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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'''
* [[Mortal Kombat 2/Characters|Mortal Kombat 2]]
* [[Mortal Kombat 3/Characters|Mortal Kombat 3]]
* [[Mortal Kombat
* [[Mortal Kombat:
* [[Mortal Kombat:
* [[Mortal Kombat
* [[Mortal Kombat
* [[Mortal Kombat
* [[Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub
* [[Mortal Kombat: Special Forces
* [[Mortal Kombat: Conquest
* [[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
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== Introduced in ''[[Mortal Kombat (
== Hanzo Hasashi (Scorpion) ==
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'''Non-game appearances''': ''[[Mortal Kombat (
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* [[An Arm and
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Scorpions, duh.
** As a kind of fix for his Animality in ''3'' not being a scorpion, the MK team gave him a [[Scary Scorpions|giant scorpion]] form as one of his Fatalities in ''4/Gold''.
** In the ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
** The raised arm from his fighting pose in the first four games and the hilt of his swords (starting in ''Deception'') evoke a scorpion's stinger, while the pauldrons on his shoulder for both costumes in ''9'' are also modeled after a scorpion.
* [[Anti
** The reboot slides him further into outright good guy territory towards the end of MKX. {{spoiler|While he risks making an enemy of everyone during his vengeance on Quan Chi, he goes out fo his way to order the Shrai-Ryu to "Wound, not kill" so only Quan Chi has to die. He also buries the hatchet with Sub-Zero the younger, who reveals to him the truth of his murdered family's actual perpetrators, so they are no longer enemies}}.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Quan Chi.
* [[As Long
** The reboot does not even care, and his last name is uttered a few times as if it were an actual word.
* [[Author Avatar]]: In a sense, he could be considered to be one for series' co-creator Ed Boon. [[Word of God|Boon has gone on record several times noting]] that Scorpion is his favorite character and he even provides the voicework for Scorpion's "GET OVER HERE!"/"COME HERE!"
* [[Back
** Inverted in the reboot. By [[Mortal Kombat X]], he's brought back to his actual life when the process that made him a renevant is reversed.
** [[Papa Wolf]]: He had a family as a human, but they were killed, and he believed their deaths were caused by the Lin Kuei, hence his grudge against them. He goes back on his vow to protect the younger Sub-Zero after Quan-Chi [[Blatant Lies|implicates him in the murder of Scorpion's family]]. His son is later kidnapped by Quan-Chi immediately after being brought back to life in his ''Armageddon'' ending.
** None of this changes in the reboot, and he outright invokes this as his reason for wanting Quan Chi dead in MKX:
{{quote|''You misdirected my vengeance! You cost me my one chance to be reunited with my wife and son!''}}
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Beard]]; Sports one as a human in MKX.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Sub-Zero. Coming ''back from the dead'' just because you have beef with a guy obviously makes said guy cause a reaction when mentioned or showing up.
** It doesn't help that Scorpion at least once remarks that he might've been able to save his wife, son, and fellow Shirai Ryu ''if only he were still alive''.
** Also, his encounter with Sub-Zero's younger brother and successor in ''9'':
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'''Sub-Zero''': ''"I am his family and clan. I fight for his honor."''
'''Scorpion''' (''furiously''): ''"He had no honor! And you will die as he did!"'' }}
** By Mortal Kombat X, he eventually learns of Quan-Chi's treachery, so his anger switches to its proper target finally. {{spoiler|Althougth it turns out he did have a good reason to be pissed at the Lin Kuei, some of them did help Quan Chi murder his family}}.
* [[Big "Never!"]]: When Quan Chi forcibly sends him back to the Netherrealm in ''4''. [[Taking You with Me|Scorpion manages to drag the sorcerer with him]], eliciting a [[Big No]] from Quan Chi.
* [[The Cameo]]: He appears in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETYb6NEphw an episode of] ''[[Drawn Together]]'' (in his ''Deception'' attire), complete with Ed Boon providing his voice. Scorpion delivers his Head Rip Fatality on fellow video game character Xandir (a parody of [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]]) and when Xandir [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|mentions his special move]], Scorpion gives an exasperated [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|"Oy vey."]]
** He, Sub-Zero, and Smoke all show up in a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' skit (''[[Enter the Dragon|Enter the Fat One]]'') to [[No
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
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** [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: His "Get over here!" line had "Bitch!" put at the end in ''Shaolin Monks''. There was even a {{spoiler|"get the ''[[Precision F
* [[Code Name]]: Before becoming the hellspawn known as Scorpion, Hanzo was given the title of "Sasori" by the Shirai Ryu's Grandmaster. Sasori is the [[Foreshadowing|Japanese word for "Scorpion."]]
** Quan Chi considers it his actual name in MK9. {{spoiler|Though when Hanzo realizes he was duped while undead and Quan Chi murdered his family, the name becomes a [[Berserk Button]].}}
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]:
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'', he's the focus of Chapter 3.
* [[Dem Bones]]: As revealed during his signature Fatality, under Scorpion's mask his head is actually a [[Flaming Skulls]].
* [[Downloadable Content]]:
** In ''9'', his klassic skin from ''MK1/2/3'' and his classic "Toasty!" fatality.
** [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Before being part of the [[Downloadable Content|Klassic Pack]], buying Gamestop's regular edition of ''9'' gave you these items.
* [[
* [[Exact Words]]: In ''Deception'', the Elder Gods promised to bring back Scorpion's clan if he agreed to help them by slaying Onaga. Scorpion fulfills his part of the bargain, and the Elder Gods bring back Scorpion's clan... {{spoiler|as undead abominations. Cue the [[Rage Against the Heavens]]}}.
** Raiden attempts to get them to bring them back as fully alive in MK9, but Quan Chi ruins the opportunity.
* [[The Faceless]]: As the series went on many masked ninjas have been revealing their faces at least once in one of the installments, save for some who are still covered, Scorpion is one of those, his facial features as Hanzo have never been properly shown (properly in this case meaning someone who isn't Daniel Pesina from the very first game as he played many other characters in it). Hanzo still has to show his true face sometime in the future.
** Finally averted come MKX, where we get to see him as a human.
* [[Guest Fighter]]: Aside from the above cameos, he also appears in several other [[Midway Games]] titles: arcade game ''The Grid'' (alongside Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot), ''[[Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy|Psi Ops the Mindgate Conspiracy]]'' (as an unlockable skin), ''[[NBA Jam]]: [[Updated Rerelease|Tournament Edition]]'', and ''MLB Slugfest 2006'' (alongside Sub-Zero; both are accessible only by means of cheat codes).
