Mortal kombat sprite video shorts2/22/2023 The Reboot Era tries to make better use of its characters, but Mortal Kombat 9 and Mortal Kombat X don’t split the narrative evenly between what they clearly meant to be an ensemble cast. The rest were terrible ideas (Tremor, Jerek). Other characters embody Mortal Kombat’s exploitative racism (Yellow Peril Hsu Hao, Mystic Shaman Nightwolf). The grand majority saw no true realization, were mere vehicles for outlandish Fatalities or reappeared so long after their first appearance that there’s little chance that they might become something worth investing your time. Most of the Mortal Kombat cast is fairly forgettable (Stryker, Smoke, Fujin, Li Mei), or too derivative (everyone’s in a clan, everyone wants revenge, everyone’s a ninja, somebody’s set up to be “the next Liu Kang”). It was to the fortune of some color swap characters that they later became individual identities, but it rarely helped their standing with anyone who wasn’t already a fan of that character. While the multiplication of the cast began as early in the Arcade Era of the franchise, most were famously (if not affectionately) named, “Color Swap characters” (Ermac, Noob Saibot, Smoke, Mileena, Jade, Tanya, etc). Like any fanbase, the Mortal Kombat community didn’t take well to a lot of them on the pretense of “It’s not the original roster.” So, slowly, but surely, over the 3D Era of the franchise, the giant cast was whittled down to relative non-existence in favor of maintaining the Arcade Era roster. Most characters are only present to expand roster space, and typically had little bearing on what was considered a plot for the time. However, for all its quantity, most characters were more gimmick than they were personality (Bo Rai Cho comes to mind). For as long as the franchise has been around, there is a character for every person who has spent a weekend with one Mortal Kombat game. The Mortal Kombat franchise has played host to an impressive amount of characters, most of whom were introduced around 1997. Kitana Kahn leads the armies of Outworld against Kronika in “Mortal Kombat 11” (2019).
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