|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Noob Saibot |
|
|
This is Noob Saibot... One of my favorite characters ever. Noob Saibot is a shadowy creature from the Netherrealm. One of the brothers of the shadow, Noob Saibot serves mostly as a spy for Shinnok. His dark appearance makes him perfect for the task. Most recently, he has been spying on the battle between the Earth and Outworld. He was present during Kahn's Outworld tournament, then again during his invasion of Earth. Noob was not quick to challenge any of the warriors involved, although he did fight a few. His main objective was to keep Shinnok informed on the events taking place. After Kahn's defeat, it was Noob Saibot's information which allowed Quan Chi to find Shinnok's amulet before Rayden. Because of this, Shinnok was able to escape from the Netherrealm. As the battle begins against the Earth realm and Outworld, Noob Saibot's services as a spy are no longer needed. Instead, he is to fight in the tournament for the Netherrealm. He has also been given the secondary mission to watch Mileena, and to kill her if she disobeys Shinnok's orders. Being completely loyal to his god, Noob Saibot accepts both missions without question. First was a character made from a glitch in either MKI or MKII. A statistic not many people know is that this character was made from the game's creators "[Ed] Boon" and "[John] Tobias" spelled backwards. |
||
 |
||
|
SINDEL |
||
| Sindel was once the queen of the thriving realm of Edenia, next to her husband king Jerrod. Jerrod and Sindel were happy in their life, especially after the birth of their new daughter, Kitana. Their happiness was soon interrupted by Shao Kahn. When Edenia's best warriors lost 10 Mortal Kombats, Kahn was able to enter Edenia and begin merging it with Outworld. Kahn killed several Outworld generals, then Sindel's husband Jerrod. Shao Kahn then forced Sindel to marry him so that he could take the Edenian throne as emperor. Sindel offered what resistance she could, but soon her spirit was broken and she couldn't go on any longer. Unable to bear her role as Shao Kahn's queen, she took her own life. 10,000 years later, Sindel awoke in the Earth realm, resurrected by Shang Tsung. However, Sindel was not the same person. The person she was died 10,000 years earlier. She was now under Shao Kahn's power. The resurrection process brought back only fragments of her soul, making her more a vision of death than a living being. Kahn had her resurrected so that he could step through the dimensional portals to reclaim her as his queen. As Kahn planned, Sindel this time accepted her role as queen, an act that kept Kahn's portals open. However, Kitana was able to reach her mother, and tell her of their past, memories suppressed by Kahn. Sindel turned against Shao Kahn, making it possible for the Mortal Kombat champion, Liu Kang, to drive him out of the Earth realm. Kahn is driven out of Edenia as well, and Sindel is asked to retake her thrown as queen of Edenia. She accepts, promising to restore Edenia to the glory it had before Shao Kahn invaded. She rules well for a time, earning the respect of her subjects and rebuilding Edenia to beautiful and strong realm as promised. But one day, Sindel mysteriously disappears. As much as she tries to get on with her former life, she cannot escape her true nature as a puppet of the Outworld emperor. She is summoned to Outworld by his magic. Sindel is no longer central to Kahn's plans, but he does intend to use her as a weapon against the Earth and Netherrealm warriors, and especially against her daughter Kitana. | ||
  |
||
|
REPTILE |
||
| Reptile is a member of a long extinct race. Reptile's race thrived once in their own realm until Shao Kahn entered it. Kahn was responsible for killing all but a few of the lizard-like people. However, that fact has been kept from everyone living in Outworld, including Reptile. Reptile served once as a bodyguard for Shang Tsung. At that time he wore a green outfit, modeled after the type worn by many of Earth's ninja clans, which concealed his reptilian form. After the loss of the Shaolin tournament, Reptile traveled back to Outworld with Shang Tsung. He was chosen to compete in the Outworld tournament, but insisted on also continuing in his role as Tsung's protector. After the Outworld tournament was over, Shao Kahn began his invasion of Earth. Reptile was of course part of the fighting force. However, when princess Kitana escaped to the Earth realm, he was sent with Jade to find her. Reptile didn't put much effort into the hunt, because he was preparing to help Shang Tsung implement a plan to overthrow Kahn, and place Tsung as Earth's ruler instead. The plan was never executed, since Kahn was instead defeated by the Earth warriors. Reptile didn't make it back to Outworld with his allies. Instead he ended up in Edenia, wandering. With no way of getting back to Outworld, he was still in Edenia when Shinnok freed himself of the Netherrealm. Looking for allies, Quan Chi approached Reptile. He told Reptile about the genocide Shao Kahn conducted that wiped out nearly all of his race. And he gave him a promise. Quan Chi told Reptile that Shinnok could do what Shao Kahn had not, restore Reptile's race to it's former glory. Reptile had nowhere else to go, and agreed to join Shinnok and Quan Chi. Now unmasked, Reptile prepares himself for this new tournament. | ||