* [[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]:
** Raiden, having a premonition that Sub-Zero will become a greater force for evil if killed, tries to convince him to spare Bi-Han!Sub-Zero by offering to revive his family; and Scorpion agrees. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, after defeating Sub-Zero and intending to spare him, Quan Chi goads Scorpion into killing him by showing him a vision of Sub-Zero murdering his wife and son. Sub-Zero becomes the wraith Noob Saibot, and Scorpion stays in Quan Chi's employ}}.
** Like Sindel, the Arcade Ladder ending had Scorpion {{spoiler|eventually find out the truth on his own, and then rather than tormenting Quan Chi in the Netherrealm, he flats out burn him dead}}.
** Inverted. Thanks Raiden beign able to reverse Quan Chi's magic that made him a renevant in MKX, he finally gets to make a proper [[Heel Face Turn]].
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Scorpion's bright yellow garb isn't exactly stealthy, which is ironic, considering that out of all the "[[In Name Only|ninjas]]" in the series, Scorpion is the only one who was once a ninja. [[All There in the Manual|The original manual]] tried to justify if by saying that he modeled his uniform after the Lin Kuei's and chose the yellow color as a [[Take That]] to the clan, calling them cowards. Unfortunately, in Japan the color yellow [[Irony|symbolizes courage]].
** The reboot keeps the same color scheme for him, and the same reason of mockery (minus the "yellow for cowardice" part), at least initially, but it merely serves as a mean of telling the Shirai-Ryu and Lin-Kuei apart by the end of MKX. The colors are also much moe muted than the original canon version.
* [[Iconic Item]]: His signature "[[Weapon of Choice|rope with a tipped Kunai at the end]]".
** [[Slashed Throat]]: In ''MK2'', Scorpion uses it to slash the opponent's throat as part of a Fatality. Then he follows up by [[Half the Man He Used To Be|cutting the enemy in half]].
** [[Your Head Asplode]]: As a way to finish off his opponents in ''Deadly Alliance'', by means of violently pulling on the rope attached to the kunai that he just lodged in the enemy head.
** [[Variable
* {{spoiler|[[Impaled
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Challenge #20 in ''9'' has Scorpion beat up Mileena, [[Rule of Funny|because she made a teddy bear for him and HE HATES TEDDIES!]]
** In a more serious moment, he knew Raiden wanted to keep Quan Chi alive to undo the other renevants the sorcerer had created, but he was too focused on killing the guy to care. {{spoiler|And by doing so played into Quan Chi's [[Thanatos Gambit]] that brought Shinnok back to life.}}
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]
** Oddly enough, the powers he had as a hellspawn are still with him when he regains his humanity in MKX, implying they were to some extent natural abilities to begin with.
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: In one of his fatalities from ''UMK3'', he drags his opponent into Hell, where several copies of Scorpion maul the enemy. Cue [[Black Screen of Death]].
* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]
* [[Neck Snap]]: His Hara-Kiri (and the final blow of one of his fatalities) in ''Deception''.
* [[Ninja]]: Of all the ''MK'' "ninjas", he's the only one who was from Japan. Sub-Zero directly says this to Quan Chi in ''Mythologies''.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better|Ninjatos Are Just Better]]: Starting with ''Deadly Alliance'', he finally uses one. He also carries an additional one on his back, although he only starts using the second katana in ''9''.
* [[No Campaign for
* [[No
* [[Now Buy the Merchandise]]: His Friendship in ''2'', in which he invites the player to "Buy a Scorpion doll!"
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: He would later adopt vanishing in a swirl of flame instead.
* [[Off
* [[One
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: To Bi-Han.
** [[Revenge]]: His hatred of Bi-Han is just as important as (if not ''more so'') the memory of his family. In ''MK9'', Nightwolf, while empathizing over his familial ties and his need to avenge them (Nightwolf claims that his ancestors were wronged as well at some point in the past), calls him out for [[Revenge Before Reason]]. Raiden then promises to make an appeal to the Elder Gods to return Scorpion's family and the entire Shirai Ryu clan to life should he ''not'' kill the elder Sub-Zero. {{spoiler|It almost works (even with Scorpion dragging Sub-Zero to the Netherrealm)... until Quan Chi misleads Scorpion by falsely accusing Sub-Zero to have killed Scorpion's wife and son, causing Scorpion to lash out in rage and murder his foe anyway.}}
*** And this switches back over to Quan CHi in MKX when he finally learns the truth about what really happened to his family.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Scorpion is a classic vengeance-driven revenant.
* [[Palette Swap]]: Of Sub-Zero, originally. The same is true in reverse.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Aside from his love for his family, he discovered back in ''2'' that Sub-Zero was actually the younger brother of Bi-
* [[Playing
** [[Kill It
** [[Hellfire]]
** [[Breath Weapon]]:
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** [[Stripped to
* [[Power Echoes]]: ''vs. DCU'' and onward.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: According to ''Deadly Alliance'', [[Hidden Depths|Scorpion's true forte is]]... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-c4U6XRtvc cooking.]
* [[Screw Destiny]]
* [[Series Mascot]]: Netherrealm Studios' logomark is suspiciously similar to Scorpion, even with a slightly different weapon than a Kunai, sickle in this case, fixed to the chain.
* [[Skull for
* [[Tear Off Your Face]]: His trademark fatality has him doing it to himself. See [[Skull for
* [[Teleport Spam]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Probably the patron saint of this. When Scorpion is on the warpath, ''run''.
** [[The Power of Hate]]: If this emotion was a metal and Hanzo was a blacksmith, then Scorpion most certainly forged a [[Blade of Fearsome Size|BFS]] out of it. A BFS that he promptly drove through Bi-Han's heart.
* [[Wild Card]]: Strides the limit between good and evil.
== Bi-Han (Sub-Zero V) ==
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'''Other appearances as Sub-Zero V:''' ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero'' (John Turk), ''Mortal Kombat 9/X'' ([[Jamieson Price]])
'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (François Petit), ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' (J.J. Perry), ''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (Kevan Ohtsji) }}
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* [[An Ice Person]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKAtUeWCfrE Chinese Ninja Warrior with your HEART SO COLD!]
