#and fucking MEAT [originally a skin/joke character from mk4. but he had no moveset of his own or ending]

[gophergal]

Mortal Kombat Rosters by Percentage of Female Characters

This is something I've thought about for a while since I really adore MK's female fighters, so I finally got around to it. Some notes before I start throwing the info at you:

This is only counting major releases in the main series. Ports and late revisions aren't considered (So nothing from MK Trilogy, MK Gold, MK:A for Wii, or any handheld ports)

The inclusion of New and Total is important to me, since some games have a relatively large number of female characters, but most are returning characters

For the total roster number (that is, both male and female characters) I'm counting individual characters. Cyborg Smoke and Human Smoke are counted as one character in UMK3, but Sub-zero and Classic Sub-zero are counted as two (as classic Sub-zero is Bi-han). That also means that duo fighters are counted as two

DLC characters are counted, but none of the Guest Fighters.

A character is considered "New" if this is their first playable appearance

Percentages are rounded very imprecisely

(info under the cut, tldr at the very bottom)

Mk1 – 7 character roster

F Total – 1 (Sonya Blade)

14% of roster

Mk2 – 12 character roster

F Total – 2

17% of roster

F New – 2 (Mileena, Kitana)

17% of roster

UMK3 – 21 character roster

F Total – 6

29% of roster

F New – 3 (Sindel, Sheeva, Jade)

14% of roster

Mk4 – 15 character roster

F Total – 2

13% of roster

F New – 1 (Tanya)

7% of roster

Mk: Deadly Alliance – 21 character roster

F Total – 4

19% of roster

F New – 3 (Nitara, Li Mei, Frost)

14% of roster

Mk: Deception – 24 character roster

F Total – 7

29% of roster

F New – 2 (Kira, Ashrah)

8% of roster

Mk: Armageddon – 62 character roster

F Total – 13

20% of roster

F New – 1 (Sareena)

1% of roster

Mk9 – 29 character roster

F Total – 5

17% of roster

F New – 1 (Skarlet)

3% of roster

MkX – 29 character roster

F Total – 7

24% of roster

F New – 4 (Cassie, Jacqui, D'Vorah, Ferra)

14% of roster

Mk11 – 44 character roster

F Total – 11

25% of roster

F New – 1 (Cetrion)

2% of roster

TL;DR

Highest Percentage of Female Characters: MK: Deception (29%)

Lowest Percentage of Female Characters: MK4 (13%)

Highest Percentage of NEW Female Characters: MK2 (17%)

Lowest Percentage of NEW Female Characters: MK:Armageddon (1%)

(Please keep in mind that this isn't a judgement of the value of ANY of these games. I love [almost] all of them and I think it's fun to analyze data like this.)