The Mortal Kombat series has been famous for its femme fatale characters for decades at this point with the monstrous princess Mileena being front and center of them all.
She’s also certainly a favorite of professional cosplayer Ireland Reid too, who’s been showing off a lot in a couple different tantalizing and iconic Mileena costumes.
Her default attire from 2011’s Mortal Kombat reboot appears to be the cosplay Reid comes back to the most, and it’s certainly easy to see why.
The costume itself is pretty much immaculate with how accurate it is to the source material from mask to boot with the gold trim and extra straps on Mileena’s revealing fit.
Plus, it fits her like a glove in ways that almost no one could probably pull off better to match how the character actually looked in MK9.
Bow before your Queen!!
Mileena took on NYCC for one last dance and it was a Fatality!!
Ty to everyone who stopped me for pics and said hi! You are all awesome and it was super appreciated!
What will I be bringing out next? pic.twitter.com/PP0VZAy5oF
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) October 20, 2023
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) February 28, 2024
Not much…but I bite those who disturb me…. pic.twitter.com/9rOzke3taI
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) February 23, 2024
It’s MK1 Launch Day!
In the words of Mileena aka @KariWahlgren herself, “WHO is your Queen now?!”
How about it @ZelinaVegaWWE? Down for another round of playing MK together?
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) September 19, 2023
Ireland looks as though she was pulled straight from the game too posing next to Tabitha “artyfakes” Lyons’ equally alluring Kitana.
Unfortunately, however, it sounds like this particular Mileena cosplay has now been retired since the outfit started to come apart from years of wear and tear.
The best female video game duo ever!
Kitana: @Artyfakes
Mileena: @Irelandreid
: @PaperCubeTog pic.twitter.com/KpQPpPHYVT— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) June 24, 2023
I love it when I wake up n my sister n I are trending Mileena n Kitana are ready for MK1! Let’s go! #Mortal1Kombat pic.twitter.com/Rz3N8D61Ze
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) May 20, 2023
This is of course not the only Mileena costume she has put together with the other going even bolder.
Reid has also shown off a couple of photos of the infamous Flesh Pits “outfit” from MK9 too.
Considering she already had the wig and sais ready, Ireland only needed to wrap herself in some bandages to complete the look, but she went the extra mile of doing her makeup to fully capture Mileena’s Tarkatan mouth and eyes too.
Moreover, this cosplay is arguably somehow even more revealing than the actual costume in the game since it looks like she’s wearing even fewer wraps around her body.
I can’t post all of the image as X flags/sensors it ( ) but here is the cropped version. pic.twitter.com/iF0rgmqc9h
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) March 6, 2024
Challenge Accepted. LFG! pic.twitter.com/PhEnNB6wxj
— Ireland Reid (@Irelandreid) October 29, 2023
The Flesh Pits alternate outfit was one of the hardest / most time consuming to acquire in all of Mortal Kombat since it took getting through all 300 Tower challenges to unlock.
Ireland responded to one post with a photo about doing it all again in Mortal Kombat 1, but we’re probably never going to officially see this costume again for a few reasons.
There’s plenty of more fantastic video game and comic book cosplay to be found on Ireland Reid’s X/Twitter and Instagram pages.