* [[An Ice Suit]]
* [[Anti
* [[Badass]]
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: In ''9'', after Scorpion defeats Cyrax and Sektor in the tournament. Granted, Sub-Zero did (canonically) defeat Scorpion twice in ''Mythologies'', but it's not a good idea to piss off the one hellspawn who ''seriously wants you dead''.
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'''Scorpion''': ''"You! The Shirai Ryu are dead. You shall suffer as they did."''<br />
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* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: He was the son of an American woman and a Chinese man. Said father was also descended from the Cryomancer race, thus making the Sub-Zero brothers [[Heinz Hybrid|not fully human]].
* [[Canon Name]]: Bi-Han.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: In ''Mythologies'', he beats the tar out of all four of the elemental gods. {{spoiler|Sub-Zero also has the chance to defeat Shinnok, which would put his total up to 5.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: ''Mythologies'' serves as one big build-up for his eventual fate as Noob Saibot.
* [[Heel Realization]]: Raiden's words that darkness existed in his soul [[Contemplate Our Navels|deeply troubles]] Sub-Zero. [[Ignored Epiphany|Too bad he didn't do much to change anything]].
* [[Hoist
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: [[Justified Trope]] in that they're ''
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* [[Jerk
** [[Jerkass]]: From what we've seen of him in ''9''. Still, the above must hold true, given how much his younger brother idolizes him.
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill It
** [[Literally Shattered Lives]]
* [[Legacy Character]]: The codename "Sub-Zero" has been handed down from father to son (and from brother to brother) for years. He is the fifth to bear the name.
* [[
* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]
* [[Off
** Ironically, this is how he dies in ''[[Mortal Kombat 9
* [[Only in It For
** He entered the ''MK1'' tournament just to assassinate Shang Tsung and collect the large bounty on his head.
** He also tells Raiden in ''Mythologies'' that he was just earning his living after Quan Chi escapes with Shinnok's amulet.
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* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Clan Guy]]: ''Very'' devoted to the Lin Kuei.
* [[The Rival]]: Of Scorpion.
* [[Ship Tease]]: In ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero'', there was a briefly hinted love interest between him and Sareena, which passed on to his brother in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
* [[Tragic Hero]]: Though "hero" is a bit of a stretch, seeing as he was an unrelenting assassin in life, unlike his little brother who was more compassive.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: In ''Mythologies'', Sub-Zero is noted to be the most clever and most skilled of all the Lin Kuei.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Raiden chews a large bite of Cyromancer pie out of Sub-Zero when it turns out that {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|he's supplied Quan Chi with the means of freeing Shinnok from his imprisonment in the Netherrealm.]]}}
== Kano ==
[[File:kano 85.png|frame|''"Oh, I got a knack for survival. You, on the other hand, are going to die here."'']]
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'''Other appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat II'' (cameo), ''Mortal Kombat 3'' (Richard Divizio), ''[[
'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (Trevor Goddard), ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm'' (Michael Des Barres), ''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (Darren Shahlavi) }}
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* [[...And Show It to You]]
** [[Beat Still My Heart]]: His infamous "Heart Rip" Fatality. He holds the heart up for everyone to see, including the victim in several games.
** [[Eye Scream]]
* [[Arch Enemy|Archenemies]]:
** The Special Forces. He's [[Foe Yay|quite... "invested"]] in his rivalry with Sonya,<ref>in ''Deadly Alliance'', he hung a lock of her hair obtained by tearing it from her head during their battle atop the skyscraper in ''MK3'' around his neck as a symbol of their rivalry</ref>
** The Red Dragon clan. They're long time enemy of Kano's Black Dragon Clan.
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: He will take any offer that allows his own preservation.
* [[Cyborg]]: Only insomuch as needing a synthetic eye that has also been outfitted with a heat-emitting beam (justified as the Black Dragon cartel has a high proficiency in areas of technology). The rest of him is human.
** He's a little more cyberized in the reboot, with his chest also bearing some enhancements.
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Villain Death]]}}: His fate in the Battle of Armageddon.
* [[Dual
* [[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.
* [[Eye Beams]]: It took three games, but he finally showed he was capable of doing it, in Fatality form, and later as a special move from ''Deadly Alliance'' onwards.
** In the intro to ''Armageddon'', he kills Stryker with one.
* [[Giant Spider]]: Kano's Animality in ''MK3''.
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** In the games, too. Rich Divizio has stated he played Kano as over-the-top as possible.
* [[Neck Lift]]: His Chokehold move.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler| Crosses over with [[Hoist by His Own Petard]] in the ''Aftermath'' DLC. While holding Johnny at knifepoint the Future!Kano goads Sonya (who now has Past!Kano on the floor) and reminds him that Johnny's death will [[Ret-Gone]] Cassie. Sonya thanks him for reminding her, and blows Past|Kano's brains out, killing both of them in one shot.}}
* [[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}}.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In ''9'', he's the one who saves {{spoiler|Kabal (his former Black Dragon cohort)}} from dying and surgically implants him with {{spoiler|his mask and breathing apparatus after Kintaro roasted him alive}}.
** 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.
* [[Sigil Spam]]: In ''Deadly Alliance'' and ''Armageddon'', the back of his vest sports the emblem of the Black Dragon clan.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: According to Richard Divizio ([[Ink Suit Actor|the actor who portrayed Kano in all of the titles using digitized actors]]), Kano enjoys White Castle hamburgers (it's probable that this is Divizio's favorite meal as well).
* [[Victory Is Boring]]: {{spoiler| His ending in ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]'' shows him gaining control of the Hourglass, giving him a near limitless ability to rewrite reality as he sees fit. At first he has a pie-in-the-sky attitude, and changes history to gain everything his degenerate and perverted heart desires, the cutscene showing both Sonya and Cassie fighting in bikinis just to please him. But eventually, he finds that always winning so easily just isn't as fun as he assumed it would be. So he rewrites reality again, making things pretty much the way they were; he notes that while he doesn't win all the time anymore, when he does - having earned it - it's far more satisfying.}}
== Johnny Cage ==
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'''Other appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat II'' (Daniel Pesina), ''[[Mortal Kombat 3
'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (Linden Ashby), ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' (Chris Conrad), ''Mortal Kombat: Rebirth''/''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (Matt Mullins) }}
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* [[Amicably Divorced]]: To an extent with Sonya in MKX. Taking about their failed marriage is a sore point, but they do have a fairly cordial working relationship otherwise.
