
MKX also shows that Tanya is able to enhance her fireballs using a dark substance to act as an accelerant to increase its potency. Mortal Kombat X also depicts Tanya using a naginata in an equally unusual way, such as a standing pole before following up with an actual attack. She shows skill with her tonfas, using them to block her opponents weapons and even unorthodox manners such as rebounding projectiles. Tanya is an adept fighter, relying on her agility and favoring powerful kicks coupled with her pyrokinetic abilities. While in her Pyromancer variation, she has markings on her back, shoulders and torso that glow when she activates her power.Ĭombat Characteristics Powers and Abilities Her kobu-jutsu weapon style from Deception returns, along with a new weapon: the naginata. Like the other returning female characters, she shows less skin than before, now wearing black tights with gold paneling, low heeled tall boots, and a gold skirt. Her clothing is styled in a more ornate fashion similar to Ancient Egyptian clothing, with a midriff-baring top, a menat necklace, and several bracelets. In Mortal Kombat X, Tanya has her hair cut in a graduated angled bob with blunt bangs, but retains her general color scheme and glowing eyes from Deception. The boomerang weapon from MK4 was replaced by the kobu-jutsu tonfas. As an alternate costume, she wore a version of her MK4 costume without exposed cleavage. Her primary outfit consisted of a revealing yellow and black bustier with matching skirt. Upon her return in Deception, now revealed to be a villain, Tanya maintained her yellow and black color scheme, but now had longer hair with blunt cut bangs and sinister glowing white eyes.

In MK4, her signature weapon was the boomerang. She kept her hair back in a single braid. Unlike the other female ninja characters like Kitana, Mileena, Jade and Skarlet, she did not wear a mask. In her first appearance in Mortal Kombat 4, Tanya wore the standard female 'ninja' leotard, in yellow and black. Because of her frequent betrayal of the Edenian cause, she has earned the rivalry and bitter hatred of Jade. She is one of the few henchwomen from the Mortal Kombat series, and prides herself on her superior knowledge of magic and diplomacy.

Tanya seems to view herself as a survivor more than anything else, justifying her choices as being the "right decisions".

After Shinnok's defeat, she later served Shao Kahn, the Deadly Alliance, and Onaga. Originally introduced as an ostensible innocent, she was quickly revealed to be corrupted by evil, a worshiper of Shinnok and an ally to the Brotherhood of Shadow. Tanya is a slender, gloomy woman from Edenia.
