Every Mortal Kombat Character Ever

[Music] tality Mortal Kombat has been the go-to series for spine ripping action since 1992 the original combatants looked downright primitive by today's standards but in the early 90s that pixelated Gore was as good a hook because the kunai inside scorpions hands sub-zero was the original blue ninja bihaan was the first had done the attire in MK white but he was killed by the Vengeance fueled yellow specter scorpion at the end of the game this paved the way for his brother Kawhi Liang to carry on the Sub Zero name movie the boa art fight for his armor Raiden god of thunder is a major player in the story of the entire Mortal Kombat series with the exception of MK 3 he holds the distinction of being one of only two characters playable in every Mortal Kombat game the other being sub-zero Liu Kang is in almost every Mortal Kombat game but since he was killed in Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance we guess his corpse just had to sit this one out until he became a zombie and was playable in Mortal Kombat deception scorpion was originally human but after the murder of his clan and family he became the fire-breathing vengeance seeking Spectre as we know him today he's a palette swap of the Sub Zero character sprite changing the color of a single characters model was a fast and easy way to introduce more combatants like reptile the green palette swap of Scorpion or was that the Sub Zero sprite Earthrealm Special Forces general Sonya Blade was the first woman combatant and fought alongside Shaolin monk Liu Kang and Hollywood action hero Johnny Cage in a battle for Earth realm the leader of the nefarious black dragon clan an eternal nemesis of Sonya Blade Kano is the lone wolf of the rock band owing allegiance neither to earth realm nor Outworld though this changes as the series rolls on Goro the forearms show Khan's sub boss of the first game was the only non-human sprite while all the others were just pixelated photos of real people Goro was a stop-motion animated dog Chang soon the shape-shifting soul-sucking sorcerer of the Mortal Kombat series was the main boss of the first ever game and would return in subsequent games as a playable character after the success of the original Mortal Kombat game a sequel was inevitable Baraka the blade wielding monster faced target and servant of Emperor Shao Kahn was first introduced in Mortal Kombat 2 katana also answered to Shao Kahn as his personal assassin not only was she ten thousand years old but she was also his stepdaughter she would later turn on her former master and give up on the whole evil servant thing Molina is a clone and palette swap of katana and would like nothing more than to murder her sister being a genetic mash-up of katana and a target and warrior she hides a grotesque mouth underneath her magenta mask beloved major Jackson Jax Briggs is Sonya superior and after being rescued at the end of the first mural combat joined the roster in mk2 as a response to the controversy surrounding fatalities Mortal Kombat 2 added two new finishing moves friendship friendship and babe ality Kung Lao a friend of Liu Kang is a Shaolin monk and the descendant and namesake of the great Kung Lao the original earth realm champion of MORTAL KOMBAT sub-boss Kintaro the forearmed follow-up to Goro is unique to the show Kahn race being the only one we've seen with tiger-striped features he's one of several characters introduced in mk2 that aren't playable in the game along with jade smoke Shao Kahn and noob saibot noob had no backstory initially but was later revealed to be bihaan the original sub-zero resurrected by the sorcerer of Quan Chi as a shadowy figure of evil by the end of 1993 Mortal Kombat's popularity was surging no doubt helped by it being cited in Senate hearings on video game violin pulling off the head of the opponent with spinal cord attached Hollywood also took notice went to work on a live-action film adaptation use my the third entry in the series brought us a new type of palette swap ninja the cyborg ninja perhaps the most 90s of all the ninjas sector Cyrax and smoke all used the same sprites in mortal kombat 3 the game also introduced some new human characters Nightwolf is an Apache warrior with a psychic link to Raiden and Kurtis striker is a New York police officer turned mortal combatant a new finishing move was also added called the animality allowing characters to turn into their spirit animal to finish off an opponent to you cabal was once fully human but after being burned alive by Kintaro he uses cybernetic enhancements to keep himself alive motaro is the only non playable character introduced in MK 3 he's the stop motion Centauri and sub boss with ram horns Shiva the four armed female Shogun warrior is playable from the start unlike the series other Shogun warriors who first served as sub-bosses for the so called sindell mother of katana and wife two Shao Kahn is another non-human introduced in part three erm AK who began life as a rumored secret character dating all the way back to mortal kombat 1 makes his playable debut in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 rain another palette swap generic ninja whose introduced as a tease an arcade release of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 the two chameleon characters will palette swaps of a male ninja and katana the female chameleon replaced the male chameleon exclusively in the Nintendo 64 version a Mortal Kombat trilogy some of the combatants in Mortal Kombat 4 technically debuted in Mortal Kombat mythology's sub-zero an action-adventure game it's where you can find the origins of Fujin serena quan chi lamar and shinnok Mortal Kombat 4 saw the first use of 3d graphics in the franchise was the last game in the series to have an arcade release and