![]() Do something unexpected! Set Shao Kahn up as the big bad, then have Mileena and Tanya overthrow him and pose an even greater threat. I love classic Mortal Kombat as much as the next guy, but c’mon, we can do better than this. Scorpion and Sub-Zero will fight again, somehow. Someone will probably die, but not really. Cole Young and the gang will go up against Shao Kahn. He’ll take over from Kano on the one-liners, and go on the same old “learning to care about my friends!” arc he’s been on for years. ![]() The sequel will introduce Johnny Cage, and we can pretty much write it now. Just like we have in every other film adaptation. ![]() But these characters went underused so we could have more Scorpion/Sub-Zero fights. The best thing Mortal Kombat 2021 did was bring in characters that don’t usually appear in the first story, such as Mileena, Nitara, Jax, and Kung Lao. Sadly, it's a trap the first film fell into, for the most part. Following the games in order is not a good idea for this fledgling movie series. Because now that we’ve done the Shang Tsung story, we’re left with her dad yet again, Shao Kahn. Mileena has risen from the dead before, and unless they bring her back - and make her the LGBTQ+ icon we knew she should have been years ago - the film is doomed to be yet another dull retelling of a story we’ve seen many times before. “But Rhiannon, don’t you remember? She died in the first one!” Don’t care + didn’t ask + ratio + fatality. Let her shine after so many years on the sidelines. And if the next Mortal Kombat movie wants to represent the series’ exciting future rather than its great, but overdone past, it better put this sapphic icon centre stage. She settled down with her ally-turned-gal-pal, Tanya, and had a demon baby. And better yet, in her Mortal Kombat 11 ending, she found it.Īfter 30 years, Mileena got an ending where she became a gay queen. But in recent games, she’s also eager to find love and acceptance for the same reason. She’s hungry for power, because she knows what it’s like to have none. Starting out as the “mad”, “ugly” - but still sexualised - version of Kitana, she’s now a fleshed-out character and a fantastic villain, arguably the best one the series has to offer. In her 30 years in the series, Mileena has come a long way.
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