Mortal Kombat 11: Jade

As April 23rd, the day of Mortal Kombat 11's launch on Xbox One, PS4, and PC draws closer, NetherRealm Studios is now progressively becoming less coy about the game's full fighter character roster. And we can now add another familiar face to the list, with classic character Jade confirmed to return.

Jade made her series debut in 1993's Mortal Kombat 2, as a secret character that players could confront by solving a sequence of clues. She was finally added to the playable fighting roster for the first time in 1995's Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and even got a proper bit of backstory, cast as one of the Outworld emperor Shao Kahn's deadly assassins.

Despite being a bit of a fan favourite, Jade was last seen in 2011's Mortal Kombat reboot, so a return for her was well overdue. And as if by popular demand for Mortal Kombat 11, she's back and in a big way, she's a Revenant, which means she was resurrected from the dead to be a servant of the Netherrealm. Regardless of those shifting allegiances, she has her trademark bo staff and razorrangs, and you can see her revitalised move set in the reveal trailer. It looks like eyeball-popping finishers are a theme for Mortal Kombat 11.

I think this relates back to Mortal Kombat X where Kitana has a mournful variation, she had a bo staff and razorrangs, probably due to the fact she was morning for Jade. I just put two and two together with that one as I never realised it up until this point. 

I think she looks and fights amazing, she might not be a character I'll use often, but it's still awesome to see more returning characters come back to MK for this new game. We've got Baraka, Skarlet, Kabal, and now Jade, all of which seem like new characters to me as I'm not really that well familiar with MK or it's characters. I only have MKX to go on. So this all new and exciting stuff to me.

Anyway, here's Jade's trailer.