Definitely off topic but Sareena’s actress in mythologies was beautiful

Ironically, the company calls itself Netherealm Studios, yet cares the least about the characters from the Netherealm in Mortal Kombat. On top of misusing characters like Scorpion, Quan Chi, and Shinnok, Sareena gets only a brief cameo in MKX, and Ashrah is never seen or mentioned in the reboot timeline.

So out of all the people Sareena had connection with like with Bi-Han and Kuai Liang, she ends up with Kabal in MK11 Arcade ending, despite the fact she never had interaction with this man. What the hell, Netherrealm Studios?! Either way, you really nailed it with this video.

A demon who becomes good after falling in love with Sub-Zero (in both timelines), but nah, lets keep forcing D'vorah in every relevant event on MK history because she is Ed's waifu.

At this point, I think that if you are apart of the writing staff for the next MK game, we can usher in a new era of fighting perfection.

>Ashrah and Sareena could have an interesting dynamic What? You want *two* 3D characters to be in the same game? And one of those isn't Quan Chi or Kenshi!? That's absurd! - NRS, probably. And yeah, I've always assumed it was Sareena who told Kuai that Bi Han is Noob Saibot.

Sareena is the bee's knees. Which makes it even more annoying how underutilized she is in both timelines, especially considering you showed us just how easy it is to use her in the story

She was spared by Bi Han and then allied herself with Kuai Liang and also worked under Quan Chi like Scorpion. Her story is intertwined with so many fan favorites its honestly baffling on how little they used her.

Sareena deserves better. She’s either reviled by the silly fan girls who hate her relationship with Bi Han or she’s lumped in and shat on by the 3D era hateboner crowd. It’s nice to see the love for this underutilized character. How awesome could she be with a new design and move set. Wasted potential indeed.

I think Sareena played a huge role In Bi-Han becoming more cold hearted.In My mind she and Bi-Han actually had a relationship.Since Mkx apparently there was emotions between The two

I always find it disheartening when a character in any kind of media like Sareena; who has an intriguing backstory; a cool design to boot and a sizable fan base who care about them, only to be shoved to the side to make way for other story decisions. It's sad really, and the fact that she hasn't been a playable character since who knows how long is doing a disservice to people who care about minor characters like her. I know Sareena is not the only victim to this (trust me she is far from the last), but even then all characters should be given a role to play; no matter how minor those actions are and even then small actions can create larger consequences. I love details like that. Hell even the dynamic you laid out between Bi-Han/Sub-Zero/Sareena is almost in line with a stage tragedy. The very idea of a person helping you stray the path of evil to that of good, only from them to... take that same path they helped you leave is heartbreaking. If that doesn't get anyone in the feels, then I'm not sure what does anymore. Also I have a soft spot for demons taking the road to redemption and helping the heroes succeed, so take that as what you will.

Relax, she returned... as a cameo

Geez and I thought NRS Jade got the shaft. Sareena was always an interesting character to me (minus her Armageddon face rivaling that of the Phantom Menace) and I was upset and confused of how she got downgraded from a cameo with small impact to just random image in the NRS game. Just let my girl do one thing that shows character merit

Interesting idea on Serena because I like her character and I think she’s really interesting

Damn, Snake has more knowledge about MK lore and a better sense of proper storytelling then the MK writing team. I hope they watch this and feel terrible about what they did.

Just gonna wait for those "Wasted Plotential" episodes on the meme characters....

sereena is actually one of the minor characters i did like. ther is so much potential with her and bi-han....and it would be awesome if she had stayed with kuai liang and joined the lin kuei

8:18 Another layer to this is that in Ashrah's Deception bio she specifically refers to the other Brotherhood demons as her sisters, who Quan Chi sent to kill her. So Ashrah taking Sareena's advice could lead to her having to choose between killing her sisters or staying trapped in the Netherrealm and bound to Quan Chi. I think that would make for some great drama.

Netherrealm should hire you as head writer for mk12. But they’re not smart enough

I was really hoping we would see Sareena in MK 11 being that she was in MK X and has a tie to Noob Saibot (who just felt like he was thrown into the MK 11 story because he was popular, and not because he actually belonged there)

Man, I REALLY miss Ashrah. Glad you brought her up.

"Because this episode will be mostly focused there, while also addressing the Netherrealm Era's missed opportunities" Me: What? Those 3 minutes are just intro?

