Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-26516813-20180304162350/@comment-25561256-20180712001651

Dragonspyne wrote: Like would that female have to be a bruting bitch or what? Bruting? Did you possibly mean "brooding"? I looked up bruting, because I've never seen that word before, and it means something like "to shape a diamond by rubbing it against another diamond." Lol.

Anyway, if you meant "brooding", I'd say no, not necessarily, although I do think that evil characters in general kind of have a asshole/bitch characteristic to them. She'd definitely have to not be a barbie doll look-a-like, bubblegum chewing, everything that's wrong with American culture currently type of female, though. That's exactly why Cassie wasn't believable to me. She was a very young adult, which isn't inherently troublesome (Liu Kang was supposedly very young in MK1 as well), but she acted like a child. A leader, whether good or evil, cannot be someone who acts like a child and be believable to me. Any culture in reality that crowns a king/queen when they're seven years old due to the death of their parent isn't an example of a believable leader, it's an example of a very flawed system.

Another good example of this is Mileena being empress of Outworld during MKX's story mode. She isn't believable, proven by the fact that no one particularly fears her and that she doesn't have a leader's mentality. For me personally, you can't really give a female character male physical attributes and have her be a leader. Now if this female "big bad" were immensely intelligent and could use some sort of magical ability through species characteristics, a talisman etc., but was relatively weak in the physical sense, I could possibly buy into that. Essentially if Shinnok were female, I'd have no problem with that character being the final boss.