* [[Awesome Ego]]: Zigzagged. He's hilarious (in the reboot especially) because he's so egotistical, but he annoys the hell out of a lot of characters, good and bad, as a result.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]
* [[Back
** He was one of the few heroic characters to survive the story mode in ''[[Mortal Kombat 9
* [[Badass Boast]]: From the story mode of ''[[
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* [[Born Lucky]]: While other kombatants can justify their special powers for they went through a [[Training
** The funny thing in all this is the whole reason he's there is because of people calling him out and saying he's all flash with no substance. He insists that his energy powers are legit and will prove it at the Mortal Kombat tournament... yet thinks nothing of them in spite of that.
** Turns out he's an even more literal version of this come MKX. He is descended from Mediterranean warriors who all had the same abilities he did, but they only become fully manifest [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower|during a time of deepest need, like seeing a loved one about to die]]. {{spoiler|And as his daughter finds out in the same game, it's hereditary.}}
* [[Brainwashed]]: To serve Onaga in ''Deception''.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Rendered as such after ''Mortal Kombat II'', likely as punishment for his actor (Daniel Pesina) advertising a rival game, ''[[Blood Storm]]'', while in full costume. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkBatReTSCU Even the dev team doesn't take him seriously.]
** Inverted in the reboot, where he's arguably one the most beloved good guys by the developers, to the point a lot of MKX's storyline hinges around him. {{spoiler|Shinnok}} even considered him such a [[Worthy Opponent]] he too pains to avoid Cage getting the upper hand later on in the same game after he got defeated by Cage the first time.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: In the first chapter of ''MK9'':
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* [[Cool Shades]]: While they were always part of his character, with official art always depicting him wearing shades, he only started wearing them during fights from ''Trilogy'' onwards.
** In the first movie, he values them more than any worldly possession. Then Goro broke them, and [[Berserk Button|the rest is history]]:
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** In his ''MK9'' victory pose, his shades break in half. No problem: he just takes out a brand new pair and puts it on!
** In MKX, if he fights Goro, one of his intro quotes is point out Goro still owes him a pair of shades.
** [[
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]
* [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Seems to be this at first, in tone with his [[Mortal Kombat (1995 film)|movie self]], as seen in ''MK9''.
* [[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]].
* [[The Friend Nobody Likes]]: ''Everyone'' finds him annoying, and a lot of [[Let's You and Him Fight]] scenarios start with him acting like a jerk.
** [[Other Me Annoys Me]]: So much in fact, that the older Johnny doesn't get along with his less-mature younger self at all.
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: He turns into one to kick his opponent off screen as an Animality in ''MK Trilogy''.
* [[Everyone Hates Mimes]]: A [[Running Gag]] in the franchise was his film ''Ninja Mime'', which was an in-universe [[Box Office Bomb]]. Nonetheless, the player can use a downloadable skin to have him wear a mime costume.
* [[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.
* [[Fighting
* [[Full
* [[Groin Attack]]: His "Split Punch" signature attack, a special move where he does the splits and plants his fist directly into his opponent's balls.
** Also, the first part of his X-Ray move is a three-punch combo to the groin. ''Ouch''.
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* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: His Torso Rip fatality.
** In ''Shaolin Monks'', he has a [[Finishing Move|fatality]] where he ''will'' punch the opponent in [[Groin Attack|the groin]] several times, mugs for the camera, punches the groin for a bit like a speed bag, and then does one final monster punch that pulverises the entire pelvic region, effectively cutting the unlucky victim in half.
* [[Jerk
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQirOSjf4ao His bloated ego] reaches [[Joke Character]] proportions in ''MK9''.
** During Jax's chapter in ''9'', Johnny, Raiden, and Jax find themselves stuck at the Kombat Armory, when he probes Jax's relationship with Sonya.<ref>Mind you, Jax and co. are mulling around Outworld looking for her whereabouts, as Sonya is ''scheduled for execution'' as they speak</ref> Johnny, being himself, makes his intentions with Sonya a little less than subtle. This prompts Jax to challenge Johnny to a fight right there and then. However, afterwards, he brushes it off later and even good-naturedly jokes about it after they find Sonya.
* [[Johnny McCoolname]]: [[Word of God|His real name is John Carlton.]]
* [[The Lancer]] of the [[Five
* [[Meaningful Name]]: It's probably more than coincidence that Kage in japanese means shadow and Johnny Cage is the master of many "shadow" techniques himself.
** [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Though the series is notorious for replacing the letter "c" with "k," Cage [[Subverted Trope|is an exception to this]].
* [[The Messiah]]: Of ''all'' people, Johnny starts showing shades of this in the timeframe leading up to ''Armageddon'', especially thanks to Raiden's corruption.
** Reatian it to degree in the reboot, where he essentially takes the role from Liu Kang in MKX, {{spoiler|Since Liu Kang is now a renevant}}.
* [[Off with His Head]]: His classic Fatality, in which Cage delivers a savage uppercut that tears his opponent's head off.
** 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
* [[Older Than He Looks]]: By ''X'', he's starting to go a little grey, but still looks a lot younger than the 50-something man he is.
* [[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''"
** It stuck in MKX, where he and even his daughter use it as a battle taunt.
* [[Pungeon Master]]: In the Movie, he is particularly prone to [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s, to the point that he's basically the [[Plucky Comic Relief|comic relief]] of the film.
** Is the same to slightly lesser extent in MK9 and especially MKX.
* [[Red Herring Shirt]]: In ''9'', he {{spoiler|'''lives'''}}.
* [[The Rival]]: Of Goro. [[Ret Canon|Becomes canon]] after the movie.
* [[Sharp
* [[Ship Tease]]: Especially in the first movie, towards Sonya. In ''MK9'', he [[Casanova Wannabe|tries to conquer her]]. {{spoiler|They do marry in MKX, but they split up later due to it not working out}}.
* [[Shotoclone]]
* [[Speed Echoes]]: Several of his Shadow moves have this effect.
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: During his chapter in ''9'''s story mode. Also doubles as the [[Audience Surrogate]] for those new to the series, as he's just as out-of-the-loop as newcomers probably will be.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]
== Sonya Blade ==
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'''Other appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat II'' (cameo), ''Mortal Kombat 3'' (Kerri Hoskins), ''Mortal Kombat 4'' (Kerri Hoskins), ''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'', ''Mortal Kombat: Deception'', ''Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks'', ''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'', ''Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe'' (Dana Lyn Baron), ''Mortal Kombat 9'' (Dana Lyn Baron)
'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (Bridgette Wilson), ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' (Sandra Hess), ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm'' (Olivia d'Abo), ''Mortal Kombat: Rebirth''/''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (Jeri Ryan) }}
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* [[Brainwashed]]: To serve Onaga in ''Deception''.
