While I agree on gender exaggeration, I think today's media heavily lacks pure evil female villians. Coming off my mind, I can name only Azula and Lord Dominator from Wander over Younder who while being very attractive didn't use it in their benefit and were power hungry irredeemable psychopaths. We need more characters like this, their best aspect is demonstrating how far can some people go in their insanity and arrogance. I wanted to include another character named Harumi from Ninjago Masters of Spinjitsu show, but unfortunately the final season ruined the logical end to her character. I don't know if you're talking badly about Kronika as a character in general or her depiction in Mortal Kombat 1, but I think she's the best villian in the games and Mortal Kombat 11 has the best plot out of all of them.
I agree with making more irredeemable characters. But I think some writers try to play it safe by making them sympathetic or redeemable. The reason I brought up Kronika being bad is was because in Mk11 her role contradicts established lore, not really having a clear motive for restarting the universe, making bad decisions, and just being broken for no reason. And they retconned alot of character's stories like Sindel, Kabal, Erron Black, Kotal Kahn, Etc. Which doesn't align with Mk9 or Mk11. Edit: Alot of people aren't huge fans of the story or Kronika is why I mentioned it.
@keenestfox6376 But her motive was putting Raiden in his place since he created imbalance in the timeline and to get a revenge for Shinnok's death(even though he's immortal). As for making bad decisions, she made a wrong choice by siding with Shang Tsung and Quan Chi who obviously schemed behind her back and spoiled her plans. Well, maybe Shang Tsung had much better plan and works better as a villian, Kronika still planned almost everything through unlike Shao Khan and Shinnok.
@@ashesGeek yeah her motive was to spite Raiden and get revenge for Shinnok. But with her time abilities she could've revived Shinnok, killed either Liu Kang or Raiden separately before they threatened her revision, or why she brought over past versions of the characters that got in the way of her plans in Mk11. I don't want to spoil anything big in M1k fir you, but Kronika wasn't the one working with Shang Tsung and Quan chi. Edit: But I won't lie Netherrealm didn't portray Shao Kahn and Shinnok in the way that they were schemers outside their brute strength from Midway.
I think in order for female characters good they must either relatable, especially to girls to be a good role model or behaving real having both ups and downs. That's why I think characters like Korra and Star from Star vs the forces of evil are bad-written characters since they teach some bad lessons and they don't get punished for that making it all to look like a raight decision(even if both pretty much broke every rule and screw up their worlds because of minor selfish goals). In fact I feel like most of the time, at least in western media the writers dont know what to do with females other than being love interests or the ones trying to break stereotypes and prove they're good enough as males. As much as I understand many women are treated badly and unfortunately mostly them end up injured or killed during crimes in real world, making them look like a furniture is just total disrespect considering we're all here because of our moms and pregnancy along with parenting is just as hard if not harder than work on the factory. The best way to write a girl character is to make people care about her just like with guys. Look at the detective novels, Agatha Christie's main character and Nancy Drew are though not as popular as Sherlock Holmes are among the best and most interesting female characters in fiction. Lara Croft is just a concertrated skilled treasure hunter who is on par with Indiana Jones and Nathan Drake, Elly from Wizard of Oz is a brave and agile character who despite being six years old managed to inspire some creatures and furfill their wishes(and if considering Russian interpretation of that story which grown into 6 original books she and later her daughter all by themselves managed to get to Magical land and helped to save the day) I just find it kinda ironic that the same people who shout about unequal treatment of women later write off such horrible characters themselves thinking it's exactly the perfect representation. And as much as my country loves to loathe on how horrible the West is because of that they treat women horribly too by usually writing them off as obnoxious housewives, sex baits or either love interests or the ones who's only purpose is to find love. I was honestly shocked that television accepted the kids show which brings up the idea of girls being incompetent and manipulative(though they also brought up race themes with hamster character dreaming about four black lackeys serving her). But than again, everything will never be as bad as infamous Tomorrow Day's Pioneers propaganda TV program. The girls are awesome and despite the constant debates about that it's good we got so many memorable and interesting characters throughout history.