 |
||
|
JADE |
||
| Jade is a woman of Edenia born shortly after Kahn merged Edenia with Outworld. She was raised by her natural parents as an infant, but was taken from them by Shao Kahn. Kahn chose members of his army to raise Jade and to train her as an assassin. During her training she became friends with Kahn's adopted daughter, Princess Kitana. The two trained together often. As Goro came close to winning the Shaolin tournament, Kahn intensified Jade's training, as he did with most of his warriors, preparing them for a full invasion of the Earth realm. When Goro was defeated and Kahn held a tournament in Outworld, he didn't enter Jade in the tournament directly, but instead instructed her to ambush each of the Earth warriors while they were alone and didn't expect it. When Shao Kahn invaded Earth, Jade was instructed to find the renegade princess Kitana and bring her back to Kahn. Jade was loyal to Kahn, and wanted his takeover of Earth to be successful. But she was also loyal to her friend, Kitana. Jade fought skillfully against every Earth warrior she came up against, but deliberately failed in her mission to bring Kitana back to Outworld. After Edenia is separated from Outworld, Jade continues to support Kahn instead of her birthland. However, when Shinnok enters Edenia, Kitana contacts Jade and asks for her help. Jade helps Kitana escape to the Earth realm. She then enters the Mortal Kombat tournament hoping Kahn won't find out about her divided loyalties and her secretly helping princess Kitana. | ||
 |
||
|
REIKO |
||
| Reiko was once a general in Shinnok's army. He helped wage war against Shinnok's fellow elder gods. Reiko was originally from Outworld, but agreed to help Shinnok, believing he had the ability to defeat the other elder gods. Reiko died in that war, and for thousands of years his soul was dead. When Shinnok escapes from the Netherrealm, he begins to once again amass and army to take on the elder gods. He resurrects Reiko to once again aid him in battle. Once again given life, Reiko gains an opportunity to see what the Outworld has become since his death. He finds out that Shao Kahn has ruled that realm for thousands of years. Reiko is displeased with what the wasteland the Outworld has become under Kahn's rule. He agrees to once again help Shinnok, under the condition that if Shinnok wins, and conquers all realms in existence, that Reiko will be allowed to overthrow Kahn and take his place as emperor of Outworld. | ||
 |
||
|
SONYA BLADE |
||
| Lieutenant Sonya Blade was a member of a special forces unit in the U.S. Army. She and her partner were assigned to investigate the activities of the Black Dragon crime organization. Sonya's unit tried to apprehend several members of the Black Dragon, including their leader Kano. The Black Dragon obviously resisted, and Kano managed to escape, but not before killing Sonya's partner. Sonya was enraged, and began pursuing Kano obsessively. She and her new partner Jax eventually tracked Kano to an area of China, where a tournament called Mortal Kombat was about to begin. Kano was there because of rumors about a temple made of gold. Sonya struck as quickly as possible, even though it meant leaving Jax behind. She and her unit found where Kano had gone, but once they got there were captured by Shang Tsung. Tsung was impressed both with Sonya's looks and fighting ability. He told her that she fought in the Mortal Kombat tournament he would free her unit. Sonya had no choice but to accept. She found out Kano was in the tournament and saw her chance to finally kill him for killing her partner. Shang Tsung didn't give her the chance, because he was soon worried with the young Shaolin warrior Liu Kang. Liu Kang defeated Tsung and won the tournament. Sonya and Kano were taken back to Outworld. There they were forced to watch as warrior after warrior was killed by Shao Kahn and Kintaro. Sonya was finally rescued by Jax. She tried to finally arrest Kano, but the Outworld warriors were proving to be too much of a danger and they escaped back to the Earth realm. Once there, they tried to warn their superiors about Shao Kahn. The warnings were dismissed, and quiet actions were taken to keep Sonya and Jax from pursuing the matter further, but nothing that would draw attention. Sonya began to wonder whether the government was trying to cover up their knowledge of Outworld and Shao Kahn. Sonya and Jax were part of the last remaining resistance when Kahn invaded the Earth. They battled the Outworld creatures, and helped Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Kitana in their strike against Kahn. Also, during the invasion, Sonya finally got the opportunity she had been wanting for years, to face Kano in battle. The two fought on top of a large skyscraper. Kano was thrown off that skyscraper, and Sonya finally had her revenge. After Kahn was defeated, Sonya and Jax convinced the U.S. to establish an outerworld investigation agency. They were asked to head this agency, but turned it down to finish rounding up the last members of the Black Dragon. They managed to arrest every known remaining member except for one, an elusive man named Jarek. Sonya and Jax pursue Jarek, but before they can take him into custody they are visited by Rayden and told of the new threat brought by Quan Chi and Shinnok, as well as Shao Kahn's newfound attempt at taking the Earth. He asks them to fight in the tournament that could save the Earth from both. Sonya decides to let Jarek go for now, so that she can help to defeat the greater evils that now threaten her realm. | ||
