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[[File:MK-Cast 7094.jpg|frame|Keep in mind: this is ''[[Loads and Loads of Characters|not even all]]'' of them...]]

 

Here is a total list of fighters from the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' games. There are several different continuities, so the fighters below are all listed by the chapter in which they first appeared.

 

* [[Mortal Kombat 2/Characters|Mortal Kombat 2]]

* [[Mortal Kombat 3/Characters|Mortal Kombat 3]]

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== Hanzo Hasashi (Scorpion) ==

{{quote|'''Debut game''': ''[[Mortal Kombat (video game)|Mortal Kombat]]'' (Daniel Pesina/Ed Boon)<br />

'''Other appearances''': ''[[Mortal Kombat 2]]'' (Daniel Pesina/Ed Boon), ''Ultimate [[Mortal Kombat 3]]'' (John Turk), ''[[Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero]]'' (Sal Divita), ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'' (Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance]]'' (Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'' (Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon|Mortal Kombat: Armageddon]]'' (Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks]]'' (Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe|Mortal Kombat vs. DCU Universe]]'' ([[Patrick Seitz]]/Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]''/''[[Mortal Kombat X]]'' ([[Patrick Seitz]]/Ed Boon)<br />

 

{{quote|Originally known as Hanzo Hasashi, he is the son of a former clansman who chose to live as an assassin, yet [[Papa Wolf|he is very devoted to his family]] and generally goes on and about the game, serving his own purposes and none other.}}

* [[Teleport Spam]]

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Probably the patron saint of this. When Scorpion is on the warpath, ''run''.

* [[Wild Card]]: Strides the limit between good and evil.

 

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: His weapon style has him wielding a pair of Butterfly Knives.

* [[Evil Makes You Ugly]]: Earthrealm characters who were around in the first three games are about 50 years old by the time the 10th and 11th game comes out. The ones regarded as Good (like Johnny, Sonya, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao) have aged rather well, and still look pretty good for their age. Kano, however, who is squarely in on the Evil end of the moral spectrum, not so much. He's still muscular and an excellent fighter, but is almost always dirty, disheveled, unshaven, and unhygienic.

** In the intro to ''Armageddon'', he kills Stryker with one.

* [[Giant Spider]]: Kano's Animality in ''MK3''.

** In the games, too. Rich Divizio has stated he played Kano as over-the-top as possible.

* [[Neck Lift]]: His Chokehold move.

* [[Other Me Annoys Me]]: Ironically, he's the only character to avert this in the ''Aftermath'' DLC, his past and future selves getting along just fine. {{spoiler| Doesn't make them much more competent, though; in fact, what happens to him only seems to prove that if there's one Kombatant dumber than Kano, it's two of them together.}}

* [[Only in It For the Money]]: His reason for joining Shang Tsung's tournament {{spoiler|and for siding with Outworld and selling stuff for them}}.

** Additionally, when he heard of Kabal's [[Not Quite Dead|apparent demise]] at the hands of Mavado, it is said that he would have most likely hounded the Red Dragon leader and had his head if not for his post in Outworld as the leader of Shao Kahn's armies. Kabal had long since forsaken the ways of the Black Dragon.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Race Lift]]: After Trevor Goddard's portrayal in the movie, he was [[Ret Canon|changed]] from [[But Not Too Foreign|American-Japanese]] descent in the games to [[Land Down Under|Australian]].

* [[Rolling Attack]]: The Cannonball attack, in which he tosses himself at the opponent while keeping arms and legs folded into his body.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', he's the focus of the first chapter.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', he spends his first few fights goofing off, preening and grandstanding, hitting on Sonya, and generally making an ass of himself... [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|but is horrified when Shang Tsung demands he "finish" a fallen opponent]].

* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: He turns into one to kick his opponent off screen as an Animality in ''MK Trilogy''.

* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: [[Flanderization|Much to his fans' chagrin.]]

** ''Armageddon'' tries to take the "fake" part out, by having him being the first of the heroes to see Shinnok back into the scene, and then rallying the band of heroes for the final battle. But since we don't know much about the game's story, we just leave what happened between this point and the all-out battle to imagination.

** The intro of ''MK9'' inverts this: {{spoiler|he's shown decapitated}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Power Incontinence]]}}: His ending in ''9''. {{spoiler|His body begins to emit large, destructive bursts of energy in uncontrollable spasms, and neither Raiden nor Nightwolf are able to soothe them. Eventually, Raiden takes Johnny Cage to Seido to control his powers, which will result in him [[Took a Level in Badass|becoming more powerful than humanly imaginable.]]}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]: He does worry about his daughter Cassie in MKX, but largely trusts her to fend for herself, though anyone trying to threaten her will make him mad. It even gets to the point where if they do fight each other, he confesses reluctance to actually doing so.