One of the things that I became aware of was that MKX and MK11 were written by completely different people, which is why NONE of the plot threads of MKX were followed on for MK11 and we went straight into a timeline fuckup so they could hit a big reset button and do whatever they wanted with the next game. Sareena would have been an excellent keystone telling why Bi-Han is corrupt in the first place; that he spent his life being a hardass and when he finally came across someone who helped him out of the goodness of her heart, she was seemingly killed for it. Hell, that would have been a perfect mark in Kuai's ending telling why Bi-Han remained in the darkness by choice. I also agree, fucking ANYONE would have been better than Jacqui. I still won't forgive them for having her hijack Kotal's trailer for MK11.

I thought Sareena and Li Mei would have been DLC in MKX they the most popular female characters from the post MK4 era.

Netherrealm only wants to work with the same 30 characters over and over again

Sareena was the character I was looking forward to most in MK11. I seriously thought she was going to be part of the main cast, especially since Noob and Sub Zero were both in this, would've been awesome to have her interact with Noob and see what hes become. But alas, she got the always the bridesmaid never the bride shaft again. On a side note, there was a leak prior to the game coming out that had all the DLC that was gonna come out, which included Sareena. But as the DLC was officially revealed, turns out the leak was correct with the only exception being Sareena deconfirmed for being 11 (even though the leak got Nightwolf, Sindel, Spawn, etc correct). I'm still holding onto hope she'll be part of KP2, but I seriously doubt it.

I kinda hope that in the new timeline that her and Bi Han escaped together and possibly had a child with each other. And maybe later on when Kuai Liang gets cyberized, we can keep him in that form and have his nephew take on the mantle of Sub Zero, keeping with tradition where the previous Sub Zero gets transformed into something else and the title of Sub Zero passes down to the next in the family.

Sareena should've also been the one to help Sub-Zero with the Cyber Lin Kuai in the MK comics instead of Bo Rai Cho.

I know this doesn't contribute anything but can we take a moment to appreciate how cute Sareena was when Lia was acting as her? 😍

She definitely deserves a cool Netherrealm story ark also involving more of those denizens like Ashrah and even the Oni creatures therein.

Glad im not the only one who was confused with sub zero's eye color

Midway/NRS really squander all the potential of world building when it comes to the Netherrealm. They keep the status quo of the most popular two - Scorpion & Noob - and everything else is either forgotten or swept under the rug. The Oni, the Demons, Ashrah *and* Sareena. There is a lot to explore and mine from a plot standpoint, when it comes to this universes equivalent of Hell. But no, we get lame cookie cutter Revenants and generic Doom monsters as the main body of the realm's inhabitants in the new timeline... *_SIGH_* Plus, before you write him off completely. I do recall reading a particular Khronicle that even managed to give Meat an interesting and engaging story...

sareena’s design (especially her mkx design) alone made her one of my absolute favorites, she has SO MUCH potential and can be really interesting, hope they do more with her someday

I want an MK Mythology Sequel. Fight Me!

god those redesigns for Sareena are fantastic.....how does Scarlett get in but Sareena doesn't

I need Enenra/Smoke video soon, really mad about it

It was nice that someone was thoughtful enough to fill in the blank and actually explain what happened to Sareena for anyone that might’ve wondered. I wish someone could’ve done that for Smoke, Reptile, Kung Jin, Takeda, Jade or any number of characters that just disappeared for whatever reason between 9, X and 11.

NetherRealm: "Sareena served Quan Chi... So what you're saying is, we can sacrifice her in a 15 second cutscene bullshit dark magic ritual to bring back Quan Chi and reveal it was him manipulating Kronika to become the master of the New Era ALL ALONG! This man is a genius, it's in the MK11 canon, done!"

Sareena met Bi - Han in the Netherworld where she was a servant of Quan - Chi and gets killed by Shinnok. This happened in Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub - Zero.

Now they you mention it. Almost everyone has brown eyes in MK11.

Ugh , I wish Ed Boon stop giving the potential characters the backseat by new characters and guest characters . 😒

And there's a very odd easter egg in the game regarding Sareena. When Noob defeats Skarlet in the first round he's saying to her: "You're like Sareena". Personally i think that it is a referance by developers that shows that they were choosing between Skarlet and Sareena. Sadly i don't think that Sareena will make it to mk11.

I bet you if Sareena was to be released as mk11 dlc, they will design her with full metal suit of hard steel armor covering up everywhere for their agenda smfh.

I'm still pissed off she's not in MK11. After her cameo in MKX, I had some type of expectations. Love your videos man. They need you at NRS, cause these videos are so amazing.