** In Malibu Comics' non-canon ''Mortal Kombat'' series, Sonya was kidnapped and hypnotized by Reptile into marrying Shao Kahn.
* [[The Chick]] of the [[Five
* [[Combat Stilettos]]
* [[A Day in
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
** In ''[[
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: According to ''9'', she's been searching for her MIA father, although she fears that he might already be dead. {{spoiler|In her Arcade Ladder ending, she encounters a ghost claiming to be that of her father, but it's unknown if the apparition is real or if it's an aftereffect of her PTSD in the aftermath of the battle with Shao Kahn.}}
* [[Dual
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: At least Johnny would like to think so.
* [[Fan Service Pack]]: She actually had a head start on the other gals in ''3'', but still managed to remain relatively modest. This trope is more prevalent in ''9'', though.
* [[First
* [[Good
* [[Green Thumb]]: In her friendship in ''Ultimate MK3'', Sonya would salute and flowers would grow all over the floor.
* [[Hair of Gold]]
* {{spoiler|[[Half the Man He Used To Be|Half The Woman She Used To Be]]}}: Her fate in the Battle of Armageddon.
* [[Kiss of Death]]: Her main fatality; it comes in [[Playing
* [[Murderous Thighs]]: One of her fatalities was a leg scissor hold that literally cut the opponent in half.
* [[Neck Snap]]: A move from ''4''. She also uses a variant with her legs to [[Neck Snap|break Kano's neck]] in one of the movie versions.
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Her ponytail in ''[[
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: To Jax.
* [[She Fu]]: Her signature move starts with her doing a backflip, grabbing the opponent between her legs, and throwing them.
** In both ''4'' and ''9'' she has a fatality where she does a handstand and ''tears the opponent in half with her legs''.
* [[She's Got Legs]]
* [[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.
* [[Silver Fox]]: By the time of ''X'', she's about 50 years old, and still looks great.
* [[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.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall, Blonde and Bishoujo]]: At first. She largely gets over it, but still has her moments.
* [[Thicker Than Water]]: Sonya is named after one of Ed Boon's sisters, as [[Word of God|he]] confirms in a video interview in the special edition of ''Deception''.
* [[Tomboy]]
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** [[Bare Your Midriff]]: The only consistent form of [[Stripperiffic]] her costume has.
** [[Fan Service]]: Her shirt and pants tearing in exactly the right places.
** [[Good
** [[Hotter and Sexier]]: She has a much more revealing outfit in ''MK9'' than in previous games. It's still modest compared to the other females though.
** [[Nice Hat]]: Usually present in her [[Good
** [[Painted
** [[Stripperiffic]]: Averted; her costumes are way more modest than the other females.
* [[
* [[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 ==
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'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie''/''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' (Robin Shou), ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm'' (Brian Tochi) }}
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=== Tropes related to Human!Liu Kang ===
* {{spoiler|[[A God Am I]]: In his ending in ''9'', he demands to take Raiden's place as the new Thunder God and defender of Earthrealm.}}
* [[Anvil
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Shang Tsung.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
** [[Long
* [[Bare
* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: He even had his own in-games vocals when the other men all had the same.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: He passed up on Kitana's offer of ruling Edenia with her after ''Mortal Kombat 4'', because of his status as the Champion of Earthrealm.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Despair Event Horizon]]/[[Trauma Conga Line]]: All of his friends save for Cage and Sonya die, he finds his faith in Raiden completely shattered, and dies a horrible death when he attacks the latter out of rage.}}
* [[A Day in
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
** In ''[[
* [[Dragons Up the Yin
* {{spoiler|[[Drunk
* [[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
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: Like his friend Kung Lao, Liu Kang is also descended from The Great Kung Lao.
* [[Funny Bruce Lee Noises]]
* [[Gratuitous Disco Sequence]]: In his Friendship in ''MKII'', a disco ball comes down from the top of the screen as he starts to dance.
* [[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
** [[Our Hero Is Dead]]: The very instant Shang Tsung and Quan Chi got the jump on Liu Kang was when fans realized ''Deadly Alliance'' was going to be a [[Wham! Episode]] of major proportions. {{spoiler|And [[It Got Worse]] from there.}}
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Kung Lao.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: If you plan to play ''Deception'' or ''Armageddon'', (or even ''9'', considering [[After the End|what the intro shows]]) bear in mind that he got killed at the beginning of ''Deadly Alliance'' and [[Came Back Wrong]] as a [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]].
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** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: In ''9'', he's the second fastest character in the game behind Kabal.
* [[Kiai]]
* [[
* [[Martial Pacifist]]: Before ''MKII''.
* [[The Messiah]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Playing
* [[Ret Canon]]: The affection between him and Kitana was inserted into the games after the success of the first film:
** In his ending in ''4'', {{spoiler|Kitana offers him the chance [[Hot Consort|to rule by her side]] in Edenia and presumably other rewards. He politely declines, choosing to respect his duties as Earthrealm's champion. Then Liu Kang gets killed at the beginning of ''Deadly Alliance''}}.
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* [[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''.
* [[Silver Fox]]: He's starting to show his age by ''X'', but still muscular and handsome.
* [[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]].
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Sort of. Despite still being labeled a Fatality, his butterfly kick/uppercut finishing move in ''MK1'' didn't show the screen darkening like the other characters' finishing moves did, inferring that it was nonlethal in comparison as an example of his Shaolin beliefs. This was changed in ''MKII'''s variation of this particular Fatality, and he's been just as graphic as other competitors since.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: He has been shirtless for almost all of the series, the only exceptions being ''MK4'' and parts of ''MK9''.
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=== Tropes related to Zombie!Liu Kang ===
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: He displays an unhealty skin color combination of green and gray.
* [[Back
** [[Came Back Wrong]]: His corpse, revived by Raiden. {{spoiler|Subverted with his soul, which retains his true essence.}}
* [[Best Served Cold]]: Shows up in the ''Armageddon'' intro to confront Shang Tsung, his neck still snapped from when Shang killed him. After snapping his neck back, '''it's on'''. {{spoiler|If ''9'' is any indication, Zombie Liu Kang managed to kill Shang Tsung and prevent him from reaching the top of Argus' Pyramid.}}
* [[Chained
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Used as fatality in ''Deception''. He transforms his body into a spiritual state and enters the victim's body, possessing it. A second later, the victim rips their own head off to reveal his head replacing it before bowing down.
