According to UGO's Chris Plante, "Jade to fetishize Eastern culture. Her skin tone is darker than similarly-dressed characters Kitana and Mileena, who are her aristocratic superiors. She is paradox: equal parts exotic slave girl and Asian princess, her most powerful weapon being her sexuality. She's the mystical, foreign widow, a relic of postwar pulp novels." While comparing the "Mortal Kombat" characters to the seven deadly sins in "Dante's Inferno", "GamePro" chose Jade to represent Lust. Jade placed third out of five in the "Sexiest Finish" category of G4TV's 2005 "Video Game Vixens" pageant, and was included among the "hottest chicks of 2011" by Univision. "Complex" ranked her as number one in their 2011 list of the "best looking sideline chicks in games," declaring a preference for her over Kitana, Mileena and Sonya. "No one should be so lethal with a stripper pole (okay, we meant staff), but she's capable of doing amazing things with it." Jade was ranked as the 30th-best looking game girl by GameHall's Portal PlayGame in 2014, while her breasts were ranked as the third-finest in video games by GameFront's Ross Lincoln in 2011, and seventh-best by Drea Avellan of "Complex" in 2012. Jade, Mileena and Kitana were all included among the top ten "hottest female villains in gaming" by Travis Huber of Cheat Code Central in 2014: "I am calling these characters the trifecta of terror. Or maybe the trifecta of T&A."