Mileena
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Mileena | |
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Mortal Kombat character | |
![]() Mileena in Mortal Kombat 1 (2023) | |
First game | Mortal Kombat II (1993)[1] |
Created by | Ed Boon John Tobias |
Designed by | |
Portrayed by | Various
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Voiced by | Various
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Motion capture | |
In-universe information | |
Species | Edenian-Tarkatan clone (1st – 2nd timelines) Edenian-Tarkatan (3rd timeline) |
Weapon | Sai, teeth |
Origin | Outworld |
Mileena is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. Introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993), Mileena was initially depicted as a clone of the Edenian princess Kitana, created by Shang Tsung with the blood of the fictional Tarkatan species, and raised alongside her "sister". Following the time-travelling actions of Raiden in Mortal Kombat 9 (2011), Mileena's background as a Tarkatan clone of Kitana remains the same, although she was only recently awoken, rather than raised alongside Kitana. Mortal Kombat X (2015) depicts her attempts to regain her throne as Empress of Outworld, following her overthrow by Kotal Kahn.
In a third timeline, created by Liu Kang and depicted in Mortal Kombat 1 (2023), significant changes were made to Mileena's character and background. Rather than a clone, Mileena is the biological daughter of Sindel and the older twin sister of Kitana, making her heir to the throne. However, she was infected with the Tarkat disease that results in her developing the deformed facial features of the Tarkatan race, which she conceals with a mask.
Mileena is featured as a prominent villain throughout the series and uses a pair of sai as her primary weapons. Despite some criticism for her revealing character designs, Mileena has received a positive reception for her unique appearance and personality. She has been featured in various media outside of the games and is one of the franchise's most popular characters.
Development
[edit]Design
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Mortal Kombat co-creator and producer Ed Boon described Mileena and Kitana as the "female versions of Scorpion and Sub-Zero", two palette-swapped ninja characters from the original game.[12] Character creator John Tobias chose Mileena's name as he felt "it had a pleasant sound to it, which either helped hide her grotesque appearance or exposed a hidden inner beauty", while hers and Kitana's storylines were borne from "the conflicts of sibling rivalry and rebelling against authority".[13] Mileena's signature weapon in the series is a pair of sai, along with recurring teleport-kick and ground-rolling-attack special moves while she utilizes either her sai or cannibalistic tendencies in most of her Fatalities. She typically wears pink or purple.[14]
Mileena was portrayed by martial artist Katalin Zamiar in Mortal Kombat II,[15] and as a palette-swapped character, she was physically identical to Kitana and hidden character Jade save for her pink outfit and large gnashing teeth, which were created only for one of her Fatalities in which Mileena consumes her defeated opponent and spits out their bones.[16] She was excluded from Mortal Kombat 3 along with the series' other ninja characters, but returned in the upgrade Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, in which the female ninjas were played by Becky Gable.[17] In October 2004, Midway Games character artist Pav Kovacic created an illustration of Mileena in a topless alternate costume for Mortal Kombat: Deception, which was unlocked by players in the game.[18] Her motion capture actors for 3D games have included Carlos Pesina in Deception and Armageddon,[8] but in MK2011 she was played by a female actor.[19] In Mortal Kombat X, her facial appearance was redesigned in which she has a human-like mouth with her facial deformities relocated to her cheeks.[20] Her alternate costume in the 2011 reboot is composed of bandages wrapped around her otherwise naked form.[21]
Gameplay
[edit]Mileena is considered one of the top characters of Mortal Kombat II. She was ranked as the game's best overall fighter by Sega Visions for her high speed, reach, and her teleport kick when used to dodge opposing projectiles.[22] Super Play too called her "the best MKII character" as she is "fast, with a good range of attacks, and the potential for the most awesome combos in the game."[23] C+VG ruled Mileena's teleport kick as "the best surprising move in the game."[24] According to CU Amiga, Mileena was "third only to Jax and Liu Kang for sheer brilliance," being a "somewhat misleading character" whose moves need to be "learnt the right way to put them all together to be devastating."[25] Hyper magazine wrote that in the hands of skilled players, Mileena was "almost unstoppable."[26] GamePro testers opined in 1994, "With her rapid sai-throwing ability, teleport attacks, and deadly combos, this beautiful assassin lands atop our rankings."[27]
Mileena is a hidden unlockable character in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3,[28] but is immediately playable in the compilation game Mortal Kombat Trilogy. According to Nintendo Power, her original powers "may prove insufficient" for using her with the same effectiveness in UMK3, in which most of the other characters were given additional special moves.[29] On the other hand, Total 64 wrote that Mileena in Trilogy was "a damn good fighter [with] plenty of powerful moves".[30]
According to GameSpy, Mileena in Deception has "a few solid combos up her sleeve, as well as a few pop-up attacks that are extremely quick and open up brief juggle opportunities," but a very short range of her sai and poorly ranged attacks.[31] Prima Games' official guide for Mortal Kombat Armageddon called her a "punisher" type character, but while she "is able to punish from any range and even interrupt high attacks and projectiles, the damage she inflicts is minor."[32] Mileena is not playable in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks wherein she only appears as a sub-boss character.
