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Jade

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Jade
Mortal Kombat character
File:Jade MK11.png
Jade in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019)
First appearanceMortal Kombat II (1993)
Created byEd Boon
John Tobias
Designed byJohn Tobias (MKII, UMK3, MKT)
Jennifer L. Parsons (Annihilation)
Jennifer Hedrick (MK:D, MK:A)
Mark Lappin (MK:SM)
Atomhawk Design (MK9)[1]
Portrayed byIrina Pantaeva (Annihilation)
Voiced byNatalie Salzman (MK:D)
Linda Lee (MK9)[2]
Mela Lee (2019-present)[3]
Emily O'Brien (MKL:BOTR)[4]
Motion captureKatalin Zamiar (MKII)
Becky Gable (UMK3, MKT, MKA)[5]
Brenda Barrie (MK9)[6]
Alexis Gaube (MK11)
Information
Full nameMadison May "Jade" Katrina Anderson-Martin-Danzinger-Ross
SpeciesEdenian/Revenant
GenderFemale
WeaponSteel Fans (MKII)
Bo (UMK3, MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MK9, MK11)
Triblade (UMK3, MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MK9, MK11)
FamilyJobashel (father; deceased)
Unnamed mother (deceased)
SpouseKotal Kahn
Significant otherKotal Kahn
OriginEdenia

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Jade is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. She debuted in Mortal Kombat II (1993) as a hidden opponent and first became playable in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995). Her primary weapon is a steel bō staff.

In the story of the games, Jade is the childhood friend of Edenian princess Kitana. She first appears as an assassin for Outworld emperor Shao Kahn, but due to her friendship with Kitana, she supports the princess' rebellion against Shao Kahn to liberate the realms he conquered. Also appearing in various media outside of the games, the character has received a positive reception and is regarded as one of the franchise's strongest fighters during gameplay.

Appearances[edit]

Mortal Kombat games[edit]

In Mortal Kombat II (1993), Jade was a hidden character who played no part in the game's storyline other than appearing at the start of random fights to drop cryptic clues on how to access her, with players having to then meet specific requirements during gameplay in order to fight Jade in a secret battle. She is a green palette swap of Kitana with darker skin, and fights with increased speed and a pair of gold fans.

Jade makes her official debut as a playable character in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995); an upgrade of Mortal Kombat 3 in which she was written as being one of Outworld emperor Shao Kahn's elite assassins along with his adopted stepdaughter Kitana, with whom she shared a close friendship.[7] After Kitana flees to Earthrealm after killing Mileena, Shao Kahn orders Jade to bring Kitana back to him alive; forcing her to choose between disobeying her superior or betraying her close friend.[8]

Jade is not playable again until Mortal Kombat: Deception (2004). She witnesses the deaths of Kitana and the thunder god Raiden's chosen fighters at the hands of the Deadly Alliance (Shang Tsung and Quan Chi) and their subsequent resurrection by the Dragon King Onaga. Jade is forced to imprison a brainwashed Kitana in the Edenian palace dungeon before freeing Sindel and escaping with her to Outworld, while seeking revenge against traitorous fellow Edenian Tanya, who had allied herself with Onaga. In Sindel's non-canonical ending, she and Jade locate Onaga's tomb when he sends Kitana after them. Jade battles her friend before Sindel kills Onaga, breaking Kitana from his spell and returning peace to Edenia.[9]

In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, the 2005 beat 'em up action-adventure spinoff that retold the events of MKII, she engages Shaolin warriors Liu Kang and Kung Lao in a fight alongside Mileena and a brainwashed Kitana, and loses against them.

In Mortal Kombat, the 2011 reboot of the series, Jade was born into Edenian royalty that served Shao Kahn after he conquered the realm. Jade served as bodyguard to Princess Kitana and the two became close friends, but was under orders to kill Kitana should she become disloyal to Kahn.[10] They initially fight against the Earthrealm warriors, but Jade soon becomes suspicious of Kitana when she attempts to discover her true heritage, which in turn leads to her capture when she confronts Shao Kahn after coming across a grotesque clone of herself named Mileena. Jade changes allegiances and helps the Earthrealm warriors free Kitana from captivity. She later joins them as they prepare to fend off Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm. As Raiden and Liu Kang commune with the Elder Gods, the Lin Kuei ninja clan and Sindel attack; killing Jade and her allies before they are resurrected as undead revenants and enslaved in the Netherealm by Quan Chi.[11]

Jade was not included in Mortal Kombat X (2015), with Kitana shown using Jade's weapons in one of her three gameplay variations.[12]

Jade's revenant returns in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), serving Kitana and Liu Kang's revenants in the Netherrealm after they became its new rulers in MKX as well as servant to the keeper of time Kronika.[13][14] Due to her plans to erase Raiden from history however, a time anomaly she created inadvertently brought past versions of Jade and Kitana to the present. The two lend their support to its new ruler Kotal Kahn, with whom Jade shared a romantic history with before she died.[15] While helping him track down a time-displaced Shao Kahn, during which they encountered Jade's revenant, Kotal's hatred for all Tarkatans led Jade to beat him down before he killed innocent Tarkatans and left them both vulnerable to being captured by their quarry.[16] She is later rescued by Kitana and joins her united Outworld army in confronting Shao Kahn. After Kitana becomes the new Kahn of Outworld,[17] she and Jade take part in the final battle against Kronika and their revenant counterparts alongside the combined Earthrealm/Outworld armies.[18][19]

