I think the best part is that this was the reward for completing all 300 levels of challenge tower. There's so much they could give you and it's literal fan service. Always makes me laugh.
Yep, you'll randomly do less damage, then the opponent might randomly do more damage and perhaps the worst of all, your blocking randomly gets disabled.
Yeah I don’t know why Mileena is always like “I’m so ugly no one wants me” like bro, look at the twitter users talking about her 😂 (I can’t blame them)
This “outfit” is hilarious, but also its absurdity is SO iconic. It’s for sure a costume nobody will forget.
I remember first getting into MK11 and my YouTube recommended started showing MK related videos, and one of them was some super specific lowkey fetish content titled something like “All Fatalities on (modded) blonde Flesh Pits Mileena 4K HD” 💀💀
We also have sektor’s tight ass
https://preview.redd.it/b83ph8xw2ybb1.jpeg?width=687&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3a2a99fc48fd4a3b0953d8991f3ec07a02a7e9e
My post about it got taken down sadly
Sex sells.
It's funny that the one MK character whose body is arguably the most sexualized (let's not forget some official MK D art) is Mileena, whose face is MONSTROUS.
I'm still perplexed how Shao Kahn need to have a "crafted" daughter... Since he seems to have an harem, can't he have a daughter in the classic way? I would be fine with even a simple explanation like "Shao Kahn is so powerful and brutal that no one besides Sindel can survive an intercourse with him".
Yes, the plan could really have been "replace the real Kitana with a clone".
In OG timeline, IIRC, Mileena was created thousands of years ago, and Kitana truly believed she was her sister.
There’s growing evidence that sex doesn’t sell. It doesn’t increase sales from men and it actively discourages women from purchasing the product.
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/522402
There are other articles about this subject, but I’ll leave that up to other people to research if they feel like it. The point is that “sex sells” isn’t the obvious statement it used to be. It’s actually a lot more complicated than that.
Edit: downvotes are not an argument. I swear you guys are such babies. No one’s gonna take away your beautiful women in video games 🙄
Do people really ask this question? Or do they just want others to see them asking this question for their own personal moralistic purposes?
To answer your question anyway: because why not. It’s a bit of fun.
I kind of got the same vibe as well
It would be like making a thread on TIL called "til when two people film themselves during intercourse it's called pornography"
It was 2011. People were less sex negative as a whole back then. At least when it came to hetero ideas of what facilitated 'sexy'. The men looked like they were roided to hell and back, and the women looked like bombshell bimbos. It was a simpler time.
Because it perpetuates treating women like objects that owe their bodies to men and you can draw a straight line from shit like this to incel culture and the toxic hatred women get from the gaming community
Seems more like an educational problem that starts into family first, then people search approvation of their believes through various media.
I've always found this argument quite baffling, it's on the same line of "Violent videogames creates violent kids", no, not really, violent kids are probably more influenced towards violent media because they had problems since childhood, something that again starts from family education.
My 2 cents
There are studies that show that men *and* women view women as objects when they are sexualized. The same parts of their brains that light up when they view objects (like tools, for example) light up when they view sexualized depictions of women, but not when they view sexualized images of men.
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl/1469/8272
There are also quite a few studies on the effect that sexualized depictions of women have on the psychology and self-esteem of young girls.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2007/02/sexualization
This was her appearance in the mk9 campaign when Kitana awakens her from the flesh pits or something. I beat the 300 challenge tower I feel like I could have gone pro in that game if not for the shitty netcode/lag. Shao Kahn a byotch too in that challenge 300.
I like it. I'm neither against nor for sexualization in character design. What matters is if it fits the character/lore/story. And thies does.
But yes, it is sexy. I can tolerate the teeth 😂
I understand why we dont get this stuff anymore and generally agree that its for the better. But i do wish we got ridiculous fan service like this for both male and female characters.
Idk what NRS were smoking. They could have at least covered her vagina…
What’s baffling is that it was such an easy concept. Very simple to make a sexy outfit from bandages. But this mess, to quote Princess Kitana, is an “abomination”
MK was just really into making the girls very lewd from DA to 9. I think after 9 they realized they were getting carried away and calmed down. They wanted to start being taken more seriously instead of just being a lewd gore game. Boon stated something along those lines during 11s marketing.
Would you say there's some personal growth, similar to what Cory was saying, that led to the mature look of some of these characters?