* [[Person as Verb]]: Tried this with himself in ''Shaolin Monks'' and ''MK9''. "You just got ''Caged''"

* [[Ship Tease]]: Hinted in various media, starting with the first movie, between her and Johnny Cage. ''MK9'' has Johnny trying to conquer her.

** In ''Defenders of the Realm'', the teasing is instead directed at Jax, although it's ([[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|usually]]) of the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] variety.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: She was the only female character in the original game. {{spoiler|1=She is also the only remaining female at the end of the story mode in ''MK9''.}}

* [[Spam Attack]]: Her Bicycle Kick move.

* [[Woman in Black]]: Her default attire in ''9'', although she's a large subversion.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: During her rooftop battle with Kano in ''3'', Sonya feigned defeat in order to lure him to the edge of the building and throw him off of it.

 

== Liu Kang ==

* [[Dragons Up the Yin-Yang]]: One of his fatalities in ''MKII'', in which he turns into a [[Our Dragons Are Different|Chinese Dragon]] and consumes the upper body of his opponent. This fatality was turned into an Animality in ''MK3'' and back into a normal fatality in ''MK4''.

* {{spoiler|[[Drunk with Power]]}}: In Shang Tsung's Arcade Ending in ''9'', he becomes this after {{spoiler|successfully taking Raiden's place as a god and Protector of Earthrealm, and turning into a power-mad tyrant}}.

* [[Faith Heel Turn]]: He does this in ''9'', {{spoiler|when he starts to believe that Raiden's visions are turning him insane}}. This culminates with him completely turning against the Elder God, when he tells Liu Kang that the [[Big Bad]] must be [[Sheathe Your Sword|allowed to win]].

** In Arcade Mode, he does this again in a much more substantial fashion, {{spoiler|upending Raiden as the protector of Earthrealm, and becoming a [[Drunk with Power]] tyrant}}.

* [[Famous Ancestor]]: Like his friend Kung Lao, Liu Kang is also descended from The Great Kung Lao.

* [[Funny Bruce Lee Noises]]

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: At the beginning of ''Deadly Alliance'' in the original timeline, and {{spoiler|at the end}} of ''Mortal Kombat 9'', as well.

* [[The Hero]] of the [[Five-Man Band]]

* [[Screaming Warrior]]

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Constantly has to bicker with Kung Lao about this regarding Kitana in ''Shaolin Monks''. Gets a brief [[Mythology Gag|nod]] in ''9''.

* [[Spam Attack]]: His Flying Bicycle Kick.

* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Serves as this to Ermac in ''Deception''. After Ermac helps free his friends, he tags along with Kitana for a bit ([[The Power of Love|as their strong connection keeps him tethered to life]]) before Nightwolf volunteers to be his spiritual anchor in ''Armageddon''. In an example of role reversal, he also serves as this to his former master Bo' Rai Cho in his ''Deception'' ending, complete with a [[Rousing Speech]].

* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: Somewhat. He wears a runestone around his neck that [[Soul Jar|houses all of the souls he's absorbed over the ages]] and is able to replenish his strength.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

** [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: In the movie.

** In ''MK3'', Tsung can summon a bed of nails in which he slams his dazed opponent as a finisher.

** [[Hoist by His Own Petard|He meets his demise this way in the movie.]]

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|"Volunteered" his essence in ''9'''s story to Sindel by way of Shao Kahn to give the former a power boost. Ended up working pretty well since she went on a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] all over the Earthrealm heroes, though Shang Tsung does seem to be toast.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Especially in the first movie.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: In the DC crossover, he has apparently the strongest self-control of all characters from both worlds, as he never gives up to the rage {{spoiler|until Dark Khan reveals himself and makes rage take everybody. But even after that, he managed to bring himself back to normal, while Raiden was still under Dark Kahn's infulence.}}

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Summons skulls on fire as projectiles.

* [[Scaled Up]]: He could turn into a cobra to finish his opponents as Animality in ''MK3''.

* [[Shape Shifter]]

** Also happens in ''9'' {{spoiler|''to him''. After Motaro's death, Shao Kahn chooses to use Shang Tsung to [[Super Empowering|empower]] Sindel, fueling the massacre of the heroes}}.

 

 

== Art Lean ==

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]: As with pretty much all of Shang Tsung's victims in the movie, Chan suffers this fate. His form is used in a [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]] against Liu Kang during the final battle, but Liu Kang sees right through it.

 

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