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'Mortal Kombat' Kast and Kharacters Explained: Who the Heck Are These Fighters and What the Heck Are Their Powers?
Wanna know who'due south who in the new big-screen adaptation of the video game?
Mortal Kombat is back on the big screen — or, depending on where you're watching it, on HBO Max! Based on the long-running, acclaimed, and controversially violent fighting video game series that started in 1992 and has most recently connected with 2019's Mortal Kombat 11 , the new film from directorSimon McQuoidand an international bandage of martial arts experts promises difficult-R activity and a faithfulness to the property not seen in either previous live-activity feature picture (1995's by and large love Mortal Kombat and 1997's by and large reviled Mortal Kombat: Annihilation ).
The multimedia franchise is full of eclectic, super-powered characters with outrageous special moves, universe-spanning backstories, and fatalities — finishing moves that bloodily kill their opponent in hyperbolically entertaining fashions. For a newcomer to the franchise, or even for aKombatpro looking for a refresher before the new flick, it can be a lot to keep runway of. So nosotros've put together this handy-swell guide of all the kombatants you'll find in the newMortal Kombatmoving picture, how they compare to their video game counterparts, and how they role within the larger earth of the mythology at large. And speaking of which...
The World(s) of 'Mortal Kombat'
Mortal Kombat exists in a bit of a multiverse, with unlike realms representing dissimilar planes of existence and foundational philosophies. For the purposes of understanding the 2022 film, nosotros'll focus on three. There's Earthrealm, which you can retrieve of every bit our Earth as we know it, under the protection of an elder god named Raiden. At that place's Outworld, a realm marked by evilness, power, decay, and corruption nether the rule of an emperor named Shao Kahn. And there's the Netherrealm, which yous can call up of as a hellish afterlife.
"Mortal Kombat" is the name of an inter-realm martial arts tournament, in which the mightiest warriors from each realm compete. If one realm wins x tournaments in a row, they proceeds the power to invade the rival realm with a goal toward domination, submergence, and conquering. At the start of this film, Outworld has defeated Earthrealm nine times in a row, and its highest-ranking champions, including sorcerer Shang Tsung, are primed to win over again. But the uncovery of a prophecy gives Earthrealm 1 final shot at protecting themselves. So as Shang Tsung sends a crew of evil Outworld fighters to Earthrealm to choice off potential champions, we detect ourselves zeroing in on the journeys of...
Cole Young (Lewis Tan)
Wouldn't you know information technology, Cole Immature, the protagonist of ourMortal Kombatfeature film, is actually a new character to theMortal Kombatmythology! So ostensibly, you should be able to go what he'south about from watching the film right out of the gate, since this is his origin story. Only for some cursory, not-spoilery context, he's a struggling MMA fighter whose glory days are behind him. His daughter (Matilda Kimber) is his coach and biggest fan despite his constant pummelings. But a destiny beyond what he's known awaits him — and it has something to do with his curious visions of a fiery ninja, and his curious birthmark in the shape of a dragon...
Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee)
Sonya Blade, a United states of america Special Forces amanuensis, is single-minded and hotheaded in her goal to eradicate the criminal forces in her way, especially her bitter rival Kano, and usually teams upwards with her Special Forces partner Jax. Her fighting style involves the usage of her long legs, including cartwheel kicks and handstand anxiety grabs of opponents' necks, military equipment like guns and grenades, and blasts of purplish energy rings she tin can supernaturally shoot. Her signature fatality involves a "kiss of death," a smooch that chars and burns the victim into a dang skeleton.
In this motion picture, Sonya has been tracking the being and meaning of the Mortal Kombat tournament for some time, and introduces Cole to his place in the puzzle, including the meaning of his dragon marking every bit someone who possesses special powers known as "arcana" (she notably does not have a marking at the beginning of the pic). She besides undergoes a curious "brotherhood under duress" with rival Kano and continues to help teammate Jax.
Jackson "Jax" Briggs (Mehcad Brooks)
Jax is another Special Forces agent, the mostly more even-keeled partner of Sonya (though he is usually depicted equally existence responsible for the heart injury that led to Kano's injury). He's often seen struggling with the traumas that come from a life of military service, injury, and decease. He's cybernetically enhanced, with a pair of buffed out metal arms part and bundle of his fighting style; he'southward i of the only Mortal Kombat characters whose largest superpower comes, truly, from just punching people, though he can also blast out energy waves. Jax's signature fatality is blunt and hilarious: He uses his metallic arms to "clap" someone's head, causing it to explode. Can ya blame him?