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While I agree on gender exaggeration, I think today's media heavily lacks pure evil female villians. Coming off my mind, I can name only Azula and Lord Dominator from Wander over Younder who while being very attractive didn't use it in their benefit and were power hungry irredeemable psychopaths.
We need more characters like this, their best aspect is demonstrating how far can some people go in their insanity and arrogance.
I wanted to include another character named Harumi from Ninjago Masters of Spinjitsu show, but unfortunately the final season ruined the logical end to her character.
I don't know if you're talking badly about Kronika as a character in general or her depiction in Mortal Kombat 1, but I think she's the best villian in the games and Mortal Kombat 11 has the best plot out of all of them.
I agree with making more irredeemable characters. But I think some writers try to play it safe by making them sympathetic or redeemable. The reason I brought up Kronika being bad is was because in Mk11 her role contradicts established lore, not really having a clear motive for restarting the universe, making bad decisions, and just being broken for no reason. And they retconned alot of character's stories like Sindel, Kabal, Erron Black, Kotal Kahn, Etc. Which doesn't align with Mk9 or Mk11.
Edit: Alot of people aren't huge fans of the story or Kronika is why I mentioned it.
@keenestfox6376 But her motive was putting Raiden in his place since he created imbalance in the timeline and to get a revenge for Shinnok's death(even though he's immortal).
As for making bad decisions, she made a wrong choice by siding with Shang Tsung and Quan Chi who obviously schemed behind her back and spoiled her plans.
Well, maybe Shang Tsung had much better plan and works better as a villian, Kronika still planned almost everything through unlike Shao Khan and Shinnok.
@@ashesGeek yeah her motive was to spite Raiden and get revenge for Shinnok. But with her time abilities she could've revived Shinnok, killed either Liu Kang or Raiden separately before they threatened her revision, or why she brought over past versions of the characters that got in the way of her plans in Mk11. I don't want to spoil anything big in M1k fir you, but Kronika wasn't the one working with Shang Tsung and Quan chi.
Edit: But I won't lie Netherrealm didn't portray Shao Kahn and Shinnok in the way that they were schemers outside their brute strength from Midway.
I think in order for female characters good they must either relatable, especially to girls to be a good role model or behaving real having both ups and downs.
That's why I think characters like Korra and Star from Star vs the forces of evil are bad-written characters since they teach some bad lessons and they don't get punished for that making it all to look like a raight decision(even if both pretty much broke every rule and screw up their worlds because of minor selfish goals).
In fact I feel like most of the time, at least in western media the writers dont know what to do with females other than being love interests or the ones trying to break stereotypes and prove they're good enough as males.
As much as I understand many women are treated badly and unfortunately mostly them end up injured or killed during crimes in real world, making them look like a furniture is just total disrespect considering we're all here because of our moms and pregnancy along with parenting is just as hard if not harder than work on the factory.
The best way to write a girl character is to make people care about her just like with guys. Look at the detective novels, Agatha Christie's main character and Nancy Drew are though not as popular as Sherlock Holmes are among the best and most interesting female characters in fiction. Lara Croft is just a concertrated skilled treasure hunter who is on par with Indiana Jones and Nathan Drake, Elly from Wizard of Oz is a brave and agile character who despite being six years old managed to inspire some creatures and furfill their wishes(and if considering Russian interpretation of that story which grown into 6 original books she and later her daughter all by themselves managed to get to Magical land and helped to save the day)
I just find it kinda ironic that the same people who shout about unequal treatment of women later write off such horrible characters themselves thinking it's exactly the perfect representation. And as much as my country loves to loathe on how horrible the West is because of that they treat women horribly too by usually writing them off as obnoxious housewives, sex baits or either love interests or the ones who's only purpose is to find love.
I was honestly shocked that television accepted the kids show which brings up the idea of girls being incompetent and manipulative(though they also brought up race themes with hamster character dreaming about four black lackeys serving her).
But than again, everything will never be as bad as infamous Tomorrow Day's Pioneers propaganda TV program.
The girls are awesome and despite the constant debates about that it's good we got so many memorable and interesting characters throughout history.