Shortly afterward, they were resurrected and magically enslaved by Onaga, who sent Mileena to impersonate Kitana as the princess of Edenia. During the assault on Shang Tsung's palace, she faced Quan Chi, but is outmatched and killed alongside her allies. Despite Kitana's grief, she rejoined the Earthrealm warriors and led them into battle. Believing her fight was over, she began the journey back to Edenia, but encountered Kung Lao, who warned her that Quan Chi and Shang Tsung had formed an alliance to kill Liu Kang and Shao Kahn before attempting to revive Onaga the Dragon King. In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (2002), Kitana led a preemptive strike against Shao Kahn's forces, only to learn that he had been slain by unknown assassins. Knowing that the Kahn would attempt to reclaim Edenia once he was strong enough, she forged an alliance with Goro, prince of the Outworld race Shokan, against the Kahn's forces. After Shinnok's defeat, Kitana captures Mileena, but learns that Shao Kahn had survived his defeat in Earthrealm and was reamassing power. With Edenia freed once again, Kitana proposes to Liu Kang, offering him the chance to rule Edenia by her side as King and Queen, but he reluctantly rejects her offer seeing his true duty as being Earth's champion. Betrayed by the traitorous Edenian Tanya, Kitana, Sindel, and Jade are taken prisoner, but Kitana manages to escape and rejoin her Earthrealm allies and eventually defeat Shinnok's forces. However, their jubilation was short-lived, as during the events of Mortal Kombat Gold (1999), fallen Elder God Shinnok and his grand vizier Quan Chi escaped imprisonment in the Netherrealm and invaded Edenia. Kitana, Sindel, and Jade then liberated Edenia from Outworld. After convincing Jade to join her, Kitana located and freed Sindel from Shao Kahn's mind control, leading to his defeat at the hands of Liu Kang.
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Before a verdict and sentence could be reached, however, Kitana escaped (as retconned in MK3 update releases Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy) and joined the warriors of Earthrealm to free Sindel, who had been resurrected and used by Shao Kahn to invade Earth.
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Eventually, the sisters clash and Kitana slays Mileena.ĭuring the events of Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), Kitana is put on trial for treason after killing Mileena. According to the semi-canonical spin-off game Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (2005), after Kitana was found to be no longer loyal to Shao Kahn, she was placed into a spell-induced trance and forced to fight the Earthrealm heroes, Mileena, and Jade before being freed by the Shaolin warrior monks Liu Kang and Kung Lao. She also came to hate Mileena for being a reminder of the lie she lived and her existing only to kill her. At this point, Kitana started developing a romantic interest in Earthrealm champion Liu Kang. Realizing her life had been a lie, Kitana turned against Shao Kahn and began fighting alongside Earthrealm's champions to defeat the evil emperor and free her home realm of his tyranny. That clone, Mileena, would spy on Kitana and kill and replace her if she ever rose against Shao Kahn. He placed Kitana under a spell to make her his loyal daughter and assassin, and had his subordinate Shang Tsung create a disfigured clone of her to be a backup heir. Eventually, she found out the truth Shao Kahn murdered her true father King Jerrod, usurped his throne, and claimed Sindel as his wife to rule over Edenia. She served as the former's personal elite assassin for centuries, working alongside her sister Mileena and her best friend Jade. For most of her life, Kitana believed she was the daughter of Shao Kahn and Queen Sindel. While she is thousands of years old, she more closely resembles a young woman. Kitana first appears in Mortal Kombat II (1993) as a member of the Edenian race in from the fictional dimension, Outworld.