The Female Outfits ♀︎ of “Mortal Kombat 🐉”
Foreword:
This was originally written on Monday July 11, 2022 and posted on DeviantART on Wednesday July 20, 2022. This was originally going to be my first Mortal Kombat 🐉 post on this blog since I posted my Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match 🐉🥊 review, but after the first trailer to Mortal Kombat II 🐉 (2025) dropped, I decided to write about that instead and make that first Mortal Kombat 🐉 post since my Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match 🐉🥊 review. Then after that I decided to repost my Army of the Dead 🧟♂️🎰 review since I had been putting that one off for a while, and that ended up being my last post for July. After that, I posted my Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game review on Sunday August 3, 2025, making it my first post for August, and it is my most recent post at the time of me writing this.
This will be my second post for August, I still haven’t decided what I should make my third post on. I haven’t started watching Lilo & Stitch: The Series yet, so I can’t review that. Maybe if I manage this before nighttime I can start watching it. I like to take my time with these shows, I don’t like to just endlessly binge watch it all in one sitting. I’ll usually like to space out my viewings over weeks or even months, maybe watch one or two or three episodes a night and then call it a night, shut off my PS4 and my TV and go back on my computer 💻 until it’s time for me to go to bed 🛏️. I’m a bit of a night owl 🦉, and I go to bed 🛏️ pretty late, like around 1:00am or 1:20am, 1:30am, or even 1:40 or 1:50am. No later than 2:00am, or at least I try to. That’s what I did with The Ghost and Molly McGee, and it worked out pretty well for me. I managed to watch the show in its entirety without it feeling like work or homework to me, which is a problem I ran into while watching the walkthrough of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius on YouTube; the PC game that is, not the console game which many people consider to be inferior. It was hard for me to finish because it felt like work.
It didn’t feel like I was watching it for fun, it feel like I was watching it because I had to, because I had to review for it for the blog. I couldn’t just watch it passive or have it playing in the background while I do other stuff, I had to actually pay attention and make sure I caught everything or as much as I could so that my review would be thorough and accurate. And even then, it wasn’t perfect because there was still some stuff I missed or got wrong and I had to go back and edit my review. That’s a problem I run into with a lot of my reviews. But, by watching Lilo & Stitch: The Series in this way, as something leisurely to do when I get bored of being on my computer 💻 for extended periods of time (like several hours), it won’t feel like work to me, and it’ll be a more enjoyable experience.
I’m hoping that I can do the same with Nobody when I’ll inevitably have to watch that movie so that I can watch Nobody 2. Which reminds me, I was talking about in my previous post (the review of the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game) that there weren’t any new movies coming out in August that I was interested in watching except for Primitive War, the rated R dinosaur movie 🦖🦕 set in the Vietnam War 🇻🇳 (and made primarily by Australians 🇦🇺; it is an Australian movie 🇦🇺 even though the book 📖 it’s based on was written by an American 🇺🇸). Well, it turns out that I was wrong because while I was at the casino 🎰, getting dinner at the grill, I happened to look at one of the TVs and it was playing a TV spot for Nobody 2, the sequel to the 2021 action film, Nobody, and I saw the release date, August 15, 2025. I was shocked and surprised 😱, I couldn’t believe that I forgot that movie was coming out this month. It had been so long since I watched the first trailer.
But yeah, Nobody 2’s another movie I have to look forward to in the month of August this year. Primitive War isn’t the only one, and I’m glad because there is a chance (albeit slim) that I may actually get to see Nobody 2 in theaters, especially if my grandma likes Nobody 1, which I’m sure she will. It seems like the kind of movie that she would like, it’s right up her alley. There was almost no chance that I was going to be able to see Primitive War in theaters since it’s not a movie my grandma would be interested in, and it wouldn’t really be worth it to go see a movie in theaters all by myself given how expensive it is to go. It’s even more expensive for us since we live out of town, live in the Pueblo of Acoma (not the actual village on top, but on the reservation, in the housing area down below), and it’s almost an hour drive and that takes gas money ⛽️💵, and we’re trying to stretch our dollar 💵 as much as possible. We have plans on going to Santa Fe on Saturday August 16, 2025, the day after Nobody 2 comes out.
My aunt is selling her pottery at the annual Indian Market in Santa Fe next Saturday, and we want to go up there to support her and actually look and hang out around the venue where the Indian Market is being held, which is usually the La Fonda hotel 🏨 . We want to save our money 💵 for that considering that my grandma’s payday is on Wednesday of that week, she gets her Social Security money 💵 that day, so we probably won’t be able to go see a movie. Unless my aunt gives us some of her money 💵 that she earns after selling at the Indian Market. She usually tends to do that since she’s so generous. If that happens, then maybe I can watch Nobody together with my grandma, and if she likes it, then we can go out and see Nobody 2. I’m hoping that happens so I won’t have to wait to watch Nobody 2 when it’s out on digital, like I probably will have to do with Jurassic World Rebirth.
The movie was just released on digital recently, earlier this week, and movie reaction channels on YouTube are already doing reactions to it. It is still in theaters though, despite being available on digital, but I don’t know for how much longer. I probably won’t be able to catch it before it’s out of the goddamn theater. I miss the days when movies used to stay in theaters for at least 2 months, 3 months at most. Back in the day, in the 2000s and 2010s, movies used to be in theaters for 4 or 5 months. In decades before that like the 1990s and 1980s, movies used to stay in theaters for almost an entire year. Nowadays, movies only stay in theaters for a month, or even just a few weeks, and then they’re immediately put on digital and later, physical media (DVD 📀, Blu-Ray 💿, and 4K 💿). By the time my family and I actually have the money 💵 to go see a movie in theaters, the movie we actually wanted to see in theaters is already out on digital or on physical media. This has already happened to us a few times this year alone. It happened to us with A Working Man ♂︎, that Jason Statham action movie directed by David Ayer (yes, that David Ayer). We wanted to see that in theaters, but we never got the chance to and we ended up watching on Fandango at Home, on my aunt’s account. I reviewed that movie also, if you’re interested. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen to me with Nobody 2 because I would really like to see that movie in theaters.
Since I also mentioned it in my last post, I guess I should give a short update on the box office performances of both The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Superman (2025). It turns out The Fantastic Four: First Steps didn’t perform as well as I initially thought, or haters of Superman (2025) were hoping it would do. The movie did okay at first, pulling in about $257 million 💵 in its opening weekend, but in its second weekend, it had a massive drop of 80%. So, it’s performing about as well as Thunderbolts* did, which also did well initially before massively dropping off in its second and third weekends; making only $382.4 million 💵 worldwide. Since then, it has only managed to pull in $385 million 💵 worldwide, which is way below Superman (2025)’s worldwide gross which is currently at $566 million 💵 (which is honestly not much higher than when I last checked 😒). Meaning that Superman (2025) outgrossed The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and for now at least, in this little contest, DC won this round.
But, despite The Fantastic Four: First Steps performing way below expectations, it still managed to become the highest grossing Fantastic Four movie ever made so far. It made more money 💵 than the two Tim Story Fantastic Four movies and it made more money 💵 than the 2015 Fantastic Four movie, which many people to this day still call Fant4stic because of the funky way they decided to spell it in the initial teaser trailer. Which kind of tells you how little money 💵 in comparison the other three Fantastic Four movies before this one made; not counting the Roger Corman one since that one was unreleased. And apparently Marvel considered that enough of a success that they greenlit a sequel, even though it’s only been in theaters for a few weeks. But, the fact that Superman (2025) has only made $566 million 💵 against a $225 million budget 💵, and that’s somehow considered a win shows how much superhero movies have fallen off in the past few years.