* [[
* [[The Undead]]
== Raiden ==
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'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (Christopher Lambert), ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' (James Remar), ''Mortal Kombat: Conquest'' (Jeffrey Meek), ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm'' ([[Clancy Brown]]), ''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (Ryan Robbins) }}
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* [[All of Them]]: Raiden is a master of all 750 variants of Jujitsu.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: His unlockable second costume in ''9'' is {{spoiler|Dark!}}Raiden.
* [[Badass Cape]]: Gets a pimpin' one in ''Deadly Alliance'' and the [[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
* [[Battle Aura]]: In the first game, ''4'', and ''Deadly Alliance'', his body constantly generates lightning bolts.
* [[Big Good]]
* [[A Day in
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
** In ''[[
* [[The Cameo]]: He appears as an [[Secret Character|unlockable character]] in ''[[Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Eleventh
* [[Enemy Mine]]: In the intro for ''Deception'', he briefly joins Shang Tsung and Quan Chi when attempting to stop the Dragon King.
* [[
* {{spoiler|[[Fallen Hero]]: Liu Kang sees him as this in ''9''.}}
* [[God in Human Form]]
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* [[Guilt Complex]]: {{spoiler|Gets one in ''9''. He constantly misinterprits the message his future-self sent and doesn't realize what it really meant until the final chapter. By then, his attempts to change the original timeline resulted in [[It Got Worse]] for many characters. He realises this is all his fault.}}
* [[Hammerspace]]: He pulls his staff out of nowhere.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]/[[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Seems to have crossed this threshold in ''9'' with the deaths of most his allies (including Liu Kang, whom he accidentally killed himself), the futility of his actions to prevent Armageddon (including [[What the Hell, Hero?|getting called out by Liu Kang]]), and the Elder Gods turning their backs on him due to technicalities. He was about to [[Deal
* [[Hot God]]
* [[Hurting Hero]]: It's hard not to feel sorry for Raiden during the events of ''[[
* [[Idiot Ball]]: A glaring one in ''Mortal Kombat 9'' has Raiden standing back and doing nothing {{spoiler|as Lin Kuei cyber-ninjas attack Sub-Zero and take him away, even going as far as to stop Smoke from helping out. This is despite the fact that, in a nearly identical situation involving Smoke, Raiden didn't hesitate to blast all of the cyber-ninjas with lightning, taking them out and saving Smoke.}} He stated that if he got involved that it would make the situation worse, but even then that was a weak excuse... especially considering his attempts to ''not'' intervene in the game's events were only making things worse.
* [[In
* [[Large Ham]]: Especially in the first movie.
* [[Large and In Charge]]: Second-heaviest of the kombatants at 350 pounds. Goro has him beat by 200 pounds. He is also 7 feet tall [[Word of God|according to canon.]]
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* [[Mentors]]: To Liu Kang. Perhaps most evident in the movie, the DC crossover, and ''9''.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?|My Self! What have I done?]]: {{spoiler|After he accidentally fries Liu Kang in self defense in ''9''.}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: An iconic feature of the character.
* [[The Obi
* {{spoiler|[[Out
* [[Retcon]]: Raiden's story in the first title was much more self-serving, as he had been invited by Shang Tsung to compete and does so in order to prove mortals are puny when matched with a god. His ending from that game has him overthrow the tournament and turn it into a showcase of the gods (that eventually destroy the world). Later games throw this characterization out the window and instead portray him as a concerned protector who feels he must participate in order to avert disaster (as this happens [[Ret Canon|after the first movie also changed the entire story of the first game]]).
* [[Physical God]]
* [[Pint
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: He sacrifices himself and releases his godly essence into a massive explosion in order to kill Onaga, but despite this, the Dragon King is unharmed.
** His final actions at the end of ''Armageddon'', which set up the events of ''9'', could also be seen as this, since {{spoiler|his past self really does make things MUCH worse before they get any better}}.
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** [[Psycho Electric Eel]]: His Animality from ''Trilogy''.
** [[Ride the Lightning]]
** [[Stripped to
** [[Your Head Asplode]]: As a Fatality. And yes, it's related to electricity.
* [[Silence, You Fool]]: In the first movie. And he's a GOOD guy.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Teleport Spam]]
=== Tropes related to Dark!Raiden ===
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: His skin is grey.
* [[Back
** [[Came Back Wrong]]: A less extreme example than most, but according to Fujin, he should have been resurrected as a blank slate. Instead, he comes back [[Darker and Edgier]].
* [[Badass Cape]]: Tattered and torn in ''Deception'' and ''Armageddon''.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: After his attempt to destroy Onaga failed, he reconstituted darker, and became disgusted with the humans' doings. Shujinko's screw-up souring him only made things worse.
** In his non-canon ''Deception'' ending, {{spoiler|he still kills Shujinko, despite that he managed to save the Earthrealm}}.
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: His ending in the first game has him {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac|destroying]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom|the world]], constituting a definite [[What the Hell, Hero?]].}} This [[Harsher in Hindsight|predates]] what would happen six games later.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]/[[Paint It Black]]: Both his main and alternate outfits are more or less unchanged from ''Deadly Alliance'', but the color schemes are now primarily darker colors, mostly black.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Or at least, [[Darker and Edgier]] Sounds Deep''er''. His narration in ''Deception'' (in his ending, where he {{spoiler|kills Shujinko}}) is a fair bit deeper than that of his narration from ''Deadly Alliance''.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
* [[Fling a Light Into
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: During ''Deception'' and onward, combined with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]].
* [[God Is Flawed]]
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: He's an [[Omnicidal Neutral]] if anything.
* [[Heel Realization]]: Quite possibly the entire reason he attempts to change history in ''9'', coupled with [[The Bad Guy Wins|Shao Kahn's victory]]. His revival of Liu Kang is one of the key events shown in the flashback message he sends to his past self.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: If he would have been more specific with his message, {{spoiler|the amount of casualties suffered on the heroes' side would have most likely been avoided}}.
