Mortal Kombat/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

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

'''Non-game appearances''': ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]'' (Chris Casamassa/Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation|Mortal Kombat Annihilation]]'' (J.J. Perry/Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Conquest|Mortal Kombat Conquest]]'' (Chris Casamassa/Ed Boon), ''[[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm]]'', ''[[Mortal Kombat Rebirth|Mortal Kombat: Rebirth]]''/''[[Mortal Kombat Legacy|Mortal Kombat: Legacy]]'' (Ian Anthony Dale/Ed Boon) }}

 

** 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-Hero]] ([[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV or V]])/[[Anti-Villain]] ([[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type I]]): The best example in the entire series. Most characters in the series are either fully good or fully bad, but Scorpion is a [[True Neutral]], participating in the games' events for his own purposes. While he has exhibited a little bit of a conscience and his actions (unintentionally) help the good guys, he's when all's said and done in it for himself and no one else.

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Quan Chi.

* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: They went right with "[[Hattori Hanzo|Hanzo]]" for a first name, but his surname, Hasashi, is not even a 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 From the Dead]]: After being killed by Bi-Han (the original Sub-Zero), Scorpion is back as [[The Undead|a wraith]] at the start of ''MK1''.

** [[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.

* [[Badass]]

* [[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''.

'''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!"'' }}

* [[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."]]

** [[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-Strike|fuck]]'' over here!"}} variant! Of course, this happened very rarely, making this and the former additive probably the only times in ''MK'' that there's been profanity.

* [[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."]]

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]:

** In ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe|MK vs. DCU]]'', he's the focus of the ''MK'' side's Chapter 5.

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: To make up for the Scorpion Animality already being taken by Sheeva (supposedly, the dev team did not had ''Ultimate'' in mind when making ''MK3'') Scorpion's Animality form ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'' is a penguin which lays [[Made of Explodium|explosive eggs]].

* [[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]]}}.

* [[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.

* [[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).

* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]:

** 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}}.

* [[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]].

* [[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]].

* {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]:}} His fate in the aftermath of the Battle of Armageddon (as seen in ''9'''s intro).

* [[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!]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]

* [[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]]

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: He would later adopt vanishing in a swirl of flame instead.

* [[Off with His Head]]: In ''Deception'', he borrows [[Mortal Kombat (video game)|the original "Spine Rip" fatality from Bi-Han]] and rips the enemy's head off with the spine still attached.

* [[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.}}

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Scorpion is a classic vengeance-driven revenant.

* [[Palette Swap]]: Of Sub-Zero, originally. The same is true in reverse.

** [[The Power of Hate]]: If this emotion was a metal and Hanzo was a blacksmith, then Scorpion most certainly forged a [[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) ==