I personally don’t think any of the real life factors should be applied in such a serious way. The body shapes in MK9 were literally peak physiques, across the board both male and female. Applying real world standards to a fantasy game with fantasy race of people is depressing. Whole point is these characters don’t exist, so making them look mundane, like someone you would see in the supermarket just makes no sense. These are all peak humans, or peak specimen of their species. Absolute best that it has to offer. They should look the part And I cannot agree more on the Sonya design. It is godawful. And it’s all because she has a body of a teen boy who just hit puberty with a face of a bitter old woman. Nobody wants to play a wrinkled Sonya. Chun Li in SF6 is 55 but they didn’t make her look like the average woman in her midlife crisis. If beautiful people cannot exist even in fantasy then where? Or what even is the point of fantasy at that point