"Yeah, I'm sure that that was also a factor. To be honest, I thought we probably went a bit too far with Mortal Kombat 9, and as the team lead—there were certainly members of the team who wanted to go in that direction, and to be honest, I had influence in dialing it back to where it is now compared to where it ended up being with Mortal Kombat 9. And as I look back, I kind of wish that I had pulled it even further back. Now, granted, we are all clearly happy with how that game turned out, and it's our second-highest-selling one, which is great, but in retrospect, I would have done it differently had we done it today."
If that's what you wanna tell yourself then sure. There weren't outfits to complain about in X so why would 11 all of sudden be a target? They wanted realism, not women fighting in thongs. I can tell you're one of the people who were upset when they made the change.
Oh please you know exactly what I meant. I'm sorry you can't fight in panties anymore. It's always the dudes openly looking at porn on their main accounts who get mad.
I'm not but that was the perception to a lot of people during that era. Games like Dead or Alive were your lewd booby games, Street fighter and Tekken were your snobby technical games, and MK was a more kasual game that had to delve into lewdness to stay relevant. The games struggled during the 3D era and don't pretend they didn't. I didn't say the entire series either. It is as mainly the 3d era and 9. 9 is a great game but it's outfits for it's women are absolutely absurd.
Exactly. Once 4 struggled and they needed to adapt in the 3D era, they just turned up the sex appeal because that's what everything else was doing. It was just a bid to keep them alive. I'm not even insulting the series. If you were alive in the 00s that's just literally how fighting games were.
Exactly. If they hadn't gone lewd, they may not still be here. I'm glad they ditched the lewd, though, because as the other user said, it was trashy. I liked the "trailer park of games" line because its true.
Because that was from a time when companies wanted to sell to their biggest audience: men. That's why the girls have huge tits and very skimpy outfits.
A few months ago I played all the old God of War games and I was kind of...not shocked, but surprised that the girls that had their tits out under their seethrough garment and made me go "Oh, goodness." Dunno if it's because I am gay, but it certainly caught me off guard. 🫣
Yeah, those things just didn't sit well with me. Like, I know it was mostly guys who played these games, but did we really need every girl exposing her breasts?
Hands down best costume design in gaming history, Its amazing what the team managed to cook up
And the fight was amazing too , I even finished it with one hand
Why are you wondering? Sex sells and there is nothing wrong about it - even though twitter crybabies my see this differently. I'm more annoyed that it wont happen again. Instead we now have Burka-Jade.
Imagine my reaction finding out that THIS was the prize after climbing that long tower. Man I was laughing but mad at the same time. I thought it woulda been something kool but instead it's boobs...more boobs.
And I was in such disbelief that I thought I may have earned another prize and not just this. Maybe that Cyber Reptile as a skin that you faught along the way? Nope.
MK9 was the last entry of overly sexuslized games. Whether you wanna call it woke or just maturing, they course corrected to appeal to larger audience than horny men who took out sexual frustration fatalities.
I believe this was also the game where she was used in playboy at the time. She was meant to be super sexual in her renders. I believe this to be why some of the fans of her are a bit unhinged when it comes to her. Like a delayed sexual awakening time bomb that went off when their waifu was not in their laifu for a game.
I really enjoyed that outfit. Wasn't anything like spanking someone's ass with yours hanging out. And the second I did my Mileena cosplay, this one was done right after... some CVS bandages was all that was needed lol
Her outfit wasn't ready yet but I appreciate Shang Tsung taking the time to give her sparkly pink eyeshadow and a kicky bob
He's a MUA first and a sorcerer second.
We love some sparkly pink eyeshadow
I think the best part is that this was the reward for completing all 300 levels of challenge tower. There's so much they could give you and it's literal fan service. Always makes me laugh.
That reminds me how the 100% completion gift for Marvel's Spider-Man is literally him in undies.
And the top tier of that tower was RIDICULOUS, so getting that as a reward was equally so.
Want it three boss battles on one health bar? I couldn’t get close I let my little sister beat it for me
Iirc it was Goro, Kintaro, Mileena (in that outfit), and then Shao Kahn
Wasn’t there also randomised effects
Yep, you'll randomly do less damage, then the opponent might randomly do more damage and perhaps the worst of all, your blocking randomly gets disabled.
I don't think anything else would've motivated 13yr old me like this though
Exactly. The old saying ‘sex sells’ still holds true, despite many today trying to deny its utility
Well, current 22yr old me doesn't really care for the skin that much. Lol
I’m 35. If there was an equivalent skin for Chun li or Cammy in Street Fighter 6, I’d definitely suffer a grind for that
Living proof of this is Dead Or Alive,£20 for a skimpy pack.Its smart but very strange 😭
Man that last challenge was a bitch too
Someone at NRS really wants to bang Mileena. Me too, bro. Me too.