 |
||
|
SMOKE |
||
| Smoke was once an assassin working for the Lin Kuei, a warrior clan located in an unknown region of China. He was one of the most skilled assassins they had, particularly because of his amazing stealth which left him virtually invisible to his victims. His code name, Smoke, was earned because of the way he used blinding smoke to give himself the upper hand in battle. Smoke's best friend in the clan was the younger Sub-Zero. When Sub-Zero's older brother vanished after entering a tournament called Mortal Kombat, he and Smoke began to investigate. Their search led them to a place called Outworld and a tournament held by Shao Kahn. Sub-Zero participated in the tournament directly, while Smoke used his stealth to spy on the Outworld warriors and find any clues to the fate of Sub-Zero's older brother. After the tournament, the two returned to Earth, and went immediately to Lin Kuei to warn their leader of the threat brought by Shao Kahn. However, the two stumbled onto the Lin Kuei leader's secret plan to automate members of the clan as cyborgs. Sub-Zero was able to escape, but Smoke was caught and forced to undergo the conversion. Smoke was implanted with cybernetic devices, but the process was interrupted by Shao Kahn's invasion. Smoke set out to execute the instructions given to him, to destroy Sub-Zero, but some of his humanity was left in the cyborg body, and he eventually gained control of himself. Instead of carrying out his mission for the Lin Kuei, he helped the Earth warriors defeat Shao Kahn. After the invasion, the Lin Kuei find out what their leader has been doing. Smoke is living proof of it. The clan is disbanded, an act of justice in Smoke's eyes. He has nothing but hatred for his former clan and for what they did to him. But there is one last thing missing for justice to be served for the crimes against him. The other Lin Kuei cyborgs, Sektor and Cyrax, are still alive. Smoke joins the Mortal Kombat tournament to help his friend, Sub-Zero, but also so that he can destory those two last remnants of the Lin Kuei. | ||
 |
||
|
SHINNOK |
||
| Shinnok is considered by many to be the most evil creature to have ever been in existence. Even Shao Kahn's tyranny is a small evil compared to the terror that Shinnok can and does bring. He was once one of the elder gods, the highest order of gods who maintain order throughout all realms of reality. Unlike his fellow gods, Shinnok longed for power beyond what he already had. He wanted to control all of reality by conquering every realm in existence. He attempted to do so, drawing on the energies of his amulet, the source of any elder god's power. Shinnok gathered his worshippers and began his assault. Immediately, the gods retaliated, striking back at Shinnok whenever possible, but even they had a hard time fighting him off. The battle resulted in billions of lives being lost. One realm was completely destroyed, an act which the thunder god Rayden holds himself responsible for. It was because of Rayden and the other gods that Shinnok was finally beaten and confined in a desolate place called the Netherrealm. Shinnok was thrown into the fiery pits of the Netherrealm, tortured for centuries, the whole time longing for revenge against the elder gods, and against Rayden. He was trapped in the Netherrealm, at the mercy of it's ruler Lucifer, until he met the sorcerer Quan Chi. Quan Chi offered to help Shinnok defeat the Netherrealm's ruler and eventually to strike back at the ones who imprisoned him there. The condition was that Shinnok grant him stronger abilities as a sorcerer and give him a position of power in the empire he believed Shinnok would eventually rule over. Shinnok, with Quan Chi's help, was able to conquer the Netherrealm and take Lucifer's place as it's ruler. He then started to plan his revenge against those who banished him there. He knew his amulet will be the key to his escape from his prison, so he sent Quan Chi to retrieve it. For thousands of years Quan Chi tried to get the amulet, finally succeeding after the defeat of Shao Kahn. With his power restored, Shinnok escaped from the Netherrealm. From there he began his war against the elder gods. With stronger allies and a rage that had been building for millenia, Shinnok was striking at the elder gods harder than they were prepared to handle. Seeing many of his fellow gods being beaten, Rayden makes the risky decision to declare a Mortal Kombat against Shinnok, to which the winner goes the Earth realm, and eventually all of reality. | ||
(C) Chris Conner 2005
bravenet.com
