Sonya Blade

Sonya A. Blade, also known as Sonya Blade, is one of the major characters from the Mortal Kombat series.
== Charactah Account ==
A member of a top United States Special Forces unit known as Outer World Investigation Agency (OIA), Lt. Sonya Blade is a beautiful, stern, tough-as-nails Earthrealm warrior. Her impulsiveness is catalyzed by her superior and good friend Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs. Sonya represents a very emancipated and headstrong woman, but for all her stubbornness and pride, she deeply cares about the lives of her friends and comrades.
Sonya is a beautiful, stern tough-as-nails general. Sonya represents a very emancipation and headstrong woman, but for all her stubbornness and pride, she deeply cares about the lives of her friends and comrades.
In her non-canon Armageddon ending, Sonya wants the power of Blaze to end crime and criminal organizations. While most of the kombatants want the power to rule or to become gods Sonya has a different goal. Most want Blaze's power to rule everything with peace or fear but Sonya only wishes to finally end both the Black Dragon and Red Dragon Clan's. Some kombatants also want Blaze's power to steal the power of others or to become the champion or best kombatant. Some want the power to destroy words or get rid of all evil or to restore what they lost. Sonya Blade's personal goal is to just end crime. 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
=== Comics ===
* Mortal Kombat 4
* Mortal Kombat Collector's Edition
* Mortal Kombat Collector's Edition II
* Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe
* Mortal Kombat X
* Mortal Kombat X: Blood Gods
* Mortal Kombat X: Blood Island
* Mortal Kombat: Battlewave
* Mortal Kombat: Blutsbande
* Mortal Kombat: Rayden & Kano
* Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition
* Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition II
* Mortal Kombat: U.S. Special Forces
* Nintendo Power
=== Movies ===
* Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins
=== Video Games ===
* Mortal Kombat
* Mortal Kombat (2011)
* Mortal Kombat 3
* Mortal Kombat 4
* Mortal Kombat 11
* Mortal Kombat Advance
* Mortal Kombat Gold
* Mortal Kombat II
* Mortal Kombat Mobile
* Mortal Kombat Trilogy
* Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
* Mortal Kombat X
* Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
* Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
* Mortal Kombat: Deception
* Mortal Kombat: Onslaught
* Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
* Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition
* Mortal Kombat: Unchained
* Ultimate Mortal Kombat
* Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
== Trivia ==
* Sonya's character was inspired by the karate champion and movie actress, Cynthia Rothrock.
* Sonya was named after one of Ed Boon's sisters.
* According to her person information in Mortal Kombat, Sonya Blade's father is Major Herman Blade (suggesting she follows her father's step to join the military) and her mother is Erica Blade. She also had a twin brother, Daniel Blade.
* According to the film's official magazine Mortal Kombat: The Ultimate Battle for Humanity, Shang Tsung intended for Sonya to become his queen after successfully conquering Earthrealm.
* Sonya almost didn't make it into Mortal Kombat. Originally, Kurtis Stryker, who later debuted in MK3 (although, at the time, the name was given to the character who would eventually be called Jax in MKII) used her storyline, but he was dropped and Sonya was created to add a female character to an otherwise all-male cast.
* The Mortal Kombat prequel comic lists Sonya's hair colour as brown instead of blonde. John Tobias has confirmed that this was an error, not that her hair is dyed.
* Sonya was revealed to be one of Ed Boon's favorite characters during an interview around the time MK3 came out. Boon stated that she was not only one of the strongest, but also one of the most popular characters of the series.
* Sonya's body can be seen in the introduction of Mortal Kombat Deception, located on the stairs leading to Shang Tsung's palace.
* Sonya was planned to be a playable character in Mortal Kombat: Special Forces, along with Jax. However, Sonya's part was dropped due to deadline issues. Early shots of the game listed her code name as "Panther."
* Sonya was originally going to fight Jade during the first movie in a secret arena, but the scene was cut from the shooting script and never filmed.
* Sonya appears on Johnny Cage's movie poster as his romantic interest during his ending in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, revealing that she was an actress in the movie.
* A false viral rumor that spread among many players in the first Mortal Kombat was the existence of a code that would make Sonya appear naked in the game (referred to as the "Nudeality" or "Nudality"). Various reports told of its existence only appearing in the Sega version, only in the arcade version, and so on.
* Sonya's partner who was killed by Kano was never given a static name, having been named Cliff LoDolce in Jeff Rovin's MK novel, Bill van Hoven in the MK movie novelization, Wexler in the cartoon show Defenders of the Realm, and Lieutenant Lance in the comic series Mortal Kombat published by Malibu Comics.
* Sonya is the first character used in the Challenge Tower in MK 2011.
** She is also one of the only two survivors of the Earthrealm fighters in the MK 2011 story mode, the other being Johnny Cage.
* Her alternate costume in Mortal Kombat (2011) is the same as the outfit she wore in the movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, with gloves, a hat, and sunglasses.
* Sonya is one of the only eight characters to have a Brutality that derives from her X-Ray, and not only from special moves, throws, or combos, the other characters being Erron Black, Jacqui Briggs, Jason, the Predator, Tremor, Leatherface, and Triborg.
* Sonya Blade's official theme is titled, "Go Go Go".
* In Mortal Kombat 11, there are some references to Sonya's voice actor, Ronda Rousey and pro wrestling.
* In Mortal Kombat 11, Sonya has a dream to become a marine biologist if she did not graduate in the Academy.
* In Mortal Kombat 11, one of Sonya's Taunts has her saying "It's Kombat Time!" which was reference to her catchphrase in the animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm.
* Sonya is one of the two earliest characters alongside Raiden whose present-selves died prior Kronika's Time Merger complete, whereas present-Sonya died before Kronika begins the Time Merger.
* After defeating the younger Kano in Mortal Kombat 11's story mode, she stands over Kano's head with the latter remarking to "give him a break", mirroring a similar happen-stance in the first movie.
* In Sonya’s To the Choppa fatality, in which she pounces on her opponent and throws them upwards by her legs is actually the same game mechanic taken from Cheetah from Injustice 2, in which Cheetah does the same exact move during her Super Move.
* Sonya is the only Mortal Kombat 11 character to speak when selected to play as/against (with her saying ”Stand down!”)
* According to her military database file in MK 11, Sonya was born June 21, 1987 and her unit is the 12th Special Forces Group.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sonya at Mortal Kombat Wiki
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