In the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot, Mileena was judged to be well-balanced and universal by Prima Games, displaying neither particular weaknesses nor advantages that would result in a one-sided battle.[33] In Mortal Kombat X, Mileena's fighting style is split into three variations like those of the game's other playable characters. Prima Games commented that she possessed "several great ways to stop opponents from jumping toward her," but she is "not as safe as some of the other characters, which means she has to take a few risks."[34]
Appearances
[edit]Mortal Kombat games
[edit]Making her series debut in Mortal Kombat II (1993), Mileena is a horrific clone of Kitana, who was once the princess of the fictional realm of Edenia until Shao Kahn, evil emperor of the dimension of Outworld, forcibly annexes the realm and takes Kitana as his own daughter.[35] To keep her from learning about her past, Kahn orders the sorcerer Shang Tsung to create a clone for the purpose of spying on Kitana and ensuring her loyalty to Kahn, and to replace her if necessary.[36][37] However, Shang Tsung combines Kitana's genetics with that of the brutish Tarkatan race,[36][note 1] resulting in Mileena having the latter's characteristic mouth of razor-sharp teeth that she conceals with a mask.[37] In their adulthood, Mileena and Kitana are employed as Kahn's personal assassins in his battle against the Earth defenders.[39]
In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), Mileena is killed by Kitana and damned to the underworld called the Netherrealm, where she swears fealty to its ruler, Shinnok. Shao Kahn resurrects her in his effort to defeat Earth's warriors while granting her the ability to read Kitana's thoughts.[40] In Mortal Kombat Gold (1999; a home-console update of Mortal Kombat 4), Mileena assists Shinnok and his cohort, the evil necromancer Quan Chi, in his invasion of Edenia and the imprisonment of Kitana. When they then divert their forces to attack Earth, the resulting lax security enables Kitana to escape.[41]
Mileena is a focal point of the storyline of Mortal Kombat: Deception (2004). She herself is jailed by Kitana for years until the Dragon King Onaga (the game's final boss) invades Kitana's homeland of Edenia and kills her, along with Earth's other defenders.[42] After Mileena is freed by her ally Baraka, she poses as Kitana in order to confuse and misdirect Onaga's enemies.[36] However, as Mileena begins the game's titular deception, she secretly opts to take control of both Edenia's forces and Onaga's undead army for herself. In the game's training mode, Mileena tutors the main protagonist Shujinko in combat.[43]
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006), Mileena seizes Shao Kahn's fortress, still disguised as Kitana until she feels Edenia's forces are ready to serve her under her true identity. However, when Kahn resurfaces to resume his rule of Outworld, she is forced to reveal herself and willingly surrenders to him. She captures and incarcerates Shujinko under Kahn's orders to coerce Onaga to join forces with Kahn, all while secretly plotting to take Edenia's throne for herself.[44] In the game's opening cinematic sequence, she is killed by Shang Tsung during the titular Armageddon amongst the series' then-entire playable roster in their attempt to gain final boss character Blaze's elemental powers.[45]
The thunder god and Earth protector Raiden alters the timeline to prevent Armageddon in Mortal Kombat (2011), which reboots the series' first three titles. During the events of the second Mortal Kombat tournament, Mileena is created from Edenian and Tarkatan genetics by Shang Tsung in his "Flesh Pit" laboratory to replace Kitana as Shao Kahn's "true daughter", after Kitana learns of her past.[46] Mileena's physical and mental instability leads Kahn to instead use her to lure and devour her victims.[47]
Mileena plays a significant role in the plot of Mortal Kombat X (2015).[48] In story mode flashback sequences, she is Outworld's new ruler after Shao Kahn is killed by Raiden.[49] However, she is overthrown by Kotal Kahn and his allies — Ermac, Reptile, and new character D'Vorah — after it is revealed that she is a genetic creation and not Shao Kahn's biological daughter.[50] In the present, Mileena's failed assassination attempt on Kotal leads to her capture, and though she evades execution, she is later recaptured by D'Vorah and Special Forces operative Cassie Cage, with the former executing Mileena on Kotal's orders.[42]