The way it used to be, before 2020, is that a superhero movie was considered a success if it grossed $1 billion 💵 at least. Batman v Superman grossed $874.4 million 💵 against a massive $250 million-$325 million budget 💵, and that was considered a disappointment by DC. So much so that they removed Zack Snyder from Justice League and put in Joss Whedon…to disastrous results 😬. And yet, this new Superman movie barely even makes $566 million 💵, and DC and all these James Gunn fans and other people simping for this movie consider that a win. The live action Lilo & Stitch remake made $1 billion 💵 in less than that time. I mean, I don’t like that movie, I haven’t seen it, I have no intention of seeing it, and I don’t support its existence at all, but it still managed to make more money 💵 than both Superman (2025) and The Fantastic Four: First Steps in about the same amount of time that both of them have been in theaters.
That goes to show that, where comic book fans, MCU fans, and now DCU/James Gunn fans want to admit it or not, there is a declining interest in superhero movies amongst the general population. We now have concrete proof that general audiences are losing interest in superhero movies, and aren’t willing to rush out and see a new one when it comes out, even when one stars the most iconic superhero character of all time and the other stars the most iconic superhero team of all time. The Man of Steel and Marvel’s First Family. And that’s despite both of them having incredible word of mouth, these are two best reviewed movies that DC and Marvel have put out in years, years! And they still couldn’t reach a billion. Instead they have to settle with half a billion and a quarter of a billion; I apologize if my math is a bit off there, I am not that good at math, just the basic stuff.
I know I’ve lost interest in superhero movies, to the point where I had no interest in seeing either of these two movies, and I haven’t. I’m not invested in either of these two cinematic universes (or multiverses since they’re both multiverses now 😒), and I’m not invested in the entire of the discourse surrounding these movies, the bickering back and forth between Snyder fans and Gunn fans, DC fans and Marvel fans. It’s all stupid, it’s all ridiculous, and I have no time for that. I have better things to do, more productive things I could spending my time doing. This new Superman movie could still theoretically reach $600 million 💵, and either make as much as Man of Steel or even more than Man of Steel, which made $670.1 million 💵 against a $225 million-$258 million budget 💵. But, we’ll see 🤷♂️.
BTW, since I mentioned The Ghost and Molly McGee earlier, I made some edits and changes to that review that I think you will like if you already read that review. If haven’t read that review (which is probably most of you reading this if you’re reading it at all), then you won’t notice the changes since it’s your first time reading it and you don’t know what it was like before. I mostly just fixed some grammatical errors and added a few touches that I felt like the review was missing before, and I added a few new lines here and there where I deemed it necessary. If you’ve read that review before, you’ll know what’s different and what’s the same. If you’re someone who hasn’t read that review, and you’re reading it for the first time, just enjoy the fact that you’re reading a better version of that review that the people who read that review initially I posted back in October 2024 did. Also, bear in mind, I did write that review during the 2024 Election 🗳️, and I was fully convinced that Kamala Harris was going to win. So, please forgive the more political bits of that review and my wrong assumption that Kamala Harris was going win. If she had indeed won, we’d all know it and we’d in a much different reality now. We’d be living in a much better world than the one we’re currently living in now 😞.
Chief of War is another show that I’m interested in watching (and reviewing), and that is out now I think since it was set to premiere some time this month, and they’ve been posting clips from it and posting these behind-the-scenes making of featurettes for it on the official Apple TV+ channel on YouTube. Jason Momoa and the other cast are being interviewed about by numerous entertainment channels on YouTube, and appearing on talk shows and such. So, the hype for this show is in full swing. Maybe I could check it out using the method I laid before, and I may actually be able to finish this one sooner since it’s a one season series right now and is really more of a limited miniseries since it seems like it’s only going to have 9 or 10 episodes at most. Though, Momoa and co-creator Thomas Pa‘a Sibbett hinted at there possibly being a second and third season and that they get greenlit by September. I’m guessing they’re waiting to see if the show is successful enough then Apple will greenlight two more seasons, but if not then I guess they’ll stick to just one season and keep it as a limited miniseries.
I don’t even know how they’ll even have two more seasons after this. I mean, it’s about the unification of Hawai‘i, and a war chief (ali‘i)’s rebellion against that unification. What more could they do after that, since that was the story they intended to tell? Unless they have this season end on a cliffhanger and then stretch this story out to Season 3, which I hope they don’t do because I hate it when streaming shows do that. I hate when they end their first season on a cliffhanger and then stretch their storyline out for multiple seasons, even if there isn’t that much material to cover three seasons. I mean, streaming shows (most of them anyway) are pretty much like elongated movies rather than actual TV shows, so if you stretch them out too thinly, then it’ll feel like you’re just doing this for the sake of having more seasons, and making more money 🤑. And I certainly don’t want to accuse Momoa or Sibbett of just doing this for the money 💵 since this is clearly a passion project for them and they poured their heart and soul into it. Not their actual soul since souls don’t actually exist, I’m just talking poetically or figuratively.
But, I do think there is a chance this show could get a second and third season since people seem to be liking it so far based on the three episodes they’ve put out so far 👍. It currently has a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 (not that I put much stake in that website), and it has received nothing but positive reviews so far, with many of them considering this to be the best thing that Jason Momoa has ever been involved in so far. That’s pretty reassuring, it makes me want to watch it. But, I’m not sure if I should prioritize this show, that’s still ongoing and not even finished yet, or prioritize Lilo & Stitch: The Series, a show that is actually finished, already had its two seasons, and is also about Hawaiian culture, at least in part.
I almost forgot to mention that Season 2 of Wednesday is premiering this month, if it hasn’t already, or at least the first half of it is 🙄. They’re doing that thing that annoys me that Netflix in particular does where they split a season into two parts, just stretch things out as much as possible and make people think that they’re watching multiple seasons when really they’re just watching one ☝️. They did this most infamously with Squid Game 🦑, they split the second season into two parts, and then marketed the second half of Season 2 as if it was Season 3, even though it wasn’t. It still just Season 2. We’ll see if Wednesday goes as far as that and titles the second half of Season 2 as if it’s a third season when it’s not, it’s just Season 2 Part 2.
Not I’ll even be able to watch either half of Season 2 of Wednesday since as per usual 🙄, I don’t have access to Netflix because of their ridiculous password sharing restrictions; making it so that you can only watch Netflix unless you yourself have your own account. You can’t watch Netflix using someone else’s account anymore. My family and I were watching Netflix using my aunt’s account since she owns all of the streaming services because she has a lot of money 💵 🤑, she can afford it. But, we can’t do that anymore because Netflix cracked down on password sharing. So now, we can only watch Netflix every once in a while, and let us watch without that stupid Netflix Household page coming up asking us to confirm if this indeed the household that corresponds to this account.
If you read the post I wrote about the initial trailer and sneak preview they released for Season 2 of Wednesday, you’ll know that I’m not even that excited about it anyway. Season 2 looks very underwhelming in my estimation, and my opinion on the show overall has worsened since I originally saw Season 1 and I wrote my review. You could say I’ve kind of turned on Wednesday a little bit, and for that reason, I can’t get excited about Season 2. Especially since it appears as if they’ve doubled down on pretty much all of the issues that people had with the first season rather than correct them or remove them entirely, except for the romance/love triangle angle ❤️, they’ve done away with that. Except, I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re going to have Wednesday and Enid hook up by the end 🙄. Lovey-dovey romance shit ❤️ doesn’t count when it’s lesbians ⚢. It’s bad when it’s straight relationship stuff ⚤, but it’s not bad when it’s lesbian relationship stuff ⚢ because hey, they’re roommates! 😒 Can you tell this type of thing annoys the fuck out of me? At least, Steve Buscemi’s in it, he’s possibly the only thing that would make watching Season 2 actually worth it for me.