We're first introduced to Jax every bit having regular man arms in the film as he rescues Cole from the clutches of Sub-Naught and points him on his journey to find Sonya and go the significant of his dragon mark. Simply the motion picture features, in quite dramatic and bloody fashion, the origin story of the loss of his artillery moments later, all leading to a rise from the ashes equally he gets his powerful replacements.
Kano (Josh Lawson)
Boasting a cybernetic, glowing red heart and a blunt lack of morality, Kano is i of the franchise's virtually reliable, and virtually traditionally human villains. He's a mercenary for hire, the leader of the Black Dragon crime syndicate, and the unrelenting thorn in Sonya Blade'south side, sometimes portrayed as being responsible for a death of i of her partners. His special moves emanate from his cybernetic enhancements, including red light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation beams shot from his eye shield, and his signature fatality involves the removal and consumption of his opponent's heart (yum!). Interestingly, his common depiction of being Australian and having a vulgar, careless sense of humor came not from the video game, simply fromTrevor Goddard'due south performance equally him in the first 1995 movie.
The new film starts with him having already been captured by Sonya, equally he seems to have caused the dragon mark later on killing a superpowered person with it. Tin he manage to work with Sonya, Jax, Cole, and the rest of the Earthrealm protectors without his damn running oral fissure ruining everything?
Lord Raiden (Tadanobu Asano)
Lord Raiden is the goddamn God of Thunder, eternal protector of the Earthrealm, and all around avatar of sage wisdom in the Mortal Kombatuniverse. He's what'south known as an Elder God, a powerful, otherworldly figure who helps keep the multiverse in check from evil figures like Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn, who try to accept over control from their nefarious Outworld perches. He's typically portrayed every bit a father figure and trainer of our more down-to-globe (haha) heroes. As you might imagine, his powers involve the dissemination of lightning against his foes, and his signature fatality involves using electricity to decapitate fools.
In the pic, Raiden protects and brings together all kinds of people, from rescuing Scorpion's daughter in the prologue sequence to reluctantly training the motley coiffure of Earthrealm warriors in his temple during the heart. He is an observer of tradition, rules, and lineages, which are all shaken up by the events of the picture.
Liu Kang (Ludi Lin)
Typically seen equally the central character ofMortal Kombat(and then much so that he was the protagonist of the 1995 movie, played byRobin Shou), Liu Kang is a trained martial creative person and Shaolin monk who becomes Earthrealm's Thousand Champion equally a outcome of winning so many Mortal Kombat tournaments against the forces of Outworld, especially Shang Tsung. He'south both grounded but spiritual, a tearing warrior but a kind hearted soul. His diverse set of moves involve fireballs, bike kicks, and the personification of the dragon (i.east. theMortal Kombatlogo); then much so that his signature fatality involves him literally turning into a dragon and chomping his opponent for a post-fight lunch.
The pic finds Liu Kang already a teacher of sorts, rather than a pupil. He'due south already an Earthrealm champion and trains Cole to help unlock his arcana in Raiden's temple before springing into action himself when Outworld forces make their assuming play.
Kung Lao (Max Huang)
Seen on the right of the movie even so with his BFF/sometimes cousin Liu Kang, Kung Lao is a fellow trained Shaolin monk, an eponymous ancestor of the Cracking Kung Lao, and in contempo games, a bit of a rapscallion. In contrast to the humble and kind Liu Kang, Kung Lao can experience like a Han Solo type; he however follows the nonviolent, spiritual teachings of the White Lotus Order, but does so while flirting, smirking, and behaving like a lovable brute. And if you're wondering if his powers involve his large ol' hat, adept news: They do! It's a razor-edged chapeau which Kung Lao chucks and hurls at his opponents with magical elan, culminating in his signature fatality which slices his opponent make clean in half, hat-style.
The film positions Kung Lao as another teacher alongside Liu Kang and Raiden, helping the newcomers find their strength and arcana. We notably come across some of the rabble-rousing tendencies of Kung Lao come up out during a heated argument with Kano, and we notably run into some of the selfless tendencies of Kung Lao come out during dramatic moments after.
Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada)
Scorpion, aka Hanzo Hasashi, utters the about famous line in all ofMortal Kombat: "Go over here!" He throatily barks this equally he shoots a rope-spear out of his hand, plunging it into his opponents' bodies and yanking them over to pummel them. Easily ane of the most recognizable moves not but inMortal Kombatbut in all of video game history, its only i of Scorpion's many powers, which too include the usage of fire, teleportation, and straight up sword fighting. Scorpion was originally perceived as a villain in the original games (and '95 moving-picture show), which tracks with his signature fatality where he removes his yellow mask to reveal a skull-face, and breathes burn down onto his opponent, burning them to a well-baked. Merely recent incarnations of the character bandage him as a noble, heroic fellow member of the Shirai Ryu clan (Hanzo Hasashi) who is driven to madness, vengeance, and hellish possession (Scorpion) only when his family unit is murdered.
The film version takes this history and runs with it as a framing device, opening the picture with the devastation of his family and life past the evil Bi-Han, aka Sub-Zero. It goes on to present an ancient prophecy that the presence of Hanzo Hasashi's blood (like, his lineage, though there'due south plenty of his literal blood) is the key to uniting a new group of Earthrealm warriors to terminate an Outworld takeover. And equally Sub-Nix continues his path of destruction and Cole keeps having strange visions of Scorpion appear before his very eyes, it all leads to a cathartic climax for Mr. Scorpion.
Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim)
While the canon ofMortal Kombathas two separate ninjas who accept adorned the "Sub-Null" moniker, for the purposes of how it relates to the moving picture version, we're just going to focus on 1: Bi-Han. A unmarried-minded, remorseless assassin of the Lin Kuei association, Bi-Han is what nosotros might call "neutral evil"; he kills his targets (including Scorpion and his family) without a second thought, his darkness ultimately corrupting his soul and transforming him into the form known every bit Noob Saibot (seen in a higher place, because to employ the Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat xi would be using theotherSub-Zilch, and we simply cannot meld continuities like that!). Only nether his Sub-Zero moniker, his powers obviously involve the wielding of ice as a power, with his ability to fling ice assurance that freeze people in their tracks being his virtually notable special move. His signature fatality involves ripping a head off his opponent'southward body, its spinal string hanging precariously below. Yuck!
The film, again, starts with Bi-Han finding Hanzo Hasashi and his family unit, and murdering him. It then presents him as a kind of ice-cold Terminator, hunting later Cole, Jax, Sonya, and any other Earthrealm warriors who get in the way of Outworld domination. Many things come to a head for Mr. Sub-Zero through the motion picture, and he causes many things to freeze and shatter along the way.
Shang Tsung (Chin Han)
1 of the swell villains of theMortal Kombatfranchise, Shang Tsung is a cunning, fallacious, and shape-shifting magician with an insatiable ambition for souls. He's the primary boss in the starting timeMortal Kombatgame who possesses the power to plow into all of the other characters, being able to use their movesets as well. While he does pledge fealty to Shao Kahn and the other Outworld rulers, Shang Tsung has a sense of trickery and independence that makes him a particularly scary, manipulative, and even charming villain. His signature fatality, and kind of his whole One thousand.O., is to suck the souls from his victims in the form of a green aureola, leaving the deceased a gray sack of flesh. Fun fact: ThisMortal Kombat xiversion of him is performed in voice and body byCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played the villain in the '95 film and immediately calcified much of what nosotros love about the grapheme, Kano-mode.
In this '21 picture show, Shang Tsung is very aware of this "Hanzo Hasashi blood means another tournament" dominion, and badly wants to terminate information technology earlier Outworld is at risk once again. He's willing and ready to take over Earthrealm even if it means breaking the rules. So he gathers his squad of evil chess pieces and sics them on anyone possessing that dragon mark. And don't worry, you lot'll see him stealsomebody 'southsoul...
Kabal (Daniel Nelson/Damon Herriman)
In a spooky, steampunk Bane mask that also acts as his respirator, Kabal strikes quite the visage in the pantheon ofMortal Kombatvillains. He is a mercenary willing to take whatever gig serves him the best, meaning that even though Outworld emperor Shao Kahn is the man who resulted in him needing his confront protector and breathing mechanism, he'll nevertheless work for evil forces if the price is right. Kabal possesses super speed and ferocious hook swords, dashing and spinning around his opponents as he skewers and skins them like shish kabobs. And in i of his most notable fatalities, he actually takes off the mask and reveals his horrifically scarred face up, which is and then scary it makes his opponent'southward soulleave their torso. Shang Tsung could never.
Kabal is framed every bit a rival of Kano's in the '21 motion picture, making him willing to work with Shang Tsung and his Outworld crew to try and finish the Earthrealm warriors. However, he uses his skills of condition-shifting to his advantage, moving character allegiances well-nigh as apace as his literal speed.
