Sareena
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Sareena is a character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
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[edit] About Sareena
Sareena is a demon who first appeared in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero as a non-playable boss character. She was first playable in Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition for the Game Boy Advance and later in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. She is from the Netherealm and a former assassin for Quan Chi but turned against him. Her young and beautiful appearance hides her true form of a hideous demon. In the past, she required Quan Chi's magic to sustain her human form, but since recently escaping the Netherealm, she has managed to find a way to remain beautiful without him. She is now a force of good with an alliance to Sub-Zero and the new Lin Kuei.
[edit] Storyline
The demon Sareena first appeared in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero as one of Quan Chi's personal assassins. She and her two partners, Kia and Jataaka, were ordered to kill Sub-Zero before he reached Quan Chi. They were defeated, but Sub-Zero strangely spared Sareena's life. Later, as Sub-Zero battled Quan Chi, Sareena suddenly appeared and helped him defeat the sorcerer. After expressing her desire to escape the Netherealm with him, she is shot in the back with a bolt of energy by Shinnok. She collapses into an enraged Sub-Zero's arms and appears to die.
It is later revealed in Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition, that Sareena was not killed by Shinnok's attack, but rather, her human form was destroyed. Her essence was then banished to the 5th Plane of the Netherealm as punishment for her betrayal, where she would suffer for years. After years of being trapped, Sareena discovered the portal Quan Chi and Scorpion used to escape the Netherealm shortly before Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. She went through the portal and is transported to Outworld where she later discovered a way to restore her human form without Quan Chi's magic by absorbing the energy of the realm.
Shortly after regaining her human form, Sareena encountered the younger brother of the Sub-Zero she met years before. Feeling that he owed her for helping his brother, Sub-Zero granted her sanctuary with the Lin Kuei back on Earthrealm.
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon's Konquest mode, Taven encounters Sareena who is inexplicably serving Quan Chi once again. He finds her along with Kia and Jataaka in the Red Dragon's lair. They battle, but ultimately all three are beaten by Taven. In Sareena's Armageddon ending, she defeats Blaze, causing his power to flow into her. She is left unconscious until Sub-Zero reaches the top of the pyramid and revives her. When she awakens, she realizes that she had gained the ability to freeze. She then confronts Quan Chi and freezes him in a block of ice. Sareena and Sub-Zero place the sorcerer in the Lin Kuei temple, where he will remain frozen forever.
[edit] Combat characteristics
[edit] Signature moves
- Fire Ball: Sareena fires a skull surrounded with fires. This attack is borrowed from Quan Chi. (MK:TE)
- Skull Bash: Sareena thrusts forward extremely fast, smashing her opponent in the head. (MK:A)
- Split Kick: Sareena does a forward flip, kicking the opponent in the process. (MK:TE)
- 5-Star Kick: Sareena thrusts forward with her leg extended and if she makes contact, she will kick the opponent 5 times before they fall back.(MK:A)
- Gut Buster: Sareena charges her fist, then shoots forward with a powerful punch that knocks her opponent back. (MK:A)
- Throwing Knife: Sareena throws a large knife at her opponent. According to Ed Boon on Sareena's Trading Card bio, this is possibly the fastest projectile in Mortal Kombat. (MK:A)
[edit] Recurring fatalities
- Punch and Kick Pummel: Sareena beats the opponent to death with a series of kicks and hand strikes, including her Split Kick attack (MK:TE)
- Sai Slaughter: Sareena slices up her enemy with a few devastating swipes of her weapons. (MK:TE)
[edit] Trivia
- In Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, there was a briefly hinted love interest between Sareena and the elder Sub-Zero.
- Early in Mortal Kombat 4's development, Sareena was briefly considered to be added to the roster; the MK team wanting to include another Mythologies character in addition to Quan Chi and Shinnok. However, they ultimately decided to include Fujin instead.
- Shortly before and briefy after Mortal Kombat 4 was released in arcades, it was vaguely hinted that Reiko was going to share some sort of connection or relationship with Sareena. However, this connection was never developed and later forgotten.
- Sareena was originally meant to be in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance but was cut from the final game, only to be added to Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition. She was also heavily rumored to be included in Mortal Kombat: Deception, but was again left out.
- Although Sareena has, until Armageddon, only appeared in side-games, she has amassed a surprisingly strong fan-base.
- Sareena makes a brief cameo appearance in Deception's Konquest mode. For a side mission, Shujinko is ordered by the Brotherhood of the Shadow to find the traitor Sareena. However when Shujinko finds her, she pays him not to tell the Brotherhood where she is.
[edit] External links
- MK Team Interview (TMK E3 MKA Video #16) mentioning "Sexy Sareena"