The thing that I’m interested in is seeing what the reaction to this season will be from people. Will people who liked the first like this one, with it largely seeming to be more of the same? Will people who hated the first season like this one or will they still hate it? Since again, it looks to be more of the same. It would be interesting if people who hated the first season end up liking this one, while the people who liked the first season end up hating it. That would be an interesting phenomenon to witness. I could see a scenario in which this season is way more divisive and not as universally loved as the first season, not the first season was that universally loved since it did have its detractors. But, for some reason, I like this new season may have more detractors than the first one did. It may have that second season crash or burnout just like The Last of Us did, where the second season isn’t as well received or well liked as the first season despite how anticipated it was. Some shows have third season burnout like The Mandalorian, people liked the first two seasons but hated Season 3, and the show kind of crashed and burned after that. I don’t know if they’re planning a fourth season for that show, but I do know that they’re planning a Mandalorian and Grogu movie. Maybe, that’s what their fourth season will be, like they just took all their ideas for Season 4 and put them into this one movie. We’ll see if it works out for them.
The one that I’m waiting for is Season 2 of Monarch, like when is Season 2 of Monarch? We’ve heard no news about that since it was announced, or at least I haven’t heard anything? Is it still coming out? Has the show been secretly canceled? I hope not because I like Monarch. I liked Season 1, I gave it a pretty positive review. I’d watch a second season of that show than Wednesday in all honesty. And that show has a lesbian main character ⚢, it has a budding lesbian romance ⚢❤️ that turn into a full-on lesbian couple ⚢, and it did way better than whatever the hell Wednesday’s gonna try and pull if they’re going in the direction that I think they’re going in with Wednesday and Enid’s relationship; becoming more than just friends. So, there! I do think that Season 2 is still coming because again, these streaming shows, they take their sweet ass time to put a new season out, long after the hype and momentum has died down, and they’re forced to try to generate new hype, build new momentum. And for the longest time, I started to doubt whether or not Season 2 of Wednesday was ever going to come out because it was taking so long. Well, now it’s here, and they’re splitting into two parts so that they can stretch it out and keep you engaged. So, anything is possible when it comes to streaming shows, and Monarch is no exception.
But, going back to this post for a moment, this was one of my more popular journals on DeviantART. It has 3,700 views, 8 comments (including my replies to those comments), was added to one person’s private collection, and was favorited by 3 people. That’s more than most of my journals got, though it’s still a far cry from my journals about Lauren Faust and her original ideas for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which is still my most popular journal on DeviantART, much to my dismay, given how much I’ve moved on from MLP: FIM and want to distance myself from it 😒. We’ll see if any of this success will translate over to this blog as well. I kind of doubt it since all of the journals that I’ve reposted on here haven’t gotten anywhere near the amount of views or traction that they did on DeviantART. Probably because Blogger is not as popular of a platform as it once was back in the 2000s and 2010s.
I probably couldn’t have picked a worst time to migrate platforms over to here. Even the people who follow me on DeviantART haven’t really checked out my blog. Like, Bry-Guy hasn’t read it because he has no interest. Most of them probably don’t even know that I even have a blog (Bry-Guy does, but that’s beside the point). The only real exception to this my review of Ruby Gloom, which started out as a journal on DeviantART and then I reposted it on here, and it is currently my most viewed post, currently sitting at 368 views. I won’t be surprised if it makes it to 400 views by the end of this year. I just looked back it and the video that I featured at the end of it, the so-called “original pilot” was deleted because the channel it was associated with was terminated. So, I’ll either have to remove it from the review entirely or I’ll have find it somewhere else, if someone uploaded it and then I can just add it to my review on the blog.
I don’t have much else to say about this post. I said pretty much everything that I wanted to say about this particular topic in the post itself, and I said everything that I wanted to say about the franchise as of late in my post about the trailer to Mortal Kombat II 🐉 (2025). I still stand by most of my opinions that I expressed in this posts. If I read it again, and notice anything that I don’t agree with, then I’ll come back and edit this and tell you about all the things I disagree with myself on now, that I’ve changed my opinions about. But so far, looking back on it, I do still stand by what I said in this post. So, I’m going to spend the rest of this foreword talking about the latest updates related to this blog or my content creation footprint 👣, as well as mention things I forgot to mention in my previous posts and didn’t feel going back and editing them in.
Speaking of videos, I uploaded my first video on YouTube. It’s not the first video I’ve ever uploaded to YouTube. I’ve said this before, but I have been on YouTube for a long time and have had multiple accounts and channels, with the previous one I had before this one that I’m using now, being the longest lasting one that I had, The Sci-Fi Dragon. It used to be called SciFiFreak398 (with the three numbers represented by birth date, December 3, 1998, 398), but then after I got into MLP, I changed the name to The Sci-Fi Dragon and even changed my avatar to a grey dragon with blue eyes, which I designed initially and then gave it to another artist named amandaam (who later closed their account and opened a new account called Bro-Chaan which they also since closed) draw it for me, and that’s the picture I used for my profile picture for my account. I did this in an attempt to shift my content to reviewing MLP, since I was inspired by another Brony YouTuber called Silver Quill 🪶, who used a griffon as his OC (the avatar in in which represents himself in his videos) instead of a pony, since griffons exist in the MLP world, at least in Friendship is Magic (also known as G4). Dragons also exist in the MLP world, Equestria, and I figured I’d use a dragon as my OC instead since I didn’t feel using a pony and Silver Quill proved that you could use other creatures besides ponies as your OC in your MLP videos.
Of course, this didn’t end up happening, I didn’t end up reviewing MLP, since around 2017 or 2018 (maybe even before that in 2016), I grew out of MLP, I stopped watching it entirely because I didn’t like the direction the show was going in, I didn’t like the story and character decisions they were making, and I haven’t looked back. I am now what people call an “ex-Brony,” someone who used to be a Brony but isn’t anymore. But, unlike other ex-Bronies out there, I am willing to acknowledge my Brony past instead of hiding it and pretending that I was never a fan of MLP in the first place. MLP isn’t even the only show that I grew out of and stopped watching, I stopped watching Regular Show, I stopped watching Adventure Time, and I stopped watching Rick and Morty, but MLP is the only one people make the biggest deal out of when they stop watching. To the point they have a term for it, ex-Bronies. With Regular Show it was different, since unlike those other shows, I have gone back and watched clips from that show from time-to-time, mostly from the seasons that I missed. The only clips from MLP I went back to watch was that clip compilation made by the YouTube channel, *sips tea* ☕️, featuring the character, Rarity. But, with Adventure Time and Rick and Morty, I really haven’t looked back, especially Rick and Morty, I can’t stand that show anymore. So, instead of review MLP episodes, I just ended making videos about other topics. I tried to keep it sci-fi since my channel name was still Sci-Fi Dragon, but it wasn’t always.
But, after I started this blog, I decided to delete that channel, and start a completely one, JeditheScribe AKA Jediah Sanchez, which is the same name as this blog pretty much. It was already a long time coming because I had already wanted to delete my channel after the January 6th Insurrection happened, and I wanted to disassociate with all of the YouTubers I had associated with before who had political opinions I no longer agreed with, and who I felt were just a bad influence on my life and were just a toxic presence. I just cut them all loose, and deleting my channel was part of since not only as I not really proud of my videos anymore, but I saw wanted to delete all of the comments I ever posted on any videos I ever saw because I expressed some opinions in this comments that I no longer agreed with. I said some times that I now regret. My political beliefs changed radically over the years, I went from being right-wing to be more of what I am now, which is more in the center, but I’m definitely more center-left than center-right. I would identify as a liberal, but even that doesn’t accurately describe what I am now. To be frank, I don’t like any of these political labels, so I don’t really use them.
I had originally planned on deleting my channel after I got a new desktop 🖥️ and/or laptop 💻, but since that still hasn’t happened yet, I decided to just do it after I created this blog, which was in late 2023. 2024 was the first full year I had this blog, and I managed to write over 109 posts during that time. It’s the year I wrote the bulk of my posts on here. And now I have posted my first new video on my current channel, and it’s even a new video really. It’s a reupload, and it’s not even mine. It’s a video compilation of a bunch of ADV Films promos and previews that recorded off of a VHS 📼 (an ADV Films release) from the year 1998. For those that don’t know, ADV Films was an anime distribution company that specialized in released dubbed anime in the North American market. The company no longer exists, as it went defunct in 2009, but they felt a lasting legacy on the anime industry, as they played a hand in increasing the popularity of anime in the West, and are still fondly remembered by anime fans who purchased their VHS and DVD releases 📼📀. The thing they’re most known for is their dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but that’s not the only anime they dubbed, far from it. And this video featured some of them. The channel that initially uploaded this video to YouTube, along with ADV Films ad promo compilations, got deleted and thus all those ADV Films promo videos disappeared.
