Like… I guess she meets a cute boy, and maybe that’s a part of advancing as a human? Oh, and she avenges her father’s exploded arms by beating on Ermac. Does she grow and learn over the course of the story? I guess. She’s there to be a sounding board for the pretty white lady that is leading the story, and, aside from a few situations where she actively punched her way out of problems, she doesn’t really do anything. What does she actually do during Mortal Kombat X? Nothing much, unfortunately. Jacqui is the exact kind of woman you want on your team when the going gets rough. She’s also the only member of the “new” Special Forces to join up without any kind of supernatural abilities, which officially marks her as more heroic than Cassie and her ill-defined green powers. She has technical skills beyond the rest of the gang, she can pilot aircraft without issue, and she even has rad, mechanical gauntlets that augment her strength beyond normal capabilities.
#KUNG JIN MK 11 PROFESSIONAL#
She was a junior Olympian, a professional kickboxer, and, against her father’s wishes, she ran away to join the Special Forces. It’s… a little disturbing once you notice that trend.Īnd a big reason this trend is so noticeable is Jacqueline Sonya "Jacqui" Briggs. And, to review the MK Kids Club’s roster…Īnd they’ve all got their roles and skills, but it’s pretty clear that white is right, and everybody else better get in line behind her. And, finally, you have the Special Forces, the good guys, which put the parents in management roles, and the new generation with boots on the ground. Then you’ve got team Kotal Kahn, featuring the new emperor of Outworld and his entourage. On one side, you have Team Shinnok, consisting of all the bad guys trying to revive/serve Shinnok and destroy the world. So, since they could now eschew the common fighting game trope of “every fighter for themselves”, the new roster of MKX pretty quickly coalesced into a trio of teams. DC Universe, Mortal Kombat (9), and Injustice, Netherrealm Studios seemed pretty confident in their “story mode” style storytelling. Happens all the time.Īnd, honestly, it wouldn’t be as noticeable if Mortal Kombat X wasn’t so much a “team” story.
But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that pretty white lady and muscular white man survived to sire another pretty white lady. The copious Asian population of MK all died, the sole Native American leader was vaporized, and the pair of African American (well, at least one was African-Edenian) fighters all bit the big one. In fact, give or take an already immortal god, the only survivors of Mortal Kombat 9 were a pair of white people. And, while it’s been noted that the MK franchise leans heavily into the “non-white cultures = mystic” side of stereotypes, at least the storytellers of Mortal Kombat avoided the old trope of having the white savior step into the leading role the minute mystical kung fu dudes fail. So we got a woman in the lead after ten (or so) games, but she’s also the official first lily white protagonist in 20 years of Mortal Kombat.
It was long overdue for the franchise (particularly one that had ditched Sonya entirely for a game that should have been her featured title), and seems like the exact kind of thing that I, Super Woke Goggle Bob (universal arbiter of all that is good and pure), should be excited about. MKX is Cassie Cage’s story, and that’s the first (and so far, only) time in the franchise when a woman was the one saving the world(s). Mortal Kombat X was the first Mortal Kombat title to feature a woman in the leading role.
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