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''.

* [[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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