But, I managed to save at least three of them, and so I took it upon myself to reupload all of them for everyone’s viewing pleasure, anyone who misses those videos and wonders what happened to them. This is why it’s always good to download videos, you never know if they’ll ever get deleted off of YouTube. If I didn’t download these videos and save them onto an external hard drive, we would completely miss out on these videos, these little pieces of anime history, and we’d all be the lesser for it. They would just be lost media. The first one I uploaded is the 1998 one, and that’s the one I have the most connection with because the first promo featured in that video is for Rail of the Star ☆, a World War II anime film that originally aired on TV in Japan 🇯🇵 and focused on the Japanese colonial period 🇯🇵 in Korea 🇰🇷 from before the war to after the war. All told from the perspective of a child, a little girl ♀︎ to be more specific; a Japanese little girl 🇯🇵♀︎ to be even more specific. In fact, before I even reloaded the video to YouTube, I posted it here on this blog in my Rail of the Star ☆ review, you can see now. You can watch the video on YouTube right now if you want, it only has 3 views right now, so give it some love. And if you’re someone reading this who did see that video and clicked on the links I provided to get here, welcome aboard. I hope you like what you see.
I will also reupload the other ADV Films promo videos I have in my collection, as well as the trailer to Ghost in the Shell 2.0, that digitally remastered and re-animated version of Ghost in the Shell (1995) that was initially sold exclusively at Best Buy (back when they used to actually sell movies and TV shows), which also completely disappeared from the Internet 🛜. Though like with the 1998 ADV Films promo video, I actually posted that trailer in a post here on this blog. You can see it for yourself. I don’t intend on becoming a full time YouTuber, I still want to mostly focus on my blog, but if I ever decide to upload any videos on my channel, I will. It’ll probably be to just promote my blog, get as many eyes on it as I can.
Now onto the stuff that I forgot to mention in my other posts, starting with Stephen Colbert’s show getting canceled. I meant to mention this in the foreword to my Army of the Dead 🧟♂️🎰 review, but it just slipped my mind. I was going through my To-Do List in my Notes app, and I realized I forgot to mention it. Paramount and CBS announced jointly that they would be canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, meaning Colbert’s last show will be in 2026. The show will air its final episode some time in May 2026. So, Stephen’s got some time left, but it’ll definitely go by fast, a little too fast if you ask me. This came after Paramount’s planned merger with Skydance was approved by the FCC and after they settled Trump’s bogus lawsuit out of court for $16 million 💵. That’s a shame because I really like Stephen Colbert. He’s one of my favorite late night talk show hosts. Paramount tried to excuse this by saying that their decision to cancel the show was purely a financial decision and it had nothing to do with politics and Colbert speaking out against Paramount’s decision to settle Trump’s lawsuit and pay him $16 million 💵.
But come on, it’s pretty obvious that this was politically motivated. No one was really buying this excuse from Paramount, except the most gullible and naïve among us. The fact that Paramount decided to do this really showed their cowardice in the face of such blatant authoritarianism and attacks on the media, and the attempt by the government to silence someone’s free speech, just because our petulant president couldn’t handle the fact that his opponent in the 2024 Election 🗳️, Kamala Harris was interviewed on 60 Minutes. Which is what his whole lawsuit was about, it was about the interview 60 Minutes did with Kamala Harris during the election 🗳️, he didn’t like how it was edited and claimed it was trying to make her look good and him look bad 🙄. You don’t need a documentary/interviewing show to make you look bad, Donald, you do that well enough on your own 😑.
The thing that I was happy about all this is that everyone pretty came to Colbert’s defense and sided with him over this. All of the late night talk show hosts stood by him and made cameo appearances in the episode that followed his abrupt cancellation announcement in the previous episode, and everyone who once overlooked Colbert or dismissed as just another “bad” late night talk show host, reevaluated him and saw that he was actually pretty cool. The show, South Park (which is also owned by Paramount) did an episode mocking Trump and CBS for their cowardice and then also did an episode recently mocking Kristi Noem and ICE over their illegal ICE raids, clearly showing their support and solidarity with Stephen Colbert, albeit very indirectly. And as many pointed out, this decision by Paramount also means that the gloves came off for Colbert, and is free to say whatever he wants now until May 2026, to speak his mind without worrying about pissing off the higher ups at Paramount or CBS since hey, his show’s getting canceled anyway. It’s similar to what Conan O’Brien did when his show was about to get canceled, he just went ham and said whatever was on his mind, after he been holding back for so long while working on the show, Conan for TBS.
I went on a whole diatribe about the Myanmar civil war 🇲🇲 when I was talking about the war between Cambodia 🇰🇭 and Thailand 🇹🇭 in the foreword to the Army of the Dead 🧟♂️🎰 review post, which is still going on at the time that I’m writing this, and I didn’t mention the fact the junta announced recently (last month) that they will be lifting the state of emergency that the country has been in since the coup in early 2021, and that they will be holding the first elections 🗳️ since 2021 in December 2025. To be fair, this announcement was made after I wrote the foreword to that post. But, if you know anything about the Myanmar civil war 🇲🇲, or Burmese politics 🇲🇲 as a whole, you’ll know why this is bullshit and why the junta cannot be trusted. These elections 🗳️ are not real, they’re fake sham elections 🗳️, and they’re just meant to trap the rebels and EAOs (Ethnic Armed Organizations) into disarming and accepting their government as the legitimate one.
But, more so, it’s to fool the international community, and the region specifically, into believing that that they’re democratizing and loosening their control or even giving up power, when that is not what’s happening. All to get them to stop paying attention to Myanmar 🇲🇲, or at least accept that the junta is here to stay and will remain heavily involved in politics for years to come. The junta will get to choose who gets to be on the ballot, and only their handpicked candidates will win. It’s just like the presidential election 🗳️ in Russia 🇷🇺 in 2024, it’s all fake, it’s all performative because we know who’s going to win, Vladimir Putin. He’s not got to let anyone else win, he intends on being president for life. It’s just to give off the illusion that Russia 🇷🇺 is a functioning democracy, when it is most definitely not. It’s an illusion that only works on people who want to be fooled, while everyone else sees through this charade that the Kremlin puts on every few years. It’s the same with the junta and these upcoming elections 🗳️ in Myanmar 🇲🇲 in December.
If I was a Burmese citizen 🇲🇲 (or a Burmese rebel 🇲🇲) right now, I’d be like “You overthrew our democratically elected government, and then installed yourselves back into full power, and you expect us to trust you and participate in your sham elections 🗳️? You’re the ones who started all this! This is your fault 🫵! This whole thing could’ve been avoided if you weren’t so power hungry and didn’t remove Aun San Suu Kyi from power and then throw her in jail. Don’t act like this isn’t your fault and like you’re the peacemakers and you’re ones trying to restore stability to Myanmar 🇲🇲 because we all know you’re full of shit. You take your sham election 🗳️ and shove them right up your asses! We’re going to keep to fighting until you are gone 🫵!”