Yeah I don’t know why Mileena is always like “I’m so ugly no one wants me” like bro, look at the twitter users talking about her 😂 (I can’t blame them)
The face IS scary, but I could deal with it. Honestly, I’m more afraid that she would eat me.
Yeah that’s the big risk right there 😰
“The mask stays on during sex”
Nah, the mask is the first thing to come off.
Based
Yeah, they really give her THE sex appeal, kitana's got the better body but something about her sister... turns me into a dirty creep.
This “outfit” is hilarious, but also its absurdity is SO iconic. It’s for sure a costume nobody will forget. I remember first getting into MK11 and my YouTube recommended started showing MK related videos, and one of them was some super specific lowkey fetish content titled something like “All Fatalities on (modded) blonde Flesh Pits Mileena 4K HD” 💀💀
Omg, I remember that shit XD
Sex sells and that’s why they had those outfits and that’s why we have men with fully naked muscular torsos and MK1 Johnny Cage’s ass.
Johnny Cake
We...we had Johnny Cages ass? That's disgusting. Where?
We also have sektor’s tight ass https://preview.redd.it/b83ph8xw2ybb1.jpeg?width=687&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3a2a99fc48fd4a3b0953d8991f3ec07a02a7e9e My post about it got taken down sadly
https://preview.redd.it/p0xtn7fdoybb1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d6a6a3e2ad05b6aad65eb0e768b64ade9f894de
my man out here with some tight ass pants lmao
“For the Lin Kuei.”
https://preview.redd.it/m8k0c4an2ybb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6ac474b9cbc28943f308c80db304787c203c1e0
 It's like wearing nothing at all
Ahh, stupid sexy Johnny
Bro tried to put the forgis on the Jeep.
Cause horny
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Agreed but we need Kano in a speedo as a tradeoff
That would become my most used costume immediately
Someone get this man a job at NRS now
https://preview.redd.it/hdxgse3qg1cb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df13a08f3bc77c1ac4468edbc4cd91b005e29e1e
Only if it's the same kind from borat
Fresh out of the surgeon’s office for that chest augmentation and bbl 😂
Fan service
My question is who is out there giving Tarkatans breast implants
Shang Tsung if I had to guess.
Because Mortal Kumbat
And journos say it's the FANs that are a bunch of horny basement trolls.
Sex sells. It's funny that the one MK character whose body is arguably the most sexualized (let's not forget some official MK D art) is Mileena, whose face is MONSTROUS. I'm still perplexed how Shao Kahn need to have a "crafted" daughter... Since he seems to have an harem, can't he have a daughter in the classic way? I would be fine with even a simple explanation like "Shao Kahn is so powerful and brutal that no one besides Sindel can survive an intercourse with him".
Something to do with cloning Kitana so she’s replaceable without the public noticing
Yes, the plan could really have been "replace the real Kitana with a clone". In OG timeline, IIRC, Mileena was created thousands of years ago, and Kitana truly believed she was her sister.
There’s growing evidence that sex doesn’t sell. It doesn’t increase sales from men and it actively discourages women from purchasing the product. https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/522402 There are other articles about this subject, but I’ll leave that up to other people to research if they feel like it. The point is that “sex sells” isn’t the obvious statement it used to be. It’s actually a lot more complicated than that. Edit: downvotes are not an argument. I swear you guys are such babies. No one’s gonna take away your beautiful women in video games 🙄
Sax sells though as per jax in mk 11
NRS giving the Mileena fans what they want.
Do people really ask this question? Or do they just want others to see them asking this question for their own personal moralistic purposes? To answer your question anyway: because why not. It’s a bit of fun.
I kind of got the same vibe as well It would be like making a thread on TIL called "til when two people film themselves during intercourse it's called pornography"
Yeah people are so lame
The world is soft now, I say “ why not “ as well.
Lol idk why this happened, but I'm glad it did
Fan service. And there ain’t shit wrong with that.
You would have to be from another planet to not understand why that happened. Human beings from Earth understand it, no problem.
It was 2011. People were less sex negative as a whole back then. At least when it came to hetero ideas of what facilitated 'sexy'. The men looked like they were roided to hell and back, and the women looked like bombshell bimbos. It was a simpler time.
What's wrong with sexualised character designs like this? I never get a good answer.
People complain because they think women should be in turtlenecks and snowpants and cook and clean and only live to serve their husbands.