introduced us to meet the fleshy skeletal experiment of shank zoom Tania who served shinik and later Shao Kahn is an allied to the Brotherhood of shadow Kai the fire controlling Shaolin monk was human along with Jarek the lieutenant commander of the black dragon clan Reiko an outworlder was brought in to part four in place of noob saibot because it was felt the game had too many ninjas like that's even possible but thankfully tremor a new ninja debuted in Mortal Kombat's special forces with dirty laundry Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance up the introduction of new characters to the series nearly half of the combatants and deadly Alliance were entirely new with many having connections to previous games Frost is the cocky young protege of sub-zero blaze was first seen as an originally nameless background character in MK 2 fighting on the pit to stage Movado is the leader of the red dragon clan a crime syndicate that rivals quino's black dragon clan while the ridiculous-looking mocap is well a motion capture actor and a Hollywood friend of Johnny Cage many of the characters introduced in Deadly Alliance only stuck around for the non-numbered games a series of lukewarm releases that mark a dark period in the Mortal Kombat franchise but the blind blade wielding kenchi would come back as a DLC character in 2011's Mortal Kombat reboot and then later as a main character and Mortal Kombat X bull ride show the mentor of liu kang and kung lao drunkenly fought his way through subsequent games coming back in Mortal Kombat X as a DLC character you'll drunk go back to sleep Mortal Kombat deception introduced a story heavy single-player mode called conquest which introduced a number of notable characters into the franchise including Xu Jing ko who served as the game's primary protagonist but fans seemingly disliked it unless he only really appeared in playable form and deception and its immediate follow-up Armageddon while Mortal Kombat deception introduced almost as many characters as its predecessor none of them made the jump to being playable characters in the modern Mortal Kombat games some had cameo appearances in 2011's Mortal Kombat like Onaga and Kira but by and large like shujinko the rest of the characters introduced in deception were last seen in its follow-up mortal kombat armageddon just two new characters joined the roster with armageddon brothers Davin and Dagon Dagon is the sub boss of the game while Taven is the main hero of Armageddon's conquest mode only one new combatant appeared in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe dark Khan he's a fusion of MK Ville and Shao Kahn and DC villain Darkseid the 2011 reboot brought on Scarlett a new DLC character previously rumored only to exist as a glitch as far back as MK 2 it also introduced cyber sub 0 which is cooling in a timeline where he turned into a cyborg instead of his close friend Smoak Cassie cage the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade debuted in 2015's Mortal Kombat X they don't kill us my mother will cassie isn't the only second generation to compete in the tournament close friend and daughter of Jack's Jacky Briggs also debuted son of Ken she to Keita Takahashi keeps the family combat tradition alive as well as kun Jin cousin of Kung Lao and great whatever grandfather took down Shang Tsung gunslinger Aaron black technically debuted in the Mortal Kombat X comic series but made his first playable appearance in MK X for non-human combatants there's Farah and tore a pair of symbiotically linked fighters devorah who looks human but is actually a human body controlled by an infestation of colonial insects and tribe or the physical manifestation of the merged consciousness of smoke Cyrax and sector and let's not forget Kotal Kahn the Mayan god of war and ruler of the out world but in Schuster's support Mart all the characters from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe are technically combatants that means Batman Wonder Woman and even the Joker exist in the Mortal Kombat timeline but DC characters aren't the only guests who joined the pantheon of combatants Freddy Krueger Jason Voorhees Leatherface a target an inspired xenomorph Amalia predator even kratos from God of War have all made guest appearances in mortal combat and it makes sense the non DC guest combatants are from series will Bors the norm which makes them a perfect fit for a game that popularized ripping out someone's still beating heart there are a few last combatants to mention like Belloc who was dropped from Mortal Kombat gold due to time constraints then there's Hornbuckle a named background character who never fought finally there's the legendary Nimbus tariff Oh a secret Genesis character who was actually just an electronic gaming monthly April Fool's prank the world of Mortal Kombat is crazy violent absolutely ridiculous delight the enormous roster of characters ranges from fighting game trope too familiar horror movie staple with tons of variety in between but at the end of the day every single combatant shares one thing in common Gouri fatalities as disgusting as they are entertaining victory if you like this content then make sure to follow I G ends every ever on Facebook for everything on the world's most iconic games characters and franchises if 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Keywords: PC, IGN, PS4, Vita, games, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Fighting, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Every Ever, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat X, Warner Bros. Games, NetherRealm Studios, High Voltage Software, Warner Bros. Interactive, top videos

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Length: 11min 58sec (718 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 27 2017