Females in Injustice and NRS pattern in games...

NathanCorsini

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I just saw a thread that got closed on TestYourMight discussing it and had the idea to bring it here. We know it's always low numbers, and it wasn't different with MKX. Discuss!

By the way, just did this

MORTAL KOMBAT
1 Sonya

1 of 7 characters (~14%)

MORTAL KOMBAT 2
1 Kitana
2 Mileena

2 of 12 characters (~17%)

MORTAL KOMBAT 3
1 Sindel
2 Sonya
3 Sheeva

3 of 15 characters (~20%)

ULTIMATE MORTAL KOMBAT 3
1 Sindel
2 Sonya
3 Sheeva
4 Kitana
5 Jade
6 Mileena

6 of 25 characters (~24%)

MORTAL KOMBAT 4
1 Tanya
2 Sonya

2 of 17 characters (~12%)

MORTAL KOMBAT GOLD
1 Tanya
2 Sonya
3 Kitana
4 Mileena

4 of 23 characters (~17%)

MORTAL KOMBAT DEADLY ALLIANCE
1 Kitana
2 Sonya
3 Li Mei
4 Nitara
5 Frost

5 of 23 characters (~22%)

MORTAL KOMBAT DECEPTION
1 Jade
2 Mileena
3 Sindel
4 Li Mei
5 Kira
6 Ashrah
7 Tanya

7 of 24 characters (~29%)

MORTAL KOMBAT (2011)
1 Kitana
2 Mileena
3 Jade
4 Sonya
5 Sindel
6 Sheeva
7 Skarlet (DLC)

7 of 31 characters (~23%)

INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US
1 Catwoman
2 Wonder Woman
3 Harley Quinn
4 Killer Frost
5 Raven
6 Hawkgirl
7 Batgirl (DLC)
8 Zatanna (DLC)

8 out of 30 characters (~26%)

MORTAL KOMBAT X
1 Kitana
2 Mileena
3 Sonya
4 Cassie Cage
5 Jacqui Briggs
6 D'Vorah
7 Tanya (DLC)

7 out of 33 characters (~21%)
 
Forget NRS, it's a similar pattern with the majority of fighting games. Are you suggesting that we need more female characters?
 
Males are simply more popular in fighting games. Wether it's because of actual gender or just better design is debatable, but the fact is undeniable.
 
Equal representation on the roster would be cool. Male characters are indeed more popular, so it's understandable that there will be more male characters than female characters on the roster, but it would indeed still be cool to see as many female characters as males.

As long Nightwing is on the roster, then I'm good.
 
If the character is a character that fits my playstyle and I like playing as the character, then that's all that really matters.

In MK9, for me, it was Rain, Nightwolf and Sub-Zero.
In MKX, for me, it's Ronon Takeda, GM Sub-Zero and Shotgun Jaqui, and I'm between either Smoke or Cyber Sub.
 
Look at Dead Or Alive and Skull girls. Not ALL fighting games are overloaded with male characters, but I agree. Female characters are for some reason less popular. Not to me personally. Just in general sadly.
 
It's funny too because even though I like playing with the female characters more than the males, I never really felt like there was a shortage of females. Heck, I never realized that they only had 5 females in MKDA seeing how I mainly used Li Mei, Nitara, and Frost most of the time. If they fit, they fit. I wouldn't have cared if MKX was 95% male as long as Mileena & Tanya were on the roster.

Personally though, my favorite characters always fit one of two categories in every game: Black Female Characters and Savage Female Characters. This is why I like characters like MK9 Sindel, Tanya, Ferra, Mileena, D'Vorah, The MKMSZ Netherealm Assassins, Jacqui, Laura & Juri from Street Fighter, Cheetah & Giganta from WW, Harley Quinn, Raven, Lightning from FFXIII, Rubi Malone from WET, Liara T'Soni, Samara, Ashley from Until Dawn (Spoiler Reason), Riley & Ellie from TLOU, Nadine Ross from Uncharted 4, ect.
 
I just saw a thread that got closed on TestYourMight discussing it and had the idea to bring it here. We know it's always low numbers, and it wasn't different with MKX. Discuss!

By the way, just did this

MORTAL KOMBAT
1 Sonya

1 of 7 characters (~14%)

MORTAL KOMBAT 2
1 Kitana
2 Mileena

2 of 12 characters (~17%)

MORTAL KOMBAT 3
1 Sindel
2 Sonya
3 Sheeva

3 of 15 characters (~20%)

ULTIMATE MORTAL KOMBAT 3
1 Sindel
2 Sonya
3 Sheeva
4 Kitana
5 Jade
6 Mileena

6 of 25 characters (~24%)

MORTAL KOMBAT 4
1 Tanya
2 Sonya

2 of 17 characters (~12%)

MORTAL KOMBAT GOLD
1 Tanya
2 Sonya
3 Kitana
4 Mileena

4 of 23 characters (~17%)

MORTAL KOMBAT DEADLY ALLIANCE
1 Kitana
2 Sonya
3 Li Mei
4 Nitara
5 Frost

5 of 23 characters (~22%)

MORTAL KOMBAT DECEPTION
1 Jade
2 Mileena
3 Sindel
4 Li Mei
5 Kira
6 Ashrah
7 Tanya

7 of 24 characters (~29%)

MORTAL KOMBAT (2011)
1 Kitana
2 Mileena
3 Jade
4 Sonya
5 Sindel
6 Sheeva
7 Skarlet (DLC)

7 of 31 characters (~23%)

INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US
1 Catwoman
2 Wonder Woman
3 Harley Quinn
4 Killer Frost
5 Raven
6 Hawkgirl
7 Batgirl (DLC)
8 Zatanna (DLC)

8 out of 30 characters (~26%)

MORTAL KOMBAT X
1 Kitana
2 Mileena
3 Sonya
4 Cassie Cage
5 Jacqui Briggs
6 D'Vorah
7 Tanya (DLC)

7 out of 33 characters (~21%)

Well, 7 and 1/2 in MKX/MKXL because of Ferra Torr. ;)

In MK11 I'd want at least 8 including Jade.
 
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