SONYA BLADE
First Appearance: Mortal Kombat
Total Appearances: MK I, MK 3-4, MK: DA, MK: Annihilation, MK 2011-11, MK vs. DC Universe (missing only two)
Role: The Chick, Token Special Forces Fighting Game Chick, Action MILF
PL 9 (154)
STRENGTH 2
STAMINA 3
AGILITY 7
FIGHTING 14
DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 3
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Akrobatics 8 (+15)
Athletiks 5 (+7)
Deception 3 (+6)
Expertise (Martial Arts) 2 (+5)
Expertise (Special Agent) 8 (+11)
Intimidation 3 (+7)
Investigation 5 (+8)
Klose Kombat (Unarmed) 1 (+15)
Perception 5 (+8)
Persuasion 1 (+4)
Stealth 3 (+10)
Vehicles 2 (+8)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Agile Feint, All-Out Attack, Chokehold, Equipment 2 (Special Forces Gear- Grenades, Guns, etc.), Fast Grab, Grab Finesse, Improved Kritical (Unarmed) 2, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Power Attack, Precise Attack (Close/Concealment), Ranged Attack 6, Takedown
Powers:
"Kiss" Dazzle Visuals 6 (Diminished Range -1) (11) -- [14]
- AE: "Energy Ring" Blast 4 (8)
- AE: "Inverted Bicycle Kick" Strength-Damage +0 (Extras: Multiattack 2) (2)
- AE: "Kartwheel/Flying Kick" Strength-Damage +1 (1)
Features 2: Uses Tons of New Moves as Finishing Attacks [2]
"Babality"
"Friendship!!" (Does Excercises)
"Friendship!!" (Salute, Causing Flowers to Grow)
"Animality: Giant Hawk Slices Apart Enemy"
"Flame Kiss- Burns Alive"
"Crush Kiss- Crushes With Orb"
"Slice Kiss- Blows Up Torso"
"Toxic Kiss- They Vomit and She Crushes Their Head"
"Scissor Split- Rips Body Apart With Her Legs- ie. the way to die for nerds"
"Airborne Blade- Neck Snap"
"Kut-Throat- Garrote Wire Decapitation"
"Grenade in Mouth/Drone Cuts Off Limbs"
Offense:
Unarmed +15 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Energy Ring +12 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19)
Kiss +12 (+6 Ranged Affliktion, DC 16)
Karthweel/Flying Kick +14 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Initiative +12
Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +14 (DC 24), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +7
Komplications:
Enemy (Kano)- Kano murdered her partner, and Sonya's been out for blood for years.
Responsibility (Earthrealm)- Sonya is one of Raiden's chosen defenders of Earthrealm against Shao Kahn's forces.
Relationship (Jax)- Purely professional, Sonya and her superior are close confidants.
Relationship (Cassie)- Sonya loves her daughter, but has missed much of her life thanks to her Special Forces career.
Relationship (Johnny Cage)- The two shockingly hook up following the events of the initial remake, and the encounter results in a daughter and a subsequent marriage. However, it is short-lived, and they have mixed emotions around each other twenty years later.
Responsibility (Hawtness)- Though Sonya doesn't use her looks to her advantage, she is hot enough that she often draws undue attention from supervillainous types. Her arch-nemesis flirts with her, and Shang Tsung will put her into a Sexy Slave-Girl Dress the second he gets the chance.
Total: Abilities: 82 / Skills: 46--23 / Advantages: 22 / Powers: 16 / Defenses: 11 (154)
Sonya- The O.G. Female Kombatant:
-What is it with Fighting Games and making The Token Chick a Special Agent? Seriously, there's Chun-Li starting the whole thing, then you have Sonya Blade, Nina Williams (
Tekken), Sarah Bryant (
Virtua Fighter)... they're even mostly blonde! I suppose it's their way to make every possible female character a "Strong Female Role Model" (tm), because after all, you know that girls REQUIRE Strong Female Role Models to look up to, and it's the job of all media to provide them. Though it's probably just them all ripping off Chun-Li & Sonya, who hereself was inspired by real-life martial artist/actress Cynthia Rothrock. Sonya was the original sex appeal in the first game, and got the same job in
MK 3 as well (she took a backseat in
MK II for the new chicks, so they could become bigger characters out of her shadow). Her job as a government agent usually leads to her being a major good guy in every game, usually hunting down Kano, or whoever they got to replace Kano by the later games.
