Karl Urban's Johnny Cage dominated all the marketing. Liu Kang is repeatedly declared, throughout the film, to be "the best fighter we've got". So who defeats the big bad Shao Kahn in 1v1 combat and wins the day?
Kitana, of course! Who else? Get subverted, expectations!
Classic girl bossing aside, Mortal Kombat 2 was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. My personal highlight was Liu Kang exiting the film like fucking Poochie from the Simpsons. I've never seen a lazier or more convoluted character extraction in my life. I highly recommend you seek out and watch his final scene. It's hilarious.
Anyways, MK2 inexplicably got a pass from all the usual anti-woke content creators. This just keeps happening. Someone like The Critical Drinker will give his stamp of approval to some new media, I'll take a chance on it, only to discover it has many of the same woke elements found in every other mainstream offering. I guess all these "based" YouTube reviewers got one-shot by Buffy when they were teenagers because none of them seem to mind a girl boss.
So two thumbs way down for the new Mortal Kombat movie.
It sounds like you're agreeing with everything I said.
If you agree there's a physical component to the battles, which obviously there is, then it shouldn't be 1:1 ratio.
Get your hearing checked then I guess.
The battles aren't solely physical. There's also factors of agility, pain tolerance, weaponry, and, yes magic. So there could theoretically be a 1:1 ratio because this is a magic world with teleporters and wormholes and alternate dimensions that make only biological strength all but irrelevant.
There's no reason why there shouldn't be a 1:1 ratio. Theoretically it could be all women if they were the only ones with magic. It's splitting hairs over a game that has shapeshifting monsters and demigods that can control sand.
Is there anything in the lore that says there a magic difference between women and men? No.
So you're inventing some hypothetical where you're right.
/golfclap
This is like peak reddit right here.
I was giving a hypothetical as an example my sweet illiterate child, not to say anything is right or wrong. There is no magic difference between women and men according to the lore, no. You still seem to be basing the supposed allowed ratio on the logic of the world you live in currently, instead of the fictional MK universe with magic.
Is there anything in the lore that says men should have a higher ratio of fighters in the tournament? No.
Wow. This is amazingly retarded. It's as if your context window is 1 comment deep.
As yes, fictional worlds are built on an ancient British legal concept known as "common lore"; that is, anything in the real world holds unless contradicted by the fictional lore.
So "men are stronger thus better fighters" is in the lore.