In her only fight scene, she attacks Liu Kang when he rejects her advances (the film's special features explain she actually did develop "a burning desire to have Liu love her"), before which she magically changes to her familiar green costume. Her staff is instead a spear that she hurls at him and misses, and he subdues her after a quick hand-to-hand battle. Jade has no past relationship nor any interaction with Kitana in the film, and she secretly remains loyal to Shao Kahn while pretending to aid the Earthrealm warriors in her attempt to lead them into an ambush. When this fails, Shao Kahn has her eaten alive by a gargoyle in his palace. Pantaeva, making her English-language film debut while having no martial arts experience, underwent six months' training prior to shooting "so that my character would grow into a powerful and sexy warrior." The fight scene was shot in Thailand in a single take, and Pantaeva had enjoyed the experience to the extent that she successfully asked "Annihilation" director John R. Leonetti to do a second take. The "absolutely, stunningly beautiful" Jade's role in Jerome Preisler's novelization of "Annihilation", based in part on the screenplays by Brent V. Friedman and Bryce Zabel, differs little from her onscreen role as she attempts to seduce Liu Kang (there is no fight between them in this version) and later lures the Earthrealm warriors into a trap, but was additionally revealed to be Kitana's former lover, during which she makes mention of her Edenian heritage. She is still put to death by the enraged Shao Kahn for her failure in ambushing the Earth warriors; Kahn first strangles her and then feeds her to a living stained glass window monster. She is a recurring guest character in the "Mortal Kombat" series published by Malibu Comics, first in the 1995 miniseries "Battlewave", in which she is simply an evil assassin serving Shao Kahn and had no connection to Kitana, instead being paired regularly with fellow "Mortal Kombat II" hidden character Smoke. She is identical to Kitana only in that she is brunette with light skin and employed a pair of steel fans, while her green palette was unchanged; her eyes are variably drawn with and without lens. Jade and Smoke unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate Jax in a hospital and Johnny Cage aboard a plane headed to Outworld, and also Liu Kang in Outworld. In the finale of the 1995 three-issue miniseries "Rayden and Kano", she and Smoke try to redeem themselves by killing Raiden, but again fail.