boots, and put a low cut wifebeater under her tank top. With her current design, it's hard to believe she's military.

But Kitana, Jade and Mileena on the other hand...have a sexy license, though it would be cool to see more conservative alt. costumes for the first 2 listed.