Mortal Kombat/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** Liu Kang was originally going to be called Minamoto Yo Shin Soo. He was a Japanese mythological character, but John Tobias stated that they [[Overly Long Name|could not deal with the name]]. The fact that it's a misspelling ("Yoshitsune" - [[All Asians Are Alike|and also not Chinese]]) also likely helped prompt the change.

** There's an unused character design based on Cynthia Rothrock but that was never used, although Sonya's original design is said to owe a lot to Rothrock.

** Network play was in test before DSL and cable internet were in wide availability. The test games used T1 Lines.

** Raiden was originally thought to fight using a staff, but it was difficult to fit the weapon into the game's mechanics. The staff does appear in ''Mortal Kombat 4'', which has a system designed with weapons in mind, but he doesn't actually fight with it until ''Deadly Alliance''.

 

For stuff belonging to ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation|Mortal Kombat Annihilation]]'', head [[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation/Trivia|this way]].

 

** Christopher Lambert ([[Highlander|Connor MacLeod]]) plays Raiden.

** Linden Ashby ends up hooking up with [[Resident Evil|Alice, Claire Redfield, Carlos Oliveira, and LJ.]]

*** [[Ong Bak|Tony Jaa]] was Robin Shou's stunt double in the second film.

** Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa would become [[Tekken|the head of the Mishima clan.]]

** Chris Casamassa and Hakim Alston ([[WMAC Masters|Red Dragon and The Machine]]) are Scorpion and one of Liu Kang's rivals.

** [[Licence to Kill|Kwang and Lupe Lamora]] are Shang Tsung and Kitana, respectively.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:

** As one of his earlier works of voice acting, Kevin Michael Richardson ([[Retroactive Recognition|now the announcer of the 2011 MK game]]) provides the main voice of Goro, though voice acting legend [[Frank Welker|Frank]] "[[Transformers Generation 1|Megatron]]" [[Frank Welker|Welker]] provides many of Goro's vocal effects.

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** [[Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story|Jason Scott Lee]], Phillip Rhee and [[Romeo Must Die|Russell Wong]] auditioned for the role of Liu Kang. Robin Shou got the role.

** Brandon Lee (son of [[Bruce Lee|Bruce]]) was set to play Johnny Cage. After his untimely death, the role was passed down to Linden Ashby.

** Apparently, they originally wanted Ron Livingston to play Goro. Yes... they wanted [[Office Space|Peter]] to play Goro.

 

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