Mileena was initially omitted from Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) but was added to the roster in November 2020 as a downloadable character due to heavy fan demand.[51][52] In the game's expanded Aftermath story mode, the keeper of time Kronika, the game's main antagonist, brings the version of Mileena from the second MK tournament to the present, where Mileena learns of her future self's death.[52][53] Her arcade ending shows her in a relationship with Edenian warrior Tanya and raising a child together.[54]
In the second new timeline of Mortal Kombat 1 (2023),[55] written by Fire God Liu Kang, Mileena is simply Kitana's biological elder twin, and the daughter of Outworld's rulers, Empress Sindel and Emperor Jerrod, but their rule is thrown into turmoil after Jerrod is assassinated.[56] Mileena is additionally the lover of Tanya, a member of an all-female security unit ("Umgadi") for the royal family.[57] However, she also secretly suffers from the Tarkat virus, a mutating disease that slowly transforms the afflicted into feral monsters,[58] with only a serum developed by Shang Tsung keeping it at bay.[59] In the story mode, Mileena's defeat of the composition of souls, Ermac, allows Jerrod's spirit to take control of Ermac's body. He reunites with his family until Sindel is later killed by Shang Tsung's forces, after which Jerrod absorbs Sindel's soul and appoints Mileena her successor as Outworld empress.[60] In her arcade ending, Mileena becomes the new Outworld ruler and works to mend relations with others who share her Tarkat condition.[61]
Other media
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/Mileena_Annihilation.png/170px-Mileena_Annihilation.png)
Mileena appeared briefly in the 1997 feature film Mortal Kombat Annihilation, played by martial artist Dana Hee and identified by name only in the closing credits.[62] Sisi Stringer played Mileena in the 2021 reboot film Mortal Kombat, in which the character serves as Shang Tsung's main enforcer.[63]
Megan Brown played Mileena in one episode of the 1998 syndicated television series Mortal Kombat: Conquest, in which she has no direct relation to Kitana.[64][65]
Mileena was played in the 2011 first season of web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy by martial artist Jolene Tran in her acting debut.[66] She and Kitana are featured in a two-part episode that features both animated and live-action sequences. Mileena is shown sparring against Kitana and losing to her, causing her to kill and devour a palace guard in a fit of insanity. She later kills Kitana's father, King Jerrod, on Shao Kahn's orders.[67] Michelle Lee played the character in one episode of the 2013 second season, in which she defeats Johnny Cage during the Mortal Kombat tournament before she is killed by Kitana.[68]
Mileena appears in the Mortal Kombat Annihilation novelization,[69] and has a brief role in a Mortal Kombat II comic book prequel that was written and illustrated by series co-creator John Tobias and served to introduce the game's new characters.[70] She is a recurring minor character in Malibu Comics' Mortal Kombat series, appearing in the miniseries Goro: Prince of Pain (1994) and Battlewave (1995).[71][72] She and Kitana were additionally featured in their own 1995 one-shot issue, Kitana and Mileena: Sister Act.[73] In DC Comics' 2015 Mortal Kombat X prequel miniseries set before the events of the game, Mileena battles Kotal Kahn for the Outworld throne before they temporarily join forces to stop Reiko, Havik, and the Red Dragon clan.[74] The Outworld and Earth heroes are successful in defeating them at the series' conclusion, but Mileena nonetheless loses the Outworld throne when Ermac, her lone ally, pledges his allegiance to Kahn.[75] Writer Shawn Kittelsen explained in a 2015 interview, "Kotal didn’t overthrow Mileena in some macho power play; he overthrew her out of genuine concern for the safety and well being of Outworld and its citizens."[76]
Merchandise and promotion
[edit]Mileena was one of several Mortal Kombat characters featured in their own special issue of the Argentinian magazine Top Kids.[77] The character has been licensed for action figures,[78] Halloween costumes,[79][80][81] and statuettes by Syco Collectibles[82] and Pop Culture Shock Collectibles,[83][84] The 2011 compilation album Mortal Kombat: Songs Inspired by the Warriors included a track by electronica musician Tokimonsta titled "Mileena's Theme".[85]
Reception
[edit]Cultural impact