-Sonya debuted in
Mortal Kombat hunting down Kano, as the two were paired off as enemies (similar to Scorpion & Sub-Zero). Both of them were the only absentee cast members for
MK II, appearing in Shao Kahn's stage, chained beside his throne. Her big return in
MK 3 came along with being played by Playboy Playmate Kerri Hoskins (which video game magazines of the time LOVED to hype up), and by this point was more or less in the "Special Forces" stable of characters, which had since added Jax, Kenshi and others. In
MK 4, she was chasing Jarek, the replacement for Kano, but her role as a major character was basically done- she was just the Special Forces Chick who got involved in a lot of Outworld-related stuff.
-In the movie, Sonya was pretty entertaining as the grouchy chick, and it was hilarious how despite her martial arts prowess, she was effortlessly kidnapped by Shang Tsung utilizing the "Standard Female Grab Area" on her arm and just dragging her away to be rescued by the heroes. At least she got to kill Kano halfway through, and even though
MK: Annihilation was a piece of garbage, she got to kill THREE people, dispatching Cyrax, Mileena and Ermac (seriously, everyone else got big wins in that movie's climax, and she finished off ERMAC?). She was played by a different actress in each movie, a sure sign of crappy budgeting/directing/producing.
New Kontinuity:
-In the remakes, she mostly acts like her movie version, having the same relationship with Johnny (they had no such interact in the original series, near as I can tell)- he flirts with her, and she gets pissed off at him. She still doesn't play much overall role in the story, but she & Johnny are Liu Kang's closest allies in the fight, and survive at the end of the story mode.
Mortal Kombat X shoots ahead several years, with Sonya & Johnny having MARRIED, producing Cassie Cage before divorcing. It turns out that Johnny's selflessness during the attack by Shinnok impressed her. The kidnapping of Cassie by Outworld forces sets off a lot of the plot of the game, as Sonya (who's missed a lot of Cassie's life due to her job) has to lead the rescue mission, and interact with her ex. Though she suggests they "were wrong from the start", she manages to call him "Johnny" several times, much to his relief, and it's implied they might be patching things up.
-Sonya tragically dies in the opening moments of
MK 11, sacrificing herself so that the team's mission can succeed- devastasting Johnny & Cassie Cage. However, Kronika's temporal anomalies result in the YOUNGER Sonya being sent to this timeline, meaning that like
Tekken, they now have an excuse for the young & hot version to be around again, lol. Young Sonya is naturally disgusted to find out that she & JOHNNY CAGE have a child together, but she appreciates the elder Johnny's matured attitude and how Cassie is. She uses her head in a clever way- when Kano suggests he'll kill the younger Johnny so the elder dies to, she simply shoots Young Kano in the face, killing both Kanos at once.
Sonya's Stats:
-Sonya barely makes PL 8.5 like a lot of the cast, but makes up for it by spending alot more points on Skills & Advantages, making her a more well-rounded kombatant in a lot of ways. And lest anyone judge me for not giving such a blatantly-hot woman the Attractive Advantage, keep in mind that Sonya is in no way the type of woman who would flirt her way to anything, or even bluff her way through things all that often. Hell, for Sonya, her idea of hitting on someone is go punch them in the face (if you find that hot, you are a sick and disturbed human being... just like me
). She literally never once uses an approximation of it- if anything, she's actually pretty bad with people for someone whose job is based around investigation- she's aggressive and pushy with EVERYONE.