Menat's design had gone through several different changes during it's development. Among those scrapped concepts include being a "Pizza Assassin" whose personality and mannerims were based on B.B Hood/Bulleta from the Darkstalkers series, a delinquent named Rita and a magician; during this stage of development she was meant to be an Italian like Rose. Later on she was considered to use other objects to attack, including smoke, golden dust, and being a tahtib fighter that uses a staff; this is the stage in which Capcom settled for Menat to be an Egyptian.