And to be fair, I don’t think any of the rebel groups or the EAOs are going to stop fighting the junta just because the junta is holding some fake elections 🗳️ in December. They’re not falling for this, and I’m glad. Take solace in the fact that this whole thing reeks of desperation. The junta is only doing this because they know that they’re losing on the battlefield, and no country, except for Russia 🇷🇺 and China 🇨🇳, seriously considers them the legitimate government in Myanmar 🇲🇲. Even then, China 🇨🇳’s a bit dicey because they’ve gotten pretty upset about the junta’s handling of the war, and they’re handling some of the illicit activities taking place in some of the bordering states, like Shan State, which has spilled over into China 🇨🇳 itself. People in China 🇨🇳 are being kidnapped and taken across the border into Myanmar 🇲🇲, into Shan State, and forced into phone scam operations among other illicit activities, probably sex slavery I’m sure because whenever there’s human trafficking, there’s probably sex trafficking involved as well. Frankly, China 🇨🇳’s kind of upset with everyone in this war, and just wants this whole thing to be over as soon as possible. Kind of similar to how Trump feels about the Russo-Ukrainian War 🇷🇺🇺🇦, only he clearly sides more with Putin and Russia 🇷🇺 politically than he does Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Russia 🇷🇺 on the other hand, is just taking advantage of a chaotic situation, and supporting a fellow authoritarian regime, although they aren’t able to give their full support because still locked in a war with Ukraine 🇺🇦. The war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 is draining all of Russia 🇷🇺’s resources, military or otherwise. They’ve already lost 40% of their tanks and lost about 10 of their bomber aircraft, which are irreplaceable because they were built during the Soviet era ☭, and Russia 🇷🇺 no longer has the capacity to manufacture more of them, and replace the ones they lost. In fact, most of the equipment that Russia 🇷🇺 is using in this war is from the Soviet era ☭, it’s all aging Soviet equipment ☭ because they depleted all of their more modern equipment that they built themselves (as a post-Soviet nation) early on in the war, and had to resort to using this older Soviet equipment ☭ that cannot be replaced. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. So, they can’t be there for other despotic regimes like they were able to before the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 started. So they’re trying to turn it around and they can do that by scoring a political victory and putting on a show for the entire world. But, the only people that this will fool are people who weren’t even paying that close attention to the conflict and don’t know anything about Burmese politics 🇲🇲 beyond what they saw in a BBC or CNN report. Their knowledge of Myanmar 🇲🇲 begins and ends with the coup in February 2021. And those are not the people they need to be fooling right now…if they expect to win this war or stay in power forever.
This is getting pretty long already, but I was going to talk about this video that the YouTube channel, Anime America 🇺🇸 uploaded called “TOP 10 “B-WORDS” IN ANIME” (in all caps just like that) and I was going into this whole diatribe about why the word “bitch” is treated by a slur and why some people just say the “B word” and how that kind of bothered me. But, I actually saw the video, or at least the beginning part of it, and they do actually say the whole word, “bitch.” So, I guess it confirms my suspicion (or one of my suspicions) that they only said “the B-word” in the title for self-censorship and to stay in the good graces of the YouTube algorithm. It’s not that they see the word “bitch” as some uniquely offensive word that has to be treated like the C-word (“cunt”) or the N-word. But, there are people who treat the word “bitch” as being that bad and refuse to say the whole word, and just say the “B word,” and if people do say it, only women ♀︎ are allowed to say it, and not men ♂︎, and if men ♂︎ say it, they’re only allowed to use it to refer to cowardly men ♂︎ and not to women ♀︎. Which I think is kind of stupid, I never saw “ bitch” as being an especially bad word that is worthy of that sort of that treatment, and it is one example of people being too politically correct to the point of being counterproductive.
In an age as divided as ours, not just in terms of politics, but in terms of entertainment, books 📖, movies, TV shows, and video games as well, it’s nice to know that there are still things that unite pretty much everyone, and say “Man, that War of the Worlds movie with Ice Cube sucks!” I was actually contemplating reviewing War of the Worlds (2025) myself after it came out and got all this buzz online about how bad it is, but then I realized that I’d have to actually watch it, and I’m not sure if I’m willing to do that. I tend to review movies and shows and games that I know that I’ll actually enjoy. I don’t go out of way to review bad movies, bad shows, and bad games, stuff that I know I probably won’t like. And from what I’ve seen this new War of the Worlds movie on Amazon Prime starring Ice Cube, it doesn’t really look like a movie that I’d personally enjoy, not even in a guilty pleasure or “so bad it’s good” kind of way. I mean, with Mortal Kombat Annihilation 🐉 for example, it is something that I can enjoy despite how bad it is or because of how bad it is. It still has some entertainment value to it and it is nostalgic to me.
But, with War of the Worlds (2025), there doesn’t seem to be much entertainment value, no fun to really be had, and looks like a pretty boring, drab, miserable experience, despite some people being able to have fun with and make funny content out of it, some really entertaining reviews. I’m not sure if I’m willing to put myself through that just yet. I’m undecided whether or not I ever want to review War of the Worlds (2025) or not. I mean, I am planning review at least a few movies by The Asylum, and this new movie looks to be about on the level of one of those, especially the War of the Worlds movie that The Asylum themselves made back in 2005 to cash-in 🤑 on the Steven Spielberg movie that everyone knows and remembers. That, and the Timothy Hines War of the Worlds movie also released in 2005, which is much closer to the original novel 📖 by H.G. Wells, and is more “faithful adaptation” despite its low budget and overall poor quality. It’s set in the original novel 📖’s time period, which is the mid-1890s, that’s what makes more faithful, as opposed to the other film adaptations which all modernize the story and set them in the time period in which they were made.
The 1953 War of the Worlds was set in the 1950s and was a thinly veiled allegory for the Cold War and a commentary on the Red Scare, and the 2005 War of the Worlds by Steven Spielberg was set in the 2000s and was a thinly veiled allegory for 9/11 and a commentary on post-9/11 America 🇺🇸. Same thing with this new War of the Worlds, it’s set in the 2020s and is a thinly veiled allegory for the COVID-19 pandemic 🦠😷 (it was made during the pandemic 🦠😷, so they had no choice) and is a commentary on I guess the corrosive effects of mainstream news media and social media on our society and government surveillance. Except the government surveillance is portrayed as a good thing.
Ice Cube is a government agent working for the DHS, and his job is literally to spy on people, in hopes of finding terrorists hiding in plain sight who may endanger our national security. In this movie, he’s trying to find this hacker called the Disruptor (who’s literally supposed to be a stand-in for the hacker and activist group, Anonymous), and prevent him from leaking top secret documents on the Internet 🛜. Specifically in a YouTube video. That’s what he’s supposed to be doing before the aliens 👽 attack. When really he just uses his job to spy on his own kids and scold them for not living their lives the way he wants them to live them. He literally hacks into his daughter’s refrigerator and then critiques her on the food she eats, saying she’s not eating enough protein because she’s pregnant 🤰 and babies need protein I guess 🤷♂️? He also hacks into his son’s Steam account and uninstalls his game, telling him to stop playing video games and get a “real job.”
And yet, he’s still portrayed as the hero, he’s still presented as being in the right despite all of the horrible things he does, abusing his government job, abusing taxpayers’ dollars 💵 to literally spy on his own kids and try to dictate and control their lives. And he’s ultimately the one they saves the day from the alien invasion 👽 (that and Amazon themselves), I know because Joe Rogan said so…in the film that is. Joe Rogan probably gives too shits about this movie in real life, he’s just happy to have the money 💵 he received from letting them use his name in the film. The royalty checks 🤑. The funny thing is that the Asylum War of the Worlds movie and the Timothy Hines War of the Worlds movie may actually end up being better than the 2025 one starring Ice Cube.
The worst part about all this is that movie released in the year 2025, which is the 20th anniversary of not just Spielberg version, but the Asylum and Timothy Hines version as well, since they were all released in the same year, 2005. So, in celebration of all three of those films’ 20th anniversary, Amazon released this piece of shit. A movie that was actually filmed in 2020 and sat on the shelf for five years until they randomly decided to drop it at the beginning of August 2025. Horrifying everyone who laid eyes on it 😟, wondering how such a movie could even get made in the first, and why, if it was shelved for four years, was it released now? If I ever do end up reviewing this movie, you’ll know, and if I don’t, you’ll also know. It’s not really a big priority for me, despite being the current hot topic for anyone, who is even aware of its existence. I’ll put it like this, if I review the Asylum movie (and its sequel 😑) and the Timothy Hines movie, then you can bet a review of the Amazon movie will be coming. Until then, if then there’s just something I just gotta remember about Ice Cube’s character in that movie, Will Radford: he watches people, not weather ⛈️ 😂.