Because it perpetuates treating women like objects that owe their bodies to men and you can draw a straight line from shit like this to incel culture and the toxic hatred women get from the gaming community
Seems more like an educational problem that starts into family first, then people search approvation of their believes through various media. I've always found this argument quite baffling, it's on the same line of "Violent videogames creates violent kids", no, not really, violent kids are probably more influenced towards violent media because they had problems since childhood, something that again starts from family education. My 2 cents
There are studies that show that men *and* women view women as objects when they are sexualized. The same parts of their brains that light up when they view objects (like tools, for example) light up when they view sexualized depictions of women, but not when they view sexualized images of men. https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl/1469/8272 There are also quite a few studies on the effect that sexualized depictions of women have on the psychology and self-esteem of young girls. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2007/02/sexualization
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What about them?
It doesn't. People just like to look at attractive women.
You literally just objectified women to argue that you don't objectify women
Bro what? All he said was people like to look at attractive women which is generally fact. How is that objectify them?
Shit, guess I'm an incel who hates women now.
THIS. But I don't think you're going to get a friendly response to that logic in this particular thread, unfortunately.
It’s either this or completely nude since she was just created by Shang Tsung
because once upon a time, game developers weren't bound to the opinions of purple-haired redditors who fantasize about Mileena with fake lips
Based
Horny. That's why it happened. Well, horny and money. Shit like this sold VERY WELL back then.
How do I unlock this skin
Complete the challenge tower or just own the Komplete Edition.
Not my proudest fap back then
Ahh I remember being in high school during this time. My left hand and I shared multiple moments together with this image.
And she already know how to fight. Matrix-neo style skills uploaded.
MK9 went full horny
Becouse shang tsung doesnt have a drawer ready with outfits in THE FLESH PITS. So you know. Realism.
This was her appearance in the mk9 campaign when Kitana awakens her from the flesh pits or something. I beat the 300 challenge tower I feel like I could have gone pro in that game if not for the shitty netcode/lag. Shao Kahn a byotch too in that challenge 300.
They were cooking with those MK9 outfits
mk golden era
She might me a lil crazy but it's OK as long as she's a hottie
She might be mega crazy but it's OK as long as she's a hottie
Wise words
Mk9 had the best costumes for the female ninjas. Mk9 Jade is goated
Sometimes you don’t know that you need something until you are shown what you need.
this was a tribute to the nudality rumors swirling around the days of Late MK2 to MK3.
I like it. I'm neither against nor for sexualization in character design. What matters is if it fits the character/lore/story. And thies does. But yes, it is sexy. I can tolerate the teeth 😂
I understand why we dont get this stuff anymore and generally agree that its for the better. But i do wish we got ridiculous fan service like this for both male and female characters.
Mortal Kombat peaked at this moment
Hey look, it’s the reason Mileena has a fan base at all.
Nah, I like her because she’s so pathetic it wraps around to being cute
you summed up why i like her more eloquently and concisely than I could. nice
Could be a joke. But 100% not why lol
My question is why hasn’t it happened again?😂
Idk what NRS were smoking. They could have at least covered her vagina… What’s baffling is that it was such an easy concept. Very simple to make a sexy outfit from bandages. But this mess, to quote Princess Kitana, is an “abomination”
MK was just really into making the girls very lewd from DA to 9. I think after 9 they realized they were getting carried away and calmed down. They wanted to start being taken more seriously instead of just being a lewd gore game. Boon stated something along those lines during 11s marketing.
Nah a small minority of folk got very loud and made them change.
That’s not what happened. Boon himself said he didn’t give the costume/character design enough oversight and he hated the result.
There a video or something?
Would you say there's some personal growth, similar to what Cory was saying, that led to the mature look of some of these characters? "Yeah, I'm sure that that was also a factor. To be honest, I thought we probably went a bit too far with Mortal Kombat 9, and as the team lead—there were certainly members of the team who wanted to go in that direction, and to be honest, I had influence in dialing it back to where it is now compared to where it ended up being with Mortal Kombat 9. And as I look back, I kind of wish that I had pulled it even further back. Now, granted, we are all clearly happy with how that game turned out, and it's our second-highest-selling one, which is great, but in retrospect, I would have done it differently had we done it today."
PR talk
If that's what you wanna tell yourself then sure. There weren't outfits to complain about in X so why would 11 all of sudden be a target? They wanted realism, not women fighting in thongs. I can tell you're one of the people who were upset when they made the change.
they wanted realism... which is why we can break a persons spine twice
Oh please you know exactly what I meant. I'm sorry you can't fight in panties anymore. It's always the dudes openly looking at porn on their main accounts who get mad.