Kabal's ending might've made sense if they fucking met, all I can think of for that ending is Bi-Han.

Since Mortal 1 Kombat ending, all stories will become canon now.

0:34 We call them Quan Chi's Angels.

Yh she could be even more interesting, like burning off her tattoo and being scarred from her past and seeing what bi han has become, she could bond with subzero on their quest to save Noob - btw I wish Ashrah was back tbh but they'd ruin her too

Thank you for this! I've been waiting for Sareena a LONG time! One of my favourite ever characters in MK and shes been seriously underutilised all these years. I genuinely dont understand how she hasn't made it into a proper game outside of Armageddon and how her interesting lore hasn't been capitalised/expanded upon. Maybe if NRS focused on the organisations/clans other than the boring Special Forces...

As much as I despise NRS’s mishandling of Sindel’s story arc, I’d still consider Sareena the original waifu

Lin kueis are my reason for existing, pls keep them on privilege 😂😂

Every time I think of what NRS MK could have being considering it's pedigree, I just get pissed off. This is a franchise with so much potential; the awesome characters, the different factions, the different realms, and the different interesting stories that could have been told. Such a shame.

Reminder that in a pool done in japan long ago, Sareena came out as the most popular female character.

She's my favorite female in MK, I feel this video lol.

Sareena is a victim of being a footnote Character, she had not too much of an impact of the story and is just simple forgotten by many or simply an Easter egg. MK X was mostly about establishing the new heroes, so her being there meant she has to give them more screen time than her, like with Sub Zero and The revenants.

My morning wad ruined when I realized I was out of eggs then I saw you uploaded a new video and was like sacrifices must be made

You know for a story like mortal kombat, its a lot more complex then it actually is. Even though story mode in games is longer than movies, it's still not long enough to explain key details of other things. Thats why this series would have to be written in a book, because books have no limits to what they're writing. Of course not just one, but many books. Idk how many

While I don't agree with the NRS disapproval, I do 200% with how much potential Sareena has and that she should have been in the game, over god damn Jacqui

Kabal moves extremely fast. Dude stole Bi Han’s girl.

Please write the MK12 story xD No seriously NRS needs to call you up,man I'm probably the first one back when MK11 was still being revealed that thought Sareena could return and make a wonderful scene or two with Noob..She was afterall saved by him in the first place,now she could have saved him with the help of Kuai Liang It's one of the stuff I was most excited about and hoped it would make it to MK11,I't could also have been emotional seeing Noob freed n rejoice with Sareena but NOPE -_- Raiden shouldn't have consulted with the elder gods

we need playable sareena in the next game.

Do the people that write for mortal kombat even like mortal kombat?

Ay man Kabal wanted a freaky goth girl. You can’t blame the guy

It still gets under my skin on how has she not come in contact with the younger brother. Considering bi han survived the soulnado there should have been a chance through the 25-30 year gap she could have seen him.l at least once. Hell bi han has a win quote against scarlet that mentions her

Hardcore MK fan for nearly 15 years now, I know literally EVERYTHING about the MK Kanon (BOTH timelines) & I let me tell you in KOMPLETE konfidence & honesty that Sareena is the most WASTED kharacter in the franchise, konsidering her potential & significance...

It's annoying when Netherrealm Studios decides to add in a shit ton of guest characters instead of MK ones. I dont even hate guest characters but if you're gonna add them in, make that shit separate from the Mortal Kombat ones.

This series will always be one of my favorites.

When you realize Taven is just a yellow Hornbuckle (love the guy, but the whole Edenian thing and he's meant to fight Blaze which pretty much is probably the whole inspiration for that).

I really hope they bring her back in MK12. She and Tanya ❤️

Thank you for adding these various issues that continue in NRS as they did in Midway. Sareena and Quan chi both retain the midway era design, regardless the timeline differentiation. It is a possibility that Ashra is a different take on Sareena and some of her story elements, but like Sareena they were never explored past one or two games. As for the konquest mode it doesn't state who is the author, Alex berentine was mkda's original author and an author in mka, Midway's own version of tekken tag 1. I find it odd that the other sub bosses alongside Sareena were not explored as well. The final years of the Tobias and Vogel era gave us many interesting concepts on paper that manifested on character swap levels with unique designs (Sareena, Kai, Tanya, Reiko), all of which suffer from similar points which you've made, i.e: Characters that are swaps rather than complete and unique characters (Tekken used this only a handful of times, like Christie instead of Eddy in T4),. Thanks to your video I see that continuity and consistency in writing began to suffer ever since mk tournament edition for Sareena (Goro and Shao Khan were connecting their plot to their games. Khan with mkda and Goro with mkte). I hope we'll be able to see more consistency from the team, as some members of that team that gave us firstly the complex characters and their rebooted varients at times.