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One of the most contentious topics about Mortal Kombat 🐉 is the female outfits ♀︎. ︎︎For the longest time, the female characters in Mortal Kombat 🐉 wore very "sexy" or skimpy outfits. These outfits came under criticisms from feminists ♀︎ and more progressively minded people. They argued that these outfits are completely degrading, reducing these female characters ♀︎ to nothing more than sex objects. They also argued that the outfits would be completely impractical in hand-to-hand combat. So, starting with Mortal Kombat X 🐉, the team at Netherrealm Studios started dressing the female characters ♀︎ more conservatively than they had in the past.
While feminists ♀︎ and progressives welcomed these changes, some hardcore fans of the franchise (who are mostly men ♂︎, let's face it) hated these changes, and felt that Mortal Kombat was yet another franchise succumbing to SJW-ism 🙄. Personally, I didn't really care about these changes. They are ultimately just outfits, and while outfits are definitely part of the character, they aren't the entire character.
And even with the more "conservative" outfits, the female characters still all look pretty sexy, especially Jade. Jade looks absolutely hot in Mortal Kombat 11 🐉 😍. So, does Cassie Cage, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade's daughter 😍; her MK11 🐉 look is definitely way better than her MKX 🐉 look. And to be perfectly fair, it does make sense for some of the female characters ♀︎ to be covered from head-to-toe.
The more military characters like Sonya Blade, it makes sense for them to wear outfits that cover most of their bodies because they aren't trying to look sexy, they're trying to be military people. Although, Sonya's outfits never really that skimpy. In the very first Mortal Kombat 🐉, she basically wore a gym outfit, like one of those gym outfits that you see those trainers wear in exercise videos. That's not an outfit that's meant to be sexy, it's an outfit that's meant to be practical. Like, an outfit like that would be practical in hand-to-hand combat.
Then, I don't know about Mortal Kombat II 🐉 or Mortal Kombat 3 🐉, but in Mortal Kombat 4 🐉, she did wear a pretty skimpy outfit, like she wore a mid-drift, which is not really type of shirt that's typically allowed in the military, of any country really. Then, in the 3D era with Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance 🐉 and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 🐉, she wore like an aviator jacket, some black pants, and a mid-drift, but that was much conservative compared to her MK4 🐉 outfit. She almost kind of looked like Charlie from Top Gun, Maverick's love interest in that movie ♥️. BTW, Sonya's look in the 3D era is probably my favorite look of her.
The same goes for the new Reboot era female Special Forces characters ♀︎ like Cassie Cage and Jacqui Briggs. Although, as I said, Cassie still looks sexy in MK11 🐉, even her "conservative" military outfit, like she went from being one of the least hot characters of the franchise in MKX 🐉 to being one of the hottest in MK11 🐉. Though with, Jacqui Briggs, I think she looks way better in MKX 🐉 than she does MK11 🐉.
Kira could also fit in with this too, even though she's not a military member, she's a Black Dragon member. But, she wasn't really trying to look sexy with her outfit since she was a black market arms dealer prior to joining the Black Dragon and she's basically a paramilitary type person or a terrorist after does join the Black Dragon. Her outfit in Mortal Kombat: Deception and Armageddon 🐉 was very conservative compared the outfits of the other female characters ♀︎ in franchise up to that point, let alone in those two games.
She was basically wearing a black leather outfit with a red jacket, red and black pants with holes running down the legs, and a black corset. Her outfit could honestly fit in the Reboot era, like they really wouldn't even to change it all. Though, if they gave her a bulletproof vest and a long-sleeve type shirt or military fatigues, it wouldn't that out of the ordinary for her, like it would actually fit the character since she is a Black Dragon operative, and she's a weapons expert due to her experiences as an arms dealer. But her Deception and Armageddon outfit are perfectly fine the way they are, you don't need to change it all.
Frost ❄️ has never worn a sexy or skimpy outfit. Ever since she was fist introduced in Deadly Alliance 🐉, she has always worn outfits that cover her from head-to-toe, except for her alternate outfits, that do show a little bit more skin. So, Frost ❄️ being covered from head-to-toe in MK11 🐉, isn't too out of the realm of possibility (no pun intended), and doesn't go against the character since she wasn't really meant to be sexy; at least, not in the same way as the other female characters. The part about her being a weird cyborg 🦾, that's the part that's strange.
Ashrah's another female character ♀︎ that never really wore skimpy outfits. Her main outfit in Deception covers her from head-to-toe. Her alternate outfit shows a little bit of skin, like it shows her belly and her legs, but her main default outfit completely covers her up. They won't have to change her outfit if they brought her into the Reboot era.
With some female characters ♀︎, it makes sense for them to dress in sexy or skimpy outfits, like Skarlet, Mileena, and Nitara. Out of all the new outfits and designs that were in MK11 🐉, Skarlet's was probably the worst. She's literally a being made out of blood 🩸, and she becomes more powerful the more blood 🩸 her body absorbs. So, it made sense in MK9 🐉 why she had such a skimpy outfit that exposed so much skin. She wanted to maximize the amount of blood 🩸 that her body would absorb, by maximizing the amount of areas on her body that blood 🩸 can splatter or splash onto, and then she could just soak it in like a sponge 🧽.
(These pictures of Mileena in Mortal Kombat: Deception 🐉. Both of her default outfit and her alternate outfit.)
Mileena is a very sexual character. She uses seduction as one of her many tools to get what she wants. That's been one of the core tenets of her character from the beginning, since she was first introduced in MK2 🐉. She's not just the evil version of Kitana, she's also the more sexual and seductive version of Kitana as well. So, it always made sense why her outfits were always sexy and skimpy looking in the Original Timeline/Midway era. My favorite outfit of hers from the Original Timeline was her main outfit in Deception and Armageddon. That was probably her best outfit in that era of Mortal Kombat 🐉.
But, even in the Reboot/Netherrealm Studios era, her outfits are bit more revealing and sexy looking compared to the others. Like, her main default outfit in MKX 🐉 has this leather mid-drift shirt or tank top thing that exposes her belly, like you can still see her bellybutton. And while her other outfits in MKX 🐉 or her outfits in MK11 🐉 are not as revealing as the ones in the past, they still sort of hold true to the idea that Mileena is supposed to be sexier than all the other female characters. It's her personality that's off. Her personality is the thing that they got wrong in the Reboot era, not her outfits.
And finally, with Nitara, she's a vampire 🧛♀️, and vampires 🧛♀️ have always been known for the sexual and seductive nature. I mean, dating back to Dracula, vampires 🧛 🧛♀️ have been very sexual. Some have even say that vampirism 🧛🧛♀️ is meant to be a metaphor for sexuality itself, like vampire bites 🧛🧛♀️ are meant to represent sexual acts, which is when a woman ♀︎ is bitten by a vampire 🧛, she's usually seen and heard orgasming. So, it makes sense for Nitara to wear a sexy outfit like the one she wears in Deadly Alliance and Armageddon (since she wears the same exact outfit). She's trying to look attractive, so that she can seduce men (or women) and suck their blood 🩸.
Her main weapons are literally called Kama, which means "desire, wish, or longing" in Hindu 🕉️, Buddhist ☸️, Jain, and Sikh literature 🪯, and it often connotes to sexual pleasure, sexual desire, and longing. So, clearly Nitara has always had a sexual component to her character, even down to the names of her weapons. That, or the Mortal Kombat 🐉 creative team at Midway didn't know what the word "Kama" meant, and just used it thinking it was cool name for a weapon. That's always a possibility, but I'm going to assume that they knew what the word meant, and that intentionally named Nitara's weapons Kama because of the sexual connotation with that word.
