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[[File:MK Kintaro 2430.gif|frame|''"I will eat your heart!"'']]
{{quote|Stronger and more agile than his predecessor, he is enraged by his cousin Goro's defeat. Kintaro vows to take revenge on the earth warriors responsible.
{{quote|In the second tournament, after learning of Goro's apparent death at the hands of a mere mortal, Kintaro vowed to avenge his cousin and destroy Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat. After a restored Shang Tsung was defeated again yet by Liu Kang, Kintaro then challenged Liu Kang to Mortal Kombat. He ultimately lost just as Goro did.}}
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* [[Beast Man]]: According to his bio in ''9'', Kintaro hails from a lower lineage of Shokan known as the Tigrar (as opposed to Goro and Sheeva hailing from the more noble and aristocratic Draco lineage).
* [[The Brute]]
* [[The Dragon]]: To Shao Kahn in ''
* [[The Gump]]: In ''9'', it's revealed he's the one who {{spoiler|nearly killed Kabal during the events of ''Mortal Kombat 3''
* [[In Name Only]]: He's named after a Japanese folk hero, but has nothing to do with him at all. The original Kintaro was more of a Japanese version of [[Tarzan]].
* [[The Juggernaut]]
** [[The Worf Effect]]: Gets his ass handed to him in every battle he's in in ''9'''s story mode, even though his bio states {{spoiler|he became Shao Kahn's bodyguard by slaughtering several Centaurs single-handedly out of sheer ''grandstanding''
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: {{spoiler|What he delivers to Kabal via [[Breath Weapon]] in ''9'', minus the killing part
* [[Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!]]: [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110509195026/mk/images/1/11/Mk2-development01.jpg Originally designed as a tiger/human hybrid,] this look was ultimately scrapped due to it not being feasible to construct at the time and replaced with the "Shokan plus tiger stripes" look he sports in ''
** During an interview Gamepro did with John Tobias, John stated "Even in ''[[Mortal Kombat 2|Mortal Kombat II]]'', we still didn't have all the time to do everything we wanted", citing Kintaro. He says, "I based him on Goro's species, adding different markings, but I was never fully satisfied with the Kintaro character."
** [[Cute Kitten]]: What happens to him during his ''
* [[Loin Cloth]]
* [[Monster Modesty]]
* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: Like his cousin Goro, he sports four arms.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
** [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In his ending in ''9'', {{spoiler|he kills Shao Kahn in order to gain more glory, but gets hounded as a traitor by all of Outworld, as a result
* [[SNK Boss]]: ''Mortal Kombat'''s [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: To Goro, status-wise as a Shokan sub-boss.
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