* [[Taking You
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: All promotional art of Raiden in ''Deception'' as well as his appearances throughout most of that game's Konquest Mode use his depiction from ''Deadly Alliance'', perhaps as to not spoil the transformation he had undergone there.
* [[Well
== Reptile ==
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'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (Keith Cooke), ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' (Mark Caso/Sultan Uddin), ''Mortal Kombat: Conquest'' (Jon Valera), ''Mortal Kombat: Rebirth'' (Richard Dorton) }}
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* [[Alien Blood]]: It's green.
* [[Anti
* [[Bonus Boss]]: The very first.
* [[Butt Monkey]]/[[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: With the exceptions of ''MKII'' (as it's his first time), ''Armageddon'', {{spoiler|and ''9''}}, pretty much every other ending of his can be boiled down to "His employers screwed him over":
** In ''Ultimate 3'', he {{spoiler|gets a promise from Shao Kahn to revive his race if he kills Kitana. He does it, but Shao Kahn breaks his part of the deal. Reptile kills him, but this denies him the chance to know what his true race is.}}
** In ''4'', he {{spoiler|gets a denial, again, but this time from Shinnok. He's succeeded during his fight against Earthrealm's warriors, so he talks to Quan Chi in order to make him to convince Shinnok to make Reptile to return back in time to his homeworld before it was destroyed. After an useless speak, Shinnok appears, does a [[Neck Lift]] on him, and [[Your Head Asplode|Reptile's head explodes]].}}
** And, in (surprisingly) the only canonical ending of ''Deadly Alliance'', {{spoiler|he finds Cyrax and Nitara's essence, but not any of them. Later, he's caught by an energy cascade around what was a dragon embryo, his body providing a host for [[Mortal Kombat: Deception
** In ''[[
* [[Downloadable Content]]: In ''9'', his classic skin from ''MK1/2/3'' and his classic "Tasty Meal" fatality.
** [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Before being part of the [[Downloadable Content|Klassic Pack]], buying the game in Amazon or Amazon UK gave you these items.
* [[
* [[Flash Step]]: His Running Serpent.
* [[Hollywood Acid]]: His vomit is strong enough to melt someone down into a skeleton in under a minute.
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** His fatality in ''4'' and ''Deadly Alliance'' has him reducing the enemy's head to a mere skull via acid. In the latter, [[I'm a Humanitarian|he eats it]].
* [[Imagine Spot]]: Due to his [[Sanity Slippage|waning lucidity]], ''Deadly Alliance'''s Konquest Mode notes that Reptile's imagination tends to get out of hand frequently, causing him daydream about hypothetical battles (such as he thwarting the Deadly Alliance's assassination attempt on Shao Kahn).
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: He can swallow an entire human head in one bite, and some of his fatalities has him ripping and eating [[Off
* [[Invisibility]]: He can turn invisible in nearly every game where he's playable.
* [[It Was a Gift]]: The Kirehashi blade that he uses in ''Deadly Alliance'' and ''Armageddon'' is an [[Ancestral Weapon|ancient Raptor weapon]] offered to him as a sign of peace by Nitara. While this was mostly done to get Reptile's guard down and gain his trust so that Nitara could lure him over to her side, this also suggests that there is some sort of shared history between the people of Zaterra and Vaeternus (the Vampire race is said to be a record keeper of the history of other races, but it's unknown how deep their connection with other species were).
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* [[Last of His Kind]]: Well, he and Khameleon.
* [[Neck Snap]]: He has a non-lethal version of this.
* [[Now Buy the Merchandise]]: His Friendship in ''2'', in which he invites the player to "Buy a Reptile doll!"
* [[Overly Long Tongue]]
* [[Red Herring Shirt]]: In ''9'', he {{spoiler|'''lives'''}}.
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* [[Secret Character]]: The first secret character in the series. Later became a regular character.
** [[Guide Dang It]]: ''MK1'' required sheer perfection and luck on one specific fight in order to obtain him. Every so often, the game would have him pop out and drop a hint on this. And if you want to know, you are required to {{spoiler|be on The Pit stage ("[[Sdrawkcab Name|Tip eht fo mottob]]"), win with a double [[Flawless Victory]] ("Perfection is the key") and finish the opponent with your character's fatality ("Fatality is the key") and NOT Block ("Blocking will get you nowhere").}}
** [[Luck
** [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: The only time you're allowed to {{spoiler|touch the block button is when inputting Sonya's fatality, the only one in the game that requires block.}}
* [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: Inverted. Reptile prefers to take on a more human form, with his resemblance to a human or humanoid lizard varying from game to game. Yet, members of his race can lose their humanoid appearance when separated for long periods of time from their monarchal leader, with hints that Reptile's [[Sanity Slippage|temporary insanity]] is what caused his more bestial appearance in ''Deadly Alliance''.
* [[The Speechless]]: In ''9'', he has no spoken dialogue during the story mode, though he "converses" with Shang Tsung using growls at one point. He does have a few text-based lines in the challenge tower.
* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: He had it in the comics, and it was carried over to ''4''. For some reason however, he does not have it in ''Armageddon''.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Mostly due to his status as an [[Extreme Doormat]] and his misguided hopes that he'll eventually be rewarded with the revival of his race, but once Reptile enters the service of most his masters, he is violently determined to protect and serve them. Even more pitiable is the fact that what Reptile perceives as failure starts weighing heavily on his conscience. When he's unable to defeat Cyrax at Nitara's command and flees, Reptile (in an odd ''villainous'' variation of [[Heroic Self
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: In ''4'', '' Deadly Alliance'', and ''Armageddon''.
== Goro ==
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* [[Big Eater]]: Naturally, as he's a big guy, [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/b/bc/Screenshot_2015-03-15-17-13-46.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150901151430 and as this comic panel shows.]
* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]: For centuries before the game, too.
* [[The Dragon]]: To Shang Tsung first, and to Shao Kahn later. He's literally a dragon-human hybrid, somehow...
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: His Leaping Stomp, an attack which is shared with the other four-armed characters of the series.
* [[Half
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: The only constant in his motive is his desire to do right by the Shokan race, and he will ally himself with whoever can provide them the best status. To wit: started out as Evil in the first ''Mortal Kombat'', then was more Neutral in ''MK4'', then turned Good at the end of ''MK4'' and ''Deadly Alliance'' (to the point of even making peace with Kung Lao over Goro's rivalry with Lao's ancestor; [[Yank the
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Averted, though when he refers to the humans he says "puny humans."