Design[edit]

File:JadeUltimateMK3Filming.png
Actress Becky Gable as Jade during production of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)[20]

Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon initially conceived Jade as "an evil version of Kitana" for her inclusion in MKII.[21] She was played by martial artist Katalin Zamiar, who also portrayed Kitana and Mileena, but Zamiar did not return for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 due to legal issues with Midway,[22] and was replaced by Becky Gable for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.[23] Jade was given her own weapon of a staff to further separate her from Kitana and Mileena.[21]

Like their male ninja counterparts in the Mortal Kombat games, Kitana, Mileena and Jade evolved considerably from their original palette swaps in the three-dimensional titles, receiving distinct new designs and other features. John Vogel, who worked on story and animations for Mortal Kombat: Deception, described Jade therein as "more of stealthy ninja type of character. She's the one who sneaks around and gets information, and carries out covert activities."[21]

For Mortal Kombat X, Jade's special attacks were given to Kitana for her "Mournful" gameplay variation, described in the game as her paying tribute to "her fallen best friend" by "employing the weapons of the deceased master assassin."[24]

Gameplay[edit]

In Mortal Kombat II, Jade used Kitana's weapons,[25] in particular her "Fan Throw",[26] but was extremely fast and immune to projectile attacks.[26] With her Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 debut, Jade's primary weapon became a magical steel bō staff, which was also used in her Fatalities, mostly for impaling her opponents. Her projectile attack in the game was a three-pronged boomerang that players could shoot in three different forward directions through varying joystick and button combinations.[27] Jade's body-propel attack, a kick that sees her encased in a smoking green glow, is a variant of Johnny Cage's Shadow Kick.[28][29] Sega Saturn Magazine's guide to Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 described her specials as leading into "some devastating combo attacks," adding that she was especially hard to win against as the CPU-controlled opponent.[28]

Jade's moves, along with these of Mileena and Kitana, were used in Mortal Kombat Trilogy to create the hidden composite character Khameleon.[30] In their 1997 review of the game, GameSpot described both Jade and Noob Saibot in Trilogy as being "incredibly overpowered, with moves that run from rendering projectiles ineffective to making characters momentarily powerless."[31] She was a non-playable boss character in Shaolin Monks, fighting alongside both Kitana and Mileena.[32] Prima Games rated Jade an overall score of seven out of ten, higher than Kitana and Mileena, for the 2006 compilation title Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, in which she was playable along with the entire Mortal Kombat roster.[33] For the 2011 reboot, Prima opined that her "speed, safe attacks, and savvy combo abilities put her near the top of the cast."[34]

Other appearances[edit]

Jade has a minor role in the novelization of the 1995 live-action film Mortal Kombat,[35] but did not appear in the film.

File:Jade MK Annihilation.png
Irina Pantaeva as Jade in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. She enthused in a 1997 interview with Femme Fatales magazine, "I loved my character so much that I [could] not get away from her."[36]

Jade is a supporting character in the 1997 film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and was portrayed by Siberian-born supermodel and actress Irina Pantaeva, making her English-language film debut.[37] She has no past relationship nor any interaction with Kitana in the film, and she secretly remains loyal to Shao Kahn while pretending to aid the Earthrealm warriors in her attempt to lead them into an ambush. Pantaeva underwent six months' fight training prior to shooting.[36]

In the Mortal Kombat series published by Malibu Comics, Jade was a recurring character in the 1995 miniseries Battlewave,[38] in which she is simply an evil assassin serving Shao Kahn and had no connection to Kitana or her homeland.

Jade appeared in the 2021 animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, and was voiced by Emily O'Brien.[4]

A Jade figurine was included with a 1995 special issue of Argentinian magazine Top Kids that featured a cover story titled "Jade: mystery warrior".[39] A 1:6 scale limited-edition character statue was released in the Mortal Kombat "Enchanted Warriors" line by Syco Collectibles in 2012.[40]

Reception[edit]

UGO ranked Jade 21st in their 2012 listing of the top fifty Mortal Kombat characters for "proving herself to be one of the greatest heroes in the universe of Mortal Kombat".[41] However, Den of Geek said in 2015, "Jade gets to show up in modern games because she was in Mortal Kombat II, but she doesn't really bring anything to the table."[42] According to UGO's Chris Plante in 2011, "Jade [seems] to fetishize Eastern culture. She is paradox: equal parts, exotic slave girl, her most powerful weapon being her sexuality. She's the mystical, foreign widow, a relic of postwar pulp novels."[43] Jade and Kitana's MK9 incarnations represented the "women who fight" trope in Complex's 2012 list of stereotypical video game characters, as embodying "half-naked skanks who can fight, hurl lasers and perform aerobatic attacks while wearing thongs, high-heeled boots and keeping their giant breasts under scarves."[44] In 2010, Jade was included by Game Informer among the series' unwanted "palette swap characters," excluding Scorpion and Sub-Zero, for omission from future Mortal Kombat installments.[45]

Jade's "Head Gymnastics" Fatality from Deception placed 33rd in Prima Games' 2014 ranking of the series' top fifty Fatalities.[46] Game Informer included it in their 2010 selection of the series' best finishers.[47] In 2022, GameSpot rated her "Shaky Staff" finisher from Mortal Kombat Trilogy among the ten worst Fatalities in the history of the franchise.[48]

References[edit]

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