Sareena is my favorite woman character in the Mortal Kombat series, Ed Boon gave her no justice In the entire series, she only appeared in Mythologies Sub-Zero, the second half of Deadly Alliance, and in Mortal Kombat Armageddon, she only appeared in the new time line in MK X section of the Netherealm, we don't see her again in the rest of the series, like I said before no justice for Sareena screw you Ed Boon ☠️

This was very enjoyable and very plausible I always love your retakes and versions of how things would go way better...❤️

With any sequels to MK1, I hope we can get a more coherent storyline for her. Since, in Ashrah’s ending, we see her break from Quran Chi (and we can likely assume every ending in MK1 is canon, as implied with many of the intro dialogues), so there may be a point in the future where she helps Scorpion and Smoke defeat the Lin Kuei and possibly even redeem Bi-Han.

It seems weird that she hasn’t been playable in the newer instalments she has a cool look and positive feedback I think. Then again neither has Onaga the Sons of Argus & Shujinko & a bunch more ever returned either....NRS are you SUS?.

Actually Sareena’s bio for Armageddon says that Quan Chi found her and convinces her join his side as one of his warriors again after she loses her human form again after fighting off Noob Saibot and Smoke and the sorcerer promises to give her a permanent human appearance in return. She also thinks that Kuai Liang was better off without her because of the spell Quan Chi put on her. She didn’t want Sub Zero to see her demon form because she was ashamed of it.

Great wasted plotential episode as usual. Probably my favorite one in a while since I really like Sareena. On a side note, I just watched a Nightwolf intros so far video and it is confirmed. Netherrealm fucking ruined Sindel.

Speaking to the hair inconsistencies.. You do know hair can be combed over from left to right lol. All she has to do is part her hair further to the left of her scalp, and the streak will move to the other side of her face when combed over lol. I agree with everything else, but that part just made me giggle lol.

i know it’s pretty old but indigo prophecy has a lot of wasted plotential. it’s great for the first half then turns into a weird mess towards the end

Sareena and Ashrah are my babes

Such wasted potential

snake i almost forgot to tell you thank you for making a video on my birthday

The whole hair thing.... I think humans call that... Bangs. You can style them left or right side of your face .. I do it all the time. ;3

Netherrealm studios needs you lol

You know what would be interesting if frost failed rebellion actually injured Serena enough to channel her demon form and she nearly killed frost with it and the younger sub zero not realizing that she's in her demon form retaliates and freezes frost thus he doesn't know of her betrayal! Instead uses it like a super healing technique!

I wanna see Kabal wasted plotential

I like Sareena as a character they should use her more often

I was hoping she would've been a dlc in mkx but hopefully she'll be in mk12 along with Tanya too

Can you do a Red Dragon wasted plotential or and Orderrealm/Chaosrealm wasted plotential.

I agree with you on this one snake.

Dude, we could get a character with a fucking demon install in an MK game. Someone on the team needs to get fired for not doing this

Great video. I honestly wish her and Ashrah were playable in MK11. Ashrah I miss the most but I don't know if I'll ever see her playable in a future installment sadly.

Noob Saibot's MK Deception ending was actually canon except Sareena saved Kuai Liang before Bi-Han & Smoke could kill him.

Honestly the writing & misuse of interesting characters like this one in MK10 & MK11 has me disinterested with the franchise lately & I've played since MK1

Sareens has a good look design All i remember isblades so new moveset msybe the knives 2 some backstory from linkuie Boss status andmkx Shhe could play a good Frost sareena tanya rain milleena takeda ermac kenshi kung jin khamealon HAVOK reiko daegon taven all wasted

The writers at mortal kombat need to sit down and look at the lore. I’m actually not a fan of them forcing another reboot. Characters like kotal Kahn and takeada were cool and I don’t see any chance of them ever being brought back.

Sareena for DLC in MK11! ❤️🖤❤️🖤

2:39 shit, netherrealm likes crack ships

Maby Kabal met her when he was a revenant? They could point it out

Seeing floating coins in the cutscenes of MK Armageddon is never not funny.

0:20 I miss chameleon and khameleon