* [[Implacable Man]]
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** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: His original appearance.
* [[Monster Modesty]]: Subverted with his alt. in ''Deception'' and ''Armageddon'', which decks Goro out in armor and a shirt that covers most of his chest.
* [[Multi
** [[An Arm and
** [[Spin Attack]]: Goro's Spinning Slaps.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Kitana. If ''Deadly Alliance'' is indication, the two are old friends, to the point that she attended his funeral at Kuatan Palace after he was slain by Noob Saibot sometime between ''4'' and ''DA''.
* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]]
* [[Playing
* [[Pointy Ears]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: A member of the Shokan race.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: At the time of ''Mortal Kombat'', he has already lived something like ''2000 years''.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Red Herring]]: The line that Goro could "eat you alive" from [[All There in the Manual|the Sega Genesis instruction manual]] had many believing the Goro could perform a fatality in the first game. He gets, however, fatalities of his own in the Gamecube version of ''Deception'' and [[
* [[Slipknot Ponytail]]
* [[SNK Boss]]: In the early games, Goro was far from balanced. All of his moves did way more damage then all of the other characters, and because of that he was notoriously difficult to defeat in the first game.
* [[Stop Motion]]: In his very first incarnation he was animated this way. This set the precedent for [[Mortal Kombat 2
* [[Warrior Prince]]: His official title is Prince Goro. You know what he's the prince of? ''[[Authority Equals Asskicking|Kicking]] [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|your]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|ass]]''.
== Shang Tsung ==
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'''Other appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat II'' (Phillip Ahn, M.D.), ''Mortal Kombat 3'' (John Turk), ''Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero'' (Richard Divizio), ''Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance'', ''Mortal Kombat: Deception'' (cameo), ''Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks'', ''Mortal Kombat: Armageddon'', ''Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe'' (James Kyson-Lee), ''Mortal Kombat 9'' (Andrew Kishino)
'''Non-game appearances''': ''Mortal Kombat: The Movie'' (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), ''Mortal Kombat: Conquest'' (Bruce Locke), ''Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm'' (Neil Ross), ''Mortal Kombat: Rebirth'' (James Lew), ''Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' (Johnson Phan) }}
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* [[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.
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* [[Beard of Evil]]: White in the first game, black in the other ones.
* [[Big Bad]]: In the first game.
* [[Cursed
* [[A Day in
* [[Demonic Possession]]: In ''MKII'', he enters his opponent's body, which violently shakes until it explodes as Shang appears in the opponent's place. It inspires one of Liu Kang's ''Deception'' fatalities, and in ''MK9'' it comes full-circle with it being based on Liu Kang's one instead of his ''MKII'' one.
* [[The Dragon]]: To Shao Kahn.
** [[The Starscream]]: The degree varies with the adaptation, but he's always just a little too ambitious to be a good number 2.
** [[Treacherous Advisor]]
* [[Dressing
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Energy Absorption]]: In later games, he can absorb part of his opponent's soul during a fight to restore his health.
* [[
* [[Evil Genius]]: Of the ''MK3'' [[Five
* [[Evil Mentor]]: To Goro, the Shokan prince.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: One of the classic modern examples.
* [[Expy]]: Possibly more of a case of [[Strange Minds Think Alike]], but he has more than a few things in common with Lo-Pan, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]''.
* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: Subverted. In ''9'', he was very interested in modern weaponry, and bought rocket launchers and shotguns from Kano.
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* [[Flaming Skulls]]: He uses them as projectiles in some games.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: In some of his incarnations.
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* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: One of his fatalities from ''2'', in which he morphs into Kintaro and punches the upper half of the opponent's body clear across the stage.
* [[Hazy Feel Turn]]: The most likely interpretation of his Ladder ending in ''9'', in which {{spoiler|Bo' Rai Cho trains him to help defeat a power-mad and newly-deified Liu Kang}}.
* [[Hero
* [[Impaled
** In ''MK3'', Tsung can summon a bed of nails in which he slams his dazed opponent as a finisher.
** [[Hoist
* [[I Was Quite
* [[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.
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** There's also his behavior in ''MK9'''s story mode, especially after {{spoiler|he has his youth restored}}.
* [[Monster Clown]]: One of his ''[[
* [[Neck Snap]]: In ''Deadly Alliance'', he delivers one to {{spoiler|Liu Kang}}, killing him for good. This comes back in the Battle of Armageddon, where {{spoiler|Undead!Liu Kang}} necksnaps him.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: According to [[Word of God]], he was biologically nineteen years old in ''MKII''. [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110216184320/mk/images/d/d6/Shang_Tsungend2.gif He doesn't exactly look like it.]{{Dead link}}
* [[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
* [[
* [[Scaled Up]]: He could turn into a cobra to finish his opponents as Animality in ''MK3''.
* [[Shape Shifter]]
** [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]]: In the movie.
** [[
** [[Ditto Fighter]]: A trademark of the character which [[Every Year They Fizzle Out|varies from continuity to continuity]].
* [[A Sinister Clue]]: Given his weapon style in later games, Shang would appear to be a lefty.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: In his younger form.
* [[Tournament Arc]]: He ''really likes'' these, to the point that, in MK Versus DCU, when he encounters Captain Marvel in the Netherrealm, he has his allies face off against Marvel one at a time, announcing results between rounds as if it were Arcade Mode ("Captain Marvel wins!").
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: There's no better example in this franchise. Shang Tsung's "main" appearance has changed considerably from game to game, except in ''Armageddon'', which reutilized his ''Deadly Alliance'' model.
** [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: After his rejuvenation.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Elder Gods?]]: For the atrocity of stealing a soul, Shang Tsung was condemned to... do it over and over again. Just to twist the knife, Shang doesn't give a crap about the souls he takes either, ''and'' it actually makes him more and more powerful. It's like condemning a murderer to a life as a [[Serial Killer]], and the murderer [[For the Evulz|enjoys killing]].
* [[Yellow Peril]]: In the original game, though it's balanced by the fact that the protagonist is also Chinese.
* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]: The [[Trope Namer]], and his iconic Fatality.
** 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}}.
== Introduced in ''[[Mortal Kombat (1995 film)|Mortal Kombat (film)]]'' ==
== Art Lean ==
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: As brave as he was, poor Chan didn't stand a chance against Shang Tsung.
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: To Liu Kang.
* [[Doomed
* [[Finishing Stomp]]: How Shang Tsung finishes him.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[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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