And even though her outfit is pretty sexy, it isn't really that skimpy, like she's actually covered up, in all the right places that need to be covered. Like, they wouldn't really have to change her outfit that much if they were to bring her back in the Reboot era, which I'm not sure if I even want them to consider how they've handled every other character in they've brought back in the Reboot era games.
But, speaking of butchering characters, I can say that after revisiting Deadly Alliance and seeing Nitara how she was originally was, they really messed her up in 2021 live action movie. I mean, she's a vampire 🧛♀️ with bat wings 🦇 just like in the games, but besides those very basic design aspects, the Nitara in the 2021 movie looks nothing like her from Deadly Alliance. She looks nothing like her, and acts nothing like her. Nitara's not an evil character, and she's not servant of Shang Tsung, or a servant of Shao Kahn, since that's basically what being a servant of Shang Tsung means, you're serving Shao Kahn through proxy since Shang Tsung serves Shao Kahn; at least at that point in the storyline.
Nitara's a neutral character, and she hates Shao Kahn. He's the one that conquered her realm, and merged it with Outworld. Why would she want to serve a guy who took over her realm, and oppressed her people, the vampires 🧛♀️🧛? Sure, in Deadly Alliance, she helped Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, but that's only because they were going to kill Shao Kahn, and she didn't work with them directly.
She was indirectly helping from behind the scenes by removing any obstacles in their way of assassinating the emperor. But, after they did kill Shao Kahn (or presumably did), she really didn't help them at all. She was way too focused on her goal of liberating her realm from Outworld's grasp to help them in their plans to resurrect Onaga's undead army.
(This is Nitara's ending and Cyrax's ending in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance 🐉.)
She literally helps Cyrax get back home after he gets stranded in Outworld. Like, she promises to send him back to Earthrealm if he retrieves the Orb bounding her realm to Outworld for her. And he does give her that Orb, she fulfills her end of the bargain and opens a portal to Earthrealm and sends him back. Making her one of the few Mortal Kombat 🐉 characters to actually keep their promises or honor deals. She truly is one of the most underrated characters in the entire Mortal Kombat 🐉 franchise.
They took this very interesting character with an intriguing backstory, who is neutral, who sometimes helps the bad guys but also sometimes helps the good guys, who has her own goal to separating her realm from Outworld, and turned her into a generic servant of Shang Tsung; just a mindless monster with nothing interesting to say.
Anyway, there are female Mortal Kombat 🐉 characters ♀ that are more in the middle when it comes the two extremes of super sexy and skimpy outfits and conservative outfit that cover from head-to-toe. Kitana, Jade, Tanya, Sindel, Sheeva, Li Mei, and even Sareena, have all worn sexy and skimpy outfits in their games, but they aren't characters where it would make sense for them to wear sexy and skimpy outfits, or characters where it would make sense for them to covered from head-to-toe.
Like, Kitana's main outfit in Deadly Alliance is pretty sexy, but it's also not that skimpy, like it's really not like Mileena's alternate outfit in Deception where she's pretty much naked except for a loin cloth, a bra and a super thin corset or whatever they were that barely covers her chest and belly.
(These are renders of Kitana in her default outfit in Mortal Kombat X 🐉.)
Kitana's main default (and non-canon) outfit in MKX 🐉 did show some skin too, and that's supposedly when they're trying to cover up the female characters ♀︎ and not have them show as much skin. In fact, of all the outfits that Kitana has had in the franchise, her main default one from MKX 🐉 is probably my favorite.
It's pretty sexy looking, and it actually makes her look like royalty, since she's supposed to be a princess. It has a very Chun-Li vibe to it, I love it. But, her main default outfit in Deadly Alliance looks pretty great too, it's my second favorite. That kata she performs on the start screen is stunning to put it mildly 😍. I would say that Kitana's skimpiest outfit was in MK9 🐉, but I didn't really care for that outfit anyway, so that wasn't a total loss.
Jade is pretty much the same story as Kitana, except that Jade has worn way skimpier outfits than Kitana has. Her main default outfit in Deception is probably her skimpiest one out of the whole franchise. But, even though she was covered up more in MK11 🐉, she still looks pretty sexy, one of the sexiest characters from that game, besides Cassie Cage 😍. I didn't really care too much for her British accent 🇬🇧 or her relationship with Kotal Kahn 🤮, but she at least looks sexy.
Sindel has worn sexy outfits, but much like her daughter, Kitana, Sindel's outfits were never really that skimpy, at least compared to Mileena or Jade's. And her main outfit in MK11 🐉 still shows some skin like it shows some legs, she still is pretty sexy in that game. She has that MILF or cougar thing going on.
The only thing that I don't like about her in MK11 🐉 is that they made her evil 😈. Sindel's not meant to be a villain. She's meant to a hero, who was only being mind-controlled by Shao Kahn, forced to be his queen and to do bad things. But, no, MK11 🐉 threw that out the window and said that she was always evil, and was never really being mind-controlled since she willingly joined Shao Kahn, and betrayed her husband, King Jared.
In fact, they strongly imply that she was the real power behind Shao Kahn, that she was controlling and manipulating him like Gríma Wormtongue or something, partly because she's portrayed as a master manipulator and Shao Kahn is kind of portrayed as a dumb meathead. So yeah, Evil Sindel is probably the worst thing to come out of the Reboot era, like talk about the absolute destruction of a character, and a complete lack of understanding of who a character is.
The people at Netherrealm Studios probably took one look at Sindel, heard her name, and thought, "She must be evil, so let's just make her evil right from the get-go." Too bad there was no one there to tell them otherwise. They totally judged a book by its cover, and that's one of the main lessons you're supposed to learn in life, not to judge a book by its cover.
Tanya's a little different story than these other three ladies ♀︎ I've talked about because while her outfits are definitely sexy, they never as skimpy as those worn by those three; even though Kitana and Sindel's outfits were never really that skimpy. They still showed skin, like they showed her legs and they had chest windows showing off some side boobs, but they still covered her most of her body.
Like, surprisingly, her outfit in MKX 🐉 actually shows almost more skin than say her Deception outfit. She's literally wearing a mid-drift in that game, and almost her whole belly is showing. I actually like her look in MKX 🐉, and her fatalities, but that weird reverse mullet hair she has in that game, where it's super short in the back and long in the front is kind of weird and ugly looking.
Sareena is very much the same as Tanya when it comes to her outfits, although her outfits were a bit less revealing than even Tanya's. Which is surprising considering that she's from the Netherrealm and works with the Brotherhood of Shadow, and you would she would wear sexier and more revealing clothing since the Netherrealm is all about evil, sin, and temptation.
It was definitely weird seeing her in MKX 🐉, helping the good guys find Quan Chi in the Netherrealm, since Quan Chi's the leader of the Brotherhood of Shadow, and he's basically her boss. Unless, we're supposed to assume that Sareena left the Brotherhood of Shadow, and has either become neutral or completely joined the good side to fight against Quan Chi.
But anyway, even though her outfit in MKX 🐉 was definitely more conservative compared to her past outfits, her past outfits really weren't that skimpy. Like, it wasn't out of character or anything for her to wear what she wore in MKX 🐉, as a non-playable character who only appears in the cutscenes and only has a cameo appearance. Sareena is one of those characters that is a fan favorite character that I really don't understand why they're a fan favorite.
She isn't that interesting or special of a character, at least from what I've seen of her, and yet, the fans are always asking for her to appear in the next game. The most I've ever seen her do was fight Taven during the Konquest mode of Armageddon, along with two other female Brotherhood of Shadow members ♀︎, Kia and Jataaka, but they all got their asses kicked by him.