Goro (Angus Sampson)
A former Mortal Kombat champion for Outworld, a Prince of the Shokan warriors, and an absolute unit of a chunky boi, Goro has four arms and they're all ready to kick your donkey. He'southward been a loyal correct hand human being to Shang Tsung since serving as the beginning game'southward secondary boss, and while he has the ability to shoot fireballs, the primary appeal of his attacks come from all the things he can exercise while punching with four arms (I'm particularly fond of his bottom 2 artillery picking someone up while his top two arms pummel their head). He doesn't take a "signature" fatality per se, since he didn't have one in the first game, but one of my faves since involves him standing on his opponent'south body and ripping their four limbs off all at the same time with his four arms. Hunks can get away with so much, ya know?
The motion-picture show finds Goro used equally a warrior past Shang Tsung in his quest to end Earthrealm, per usual, and gives him one of the most important fights in the picture show against Cole at a pivotal moment.
Mileena (Sisi Stringer)
At that place is a kind, good, and just female ninja in the world ofMortal Kombat named Princess Kitana. Mileena is technically Kitana's sister — though "clone made under ill-advised circumstances by Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung" is a more apt description — merely that'south where the similarities end. Mileena isevilevil. She'due south barbarous, sadistic, unstable. She's a specially impetuous Outworld warrior who uses her daggers as the brunt of her special attacks, while later games detect her literally eating her opponents' flesh with a fix of horror-picture-monster-esque teeth. This is where her signature fatality draws from: She gobbles up her opponent in their entirety, then spits out all their bones on the floor. She would non exist a fun hang.
In the film, Mileena is basically used every bit one of several Outworld assassins Shang Tsung utilizes to try and finish our Earthrealm crew. She gets quite the fight scene, also!
Reptile
Reptile is a reptile. Got it? Great, moving on!
Merely kidding :) Reptile is a monstrosity of a animal, of humanoid shape but of mutated lizard Deoxyribonucleic acid. He'due south a fearsome ninja with the ability to plow invisible, and he's oft used by his Outworld bosses to sneak upon and destroy his targets. Even so, in recent games, he's painted as a tragic figure who'due south trying to find other members of his race, pledging loyalty to masters who don't have his all-time interest at center in the procedure. Beyond his invisibility, Reptile can spit burning acrid and shoot force balls at his foes. In his signature fatality, he removes his green mask, zaps his tongue towards his opponent'south head, and rips it make clean off. After consuming information technology, he rubs his abdomen and gives a satisfied noise. At to the lowest degree information technology's keto?
The film features Reptile in just one dramatic, brutal fight scene, where we encounter many of his powers including his invisibility in his attempts to terminate the Earthrealm warriors on behalf of Shang Tsung. Notably, he feels less like a humanoid ninja and more similar an out-and-out lizard monster.
Nitara (Mel Jarnson)
Introduced in the slept on 2002 video game Mortal Kombat: Deadly Brotherhood , Nitara is a pretty deep cut for this film to include. She's a vampire who, as vampires are wont to do, feeds on her opponent's blood equally a fundamental role of her arsenal in kombat (she as well flings blood assurance at people, which rules). And while she is generally "evil," she'south less interested in joining your standard Outworld players similar Shang Tsung and more than interested in "doing her own affair." Her fatality is absolutely a roughshod blood-sucking, with chunks of blood and flesh flying as she chows down.
The film finds her operating as one of Shang Tsung's Outworld assassins, simplifying her more complicated video game relationship to serve the story. She gets to fight, and that's almost it!
Reiko (Nathan Jones)
First introduced in 1997's Mortal Kombat 4 , the serial' beginning 3D game, Reiko is another deep cut for the motion-picture show to include, and I'm here for it! He's a general of Shao Kahn's army, an Outworld company man through and through, who wields a large ol' hammer in his fighting style. And almost hilariously, he has kind of a crush on Shao Kahn. He dresses similar him, uses a hammer like him, even puts on his mask when he'due south not effectually. He wants to be only like him, making him a dopily endearing entry to the series. Beyond his hammer, Reiko too hurls throwing stars and uses all kinds of teleportation tactics in his fighting fashion. One of my favorite fatalities of his involves a huge kick to the trunk — so huge that the trunk flies backwards, leaving the head and arms to spin in midair before falling to the basis.
The picture, sadly, does not get into Reiko's dear of his boss, instead simply casting him as another trunk to endeavour and cease the Earthrealm warriors. He gets to fight, he gets to concur a big hammer, he does not go to dance around playing pretend as Shao Kahn.
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