HOW DO ANY HOMOPHOBIC MORTAL KOMBAT FANS EVEN EXIST?? DID Y'ALL JUST NOT PAY ATTENTION TO KUNG JIN, MILEENA AND TANYA IN MKX? OR MILEENA IN MK11? OR MILEENA AND TANYA IN MK1??
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Kung Jin is a confirmed gay man, Mileena is confirmed to be bisexual. (I'm unsure if Tanya is also bisexual or if it's unconfirmed yet.) They are explicitly stated. So, only three characters, out of hundreds of named Mortal Kombat characters, are confirmed to be queer.
It's clear nobody is 'forcing' anything, or 'making everything LGBTQ+', because those three examples are the only canon characters apart of our community. You can just block the ship tags, the lgbtq tag, or the people who post that art / fanfictions, you're making a huge issue out of something that takes less seconds to solve than putting on a sock.
If a character has a spouse and kids, it's in no way confirming that they're straight. To believe that is ignoring the bisexual people in real life who have children and a spouse, it's ignoring the fact that bisexual is attraction to all genders, including the opposite, and if a bisexual person wants kids? That's great! It doesn't make them any less bisexual.
It's rather disingenuous to claim you 'have no issue' with our community, but then turn around and be genuinely disgusted or even angry when ships or headcanons are made about us.
It's telling when you only focus on the LGBTQ+ aspect of that headcanon or ship. It's telling when you, only after the post is made and you're rightfully getting harmless criticisms, mention cishet ships and headcanons offhandedly because 'look guys! I'm not homophobic!' Even though you never actually mention what ships or headcanons you dislike, just that you dislike a few.
Unless they're LGBTQ+. In which case you go in vivid detail, you describe how frustrated you get, how it's clearly 'new fans' despite the fact that queer people and their ships + headcanons have been a part of fandom space, since fandoms existed.
To bring up past timelines when you're specifically referring to Mortal Kombat 1 is plain stupidity, Liu Kang changed Tarkat from a species to a disease, it's not hard to believe a character could be trans or gay when before they were hinted otherwise.
It proves that, for you, it's not about shipping or headcanons, or new fans, or fandoms in itself. It's about the fact that our community is gaining acceptance, we're being seen as normal, because we are normal, and we shouldn't be treated as 'it NEEDS to be confirmed to be true.' But for cishet people? Oh, EVERY character is cishet, that's just the 'default'.
Oh, and, by the way, it isn't 'good representation' if you can't actually tell if the character isn't cishet/allo, if it takes years for you to realise Kung Jin is gay, that means his queerness was written badly, which it was. If straight men characters get to flirt with women, and straight women characters get to flirt with men, why can't men flirt with other men, or women flirt with other women?
If cis male characters get to talk about their bodies, and cis female characters talk about their bodies, why can't transgender characters talk about being transgender or how it affects their bodies?
If your audience needs to go to a twitter post or ask around to check what your character's sexuality/gender is, you've quite literally just failed at writing.
Beside that, there's nothing wrong with believing a character is straight or cis, either! Just, don't be awful to those who believe differently, don't send threats, just because somebody believes a character is a part of our community.
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The first incorrect MK quotes was so good they gave us a sequel
Incorrect Mortal Kombat quotes part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Tanya: I'm a lesbian.
Rain: I thought you were Edenian.
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Random SF solider: I fucking hate it here
Cassie: now replace "it" with "women". Not so funny, is it?
Kung Jin: Now replace "it" with "women". Not so funny, is women?
Takeda: I'm having a goddamn stroke.
Jaqui: now replace "stroke" with "baby". You're welcome (;
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Kuai Liang: Cyrax? How are you holding up?
Cyrax, right after being sack-whacked: Well, I can't feel anything bellow my waist, but maybe that's for the best.
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Hotaru: I shall not side with him until he bends the knee.
Havik: How about i bend it in your face, you british BITCH--
*and they started fighting in the court house*
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Johnny: So, let me go over this one more time... they got fire, ice, water, earth... and i have...
Raiden: G R E E N .
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(Inspired by a reblog i did a while back with @mikka-minns)
King Kano: You have come to a stand still in Kronikas Keep, you have 13 seconds before the whole town fucking explodes, you hot topic wannabe and you blue Gumball Son of a bitch with your walmart jedi child! You have done nothing but destroy my life, I hope you all die!
Hanzo:
Kuai Liang:
Kenshi: Wait, blows up?
Dairou, who lived through all that: You weren't suppose to hear that- PRETEND HE SAID NOSE-UP!
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Procreate: Mortal Kombat Doodle
I've tried posting this from my phone and my Ipad!
Had to use my computer. 😑
Two characters that aren't actually in the mortal kombat franchise.
1# The head under Mileena and Tanya, it was a fun drawing of their possible daughter. (Mk 11 Mileena ending)
2# The white haired and blue skin woman is my Mk OC Sylianak.
All of Sylianak info so far and more drawings of her here!
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"Shut up"-rubric
So, this is Tanya, right?
Tanya, known for her betrayals of absolutely all her allies.
Tanya, who is true to herself and only to herself.
Tanya, walking over heads to her goal.
Insidious, elegant, exotic Tanya, an example of the Egyptian type of beauty, fierce and fiery, ready for any meanness for the sake of her ideas.
No? Is this Tanya noble and wise? Is she playing the role of Jade now? Just because she's Mileena's girlfriend now. And this is not a question, but a statement. Tanya literally left nothing of her canonical image - the one for which she was loved. She was made just another typical "strong" woman from Netflix, and she is put in the place of a more interesting and more memorable character.
Tanya steals Jade's place in this new game and totally undeservedly. Her only merit is that she has a connection with Princess Mileena. She literally snuck into this game through the bed, guys.
And you know that it is.
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