[edit]Mileena has made several homage alternate-media appearances that parodied the Mortal Kombat games.[86][87][88] According to People magazine, "Mileena" proved a popular baby name in 2015.[89] In November 2020, rapper Megan Thee Stallion dressed up as Mileena to promote the character's addition as downloadable content in Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate Edition.[90]
Popularity
[edit]Mileena's debut playable appearance and evil characterization in Mortal Kombat II was met with favorable critical reception, and made her one of the franchise's most recognizable characters.[91] Nintendo Power described her as "beautiful, graceful, beguiling and strong, but most of all, deadly."[92] The staff of UGO, in 2009, stated that her "uncommon" female-villain status, coupled with her "brutal attacks" and "slutty clothing", made her a fan favorite.[93] Ryan Woo of Complex commented in 2011, "Most people have goals in life: family, house, a nice car. Mileena, however, only wants to kill her sister Kitana."[94]
The character is noted for her sex appeal despite her disfigured face.[95] Gavin Jasper of Den of Geek commented in 2015, "Mortal Kombat gets some well-deserved guff for the way the female characters are over-sexualized, but I always thought it was pretty funny of them to focus the male gaze on the monster-faced woman."[96] She was one of the most searched game characters on Pornhub in 2017.[97] Mileena was described by Computer and Video Games as "equally erotic and repulsive."[98] According to IGN, "at first blush she seems like your quintessential sultry video-game vixen, but the mask comes off and she's got a gaping mouth filled to the brim with dagger-like teeth."[16] Comparing the Mortal Kombat characters to the seven deadly sins in Dante's Inferno, Chris Holt of GamePro chose Mileena to represent Envy.[99] Virgin Media included her on their list of the ten "game girls you wouldn't dare to date" for being attractive "until she rips off her veil and reveals her monstrous form beneath."[100]
An often commented, and referenced, aspect of Mileena is her cannibalistic tendencies. Kate Robertson of the University of Sydney analyzed her cannibalism as one of examples how "the connection between women and cannibalism reflects the common trope of the danger inherent within the female body" regarding "allure, fear and revulsion provoked by such a display of female power."[101] X360 chose her MK2011 Fatality, "in which she tears a man's head off then chows down upon it," to represent cannibalism on their list of the top ten video game crimes.[102] GamesMaster opined one "simply cannot watch" Mileena decapitate an opponent "and then take repeated bites out of his face ... without deeply desiring this game."[103] In 2015, Andrea Subissati of Rue Morgue magazine selected "making out with Mileena" as one of the best Fatalities in the 23 years of Mortal Kombat.[104]
Other reception and criticism
[edit]Mileena was noted for her alternate costume apparel, in particular, her unmasked and near-naked "Flesh Pits" outfit from MK2011 as reported by Destructoid's Hamza Aziz.[21] Other writers also found such design ridiculous and unfitting for a fighting game character.[105][106][107] Kotaku's Patrick Klepek, in 2015, recalled hearing about "Mileena’s sexuality" while playing the game at arcades.[108]
Mileena was one of the characters cited by Guy Aoki as allegedly perpetuating existing stereotypes of Asians as martial arts experts.[109] In their 1996 book Interacting With Video, which condemned the violence of video games as supposedly affecting social behavior and causing real-life violence, Patricia Marks Greenfield and Rodney R. Cocking used the "two Asian twin sisters, Mileena and Kitana," as an example of a "highly eroticized dragon lady" trope, with Mileena's "Man-Eater" Fatality described as "a high-powered kiss that evokes vagina dentata."[110] The authors wrote that despite the inclusion of "characters of color" such as the two and Jax, "we cannot assume that this greater diversity represents a more progressive identity politics, for one could argue that it merely increases the racist and sexist potential of individual fights."[110]
Some commentators admitted that they found themselves too distracted by her mouth. Joystiq's Alexander Sliwinski wrote about Mileena that instead of "focusing on her fighting style, or assets," they simply could not "get past one thing: how does she pronounce the letter P without touching her lips together?"[111][112]
See also
[edit]Notes
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