Mortal Kombat 1 being slammed by some fans for the "ugly female character models"

[John Elden Ring]

In a new trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios unveiled a handful of characters including fan favorites Quan Chi, Ermac, Takeda, Li Mei, Tanya, and Baraka, as well as guest characters, but the new trailers had the fans commenting on the new characters deisgn, specially on Tanya's

Why is Tanya so ugly why man,” @WavesDX proclaimed, sharing an image of the character’s render from Mortal Kombat X. “Everything else looking awesome but this gotta be the worst downgrade ive ever seen mkx Tanya went so hard.

Fans including @Intentse_XEnergy and @Black_D_Gamer1 see NetherRealm Studios Mortal Kombat 1 redesign for Tanya as another example of a woke Western video game developer deliberately making female characters ugly in the name of diversity and inclusion.

Mileena in MK11:​

Mileena in MK1:

Sindel in MK11:

Sindel in MK1:​

Kitana in MK1:​

Kitana in MK1:

Tanya in MKX:

Mileena in MK1:

“Tanya is my favorite MK character, but I’m honestly not feeling her new design at allI thought y’all would learn after MKX with the eye thing. Apparently not tho.”

They gotta redo Tanya’s face in Mortal Kombat 1. Shawty is way to beautiful to be looking like this in game.”

 

[ghostwriter74]

Already called the design boring weeks ago on Twitter.

It's not about the characters having to look like they do in DoA. But there are also different attractive natural women. Some designs are okay, but then the absolutely boring outfits catch the eye.

At MK11 there was at least some variety in outfits thanks to Sonya and Cassie. In MK1, the women's outfits have been very monotonous so far.

Of course, the male characters are different. Almost all very attractive, all different origins and also different outfits. The DLC characters like Homelander make the picture even more varied, while afaik there isn't even a female DLC character.

That won't bother most fans and players. But I find the selection in SF6 and upcoming games much more varied than in MK1. As a result, I leave MK1 alone and buy Granblu Fantasy Versus: Rising and Tekken 8 Day1.

 

[Sircaw]

If you think that's bad, here's the new Johhny Cage.

 

[Systemshock2023]

Fan since 1993 and this is the first time I am not hyped at all for a new MK. MK11 was terrible and this looks like MK11.5.

 

[Falcs]

another example of a woke Western video game developer deliberately making female characters ugly in the name of diversity and inclusion.

Correct.
This is just the industry norm now. No attractive women allowed.

Meanwhile the Japanese are like

 

[anonpuffs]

Correct.
This is just the industry norm now. No attractive women allowed.

Meanwhile the Japanese are like

Omg vietnamese people catching strays out here lmao. Japanese being casual racist af

 

[nongkris]

taking random incel twitter posts and making a thread about it? men are truly psychotic

 

[Falcs]

taking random incel twitter posts and making a thread about it? men are truly psychotic

Getting regularly laid isn't a requirement to identify that this is a problem in the majority of western media.

 

[historia]

Omg vietnamese people catching strays out here lmao. Japanese being casual racist af

If you think Japanese are racist, good luck when you going to Korea or China lol. We even have Peruvian and Brazillian living here.

Also Vietnamese people was being known for being causing ruckus so, there is that. I remembered 10 years ago when I was working in Saitama, I saw a group of betonamu shoplifting, not sure thing have changed since.

 

[Systemshock2023]

The worst thing is that the female models they use are better looking that their video game counterpart. The HZD actress is a beautiful lady but Aloy looks like she had way too much Arby's in forbidden west.

As an actress why wouldn't you want your best possible depiction in a game?

 

[Airbus]

Have to agree MK11 model is better than 1 judging by that side by side comparison

 

[ultimateFF]

They didn't showed the ugliest one? Grandma Li Mei? . The problem is western devs face-scan female attractive models, then making them uglier in the game somehow wtf, just to meet no pretty girls-more ugly girls quota .

 

[anonpuffs]

If you think Japanese are racist, good luck when you going to Korea or China lol. We even have Peruvian and Brazillian living here.

Also Vietnamese people was being known for being causing ruckus so, there is that. I remembered 10 years ago when I was working in Saitama, I saw a group of betonamu shoplifting, not sure thing have changed since.

nah all asians are pretty racist, i'm asian myself so i know. also i realize these are online comments which tend to skew towards 2ch-type disrespectful speech

 

[Box]

Why are Western Devs so against the idea of Attractive women?

 

[Remember_Spinal]

I must be blind because MK1’s models looks way better and like actual people to me

 

[anonpuffs]

I must be blind because MK1’s models looks way better and like actual people to me

The bodies are pretty good but the faces are a little derpy

 

[Darth Vader]

taking random incel twitter posts and making a thread about it? men are truly psychotic

Yeah. The whole "no pretty woman allowed in western media" bullshit.

Getting regularly laid isn't a requirement to identify that this is a problem in the majority of western media.

And there it is.

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

I think they are good. This way, it is guaranteed that you have both hands holding the controller.

 

[Swift_Star]

I must be blind because MK1’s models looks way better and like actual people to me

They're fine and closer to what people actually look like irl, meaning: not supermodels, sexy porn-like uber produced girls.
Reality triggers gamers.
Sindel looks so much like a real woman and she's beautiful, I'm really impressed with the in game model quality.

 

[Old Gamer]

Ugly characters? Where?