Sheeva
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- This article is about the Mortal Kombat character. For the Hindu aspect of God, see Shiva.
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Sheeva is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
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[edit] About Sheeva
Sheeva belongs to the ancient race of the Shokan, described as a subterranean people living in Outworld. Like all of her race, she possesses a tall, muscular build, red eyes, and four arms (she also wears armor in her Armageddon makeover as well). Sheeva served as the personal bodyguard of Queen Sindel during Shao Kahn's failed invasion of Earthrealm.
[edit] Storyline
Because of Goro’s reign as Grand Champion of Mortal Kombat, the Shokans are among the most elite of Outworld’s citizens. They maintain a high class status among the population, and are Kahn’s most prized soldiers on the battlefield. One of the most savage Shokan warriors to gain Kahn’s attention is the female Sheeva. She can pile drive an opponent into the ground with her fists, or skin her victims in seconds with her bare hands.
When Shao Kahn resurrected Queen Sindel as the first step in his invasion of Earth, he appointed Sheeva to be her personal protector. Sheeva became distrustful however, when Kahn appointed Motaro, a Centaurian, to lead his Extermination Squads into battle. She saw this as an insult, as the Shokan and Centaurs have long been mortal enemies.
She served the emperor in Earthrealm, but when she returned to Outworld, she was shocked to learn that Shao Kahn had betrayed the Shokans, and had launched an offensive against them. She joins her brethren in fighting Kahn’s warriors. Sheeva decided to take revenge on her nemesis Motaro.
Sheeva sneaks her way into Kahn’s palace on Earthrealm. She learns that Motaro has nursed his Earthrealm ally, Kano, back to health. She secretly approaches Kano and offers him a deal. She asks for his assistance in assassinating Shao Kahn. Kano agrees. Some time later, Motaro has returned to the palace to report to Shao Kahn. Sheeva waits silently in the shadows. As Kano watches from his cell, Sheeva attacks the unsuspecting Centaurian. She apparently slays Motaro and intends to treat Shao Kahn similarly. In return for his release, Kano offers to distract Kahn and tells her to wait for his signal, but Kano betrays Sheeva by covertly informing Kahn of her intentions. Once Kano gives the signal, Sheeva enters the throne room where she is immediately run through the back with a sword by Shao Kahn, who lay in wait. She is seemingly killed by this attack.
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon's Konquest mode, Sheeva is seen in the Netherealm along with Kintaro, Havik, and a legion of demons all apparently working in an attempt to overthrow Shinnok's rule at his spire. However, Shinnok later reveals that they were only apparitions created as a test for Taven, thus making it clear that it was not the real Sheeva.
In Sheeva's Armageddon ending, she defeats Blaze and is met by the Elder Gods. She becomes the Goddess of Destruction, destroying realms using a Kamidogu, she then remakes the realms into something unknown.[1]
[edit] Combat characteristics
[edit] Signature moves
- Teleport Stomp / Death From Above: Sheeva leaps high into the air, disappearing momentarily from her opponent's view, and then lands back down onto their bodies, where she then proceeds to violently stomp on them up and down several times. (MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:A)
- Searing Blast: Sheeva creates a fiery burst of energy from her hands, and then hurls it at her opponent.(MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:A)
- Furious Stomp: Sheeva stomps on the ground, shaking the arena and sending the opponent into the air. (MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:A)
- Untamed Fury: Sheeva grabs her opponent with her lower arms and pounds them with her upper arms multiple times on their head before slapping them away face first. (MK:A)
[edit] Appearances in other media
[edit] Film
Sheeva, portrayed by Marjean Holden, appears in the second Mortal Kombat movie, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. The shooting script included a lengthy fight scene with her and Raiden (James Remar) but it was omitted during filming; instead, she was merely squashed by a falling cage as she prepares to fight Liu Kang and Kitana in Shao Kahn's throne room (the omitted fight scene was added in the novelization). She does, however, use her prefight stance at the beginning of the movie.
Sheeva appears in other scenes of the movie, but her role was less than memorable in most respects. She had no fight scenes besides a brief quarrel with Motaro. The movie did acknowledge that she was the personal protector of Sindel and her family, which she mentions to Kahn in her personal endorsement for him to appoint her as general of his Extermination Squads.
[edit] Television
Sheeva had a small role in the animated series, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, in which she possessed a long-standing hatred of Raiden. She was voiced by Dawnn Lewis.
[edit] Game information
Sheeva was the first female Shokan introduced in the series, and was brought to life via stop-motion animation instead of the traditional digitization. She was created in order to provide a female version of a popular character, in this case Goro.[2] Like Goro and Kintaro, Sheeva also possesses the attack "Teleport Stomp", though she was the first playable character capable of using the move.
Presumably to conserve memory space, Sheeva was left out of the roster of selectable fighters in the SNES and Sega Genesis version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. However, she wasn't totally abandoned. She appears as a glitch character in the SNES version of UMK3. Her voice is also audible in the sound test of the Genesis version.
Sheeva's blood was green in Mortal Kombat 3 through Mortal Kombat Trilogy. She was the first character to have this particular blood color (not counting the Japanese version of Mortal Kombat II, in which all characters had green blood due to censorship). This concept was later semi-permanently applied to Reptile's character. It is unknown why Sheeva's blood was green as previous Shokan characters, Goro and Kintaro, bled red blood, even when they appeared in the same game as her. Sheeva's blood color was changed to red in Armageddon.
In Armageddon's arcade mode, Sheeva sometimes appears as a sub-boss before the final fight with Blaze, making her the first and only female character to do so. She is the only Shokan character that can perform aerial combos, and the only Shokan character that can be thrown by normal characters in the game.
[edit] Trivia
- Until the release of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Sheeva had not appeared as a playable character since Mortal Kombat Trilogy, nor did she have had any substantial cameos; only her corpse was found in the Netherealm in Mortal Kombat: Deception's Konquest mode and is seen running through the graveyard in the game's Krypt, where almost all Mortal Kombat characters had cameos. Her fate after Mortal Kombat Trilogy was revealed in the text from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance's Konquest mode.
- Sheeva's name is derived from Shiva, a Hindu deity typically depicted with multiple arms. Coincidentally enough, Sheeva's MKA ending states that she has attained the title of Goddess of Destruction, while Shiva indeed is known as the Hindu God of Destruction.
- In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, "Sheeva, Sheeva, SHEEVA!" is a game-over message.
[edit] References
- ^ Sheeva's Armageddon info at Mortal Kombat Warehouse
- ^ Sheeva's Bio Card. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Premium Edition Bonus Disc, Midway Games, 2006.
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