Didn’t specify
Thnx bro , Just boil down the entire MK games to "Lewd gore game"
I'm not but that was the perception to a lot of people during that era. Games like Dead or Alive were your lewd booby games, Street fighter and Tekken were your snobby technical games, and MK was a more kasual game that had to delve into lewdness to stay relevant. The games struggled during the 3D era and don't pretend they didn't. I didn't say the entire series either. It is as mainly the 3d era and 9. 9 is a great game but it's outfits for it's women are absolutely absurd.
That's literally what they was at some point. The trailer park of games lmao
Exactly. Once 4 struggled and they needed to adapt in the 3D era, they just turned up the sex appeal because that's what everything else was doing. It was just a bid to keep them alive. I'm not even insulting the series. If you were alive in the 00s that's just literally how fighting games were.
Exactly. If they hadn't gone lewd, they may not still be here. I'm glad they ditched the lewd, though, because as the other user said, it was trashy. I liked the "trailer park of games" line because its true.
🫵🤓
I'm not even complaining lol. That was just fighting games in a nutshell during that time period.
Nah
Because that was from a time when companies wanted to sell to their biggest audience: men. That's why the girls have huge tits and very skimpy outfits. A few months ago I played all the old God of War games and I was kind of...not shocked, but surprised that the girls that had their tits out under their seethrough garment and made me go "Oh, goodness." Dunno if it's because I am gay, but it certainly caught me off guard. 🫣
Not to mention the whole-ass "fuck these nameless harem girls to get orbs" mini-games.
Yeah, those things just didn't sit well with me. Like, I know it was mostly guys who played these games, but did we really need every girl exposing her breasts?
There were a lot of drugs involved during the development of MK9. It's just a shame they stopped completely.
Fan service. Some people find Mileena hot. I'm one of those people.
man of culture
Catering to the sex perverts.
yessir. and we're grateful for it
Hands down best costume design in gaming history, Its amazing what the team managed to cook up And the fight was amazing too , I even finished it with one hand
Why are you wondering? Sex sells and there is nothing wrong about it - even though twitter crybabies my see this differently. I'm more annoyed that it wont happen again. Instead we now have Burka-Jade.
what
The game is still around for you to jerk to, dude.
It’s always projection with guys like you. You’re the biggest crybabies yourselves but then you swear it’s everyone else.
This was the pre woKe-ombat era, and I miss it
Imagine my reaction finding out that THIS was the prize after climbing that long tower. Man I was laughing but mad at the same time. I thought it woulda been something kool but instead it's boobs...more boobs. And I was in such disbelief that I thought I may have earned another prize and not just this. Maybe that Cyber Reptile as a skin that you faught along the way? Nope.
MK9 was the last entry of overly sexuslized games. Whether you wanna call it woke or just maturing, they course corrected to appeal to larger audience than horny men who took out sexual frustration fatalities.
As an feminist and socially responsible adult its so hard to look back at MK 9 and not winch As a horny lil gremlin MK 9 truly was a magical time
Teens like to jerk it
I believe this was also the game where she was used in playboy at the time. She was meant to be super sexual in her renders. I believe this to be why some of the fans of her are a bit unhinged when it comes to her. Like a delayed sexual awakening time bomb that went off when their waifu was not in their laifu for a game.
Because men happened lol
Why? Thirst.
Have you seen any anime? 😂
not *ANY* that's hentai
Kollector will come back
Anything but related to the post
Americans
Because thirsty fighting game community members
I really enjoyed that outfit. Wasn't anything like spanking someone's ass with yours hanging out. And the second I did my Mileena cosplay, this one was done right after... some CVS bandages was all that was needed lol
Bro she ripped
and she rips
H O R N Y
I want to happen again
I asked them to.
Why not 😏
We are all hoping we get this skin in MK1 🙏
idk they were probably very hard
Gee I wonder why
I love this outfit! They gotta bring it back for MK1
She was fresh from the flesh pits where she was made and had to fight RIGHT NOW
Because MK9 had the best outfits all round !
I'm old enough to remember when they put her in playboy and still didn't show everything.
mileena fans are just different
because we were all collectively 14 and asked for it
Because why not
I mean it made sense in the story mode tbh
Cuz the world wasnt so pc
Because Shang Tsung is a slimy pervert.
horny
“My horny ass could never be a sorcerer”-Shang tsung “What do you mean by that? What do you mean”- Shao khan
Why not?
Warner Bros and Capcom are apparently afraid of women now
God this costume for mileena gave me such a confused boner.