Sheeva has worn some sexy and skimpy outfits. Her skimpiest outfit was in MK9 🐉, which had some of the skimpiest female outfits of the whole franchise. But, she's a Shokan, and Shokan, whether they were male ♂︎ or female ♀︎, have worn pretty skimpy outfits that exposed a lot of skin. Goro barely wore anything except a loin cloth or pair of speedos, depending on the game. So, it's not a big deal if she shows a lot of skin, but at the same time, I really didn't mind her outfit in MK11 🐉. I didn't mind that it covered up most of her body, because she's a warrior, a bodyguard pretty much.
She was a bodyguard working for Sindel, and then she became a bodyguard for Jade after Kotal Kahn took over Outworld from Shao Kahn after his death at the hands of the Elder Gods in MK9 🐉, and Jade became Kotal's mistress pretty much. Sheeva wasn't a character that was really meant to be sexy, or at least, not in the same way as Kitana, Mileena, or Jade. She's much more like Frost ❄️, where she's more of a straight forward warrior and not really meant for sex appeal.
Of course, that's not to say that Sheeva can't be sexy, she can be, and I have seen many fan art where they do make her sexy. You can do a lot with four arms 😉. Though, the secondary set of arms that Shokan have, are not as strong as their primary set of arms, and they can't seem to do that much on their own. They mostly just use those secondary arms for support.
Last, but certainly not least, Li Mei is a character that was introduced in the 3D era in Deadly Alliance. She's a native of Outworld and was meant to be a young rookie who bravely and valiantly decided to go fight in the Mortal Kombat 🐉 tournament held by the Deadly Alliance in order to free her people from enslavement; though, by all account the tournament held by the Deadly Alliance nothing more than a literal death trap.
Her main outfit in Deadly Alliance was actually pretty modest for a female character ♀︎ at that point in the franchise, and it was definitely more modest and conservative compared to her alternate outfit in the game, and her main outfit in the next two games in the 3D era. Her alternate outfit in Deadly Alliance was literally just a bra and panties, and some boots, that's it. It was a pretty skimpy outfit, one of skimpiest ones in the whole game or even the whole franchise. Her main outfit in Deception and Armageddon wasn't as skimpy as her alternate outfit in Deadly Alliance, but it was still pretty skimpy; especially compared the female outfits ♀︎ in the newer games.
It barely covered her body. The only things that were covering her were her bra, some shoulder armor, some fingerless gloves that go up to her wrists, some long boots, and her sports panties; oh, and that bandana she was wearing her head that kind of made her look like a pirate 🏴☠️, a lavender or purple colored pirate 🏴☠️. But, her alternate outfit in Deception and Armageddon did cover her from head-to-toe; for the most part.
It was literally a suit of armor, a really awesome looking suit of armor. You had both extremes with Li Mei in terms of outfits. So, when she had a cameo appearance in MKX 🐉, I really didn't mind that she had a more "conservative" outfit. Though, they weirdly made her look like Michelle Yeoh. I always felt that Michelle Yeoh would've been a better fit for Ashrah, instead of Li Mei, but that's just me.
One honorable mention is Khameleon, the female Zaterran ♀︎ that many Mortal Kombat 🐉 fans are intrigued by. She's certainly one of the most mysterious characters in the franchise, along with her male counterpart ♂︎, Chameleon. They literally have the same name except that the male Chameleon ♂︎'s name is spelt with a 'c' like the proper grammatical spelling, and the female Khameleon ♀︎'s name is spelt with a 'k' in true Mortal Kombat 🐉 fashion.
She can literally turn invisible, and her outfit can literally change colors like a chameleon (hence her and her male counterpart ♂︎'s names). Her outfits were not really that skimpy, like her original outfit in Mortal Kombat Trilogy 🐉 for Nintendo 64, was about as skimpy as the other female outfits in that game, which were not the skimpiest outfits of the franchise. And her Armageddon outfit wasn't very skimpy either, at least compared to say, Li Mei's. So, she definitely fits in this middle category along with Kitana, Jade, Sindel, Tanya, Sheeva, and Li Mei.
Of course, there is the issue that many fans who oppose the costume changes for the female characters ♀︎ have pointed out, and that's the fact that even the male characters ♂︎ have worn skimpy and "impractical" outfits. And that is certainly true for some of them. Hsu Hao was pretty shirtless in both Deadly Alliance and Armageddon. Drahmin pretty much wore nothing except for a pair of speedos it looked like. Same thing with Meat, who mainly fans think Drahmin looks like without his mask.
Liu Kang is almost always shirtless, like the only times that he isn't shirtless is in MK4 🐉, MKX 🐉, and MK11 🐉. Kano's almost always shirtless, or at least, he's always wearing stuff that shows off his chest and abs. Like he was literally just wearing a vest with no shirt underneath in Deadly Alliance.
(These are pictures of Liu Kang as he appeared in Mortal Kombat X 🐉 and Mortal Kombat 4 🐉.)
Shao Kahn's outfits have almost always been pretty skimpy, like you can see his chest, his abs, and even his butt, and the only things really covering him are his loin cloth, and his signature helmet. It's not until Deception where they had him wear more clothes, like they had him wear a cape, and of course in MK11 🐉, he wears more body armor. The same goes for Kotal Kahn, who really only wears a loin cloth in both of his appearances in MKX 🐉 and MK11 🐉.
Quan Chi's another male character ♂︎ who's almost always shirtless. The only time he wore an outfit that covered him up from head-to-toe was his original costume in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero ❄️🐉 and MK4 🐉. Since then, they've usually depicted him being shirtless except for MKX 🐉, where he wears more body armor.
Johnny Cage is another character that was usually shirtless until MKX 🐉 where he not only wore a shirt, but also wore a vest; really embracing that dad look. But, even in the past, in the 3D era, Johnny Cage had outfits that did cover his whole body, like his alternate costume in Deadly Alliance and Armageddon was literally a tuxedo 🤵♂️.
Then, in MK9 🐉, one of his alternate outfits is a suit, like a really ugly looking polyester suit it looked like, with a bow tie; that wasn't even tied. Johnny Cage is probably the only main fighting character in the Mortal Kombat 🐉 franchise that has worn suits and tuxedos 🤵♂️. Which makes sense since he is an actor, and actors wear those kinds of stuff when they're not acting in movies, and are doing red carpet appearances or press interviews.
I've already mentioned Goro, but there's also Moloch who barely wears anything except a speedo. Tremor's main outfit in MKX is very revealing like you can see his chest; his chest that looks like it's made out of dried mud. Sub-Zero ❄️'s main outfit in Deadly Alliance showed some chest, so did his alternate outfit in MKX 🐉; they're the ones where he's not wearing a mask.
Havik's main outfit in Deception and Armageddon shows some chest. And although, Raiden ⚡️ usually wears outfits that cover him from head-to-toe, he has some alternate outfits where he shows off his chest and abs, like in all three 3D era games. Smoke 💨's alternate outfit in Deception and his main outfit in Armageddon (they're the same) also shows a lot of skin, or smoke 💨 I guess, like he's only wearing these overall type things with no shirt or armor underneath. But, he's literally made out of smoke 💨 (hence his name), so it doesn't really matter.
(These are images of Raiden ⚡️ and Smoke 💨 as they appear in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance 🐉 and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 🐉.)
You get the point. There are a lot of male characters ♂︎ who have shown off just as much skin and wore outfits just as skimpy as the ones that the female characters ♀︎ have often worn. Whether that's a good enough counter argument to feminists ♀︎ complaining about female outfits ♀︎ in this franchise or not, that's for you to decide. I myself don't really care that much about the costume changes.
The change in outfits from sexy and skimpy to more conservative is the least my concerns when it comes to this franchise. If you really care that much about sexy outfits, if not having them in the new games is that much of a deal breaker for you, then you can just play the past Mortal Kombat 🐉 games that do have those sexy outfits, as long as you have those same consoles from 20 years ago (PlayStation 2, XBox, GameCube, and Wii), or if you have an emulator. And not all of the costume changes were bad, or take away from the characters' sexiness, at least in my opinion.
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