Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jax (Mortal Kombat)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was speedy keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Nomination has been withdrawn. Liz Read! Talk! 07:46, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Jax (Mortal Kombat)

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After a pretty lengthy BEFORE look into things, all I managed to find was small mentions. The character is never really discussed in any significant enough capacity, and while mentioned in the context of black representation/stereotyping in gaming, that's solely it: mentions. Nothing in depth to really build an article around and not enough for SIGCOV.

While there was a controversy about his ending in MK11, what articles are there don't talk about his character but more a synopsis of it and then a brief mention of people's overreaction. It can be summed up better as part of public reception towards MK11.

With that said, what's here in the article's body is a lot of listicles that also barely cover the character, and a lot more that focus on gameplay of a particular title. There's not emphasis on why Jax is important as a character outside of MK and barely within the context of MK. Kung Fu Man (talk) 16:50, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Video games. Kung Fu Man (talk) 16:50, 23 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I found one or two scholars discussing the character but getting access to such articles is a pain. Apparently, Wikipedia gives us access to such sources but I often have problems entering there.

"Jax was instead introduced in MKII as a Special Forces major attempting to rescue Sonya from captivity by Shao Kahn. Although Sonya  and  Kano  ironically  proved  the  least-selected  char-acters  in  MKI,  Midway’s  decision  to  include  a  sexualized  female  char-acter  (likely  inspired  by  SFII’s  Chun-Li)  over  a  heavily  muscled  Black  character—effectively treating femaleness and Blackness as superficially interchangeable  nods  to  “diversity”—may  have  been  motivated  as  a  broader appeal to heterosexual male gamers than to the smaller contin-gent of nonwhite American gamers.Meanwhile,  some  early  critics  of  Mortal  Kombat  claimed  that  the  games  reinforced  stereotypes  of  nonwhite  (and  especially  East  Asian)  ethnicities." Mainstream media have forged a stereotypical image of blacks as inhuman savages with supernatural strength. In an article titled, “Black Characters in Video Games Must Be More Than Stereotypes of the Inhuman”, Sidney Fussell describes how black video game characters are placed in games for the sake of diversity. Most representations of black males tend to be uniform in the sense that they usually wear clothing that emphasizes their physical strength. Some characters such as Final Fantasy VII’s Barrett or Mortal Kombat’s Jax, have cybernetic enhancements that further perpetuates and emphasizes their physical strength, further contributing to their buck-ness in which the player supposedly 'rapes' a native American woman. However it was Mortal Kombat which first presented realistic bloody violence. “Jax grabs his opponent‟s arms, holds them up over their head, and then—with a squish—he jams them all the way into their body so only the hands are visible. He takes a moment to light a cigar. He grabs his opponent‟s mouth and rips the head in half. He puts out his cigar on the tongue as blood gurgles out."
 * This book goes in depth about the franchise but I couldn't mind any narrative mention of Jax other than this
 * University of Michigan Press
 * This Portuguese analysis which compares MK2 Jax with MK3 Jax.
 * Universidade Federal de Goiás
 * [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/60588788.pdf The buck is the most prevalent portrayal of the black male body in video games.
 * University Carbondale
 * This goes: "The first ever exhibition of crude violence in video games could be Custer‘s Revenge,
 * University of Calcutta.

There might be more.Tintor2 (talk) 20:12, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Problem is some of these aren't published or show any evidence of peer review, unless the authors themselves are published/professor?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 22:02, 23 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: I really don't know what makes them all published but as I revised it, they are all scholars from different Universities. The first book at the top can be bought in Amazon.com so I'm not sure if we can use them. The talk page has two articles about the MK11 ending of Jax but I guess it doesn't make it that notable by itself.Tintor2 (talk) 23:44, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Just added a host of sources to the article. Hopefully they're up to snuff, but if not, que sera sera. sixty nine  • whaddya want? •  23:51, 23 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I made some research and managed to find commentary about the character's narrative like his arms, the response in general within the fandom and whatever was his role in Special Forces. I also incorporated a scholar but the one I trusted the most based on the way it was written. The reception section stills to remove some useless listicles articles but I hope at least now thanks to that edit and Beemer's it's in better shape when it comes to notability.Tintor2 (talk) 18:58, 24 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep The reception section clearly demonstrates the character has received enough coverage to meet GNG. Especially the Racial characterization and response section which demonstrates the real life impact of the character.  Satellizer el Bridget (Talk)  04:23, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Withdraw Significant enough work has been done to show there is some notability to the subject and disprove my argument. Article still needs one massive enema and some sources weighed, but AfD's not the outlet for that, and I no longer feel it's in the same state regarding notability that I nominated it.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 15:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)


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