Sheeva is a proud member of the native Outworld race known as the Shokan and an antagonist from the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. She is a supporting antagonist in Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat (2011) and a minor antagonist in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. In the Mortal Kombat X comic books, she finally breaks away from Outworld and becomes a neutral anti-hero, something that continues in Mortal Kombat 11, in which she is a playable DLC character.